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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Belated beyond belief - New house post
Steven and I have lenient landlords when it comes to decorating which means that we spent Memorial Day weekend repainting the walls. It started a dirty sad white, and ended up beautiful, bright and completely ours. We're blessed, and I try to remember that every time Larry ignores our repeated messages about the broken front window.
Dirty sad living room:
Happy gray living room:
Plain, boring white wall:
New, fancy purple wall:
Your average kitchen:
New and improved SUSAN kitchen:
Sad laundry area:
New and improved (though I still need to do something about that light fixture):
The main reason we decided on the house was all the built in storage, and this fabulous bookshelf/wall:
Which leaves all our bookshelves free for decorating:
The bedrooms and study were painted right before we moved in, but I'm still hoping to get curtains made for each of the rooms by the end of the year. I've been fabric shopping for weeks, but I can't commit to buying anything. It's much too stressful. Any color/style suggestions?
This is currently my coffee table. Though I appreciate the ability to move parts of it around as needed, it cannot last forever. Plus, the corners are sharp.
My last project of the summer is the bathroom. It requires wallpaper stripping, priming, and choosing a blue. Basically, it's impossible, because nothing matches my authentically vintage, perfectly hand-me-down, so ugly it's chic shower curtain. It will me stay with me always. Thanks, Momma.
So there you have it. No mice, quiet neighbors, close to work and colored walls. Everything I sort of knew I wanted.
Dirty sad living room:
Happy gray living room:
Plain, boring white wall:
New, fancy purple wall:
Your average kitchen:
New and improved SUSAN kitchen:
Sad laundry area:
New and improved (though I still need to do something about that light fixture):
The main reason we decided on the house was all the built in storage, and this fabulous bookshelf/wall:
Which leaves all our bookshelves free for decorating:
The bedrooms and study were painted right before we moved in, but I'm still hoping to get curtains made for each of the rooms by the end of the year. I've been fabric shopping for weeks, but I can't commit to buying anything. It's much too stressful. Any color/style suggestions?
This is currently my coffee table. Though I appreciate the ability to move parts of it around as needed, it cannot last forever. Plus, the corners are sharp.
My last project of the summer is the bathroom. It requires wallpaper stripping, priming, and choosing a blue. Basically, it's impossible, because nothing matches my authentically vintage, perfectly hand-me-down, so ugly it's chic shower curtain. It will me stay with me always. Thanks, Momma.
So there you have it. No mice, quiet neighbors, close to work and colored walls. Everything I sort of knew I wanted.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Here we come
I have no reason to believe that the 2010 season will be miraculous. There's no indication that we will even improve on last year's 6-6 record. But thanks to the Where I Come From series, the Big 12 shuffle and Bill Snyder back on the sidelines, something just feels magical. Maybe it's just about having season tickets again. Or knowing that I'm back in a place where I have enough money and time to completely surrender to college football season. To get immersed in the drama and the players and the emotion and the silliness. Maybe it's because the basketball team has made us all better K-State fans again. All I know is that I have been focused on September 4th since November 21st. 56 days to go. Are you ready?
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