Recent as a daisy! Are you able to even deal with how lovely these daisy sheets are? So pleasant for spring —and a match made in heaven on my new-to-me mattress!
After 4 weeks leaning towards our fire in the lounge, the Ethan Allen Quincy mattress we discovered on Fb Market lastly made it up the staircase to our room this weekend (due to some helpers we employed to convey it up for us).
I couldn’t like it extra! Once I would get cute new footwear as a child I might hold them by my mattress so I may see them as I drifted off to sleep. Did you try this, too? Now I get drift off to sleep in a cute new mattress and curled up in my daisy sheets!
Though we now should make a couple of sudden updates like new bedside tables and lamps, repainting partitions and possibly another refreshes to make this all work, you’ll be able to think about how blissful this entire flip of occasions makes me :).
Some folks seek for months or years for particular items they need, however I discovered my dream mattress instantly on my first seek for it. I wasn’t even planning to purchase a mattress proper now, nevertheless it was meant to be. Serendipity. I would like to start out looking out extra typically!
You’ll be able to learn my first publish about discovering the mattress right here.
Minutes earlier than I believed to search for the mattress on FBMP, I used to be exhibiting my husband this actual mattress on Ethan Allen. Loopy, sure? I used to be making a dream temper board for our house and wished to incorporate this mattress as part of my total fashion “imaginative and prescient.” So I had solely proven it to him to ask if he appreciated it (he did) and which coloration he thought I ought to select (we each agreed the robin’s egg blue felt proper).
Instantly at that very second I believed to myself, you need to seek for it on FBMP. I knew it was a protracted shot, however WHAT IF? Dream huge! So I typed in Quincy Mattress Ethan Allen and BAM! there it was! My robin’s egg blue Quincy mattress. I had wished this mattress for years, so I may hardly imagine my eyes!
Nonetheless, though we bought the message again that we may come get it, I knew it wasn’t going to be simple. This mattress was in Canada (we’re on the opposite facet of the border within the US) and we don’t personal a truck.
And that was solely the start of the challenges!
Lots of you requested to learn the remainder of the story and the mishaps we confronted, so I’ll share extra that I didn’t share in the unique publish.
So right here is the remainder of the story — for you, my curious buddies. 🙂
For some motive we at all times neglect to activate the “roaming” characteristic on our cellphone after we go to Canada.
So I’ll say that our first problem would’ve been prevented had we merely remembered to do this :).
Our automotive is sufficiently old to not have any inbuilt navigation options, however we have been in a rented Uhaul that didn’t have one both.
As quickly as we crossed into Canada, the map characteristic on our cellphone stopped working so we have been immediately …. misplaced. By some means after operating round an outside shopping center we managed to discover a financial institution machine that was purported to be open for twenty-four hours — nevertheless it was closed.
That meant we couldn’t get the Canadian money we would wish to purchase the mattress.
To not be discouraged, we headed towards the the vendor’s house (luckily I had saved step-by-step instructions so it was nearly just like the outdated days with no cellphone or computerized navigation hahah), however we needed to go with out the money to purchase the mattress.
The vendor didn’t converse a lot English so we have been speaking together with her grown daughter over the cellphone. I had defined on our approach to their house that the financial institution machines have been closed. We started looking for a special approach to get her the cash, which ended up being tougher than we anticipated.
She initially stated she didn’t need to use PayPal which might’ve been the only approach to do that from the start, however ultimately she agreed to arrange her account so we may pay for it that approach.
However after wanting on the mattress, we found a brand new drawback. We couldn’t get the mattress aside with the instruments we introduced! I used to be actually beginning to fear that we’d should go house with out it. My husband stated not less than I hadn’t paid for it but, however I didn’t need to come to date solely to go house with out it!
So then we needed to depart the mattress and their house to go to House Depot to seek out the proper new instruments. I’m shocked she trusted us to return. Fortunately she didn’t simply promote it to another person whereas we have been gone!
We discovered the proper instruments and eventually bought the mattress aside. Now it was time to get the mattress downstairs. The headboard was so heavy that the proprietor kindly provided to assist us. She was in all probability apprehensive we’d drop it down her staircase or crash right into a wall, which truthfully apprehensive us a little bit, too ha.
She was a small woman however she stood on one facet and I used to be on the opposite and my husband on the far finish! We’re clearly not as younger or buff as we was once, however we in some way managed to get it down the staircase and into the rented truck.
Lastly the daughter’s PayPal account was accessible so I may switch the cash and we may go house with the mattress within the truck. PHEW! Perseverance.
By this level we had been in Canada for about 4 hours longer than we had deliberate. After a fast cease at Chipotle we made our approach to the border and reward be, crossed over with out incident. They did ask why we have been within the nation, what we purchased and why, they usually appeared behind the truck to make certain we weren’t smuggling something unlawful in.
I can’t think about I might ever once more go to this a lot effort for a Fb Market discover, however all in all, our Quincy mattress was price it. After all, if I discovered one other nice deal on one thing I cherished this a lot you realize I might do all of it once more! However the actual query is, after studying this story, would anybody in Canada ever promote to me once more? Who is aware of.
My Quincy mattress is such a charmer, I’m so excited to have a bit I like a lot!
And in case you’re searching for some lovely, comfortable, natural cotton sheets, these sheets from Garnet Hill are great! I’m obsessive about their quilts too. Sources are beneath!
Have you ever ever found a dream Fb Market discover? I’d love to listen to within the feedback!
Blue Chunky Waffle Weave Throw Blanket (Natural cotton and extra coloration choices!)
Ruffle Blue Ticking Stripe Pillow
Buffalo Examine Curtains (chambray coloration, extra coloration choices)
Wall coloration: Bunny Grey Benjamin Moore