4-2-13

9:00am

Sitting here looking at the picture ledge I made

thinking it needs something, it's too plain.

I have some textured/paintable wallpaper border

I picked up at the thrift store awhile ago

for .50 cents each that I thought would look nice

along the bottom edge of the ledge.

I have found this same wallpaper border

on Ebay for $28 each with shipping!

It's a Graham Brown Super Fresco

Paint N Hang made in England.

I temporarily hung one roll on the ledge

with some rolled tape to see what it looks like.

It's a textured wallpaper that has raised designs.

It does hide the screws we used to hang the shelf. 

      

3:00pm


I scrounged around for some pictures
to put on the picture ledge for now.
I'd eventually like to have all black picture frames
with black and white photos
and remove the ocean painting.
I put that up there for the time being
since I didn't have a place for it since removing 
it from the bathroom.
And if hubby likes the wallpaper border
I'll put it up the correct way without 
the fold ripples in it.         

 

4:00pm

The sun is shining brightly over our home today!

We went from needing a bed for our one son

to having a choice of three beds in one day!!

All free!

My oldest son is getting rid of his twin captain bed,

hubby found a really nice full bed in an apartment today  

(would like to use for my son)

and a guy at his work is getting rid of

either a full or queen size bed that was hardly used if that,

still has the original plastic over the mattresses.

Hoping the last one is queen size so

we can replace our bed.  We've had it 8 years now

and got it from my brother who had it for who knows

how long.  The foot board is literally falling apart.

We've zipped stripped and duct taped it to hold it together.   

It's in sad shape but better than sleeping

on the floor.

Then hubby proceeds to tell me that along with

the bed in this vacant apartment he also got

not one but TWO 2 TWO!!! laptop computers!!!!

The guy in the office where hubby works

says the computers are about $1300 computers.

I'm tripping right now and have to see them

to believe it.  There's a couple other things

as well.  Will have to check it out and get back with ya.

This would be a blessing.

Our computers are hobbling along right now.

Still holding onto them though as a back up.

I love freebies.

In the past we've also gotten the kids a

free XBox 360 and Playstation 2

left behind in apartments.   

4:45pm

My 11 year old son has figured out how

to get free talk and text on his Ipod phone

I found for him.

He downloaded an app called TextFree.    

or something like that as I'm not

knowledgeable when it comes to fancy cell phones.

While my sons each have cell phones

I will not get and pay for service for them.

Can't afford it!

So now he has his own free phone number somehow.

He has been able to call out and receive calls

on his phone now for free.

Kids amaze me.   

He said you do have to have access to someone's phone

service to be able to download the app first.  

5:30pm

     

Hubby also found a fan laptop tray.

It has a light, cup holder and opens to store

  writing utensils and stuff inside.

It's sad that it takes kids at my house

to figure out this computer stuff.

We have figured out so far that

the blue Dell laptop is 320gb hard drive

and 4gb ram, Windows 7.

The red one is a Vaio, windows 7.

Having the neighbor kid work on them

because they have passwords and are in Chinese

and need reformatted.

Hubby also found this-

 Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet.

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