My Goodness! Its been 3 weeks since I last blogged and I was feeling the withdrawals. I can't even imagine what you, my 19 loyal readers, were feeling because of my literary absence??! I suppose you can compare that feeling to what a drug addict feels when he's being weened off the pipe. But don't worry. I'm back and I have your daily fix! Amen.
So lets talk about my bedroom and latest bargain purchase. Seriously, I just saved a whole bunch of money on my car insurance. No, just kidding. But I did save a ton of money on my new bedding. I am not embarrassed to say that I am the bed in a bag queen. I love it. Its easy, budget friendly, and stylish. I have graduated from basic bed in a bags to more fancy dancy ones but even I still can't deny that there is an element of cheap in them. I'm growing up now, so that means my bedding has to grow up too. Granted, my most recent boho inspired bed in a bag, was reduced to $75 from over $300. That's very de la high. But it was time to retire it for many reasons. 1) I'm over it. 2) Ive had it for over 3 years and 3) My dog, Ito, likes to hump the accent pillows and so has left big holes on all four corners of each sham and it looks distasteful to say the least. So, my hunt for the perfect bedding began.
Ill spare you all the in between details of Internet searching, home section field trips, and even cutting and pasting from catalogs. So fast forward to the day I received the fall Pottery Barn catalog. I was instantly in love. I had to have the Wells Palampore Bedding Collection. It was perfect. I'm usually not a flower fan but this was perfectly done. It had a vintage feel to it with dusty shades of blue, gold, brown, coral, green, and cream. It was going to tie my whole room together.
Then I looked at the price. Yikes. Como si yo fuera millonaria and I had diddy dollars to throw around! The bedding was going to cost me over $300. That's like, 5 bottles of good champagne! I was not loving that price. It was completely out of my budget. Instead of superficially feeling sorry for myself I had a brilliant idea, bc that's what I do, I have brilliant ideas. Pottery Barn outlet! Hello!
So I went to Coco, batted my lashes, and asked him to drive me labor day weekend to Riverhead (which is almost 2 hours away from the city) so that I could go to the outlets and check out the bedding scene at PB. He actually agreed but he had a specific request, "Can we not get another bed in a bag? I hate those.". Wow. It looks like a created a monster.
Outlets were a bit of a madhouse but not overwhelming and not to sound like a total snob, but the higher end outlet stores tend to be less crowded than your typical Charlotte Russe, Aeropostale, and Nike town outlets. Different clientele all together. So we browsed around the bedding section. Coco even found it necessary to try out all the beddings on display and say "Look babe. this was feels soo good. I love it." Um yeah, only you aren't the one paying for it. Lets keep looking. So I turn the corner, and I just couldnt believe my eyes. Wells Palampore at the outlets?! I must be hallucinating bc this collection is the current merchandise available at the stores now. Coco was sold. I was sold. I was going to save money. A lot of it! So I picked up a duvet (which I'm sure had an imperfectly aligned button which I'm sure is the reason this particular piece made it to the outlets), 2 European shams, 2 standard shams. And guess how much this pretty young thing saved??!!! Over $150!!!!
Mission accomplished! What a great feeling to save big and on good quality no less.
As soon as we got home, we were like 2 kids in a candy store. We went straight to the bedroom and put our new bed together. Coco even helped with the duvet like the good husband that he is. I find it hysterical. I said to Coco "Babe, remember the days when you were like a super guido and you couldn't wait to go to pastillero all niters in the city??? Look at you now! All you care about is rushing home to get your new purchase on our bed. How times have changed." And for the better.
Here's to you. Here's to me.
Kata
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