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Weekly Thoughts

Posted in Gardening, Uncategorized, tagged on June 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

We had a lot going on last week and this weekend. I keep reminding myself of this:

think good thoughts

The Mister loved this map of Nashville from the 60s and bought it. Now, we’re making wall space.

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Bates Nursery has everything at 15% off till June 20. The Colonel was exhausted with the heat. He gave up at one point and crawled under the ground covering display to cool off.

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The Mister was given an answering machine. We still have a landline and he decided we should use to “see if anyone calls us.” The answer to that curiosity is “no.” I don’t even know our home phone number. He recorded the greeting and I didn’t like it. You can hear it (and my criticism in the background here.) We’re keeping it.

The video I have been working on goes live tomorrow. Expect a post. I wish I could share the bloopers with you. Here’s a screenshot.

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Pantone Spring 2013

Posted in Art, Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

The weather seems to be Springesque for most. This does not apply to Wisconsin as my aunt told me it is still cold. That makes me frown.

So, lets look at Pantone’s Spring Collection of pretty colors that make us smile.

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By the way, when I typed “Pantone”the WordPress app changed it to “panties.” I don’t know who is blogging about undergarments but I’d like to speak to them about finding some pantyhose that are run resistant.

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What I did this weekend

Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

We worked outside quite a bit this weekend. Planted some creeping myrtle, sowed some seeds (Salvia, Zinnia, Egyptian pea vine and Thunbergia, Nasturtium) and removed some stumps.

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He said he was trying to get to 88 mph.

I worked on piecing the fabric for our headboard. It’s Wonderland Pearl. I used the fabric from three of the panels to make the bedskirt. I still ordered a yard of it and then used a few pieces to have piece of fabric large enough for the headboard.

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It’ll look good with our drapes. You can just see them peeking above in the corners.

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The Great Table Switcheroo

Posted in Furniture, Living Room, Our House, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on April 5, 2013 | 2 Comments »

We’re I’m playing a game called “Table Switcheroo.” It involves me changing the tables around our living room/main room of the house’s couch. There have been a few options, but I think I’m sticking with the small round campaign ones.

First, I cleaned off the lucite console and lugged it over.

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Too big.

Then, I went decidedly smaller.

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We will discuss the awesome lamps later.

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We’re sticking with these for awhile.

I like their smaller scale. The room feels lighter. However, they’re half the size of what we used to have there. I’m sticking with them as I believe their scale is fine. Here are some pretty photos that show I’m right – little tables by sofas work.

acrylic side table via bryn alexandra

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jeffrey bilhuber

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pink felt couch

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pink room

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Then, one of my favorite rooms of all time.

katie ridder

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Katie Ridder is like whoa.

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What I did this weekend

Posted in Family/Friends, Our House, Uncategorized on April 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

I walk (ran more than planned) The Color Run. It was fun but three days later, I’m still trying to scrub color off my body. The back of my heels, my cuticles and other “dry spots” seem to the hardest to clean. This is me, Jenny K and Jenn afterwards.

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The Mister took this photo of me and I changed it to my Facebook profile photo. My father asked me why I was dressed like a zombie.

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We painted the ceiling in the kitchen. The Mister used the wrong paint (semi gloss and plain white) to do touch up awhile back. Not using flat made the biggest difference and left our ceiling spotted.

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He was fearful that we’d have to cut in the whole thing but it was much easier than that. We were still glad he taped the molding so he could roll as close to it as possible. He lightly sanded the spots, which made a vast improvement, and rolled the whole ceiling. I did some cutting in, where some stain got on the ceiling when they were sprayed, and we’re pretty pumped with the results.

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So much better.

Sunday night, I did my first coat of touch up paint around the room. Monday night, I did my second coat. It was to cover up the residual spray. Unfortunately, we had to have the cabinets sprayed after they were installed to get the doors and moldings (made by our final cabinet maker) to match the boxes (made by our first cabinet maker). So, we’re glad to have it looking better and I’ll share photos and details of that later. Right now, I got a cute baby to show you.

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This fresh baby was born Friday morning. Congrats and love to Kia!

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Lake Flato Architects

Posted in Decorators, Uncategorized, tagged , , on February 22, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

In the February 2012 issue of Southern Living they featured Lake Flato Architects prefab dogtrot houses.

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Movable louvered doors in the dogtot or breezeway that connect the living and master bedroom units

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The main building includes the kitchen, sitting and dining area on one side with the master bedroom and bath on the other side. The dogtrot or breezeway connects the two units, as seen below.

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The guest unit has two bedrooms and a bath.

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All photos from here

Photos: Laurey W. Glenn

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Touched for the very first time

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on October 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »

This is the best thing I’ve seen in awhile. I watched it twice last night. Once while watching Conan. Then, I immediately found it on my phone and watched it again. Next, I restarted my computer so I could share it here with you good people. So watch it.

Vogue Motherf*cker!

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Oops on Everything Must Go

Posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

So, my post titled Everything Must Go was mistakenly published. I’m sorry for the confusion. It won’t be complete till next week. Plus, some of our goods I’m going to probably just put in my mother’s antique booth.

I hate that I goofed and scheduled it for today. In my defense (excuses) I didn’t feel well on Monday. Plus, I was distracted with getting ready for another week on the road and bird parenting. We (pretty much just The Mister) tried to keep a baby bird alive this weekend. Shim (she/him) fell out of the nest. Sadly, baby bird died Monday afternoon.

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RIP Baby Bird

If you want my stuff, let me know. It’s gotta go. Now that the kitchen is almost done, I want everything cleaned out. More projects!

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Random Thoughts with RA

Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This is amahzing. (You better watch Happy Endings.) $12.00 is ridonkulous. I’d pay $12.00 to stand around and giggle with the man. My mother met him on a flight years ago. Though she travels the majority of her time and has met many people, she says he was the nicest. He talked about his love of dalmations.

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Stockholm Rand

Posted in Flooring, Living, Uncategorized, tagged , on September 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »

While visiting this week, I’ll be sure to stop by IKEA as the Atlanta store is the closest to Nashville. While I was in Pittsburg a few weeks ago I purchased a 5’7 x 7’10 Stockholm Rand rug for $199. It also comes in 8’2″ x 11′ 6″ for $299. Currently, I’m using mine under our West Elm jute rug. This is what that looks like.

I’m on the fence. I like the subtle stripe, yet I’d like more stripe. Therefore, I’m on the fence on whether to return it or not. Unfortunately, the jute rug is too rough to use on our hardwoods without a heavy mat. Hence the Stockhold Rand being underneath it. Here are some photos of Stockholm Rand in a natural habitat.

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