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It's magic.

Magic,  leftover paint from the basement and about 2 hours. Getting the wallpaper border off was pie.  The walls in the laundry room are very textured, which isn't close to ideal to start with, so the paper was already pealing in some places.  I just sprayed it down with water and scraped it off a […]
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October 19, 2011

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Secrets of the Guest Room

Anyone want to guess what color we painted the guest room?  And no, I'm not talking about the color we chose our first go at it.  If you remember, we didn't quite get the color right the first time.  The black-splattered, tortured teen's room desperately needed a paint job: Initially we painted it this warm, […]
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October 18, 2011

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Potty Talk and More.

This is the only picture you have seen of our laundry room/half bath right off of the family room: The room is not pretty to look at, so we usually just get our laundry done and get outta there.  The blue rag-rolled walls and lighthouse wallpaper border are dee-skusting.  The once blue (I think) tiles […]
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October 17, 2011

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What I'm Makin' This Week 10.15-10.21

I'm back to share what I'm making this week.  My first week cooking went great and it was fun to try new recipes.  Some of them were fantastic, but I probably wouldn't make the garlic-parmesan edamame again--turns out we prefer just plain edamame with sea salt sprinkled on top.  It's clean on the palette and […]
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October 15, 2011

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Tonight We Ride.

Every once in awhile, we put the paintbrushes down and live life.  Birthdays are definitely those times.  After toggling between a few different ideas of what to get Chris for his birthday yesterday, I scrapped them all and decided to make memories instead (although I did get him a few layering shirts from Gap to […]
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October 14, 2011

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Here's to Y-O-U, Birthday Boy.

Happy Birthday to a pretty amazing person: ...and I'm not the only one who thinks so.  I love you, birthday boy.  I am so grateful to be your wife and best friend.  We have a blast together and tonight is going to be no different.  Get ready for some fun!  Here's what we'll be doing: […]
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October 13, 2011

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Exceptions to Things that Bug

Yup, it's that time again.  Except this time instead of blabbing on about how "I just can't stand___," I want to show you exceptions I have found.  And because I don't want to get things messy as far as trackbacks go, I'll leave the obvious examples of how these things have come to bug me […]
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October 12, 2011

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Interrupting the Regular Scheduled Program

Chris was out of town all last week for work and during that time, the other room in our basement (the one that we aren't currently turning into our guest room/office. whew!) flooded.  Not good.  Not gooood.  We rarely go in that room and by the time I noticed, it was the smell that I […]
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October 11, 2011

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Put a bird on it.

Actually, 11 crows on it.  "It" being our banister.  We are slowly outfitting our house in Halloween decor (Spider McCreeperson seen here).  The cute, crafty "Boo!" decor just doesn't look right in our house--so we are going more more sleek and spooky which is why these dollar-store-crows are pretty perfect.   Shelling out a buck […]
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October 10, 2011

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What I'm making this week.

I'm not talking about anything that involves power tools or my glue gun.  As I reported, to make our nights a little less hectic, I have decided to take on the cooking during the week.  Unlike Chris, the master chef, I need to follow a recipe.  Good thing I have a stockpile of good eats […]
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October 8, 2011

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Keeping Up with the Basement Guestroom

The next installment of our online mini-series is live on True Value's facebook page!  They are following our step by step renovation of turning a room in our basement into a guest room and office.  Today, you can check out all the steps it took to get rid of those black splattered walls (wooohoooo! They […]
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October 7, 2011

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Oh My Lampa!

I normally wait until the end of the post to give you before and after pictures, but I did a pretty in depth overhaul of these lamps and I would hate to keep you waiting as I babble on about how to make a lampshade and dye fabric to create an ombre effect and put […]
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October 6, 2011

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Question: What kind of Duvet is Best?

And yes, that is a complete ode to one of my favorite clips of all time: Since we are being featured in a little online mini series for True Value as we tackle our basement renovation, I've mostly been keeping our work down there on the down low until the videos are published (you can […]
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October 5, 2011

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Facing my fears

I am not a spider person.  (Are there "spider people"?!?)  But for the sake of the upcoming holiday and our costume party, I am going all out on the decorations.  Little by little our home is going to transform into a spook house.  The first decoration up?  This 'UGE spider that I found at Walmart […]
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October 4, 2011

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Six months later.

It's hard for us to believe it has been 6 months since we moved into this home--our very first.  April 2nd we moved in and we have been busy ever since.  In the past 6 months: --We have painted 9 rooms (Family room, Dining room, Kitchen (and cabinets), Living room, Hallway, Hall Bath, Greta's room, Our […]
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October 3, 2011

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The Steve Buscemi's of Lamps

Months ago, my friend Kristi sent me a picture text with these lamps and said she was going to throw them out and wondered if I would like them.  "Sure!" I figured if I couldn't rescue them, I could always just donate them.  They have been sitting in our basement since the move and yesterday, […]
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September 30, 2011

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Swank-stands

We needed nightstands, bad style.  We had one that we had been using on my side of the bed (I always claim the side away from the door) that was actually used as an end table in our last apartment.  It is from Ikea and too tall and looked a little pinkish against the gray-brown […]
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September 29, 2011

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Our Costume Party Invitations

We are suckers for Halloween.  Suckers.  This year we decided to take the opportunity to dress up and party into our own hands by throwing a costume party at our place.  So last night, we decided to put some costumes together and snap a few photos for the invitations--that way we would drive the message […]
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September 28, 2011

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Lighten up.

A couple weeks ago, we toyed with the idea of painting our bed frame and we got lots of support from you.  So, over the weekend I dove in and got it done and I am here to tell you all about it.  There were a couple reasons we wanted to paint the frame of our […]
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September 27, 2011

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Giveaway Gold: My Memories, errr YOUR Memories

Giveaway is now closed.  Congrats to Laura--lucky number 28! Today I am wrapping up your memories in a box with ribbon and handing them to you.  You're welcome.  Let me start off by saying, I am not a scrapbooker.  The thought of cutting out pictures and adding a slew of embellishments is not my cup […]
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September 26, 2011
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