Link Love from Fine Diving

Well what a fun surprise! Diana over at Fine Diving in Chicago featured my Card Catalog in her Six Degrees of Card Catalog post today.

First of all, thanks for linking to me! Second of all, what a truly small world!

This is the seller that I bought my vintage chandelier from last month at the Vintage Bazaar. Remember how I had to leave her my address so that she could mail me some of the beads that had fallen off so that I could restring them? Ends up her daughter's boyfriend lives in my building, saw me on the elevator with it when I was bringing it home that day (I briefly recall this encounter) and they all later put 2-and-2 together to figure out that I had just purchased it from his girlfriend's mom! Talk about far less than six degrees of separation.

So now we are blog-buddies :-) Gotta love the blogosphere. If you don't follow her blog, you should. She features great before & afters of the "tossed & found".

Vintage Luggage Dog Bed Project

My parents have a set of mustard-yellow American Tourister luggage at home that I'm guessing is from the mid-1970's and was probably a wedding gift or purchased early in their marriage. Growing up I thought it was not-so-cute, and after a while it just sat in our storage room while we upgraded to various duffel and roller bags over the years. It looks just like this...

Fast forward 30 years or so, and I am so happy they've kept it around now that vintage luggage is back in vogue (as far as decor goes). Better yet, they said I am more than welcome to take it off their hands! As the saying goes, everything old is new again.

I still need to bring it back from Saint Louis next time I go visit, but that hasn't stopped me from planning exactly what I will do with it! My plan is to make a Vintage Luggage Dog Bed for my Louie-dog. He currently sits/sleeps on an ottoman near our floor to ceiling windows all day, but I think this will make a much cuter hangout.

Here are some of my inspirations pics from etsy seller 'vintagerenaissance' and her suitcase bed collection:

I also did a quick search on where I might be able to find my own mid-century modern legs to attach, and came across this great post on apartment therapy showing very affordable furniture legs from ace hardware.

12-inch legs $4.49 each

Then I would just need our drill and four of these angled leg plates for $2.79 each.

Since the legs are unfinished, I may paint them as well but I'll have to wait and see how it all comes together. Event though I may not be able to reveal this for a month or two since I don't have the suitcases in my possession yet, I still had to share my excitement about this potential new perch for my pup!