Eye Candy

01.25.2012

I had an entire day to myself (!!!) and went out to run some errands and see what great things there are in stores right now. I wanted to share some great finds. My first stop was Target (of course a mainstay and favorite for home items). Not for my house, but I sure loved [...]

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The Deer and the Dog Crossed the Road…

01.23.2012

Getting back to Oh, Deer I mentioned long ago – it is hung and I even ended up buying this sweet dog when I saw it on clearance for $14.99. I just adore the white animal craze! So where did they end up, you ask? The deer is in our dining “nook” above a mirror [...]

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Crush & Sale Alert: Serena and Lily

01.21.2012

I adore Serena & Lily’s beautifully sophisticated yet simple nurseries and baby items. One of my favorite baby gifts is their burps and bib gift set. Really – how cute are these fabrics?! So when I got this in my inbox, I had to start shopping: I bought some gifts for baby showers coming up [...]

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Okay, Okay… I’m a bad blogger!

01.20.2012

Yep.. I know. I’ve been MIA again for over a month! Wow… But I am really feeling stumped. You don’t want to see unfinished projects do you?! That’s about all we have around here.  Crown molding that needs putty and caulking and paint… Trim work that needs the same… Pocket doors that need drywall repair and then [...]

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12 Days Until Christmas

12.14.2011

This is one of my favorites that bring the season back to what it truly is all about. Now with only 12 days left until Christmas, it seems like the frenzy is only going to get worse. (By the way, I’ve somehow avoiding the frenzy this year! Christmas came so quickly after my dad left [...]

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Battle of the Bulge

11.16.2011

There is no waiting for New Year’s Resolutions. I’ve weighed in and it isn’t pretty. From our wedding date, I’ve gained just under 18 pounds. SHOCKING. NOT GOOD. NOT HEALTHY. Not to mention, UGLY. I’ve never been particularly thin anyways, and when you add 18 pounds to a not-a-stick-thin body, it isn’t pretty. I’m going [...]

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Oh, Deer

11.15.2011

After eyeing these and even mentioning it earlier this year as a possibility for our Gallery Wall, I’ve sprung to bring some wildlife indoors. This is likely the only animal head or antlers that will grace my walls. I found it at Z Gallerie (after one of my faves, Young House Love, posted a Z [...]

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A Good Reminder

11.12.2011

I saw this for sale on One Kings Lane and loved it. Unfortunately they were sold out by the time I saw it Nevertheless, it’s a good reminder, especially at this time of year as we gear up for even more hustle and bustle.

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Bedding options

11.11.2011

I think bedding and curtains (well I guess fabrics in general) shape the whole bedroom, so it’s a big decision for what we’ll choose to go with in our new room. I’m thinking the walls will be the light grey we have throughout the house or maybe even white for a serene backdrop. As for bedding, I [...]

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Cha-cha-Changes in the Bedroom

11.10.2011

We haven’t done much in our bedroom since we moved in. We hung a couple of sconces and I made an upholstered headboard, but otherwise, it’s a baren and lackluster space. I grew tired of the paint colors (which are much too matchy matchy to coordinate with the bedding) after about a month, so I’ve [...]

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Tale of a Dutch Door

11.09.2011

Last I left off on our front door dilemma, I was asking for opinions on whether we should switch out our metal (and too small for code) front door with one I found at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore for $100. When we bought the house, it came with a lacklustre front door. We painted [...]

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Picket Fence – minus the Picket

11.07.2011

I mentioned how the white picket fence really isn’t our thing back in July when we had a gate built to enclose the yard. It looked like this – straight off the shelf from any Home Depot… When the previous homeowners put this in, they were inconsistent with how high the posts were set above [...]

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A Clean, Crisp Window

11.04.2011

For $80 plus wood trim, we grabbed an off the shelf window from Home Depot and transformed the guest bathroom and exterior of the house. I thought this was the last item that would keep the bathroom from really being complete and fresh. We had this hideous thing that I was always trying to figure [...]

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Bar Stools – Take 2!

10.31.2011

I babbled on a while back about barstools and finally got so sick of having so much wood in the house, that I sold our other ones without a plan for replacements. Here is what we had – Ikea stools bought on a super one day sale for $19.99 each (they sell everyday for $59.99 [...]

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Dreaming of a Stove

10.28.2011

Our kitchen is nearing completion! Nearly 2 years to the day that we bought our house (October 30, 2009) we are coming to finish the very first project we started! I say this with much excitement as you can see with the exclamation marks, but the last thing that would really complete the kitchen would be a [...]

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Sea Art – completed!

10.27.2011

Back in July, I found some pretty wall art, but at the $249 price tag, it wasn’t in my future. So I took the sea fan I had hanging in our guest bathroom (that has a beach them), and grabbed a can of spray paint. The fan was a purple color previously, and I just [...]

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Things are a Changin’

09.30.2011

Naturally, when you don’t post for months, a few things change. We are in the middle of quite  few projects… We lost our beloved Fozzy Bear too quickly to bronchial carcinoma (mentioned here). His collar and bandana have been retired and have a place in the center of our gallery wall. We started looking for [...]

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