My "new" antique cylinder desk

TGIF!  It is a drizzly, cloudy, but mild day here is SW Virginia.  However, my noon the rains should be moving out and the sun will once again make it's appearance.

I have spent this week putting up all the orange and black from Halloween.  It is  bitter-sweet.  I love the fall decorations with their golden hews and will miss them, but I am looking forward to the reds and greens of Christmas!

This week for Show and Tell over at Romantic Home  http://romantichome.blogspot.com/ I would like to tell you about this beautiful desk that I bought a few weeks ago at an auciton.  Yeah!  I got a lot of stuff at this auction, but DH and I decided that these pieces would be our Christmas gifts to each other.

I have been looking a roll top desks for years but when I spotted this beauty at the auction, I just loved it!

Look at the beautiful grain of the wood.  Once I got it home the desk was much larger than I thought and couldn't go where I had originally intended, but it looks right at home right here.

I'm sure it didn't originally have that felt piece on the pull out and I am going to replace it with leather.

Yngwie has already claimed it and has it full of paper, pens and other college related stuff. 

Hope everyone has a super weekend.  I am going to start dragging my Christmas stuff out of the closets and attic!  So exciting!

Blessings

Linda