Pepper Scraps

Welcome to my home. This is what you see as you walk into my front door. And even though this may look like a mish mash of silly objects everything here has a story behind it.

Even that blank area above my curio has a story. We have just added this bookcase in the entryway so I don’t have everything placed perfectly. I think I want to add a phrase or verse in that blank space.

The curio itself is a little plate shelf we found. It was one of my first do it yourself pieces. I sanded it and painted it with some old left over house paint. It has beautiful curved glass in the corners that I love. I have to get a good hold of it as I open it because the latch sticks a bit, but I don’t get into it to often.

I have bunnies and unicorns and special gifts inside that curio. All my small knick knacks are in there. And even each of those pieces has there own story. I can tell you where I got most of those pieces and who gave them to me. There are gifts from a friend who went to the Ukraine. There are unicorns I have collected from a trip to a big swap meet or the time we drove down to California.

I have to say that my husband laughs every time we see Dodgeball and they enter the woman’s home filled with Unicorns. And I have to say I’m not that bad!

The desk that the curio sits on is all scuffed and worn but I love the look of it. And it is pretty special to our family as my husband’s late father built it himself. The drawers are hard to open and it is filled to the brim with junk, but it is still loved.

We were going to make shelves in the hole where your knees go to put our shoes, but I have too many shoes and we just aren’t good at getting to those  kind of projects.

When my mother moved she offered us any of her furniture that we may want and we of course took bookshelves. My husband collects books and we are avid readers. The bookshelf that houses our shoes is from our living room. I like the shelf with our shoes even though it’s not pretty, it’s practical for us. No more digging for shoes they are there in order and easily put back also.

You an see my purse set on top of the shelf and that is my newest favorite thing at the moment. It is my Miche Bag. It’s the perfect little purse for those like me who love to match there purse with there outfit, but hate moving everything over to the new purse or don’t have the money for a new purse. This purse has changable  shells that attach with magnets.

And lastly you can see that picture that is in the entryway. I think it’s a little ironic to have it in the entryway but everyone likes it there. That is a charcoal drawing I did when I was in college. It is one of my favorite pieces. I was just able to frame it to put it up and it ended up in the entryway.

So that is My Place & how about Yours?

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