Well Hello Excitement! I’ve Missed You!

Well Hello Excitement! I’ve Missed You!

Hey there my Lovelies! You didn’t keel over from the shock of seeing a post from me, did you? ...

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A Fabulous Design Star!

A Fabulous Design Star!

Confession. I stopped watching this season’s HGTV Design Star around the third or fourth ...

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My Therapists Have Whiskers

My Therapists Have Whiskers

One fine Sunday in July, hubs and I went out to breakfast. On the way home, we spotted a yard sale ...

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Gilt. Aged Golden Goodness.

Gilt. Aged Golden Goodness.

My nesting gene has lain dormant the last few years, a function of limited space and limited money. ...

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Life as Dominos

Life as Dominos

One thing leads to another. Meeting so-and-so led to this-and-that, this-and-that led to meeting ...

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Stressful TV

Stressful TV

Okay, TV producers, showrunners and programmers, enough. I can’t take it anymore. Uncle, ...

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Tuxedo Lace to Knit

Tuxedo Lace to Knit

Random favorite vintage pattern. The abbreviation “n” here stands for ...

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Archives

Monthly Archive for: ‘May, 2010’

Dad In Vietnam

My Dad: The Hero

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When I think of Memorial Day, the daughters and sons and wives and parents and siblings who miss their soldier [...]

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Jen Bertrand

Life & Times of a Design Star

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Remember Jennifer Bertrand? She won HGTV’s Design Star in season 3. I love her design sense and plan to hire [...]

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Egg On The Road

Well Said Wednesday #14

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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on [...]

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Cork Photo Frame Ala Herringbone

Corked!

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Finally, I thought, after saving corks for years I have enough to actually make something cool. Maybe a hanging cork [...]

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Knitted Mess

Well Said Wednesday #13

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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” ~Joseph Chilton Pearce Visit Notes from a [...]

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Bathroom Vanity Like None Other

Reluctant Bathroom Redo

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Our toilet is leaking, not from tank to bowl – well, it’s leaking there, too, but yesterday it began leaking [...]

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Women Of America

Well Said Wed. #12

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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. [...]

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Creamed Mirrored Armoire 2

Beautiful Tidiness: It’s the French Way

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Are you so over plastic storage cubes? Uh huh. Me, too. Oh how I’d love to hide my junk in [...]

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Basement Window Box

Well Said Wed. #11

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Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain. ~Henry Ford Visit Notes from a Cottage Industry for her wonderful [...]

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Beautiful Tuffeted Bed

French Beds: Which One Would You Choose?

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What could be more sumptuous than a red velvet upholstered French bed? I have adored and coveted these European curvy, [...]

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