Posted in There's no place like home on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(Part 1 here). I wanted some red to spice up the living room and here’s what I envisioned:
I ended up with pretty much exactly that:
I wanted healthy plants atop the kitchen cabinets:
But I never did do that:
In the master bedroom I wanted balloon shades on the windows and to get the poster print nicely framed:
I [...]
Posted in Rodney, There's no place like home on July 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here’s our current house:
Here’s the house Rodney is smitten with:
The goal is to downsize so we’ve been looking at townhouses but I came across this place and it is so “us.” It would be a downsize as it’s less square footage and considerably less cost than our current house, but it’s [...]
Posted in There's no place like home on July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a close-up of the decorative plate and the print. Because Michele wanted to know what they were. :)
Posted in There's no place like home on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two years ago I came up with some things I’d like to buy to make our new house more homey. At that point we weren’t sure if we’d be staying here or not, so it was hard to know what purchases would be worth it in the long run.
Now that we know we’re going [...]
Posted in Andrea, Teenagers on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s Andrea ready to get her senior pictures taken:
And here are the proofs we just got in the mail:
I love how the proofs are on a cheap sheet of copy paper with deep creases across her face in all three. But the funniest things are the add-on’s… for an extra $10 you can get Facial [...]
Posted in Now that's funny on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, now they’ve started changing the sign once a day, sometimes twice! (First written about in this post). It was driving me crazy so Andrea and a friend did me a favor and stopped by the house and asked. You want the long, drawn out explanation? “He’s undecided.”
That’s it? Why [...]
Posted in Andrea, Bookworm, My magic life on July 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My need to simplify has been mostly regarding our home and the stuff in it, but it’s also affected my blogging. I went from two blogs (plus domains) I was paying for to this one that is free. I’m getting rid of Flickr and I no longer have myspace or facebook or anything [...]
