An old lady's trash is a young couples treasure...

Yesterday evening we went outside after it finally cooled off. Quincy was doing his usual, pulling out all the rocks in the border of my garden when our neighbor, Diane, came home. She's older and lives by herself and has recently had a yard sale. There is still some junk outside her house including an office desk. We yelled hello across the street and she said hello and then asked if we needed a desk. We said we'd go look at it; we walked over to take a peek and decided it was in pretty good shape. She told us it was ours if we wanted to take it for free. So we hauled it across the street, cleaned it up, and then filled it up with our stuff. It doesn't match the other things in our house as far as furniture goes (Infact nothing in our house really goes together becuase they've all been hand me downs...which we've been very grateful for) but someday when we're moving we don't have to feel obligated to keep this cheaply made desk because we got it for free. That pretty much goes for all of our furniture. I can't wait for the day we can move into our own place and get some furniture that I love. That will be the best day!! So here's a little picture of our new furniture addition:

This was when we were moving out our make-shift desk and in the process of cleaning up the new one.

This is Quincy testing out the keyboard. He's enjoying getting away with touching it because he's usually not allowed to play with the computer stuff.

Here's the finished desk. I have to say it sure does help me to keep things organized; I can now put all my scrapbooking stuff in one spot where it's easy to get to, have a place for our games, there's a spot for our paperwork and our bills, along with a home for Tyler's work stuff. I have to say though...I wish when that we could put in a bedroom because I don't like walking into our place and looking at our office stuff. Overall it was a good find. :)

I have to figure out how to rearrange out furniture in the dining room to create the most space, but it also has to be functional. So far, this is all I've come up with.