writersblock and polly so glad you also feel the above bedding but with plain white curtains would be best. That's what I've been thinking also. The white tulle sounds lovely or maybe eyelet, or maybe dotted swiss. kms we considered the Target bedding . . . it would sure save me a few bucks. But DD just doesn't like it. She really knows what she likes! It's really interesting . . . I never had such opinions at her age. She really is an "old soul" and actually does her fair share of mothering me at times. polly we just adore beds with curved footboards!! We never even knew about them until we found the website I mentioned before (foreverpinkcottagechic.com) We actually wanted a twin bed but couldn't find one with that look . . . so we decided to get the full bed. Today we also decided we're going to get a crystal chandy to complete the look! It should be stunning since it is a south facing room and the rainbows will be incredible. We never had a ceiling fixture in that room so we'll have to run wires. I'm just not sure where to hang it. If we do it centered in the room close to the ceiling then the sun may not hit it. If we hang it too low it may bonk heads? I wonder if we should plan on hanging it over the vanity area on the window side of the room? Or if that really limits furniture placement then?

Allison, thanks for the article, I enjoyed reading it. Last month I went to the San Francisco store to look at one of their smaller slipcovered chairs for my living room. I heard their furniture was expensive so I was prepared for that but I wasn't prepared for the staggering delivery charge. I'm used to at most $75 delivery fee from furniture stores, if not free. And that's for the trip from the store's warehouse to my house...not from China or the pier to their store! But SC wants to charge me $300 to transport a chair and ottoman from it's place of manufacture, in Los Angeles, to the San Francisco area. When I asked why so much they explained that they don't have their own delivery trucks so it's no different than if I pay a mover to transport a piece of furniture. My other options were to drive down there and pick it up myself (never in a million years) or hire someone to bring it up here (too risky and I'm still shelling out money for gas and insurance). I think the trip from LA to their store in SF should be part of their cost of doing business, then you can charge me to bring the item from the store to my house. Surely they have means to transport merchandise intended for the store shelves, why not place our purchases on the truck with the store's merchandise and send it all up at the same time. Or have a separate truck intended for customer orders, wait for it to fill up before driving the entire load up to San Francisco. Get rid of that middle man, the trucking company. Otherwise the customer has to pay the most expensive form of transportation, one item at a time. Shabby Chic has got to come up with a better plan than that if they're going to open up stores in other states. Either the factory moves closer to the stores or they make changes to their method of transportion. To me it seems like an oxyoron when I think about the whole premise behind shabby chic....shopping at flea markets for scrappy old things that you pay pennies on the dollar for...but if you want Rachel Ashwell Shabby Chic to make it for you be prepared to pay thousands of dollars! Her chairs cost more than I've seen in the finest furniture store. Not to change the subject and start squakking about the price of their furniture (well, maybe a little) because it is made in the USA and that warrants a premium. I applaud businesses who are trying to keep manufacturing in this country and I want to support that even if it means I pay more. My beef is mainly with the delivery charge. Hopefully with the company growing they'll work on that problem. Can you just hear a New Yorker saying, "you want me to pay HOW MUCH to ship a chair from Los Angeles to Manhatten?!!" ;)

:) third generation here- my grandmother used to beat the rag and bottle man in the mornings (as a scavanger family, we predate the dumpster!) and turned around and donated most of what she found to the Organization for Retired Teachers 'thrift shop' for years and years... my brother's disowned the lot of us (after building a bike from the bianci frame my mom dragged home, getting not just college tuition but rent because the dorms weren't good enough for him...and letting my folks cough up the down payment on his first house, I might add) but after a tenative start, my husband has rather embraced the whole yard sale/trashpicking tradition in our family (he's still the best abandoned thing I've ever found) and, since I don't have kids- I'm busy subverting the neighbor's and their crew- most of whom are plenty poor enough to appreciate the rise in their quality of life when they can find or make things without having to stress their parents out... :)

LADY: This one made me CACKLE OUT LOUD. CRAZY LADY!!! My first works were better than what I'm doing the last three days. If you could see the mess I'm making of my bathroom counter, you'd agree that I should retire. Soon as I get it covered - hopefully today - I'll take a pic. WENCH doesn't show pics of her failures, but I've no pride - I'm gonna show this piece of cra_ so y'all can cry w/me. PEA - don't mean to grab your thread but I'm whinning today.