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DON'T try this at home.
My amazingly talented husband (CPA-turned-electrician) was hanging some new lights in the garage over the weekend. He has zapped himself more than a few times so it's a running joke for me to ask him periodically throughout the day "Have......
spring cleaning in summer weather
It was hot this weekend. I am not complaining though. I could not wait for the warm weather to get here. I did some spring cleaning of our screened-in porch on Saturday. During the winter it is used as the......
I am thankful...
...that you keep coming back. It has been 13 days since I last posted. I have been a bit under the weather lately. So thanks for hanging in there with me and 'hello' to some of the new people who......
almost here
The lilac bush that the boy ripped out (he was supposed to rip out a different bush) is growing again. I hope it's a good year for a comeback. I went 'shopping' in my closet and got out these handmade......
chalkboard door of my very own
I forgot to show you this! After my mini-obsession with chalkboard paint, I finally used it at our house on the closet door in my studio. I doubt I will ever actually draw or write on the door with chalk.......
canning the housecleaner
I did something crazy a few weeks ago. I let my housecleaner go. He was great. No complaints there. But I had been thinking about it for awhile and just decided to go ahead and do it. It was really......
the weekend
: manual labor (we finally got the rest of the bamboo floor put down) - see the before pic here. : alfresco meals (in between Indy & Nascar) : coffee drinking and magazine reading (and a few small gardening projects)......
a 10-minute project over the weekend
Everyone has those annoying cabinets over the refrigerator. Mine was getting to me. It was empty. And there was a bunch of junk on top of the refrigerator in front of the annoying cabinet. So I cleared off the refrigerator,......
decluttering furniture
I finally bought a couch for our living room. I have had this couch on my list for awhile and just needed time to think about it and also wait for our budget and the department store sale to converge.......
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser and IKEA Docksta table
Never thought you'd see those words all together. I inherited a Docksta table from my very cool brother and it needed a bit of cleaning up. I picked up a couple of Mr. Clean Magic Erasers and wholla! the table......
billy buttons
I can't remember when I first saw Billy Buttons. It may have been on a family trip to Arizona. In addition to Tulips and Ranunculus, Billy Buttons are another of my all-time favorite flowers, dried and fresh. Sometimes called Billy......
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You would never know by the picture that my home office in under attack by carpenter ants. We had our trusty exterminator come out to the house today to assess the situation. Our neighbors have had a couple of trees......
house guests
We are getting ready for weekend house guests. We live in a 3 bedroom house but right now the boy and I have the two extra bedrooms taken over by office functions so we do not have a formal guest......
some things I learned about hanging window treatments
First, collect all your tools before you begin that way you don't have to run up and down two flights of stairs multiple times. Second, don't assume that the shade manufacturer has provided all the necessary hardware required to properly......
around here
The house is decorated for the most part. I went with a more minimal approach this year instead of decking out the entire house. I love what I call our vintage tree. It's actually a tinsel tree I got at......
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I can't believe eight days have gone by since I last posted. I have been pretty busy at work the last several weeks and believe it or not I do a lot of my blog thinking and composing during my......
finding the perfect shade of green
My friends Annisia and James have their kitchen (previously featured here) painted in a wonderful shade of green so I asked her for the paint manufacturer and color name. Martha Stewart for Kmart E29 Euphorbia, discontinued. Grr. So I did......
happy living blog headquarters update
I am spending most of my non-work time looking at this... so the rest of my room looks like this... sans finish flooring and baseboard (ripped out before we moved in, but not replaced)....
a mini sabbatical
We've been: : packing, packing, packing: eating lots of insalata caprese salad with fresh tomatoes out of our garden (thanks, Dad!): tearing out carpet from the 1980's and installing bamboo: moving the unmovables such as liquor, cleaning supplies, pr...
