Winter Wonderland

Did I not promise that I would step up my game for Christmas decorating?  Christmas is my favorite holiday, so I do get excited about decking the halls and all that jolly goodness.  My mom was a teacher, so when I was growing up we always had multitudes of decorations that came to us in [...]

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Ornamentation

I love checking out the ornaments on other people’s trees!  Ornaments can tell you so much about the family that has chosen to display them every year.  I think we all have our favorites, ornaments that are particularly meaningful to us.  Here are some of mine.  Hubby and I bought this little guy on a [...]

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In Which I Attempt To Decorate My House For Fall

Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery, right?  Okay, well, when it comes to seasonal decorating, I admit it: I have a problem.  I don’t have the same problem that most ladies seem to have, I have the opposite problem.  I’m a minimalist.  I have a complicated psychological explanation for my minimalism.  [...]

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The Pinterest Challenge II: Gratitude Garland

I had such fun making my button monogram for the first-ever Pinterest Challenge, that when Sherry from Young House Love and Katie from Bower Power announced another challenge, I knew immediately that I was in.  I cruised on over to Pinterest and spent an hour or so checking out fall decorations – since up until [...]

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The Dining Room, Before and After-ish

There were no Labor Day picnics or barbeques in this household this year.  No, we decided that the best way to celebrate Labor Day weekend was with some good, old-fashioned hard labor.  Isn’t that right, Comrades?  (Just kidding… about the Comrades thing, anyway.  I took enough college economics classes to know what doesn’t work.)  But, unfortunately, [...]

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Weekend Project: Bedroom Seating Alcove

This weekend I’ve been hard at work making some updates to the bedroom, to make it look more like a room where grown-ups live and less like a racquetball court.  Top of my agenda was filling up the alcove by the window and making it into a cozy nook for hubby and I to sit, [...]

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Like a Hurricane Hit It

That’s what my house looks like.  And for good reason.  That dratted Irene went and flooded my basement!  I have a word for her, but I can’t repeat it in polite company.  As damage was concerned, we actually got fairly lucky – although the basement floor was thoroughly doused, the water level didn’t reach the [...]

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Organizing the Junk Drawer

Ah, the dreaded junk drawer.  We all have one.  (At least, I think we all do.  If you’ve managed to de-junkify your life… please teach me.)  Mine was getting out of hand – even more so than junk drawers usually are – so I decided to do something about it. Here’s the scary before: Eek!  [...]

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How ’bout a house tour?

Since I’m going to be sharing some home-improvement and decorating posts from here on out (and since so many people have swung by from Young House Love since the Pinterest challenge post), I thought it’d be nice to give you a little tour before we begin.  It’s rather a blank slate, as you can see [...]

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Unreasonable Expectations

I’ve always been a girl who likes to get exactly what she wants.  What can I say?  I’m an eldest child.  I have opinions, darn it, opinions about everything.  Of course, I’m also a Libra, which makes me very indecisive.  But once I get over the hemming and hawing and actually make up my mind, [...]

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