Broken Glass

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I definitely did...more on that in a minute...but first, my Monday morning. I woke up on time, was getting ready, everything was going great...and then it happened. One of the glass shelves in my bathroom was loose, I grabbed something off it, and the whole thing came crashing down. The shelf didn't break, but the really cute apothecary jars that cotton swabs and cotton balls are stored in did. My bathroom looked something like this:

Similar, but it was clear glass, not blue...even harder to pick up

After spending about 20 minutes cleaning it up, I realized I was going to be late for work. So I shut the door and plan to go home for lunch to finish cleaning it up then. Not the best way to start a Monday morning, but I guess there's not much I can do except clean up and move on, right?

And now about the weekend! The weather did NOT cooperate, so I wasn't able to get anywhere on my nightstand I described Friday...hopefully I can make some leeway on it soon. But, on a brighter note, I finally got the duvet cover I ordered from West Elm! It's so cute and makes my room look all cheery:

I also ordered the Euro sham and bought some red pillowcases to match. It's amazing what new bedding can do to a room.

The Lack side tables I got from Ikea a few weeks ago have been just sitting around, looking for inspiration. So, using this post, I created this, using some wood glue (and the tables, of course). It looks eerily similar to the Parsons cube side table from West Elm, for a fraction of the price:

Can you tell the difference?? The one on the right is the West Elm version...the left one, the Lack tables. Pretty cool huh?

A lamp that I saw the blog Cucumbersome also arrived...it came from a home furnishings shop in Vancouver BC called Parliament Interiors. It wasn't for sale on their website so I emailed them about it and they were able to send me one! Here's a picture of it from Cucumbersome:

It's bigger than it looks and oh-so pretty!

A big thank you to Britt for giving me the information about where she purchased it, as well as the people at Parliament Interiors for being so great!

And of course, I spent lots of time with my boyfriend (Mat, I will refer to him by his name from now on :p) as well as just lounged around and relaxed, watched some of the Academy Awards...so all in all, a great weekend!

Oh, and here's a birthday shout-out to my mom: it's her birthday today! Happy birthday mom, I love you!

Hopefully your weekends were great as well! Feel free to share!