I'm goin' goin' back back to Cali Cali...

Yay, I'm off to S.F. this afternoon to attend a friend's wedding on Saturday. W. left yesterday and he's staying a day later than me so he gets a little more time there. We miss our friends out there so it'll be really good to see everyone. Because we're going to be up in the city mostly, it's actually going to be kinda chilly, which is always a bummer when you're going out to California but we'll live.

Had a nice conversation with W's cousin S. last night. She gave me a bunch of links for furniture/design/rug places to take a look at for inspiration and she might even be able to get us a trade discount for some of the remaining items we need. I think looking at new ideas will be good for me as I need to get re-inspired so I'm not so frustrated with waiting for furniture to arrive and going out to look for more.

Wanna know how many furniture stores we've been to since we moved here? Probably not, but let's see if I can remember most of them anyway:
1) IKEA
2) Macy's (where the couch is from)
3) Bloomingdale's
4) Mattress Discounters
5) Brookstone (not a furniture store, but it's where we got our Tempur-Pedic mattress)
6) random discount furniture place #1
7) random discount furniture place #2
8) random little store recommended by someone online that turned out to be tiny
9) Jordan's Furniture (local chain store with HUGE locations--one has a trapeze school in it, two others have IMAX theaters. Got our kitchen table there and will probably get our coffee and end tables there too)
10) City Schemes
11) Jennifer Convertibles
12) Bassett
13) La-Z-Boy Furniture
14) Arhaus (where the dining table came from)
15) Domain
16) in Home Furnishings
17) Roche Bobois (uber modern, uber expensive)
18) Mitchell Gold
19) Circle Furniture
20) Design Within Reach
21) Crate & Barrel
22) West Elm
23) Italian Design
24) Boston Interiors
25) Restoration Hardware
26) Ethan Allen
27) Thomasville
28) Leather Creations
29) Zeba Rugs
30) Dover Rugs

And there are one or two more odd ones in there I think that I forget the names of. And there are only more to come since we're still on the hunt. How fun :P