I write this as I sit and admire my new living room. I know it may sound funny, but something as simple as redecorating my living room seems to have brought me great joy. And how we did it is a great story...I will give you the short version.
On Saturday morning, two of my roommates, Jodi and Alicia, got up to go garage sale hunting for some new things for our living room....keep in mind that you have to get up early to go to garage sales and early is something that I don't exactly like to do. But our house desperately needed some attention. We were driving around all different areas of the northern part of the valley for three hours...and very unsuccessful. Almost at our wits end and giving up on scavenging though other people's belongings, we headed to IKEA. For those of you who are not familiar with IKEA, it is a marvelous store that sells everything for the home and the prices are not outrageous, some of it very cheap.
We went down to the "as-is" section with floor display items and returned items and that is where we got the items to furnish our living room. We started talking to this guy that worked there and asked him a couple questions about some of the stuff out there. Turns out he is familiar with YWAM and worked at our Christmas tree lot a couple years ago. So he was more than willing to continue to reduce the price on items for us. And we didn't even ask. So we got a couch, bookshelf/entertainment unit (that we tailored and put a saw to it to get exactly what we wanted) and a rug for so little money. The three of us just kept throwing glances at each other in complete disbelief! That night, we got the urge to paint...and so we did. We finished around 1 am.
On Sunday morning, after we eagerly put everything together, the three of us (Jodi, Alicia and I) sat down on the couch to take it all it and see just how much we had been blessed in the day before. We are all proud of what we did, but more so than that, we are in awe of how things came together and it was just a little extra "I love you guys" from God!
I don't have a picture right this second but I will take one and post it on here in the next day or so.
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