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{blog love} small & chic in c'ville rocks!

January 22, 2010

Thanks to my bloggie friend, Jeannine of Small & Chic in C’ville, for posting about my mantle that found its way to a consignment in Charlottesville! When Husband and I decided we were moving, all in-progress projects came to a halt and some that couldn’t come with us to M’ssippi got the ax…one of which [...]

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{DIY} project FAIL

January 17, 2010

Sometimes I realize how much I stink at finishing projects.  I am a rock star when it comes to dreaming them up and starting them, but finishing them…eh, not so much. Case in point: I purchased this fab mantle from Lucketts back in…AUGUST.  Wasn’t that like, 6 months ago?!?!  I’m so embarrassed.  Then the end [...]

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{DIY} mantle progress, take 3

November 17, 2009

Now where did I leave off?…  Remember last week when I slopped on some paint stripping goop in hopes that my fireplace mantle project would inch closer toward completion?!  Well it did.  An inch or so.  Shall I remind you of what it used to look like??? The goop given me by a co-worker turned [...]

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{DIY} mantle progress, take 2

November 4, 2009

If you remember, last week I had the random hankering to get my months old fireplace mantle project started, so I picked up a jug of paint stripper from Home Depot after work and gave it a shot… Wanna know how it turned out?  (and again sorry for the terribly blurry pictures…) Not so well, [...]

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{DIY} mantle progress?

October 30, 2009

So………remember that 1800s fireplace mantle I bought at Lucketts back in, oh, August? No, I haven’t forgotten about it!  (You probably thought I did, didn’t you?!)  And no, I hadn’t made any progress on it…until last night!  This very large, soot covered, unfinished project sitting in the the basement has been a point of contention [...]

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{DIY} come on baby light my fire

August 10, 2009

There’s a store about 45 minutes from here called Old Lucketts Store that I like to visit every few months.  My last trip was with The Girl and L, and although I didn’t come home with any purchases, I got a lot of inspiration for the ol’ future project files. Last weekend with Husband away, [...]

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