last week...

The waterfall buffet has evolved from boho witchy ^ to Art Nouveau glam.

Tuesday after physical therapy, I had planned to go into the new art & craft shop I found the week before.

But.... I spotted some used furniture in a shop I had forgotten was on the same street and got side tracked.

Which I'm grateful for, but it also came with a hiccup which I'll explain in a moment.

First ... I got a gorgeous Art Deco period waterfall bedroom set that matches what I already have.

This footboard ^ was HEAVY and came with a matching headboard.

Four drawer tall dresser with mirror.  Handles match the cabinet that I just got a few weeks ago.

The nightstand now has a new era appropriate knob (and not this random oriental theme knob). It is now a printer stand and paper storage.  While I love the waterfall style, my current nightstand has two LARGE drawers and is wider/not as tall and suits my needs better.

This extra wide catch-all chair will be recovered with the fabric below.

My sister brought me these two paintings that had been in Mom's stuff.

They were painted by her (Mom's) grandfather (so my great-grand).

I got frames for them and now have them hung.

The hiccup came when I realized that my bank card had been compromised by the woman who rang me up for the furniture purchase.  She ordered something online from Walmart and charged it to my card, which I realized the next morning when I was putting entries into my checking register and balancing my account.

I made a call to my bank to cancel my card and dispute the $19.96 charge.

Reported the fraudulent charge to Walmart.com to confirm who placed the order and where it was being sent.  Was told I can't have that information without a police report made.

Reported the issue to the police who've never heard of Walmart doing that. 

(Probably because no one ever follows through with Walmart's fraud reporting process because it is a royal pain in the a$$)

Went back to pick up the police report the next afternoon and uploaded it to Walmart.com after getting my affidavit notarized. 

(see above comment about it being a pain in the a$$).

(I'm annoyed enough now that once Walmart provides a name and address for the purchase *attempt* that I will press charges.  It's not the money that is the issue since the charge will be disputed.  It's the hassle of having to do all that.  It's the distrust I now have.  It's the gas I've had to use to drive back and forth getting documentation.  It's the inconvenience of having to wait a week for a new card, and all of the domino-effect fallout of any automatic payments that will not go through against the old card #.  And it's just the principal of it all.)