I don’t like to brag, honestly, I don’t. I don’t like to say “that was just the best …. ever” because then you raise that bar so high you’ll never cross it again ya know. But I cannot tell a lie. Yesterday was perfect. Positively perfect. And today was even perfecter. I don’t think that’s […]
Entries from November 27th, 2009
Oh snap! I found a picture
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I searched through Flickr and found some old pics of the dining room – intentionally not of much of it. The carpet may not look that bad but trust me, it was SO bad. That’s SIL Teressa and her daughter Kristine. That’s not your eyes, that’s the color of those walls. Three happy faces on the […]
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The reveal
November 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
First, a quick refresher since I intentionally never took pics of the dining room. Two, yes two, shades of purple paint on the walls – a lavender and a K-State purple. Lovely cream colored berber carpet (on a farm!) that I shampooed a thousand times and still looked like crap. Burnt holes in said carpet […]
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We have a new member of the family
November 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Recently my mother came into a windfall and generously agreed to share some of it with her family. And friends. And every retailer within a 300 mile radius as well as a few on the web. But I digress. When she told me the amount and anxiously asked what I would spend it on, I […]
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You think you can’t, but you can
November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The dining room is so close, I’m mean *this* close, to being finished. Once it’s ready and a little bit decorated, I promise to post pictures because you will not believe the transformation! But that’s not what this post is about. This post is about me. Me and my skills, or lack there of. Throughout […]
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