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New Acquisitions: June Edition
Summer always means a lot of thrift store and garage sale shopping, and for me, my birthday as well. All of these things mean that I tend to collect a few more household items (and clothing) during the summer months. I’ve recently acquired some pretty great stuff, which I’ll share here. First, my sister was…
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Outdoor Progress
I think it’s fair to say that I’ve gone a bit plant crazy since we’ve moved into our house. I always want to buy more, more, more! I think we are pretty well set for this year, however, especially as some of our annuals have really filled in and are starting to look pretty great.…
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Be Our Guest, Be Our Guest!
One of the most neglected rooms in our house is the guest bedroom. It’s almost completely empty, save for the bed, nightstands, and a lonely little chair. Since it will be the future bedroom of any offspring, I guess I’ve been kind of reluctant to do too much to it. I don’t want to invest…
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Living Room Updates
Buying new furniture for our house has been nice, but it’s also been a bit stressful. Originally, we had picked out a larger couch than the one we ended up buying, but fearing that it wouldn’t fit into the room, we chickened out and bought the smaller version. Well, stupid us. We got the smaller version…
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House Portrait
It’s a bit weird to go from living in a place where you have too much stuff on the walls to a place where you don’t have nearly enough, but that seems to be our present situation. As a result, I’ve got a number of art-making projects in the works and I’m trying my best…
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Painting Projects
When we moved into our house, every room was painted gray. Now, don’t get me wrong, I like gray and none of the varying shades of it throughout the house are offensive. I just don’t want every single room in my house to be the same color. It’s just kind of boring, and honestly, in…
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Landscaping, Landscaping, Landscaping
The landscaping around our house was…. not so good. It involved lots of plants that weren’t right for the space and more red mulch than I have ever seen. We spent weeks raking that infernal mulch up, but finally it’s mostly gone, save for the very, very deep reservoir of it under our front porch.…