renovating a townhouse & raising twins
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Happy Halloween, folks! Turns out I unintentionally took October off from my otherwise rigorous blogging schedule. Oops. But what better reason to get back on track than October’s Random Acts of Craftiness Challenge? None, I say. As a reminder, challenge participants attempt to make something…
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Do you know what today is? It’s project reveal day for the first round of the Random Acts of Craftiness Challenge, wherein blogging and non-blogging crafty types make cool stuff out of random stuff without consulting the interwebs for inspiration. (Learn more here.) This month’s crafting challenge…
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I like my canvases chunky, like my peanut butter. At least when it comes to medium to large(ish) scale art. For something that’s only, say, 11 x 18″, half an inch is thick enough for me. [More on those paintings here.] But once you get up to 18 x 24″ or so, a nice inch-thick canvas just feels so…
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Well folks, it’s official — it’s fall! Except in the sense that it’s not technically fall yet. But you know what I mean. It’s back to school time. Classes start at Hubby’s school tomorrow, so we’re getting back in the swing of things around here. I’ve had fall organization fever, and I have loads…
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Here’s something sad and ugly that I finally put to rest. Sure, a magnetic notepad is an easy solution for the list dependent (like us), but I prefer to keep the refrigerator cleared off. So I kept removing this one. Then, after list-less living netted too many forgotten groceries, Hubby insisted…
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Subtitle: How I painted my faux bamboo dresser Something big has happened at our house. (Hint: see subtitle) It might not be significant in other homes, particularly those that house people with follow-through to match their grand ideas. But here, in the home of this chronic 90 percenter? Of this…
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Has the neon bandwagon stopped at your house? I hopped on a while back with these: Then it rolled through again and I made these wrapped branches. My wrapping streak started on one of countless trips to Home Depot to pick up supplies for who knows what project around here. I spotted rolls of…
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We’ve been hard at work turning our backyard into someplace we actually like to spend time. Our little oasis, if you will, and every oasis needs water. We had “some sort of water feature” on our wish list from the start, but it took a while to settle on the right kind for us. Our criteria (in…
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I believe I mentioned I have a thing for contact paper (Yep. Mm-hmm.) I’m back at it, this time sprucing up our entry way. When we moved in, there was a small coat closet immediately inside the front door. Here’s the only photo we have of that situation. (Sorry, Sweetheart.) As you can see, the…
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I’m not sure I’d go so far as to call these “art”, but this pretty pair now decorates our bedroom. What you’re looking at (above) is a personal record: from pin to done in less than a week! It’s also a total rip-off…wait, let’s call it a spin -off of this piece by Tanya. Dans le Townhouse It’s…