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{before & after} dining room chairs

April 14, 2011

Since I (finally) shared what I did in the dining room on the walls, I thought it was about time to share what I did with the dining room chairs: new fabric!  Recovering the chairs was a way simple switcheroo that totally changed the vibe in the dining area, and it only took me about [...]

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{the renovation} exterior paint: finished!

November 3, 2010

Another blog silence – sorry!  Since my last post, I took a few calligraphy classes (definitely not a pro yet), cleaned and organized the house a bit (still a disaster), oversaw carpet installation in the second bedroom (nothing fancy, but no more sub-flooring!), and took an RV with friends to the infield of Talladega (so [...]

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{before & after} a desk on the cheap

September 24, 2009

Sister is an amazingly talented actress, up in the Big Apple trying to make it big!  She will, I just know it, but that doesn’t make the pre-making it life on a major budget in NYC very fun.  She has moved several times already and, as a result, hasn’t bought much in the way of [...]

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{blog love} i'm on design*sponge!

August 13, 2009

I submitted my little corkboard makeover and vintage button thumbtacks before and after to design*sponge and I made it on!  Thanks, Grace! If you’re visiting from design*sponge, thanks for dropping in!

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{our house} my fave spot at home

July 14, 2009

When we moved into our townhouse, our backyard looked a little something like this: I KNOW.  The horror.  It was literally a dumping ground (for us and others) and the home of about a million mosquitoes.  We would shield our eyes as we drove by, as if that would somehow help us forget how big [...]

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{before & after} open the walls, gut the kitchen!

July 7, 2009

One of my bestest friends and I are terrible influences on each other; hardly a day goes by when we aren’t calling each other about a new makeup or face product we’ve read about and want to try, or a top we saw while shopping we need an opinion on, or a new fabric or [...]

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