It's a Kitty Wonderland in Here!

Boxes everywhere. Open. Closed. Stacked. Some with tape, others without.

Summit and Mitzie are in heaven. Though I think I'm going to be wrapping Mitzie in packing tape shortly if she keeps pulling the tape off of the boxes and trying to open them up.

I realize packing is fairly arduous. But, I am plenty capable of packing and don't really need help from the little monstas.

This weekend was tax free weekend in Massachusetts (don't get me started about how that's ridiculous). And about a month ago Mohr & McPherson, my favorite store (which happens to be next door and has another one down the street *squee*), had a contest about guessing the origin of items. The prizes were gift certificates. So I didn't win the first place prize, which was $1,000. But I did win 3rd place and got $100. And I was sneaky and sent Mom the answers, too, and had her enter. She also got 3rd place and $100.

Since we knew we'd be leaving soon, we decided to wander down to see what options we had for our Turkish Copper dining room table that we've been eyeing since the very first day we went into their store 3 years ago. They have so many variations that we wanted to see what our options were, how long it would take to get, and how much shipping to Oregon would be.

When we got there, they had the almost exact table we wanted. When we asked about it, we found out the base is unfinished mahogany, and we want black lacquer. No worries, we can handle that ourselves. If we were to custom order it, it would take 14 to 18 weeks. And it would cost about $1000 to ship to Oregon. Blech!

But, the sales lady was really nice. She told us she would give us the discount promotion that they were running. And she would make it tax free by working some magic. She also let me use Mom's gift certificate. So we bought it. And now we just need to pick it up the day we leave. :) I'm so excited.

Chairs? Yeah. We'll figure that out later.

We also got a cool piece of pottery from the Mud Flat Gallery in Porter Square. Mom has a tradition of finding a cool piece of pottery each place we've lived and moving it with us. I've always thought it was cool, and they have some really neat stuff in there. We decided to stop in and see if there was anything we liked and we found a really cool dish. I can't take a picture of it though, because it's already boxed up. They had lots of neat pieces, but as we were buying it we realized it was made by the same artist, Cary Atsalis, that we've been noticing all along. :) And now the name is on my blog, so it doesn't matter if I lose the business card in all of this chaos.