can somebody wake up spring?

it's been a really long winter, and i don't care if i sound canadian in my obsessive need to talk about just how awful it was. snow, ice, blizzards - we ran the gamut this year on everything terrible that winter can bring.

but now, hope is sorta starting to brew and i'll take it for what it is. almost spring. and we celebrated by buying new patio furniture. hope filled the air, cause our before was pretty boring.

we built everything on sunday, a bit of a bi-polar day switching from hot to cold solely dependant on whether the clouds were covering the sun. and we were excited, it wasn't done but the hard part was - picking out the right patio furniture. so, here it is:

we're now spending the next few weeks taking it from good to amazing, so stay tuned for new updates! more importantly though, cross your finger that summer comes, ASAP - cause the weather tonight in toronto was ominous..

furniture revival continued

as you know i recently started buying, fixing up and reselling furniture. as a general rule, i focus on brass pieces. both because they're really beautiful and not that much work on the clean up.

here are a couple of my pieces - and be sure to click through to take a look in more detail.

Well, as a next step, I started finding that I was gravitating towards bigger furniture pieces, like this awesome settee:

But, it's not the most modern looking - and I thought, it can't be that difficult to recover it. Only, i have no skills in this department at all. meaning - it was time to find a course to invest in. and one that doesn't cost much money given the goal of the year. unfortunately that means the class is in Etobicoke, but its a third of the price of downtown! furtherly unfortunate, is that i'm on a wait list! but when it happens, and when i turn the above, into the below - i will be that much closer to my goal of no debt in 2013.

millionnaire on the couch

Long time no post, and truly no reason for that at all. At the beginning of this week, I started a new job. I now work from home, and while i'd be lying to say it's an easy transition, it certainly is revealing its benefits quite quickly. And, couldn't be more in line with my debt free in a year plan.

First of all, there is no such thing as forgetting your lunch at home, no reason to go out and buy lunch, and even better no trips to Starbucks. Take for example, the delicious yogurt parfait i made this week - a complete replica of what I was buying from Starbucks for $4.

It's easy and simple:

1/2 TBSP of Honey

Layer with 1/2 cup of 0% Greek Yogurt

Finally, top with 1/4 cup of Sugar Free granola

But, the biggest way I'm saving money, is by selling some of the old stuff I have, the stuff that has been doing nothing but gathering dust for the past 6 months. After having such good luck finding awesome stuff on Kijiji, that I'm trying the other way around.

So far I've had some bites, but in all fairness am only a couple hours in! Old nail polishes, an old mirror, and even my old Hunger Games hard cover Trliogy. 

Stay tuned for how it goes! Slow and steady on the way to millionnaire, not just debt free.

furniture saviour

as an extreme fan of pinterest, it goes without saying that i have a dream house in mine, with every room perfectly decorated in my mind.

tiny flaw? i both don't have a house, nor do i have the money to buy half the things i want. but, in my journey to being fiscally responsible, and as a result thinking outside of my comfort zone, i've found a solution: kijiji.

beyond looking for apartments, until 2 weeks ago it never would have crossed my mind to even look into kijiji. with my changed mentality though, when i kept seeing beautiful bar carts on pinterest, i took a chance and looked at kijiji. i can't tell you how pleasantly surprised i was, not only did I find a beautiful one, i bargained and brought the cost down an additional $20.

what do you think of my new bar cart? i think it has started a beautiful love affair with kijiji.