tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17169501312620839592024-03-13T13:48:31.619-05:00All That Brings JoyHeidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-80664540012524366052014-03-10T04:18:00.000-05:002014-03-10T04:18:43.152-05:00Switching Gears<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As you've noticed, I don't post about furniture anymore :( I've done some projects here and there mostly for people who've asked me to, but then never even blogged about it. The problem with me trying to start my business with furniture painting is the logistics of it. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Furniture is big, heavy, and expensive. So scouring thrift stores and curbs for it is fine and all but I have no room or muscles to get it into my car! Plus with my other careers painting doesn't fit into the schedule so easily.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I've always loved to sew as well and have shared a few of my sewing projects here over the years but I've decided to start a new blog dedicated entirely to sewing. It fits into my schedule better, I can afford to keep showing new projects on a regular basis and I don't have to find pick up trucks to borrow to bring home fabric ;)</span></div>
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-50754975979426442702013-11-07T14:28:00.000-06:002013-11-07T14:29:00.149-06:00Thanksgiving Chalkboard Art<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I hate to always be starting my blog posts with "sorry I haven't posted in so long!!". But here I am again. It's been months since my last post. I've hosted parties and done some furniture and keep meaning to edit pictures and post about it but the truth is I'm just too busy to stop and write about what I'm up to! So hey, my posts might be months apart and I might be a terrible blogger, but when I <i>do</i> have the time I really do enjoy sharing my work :) So thank you for taking the time to come check it out :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I love having a chalkboard wall in my kitchen. I don't let my kids draw on it because it's dusty and I'm a bad mommy (it's okay they have one of their own to draw on;) but I love sitting down with my computer open and my chalk in hand and creating some art to enjoy every time I walk in the back door.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">For Halloween I didn't get my cute ghost and boo! up until the very last minute so for Thanksgiving I made sure to get it done right away so I have a whole month to enjoy it :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I have my computer open while I work on my chalkboard because I'm not very artistic. I could never have come up with this on my own. I just googled "Give Thanks chalkboards" and after looking through pages of inspiration I used a little of this from one picture and a little of that from another picture and pieced together what you see on my wall. I'm quite proud of how it turned out!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I have terrible handwriting actually. My first few attempts of writing on my chalkboard I basically traced the letters on after printing them out on the computer. That worked good, especially for regular sized words, but for very big words that would have used a lot of ink and paper. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So lately I've just been having what I want to write on the computer screen in front of me while I do it. That plus I now wet down the chalkboard before writing on it. It's amazing how the chalk glides over the board when it's been wiped with a wet rag. Also when I make a mistake it's super easy to wipe away just the portion I messed up on and fix it.</span></div>
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-52385348873587096352013-08-30T10:34:00.001-05:002013-09-13T05:11:01.878-05:00Paris Grey Dry Brushed Dresser<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I apologize for the lack of anything home/decorating/furniture on the blog this summer! As you could see from my posts adjusting to diabetes was the only thing on the agenda. But I'm back to my usual antics now that the kids are in school :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I've been wanting to share this dresser for months!! It's the low dresser that matches the <a href="http://allthatbringsjoy.blogspot.com/2013/04/dry-brushed-antique-dresser.html" target="_blank">Chest of Drawers</a> I shared last April. They're a gorgeous pair I scored off of Craigslist. They weren't a steal but they were worth it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I stripped the top and restained it using a Jacobean stain. I repainted the body with Annie Sloan's Paris Grey and then dry brushed over it with Pure White. I was determined to make a dry brushing video while working on this dresser so it took me a little longer to get to it. But I was able to make one that turned out.....<i>okay</i>.....watching it makes me want to punch myself. But you know, no big deal ;) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So once that was finished I waxed the painted parts of the dresser and was ready to stage it and take pics! Or was I? The hardware was <i>missing.</i> It had been so long since I had started this project that the hardware became buried in my office under a bunch of train tracks that I rescued when we flooded last Spring! sigh, so weeks later after I found the hardware and did a happy dance I finally was able to stage, take pics and finally show it to you!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It has the same great details and hardware as it's taller mate.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Now that the kids are in school and I have 2 days off of work a week I'm hoping to share projects more regularly. Thanks for sticking with me through a tough summer!! :)</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.realcoake.com/2013/09/real-family-fun-29.html?utm_source=Real%20Family%20Fun%20Link%20Party&utm_campaign=e2083c76bb-Link%20Party%20Reminder%208-28-13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_79096ff0bd-e2083c76bb-57348417" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Real Thing</span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.alderberryhill.com/make-the-scene-monday-91/" target="_blank">Make the Scene Monday</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So I've been thinking about writing a post outlining a normal day for Casey with type 1 diabetes. I debated wether anyone would care to read such a post until yesterday when my friend asked me exactly that. "What's a day like for Casey now that he has diabetes??"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So for my friends and family who are curious to know more about what Casey's days look like and for strangers who find their way to my blog due to the title, here's what a day in the life of an 8 year old with diabetes looks like.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He decides what he wants for breakfast and exactly how much of it he'll eat. Today he wants Frosted Flakes and decides he will eat 1 & 1/2 servings. Plus he will drink 1/2 cup of OJ. So we add up the carbs in the cereal and juice. I don't count the carbs of the milk in his cereal because he doesn't actually get that much of the milk in his mouth ever. It's just one of those weird things we've figured out!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So the carb count is 57. We divide the carbs by 22 because that's just the number that our doctor has told us to divide by at breakfast :) The resulting number is 2.59 which is the number of insulin units that Casey will take with his breakfast. The insulin doses in half units so we round to 2 & 1/2.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">{Casey always checks his blood sugar himself so I usually do the insulin for him. He knows how to do it and sometimes he prepares the shot or does the injection or both himself. But truthfully it's a lot of work. <i>I </i>get tired of doing it so imagine an 8 year old being burdened with it.}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">2 hours after breakfast Casey checks his blood sugar again. We want to check it to make sure his number is back to around 100. Too high would mean that he didn't take enough insulin with breakfast, too low would mean he took too much. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">{Caring for diabetes is a constantly changing thing. As he grows and his body changes his insulin doses will change too. Right now Casey is in the "honeymoon stage" of diabetes. His pancreas is still working and making insulin at times but it is slowly giving up. So right now Casey's numbers are a little higher than they had been a few weeks ago when his pancreas was working better and that is something we address with his doctor every couple of weeks.} </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">His number is 99. This is a good number, our goal is to be around 1oo but for sure under 150. It's snack time so Casey looks through the pantry and decides on a snack. It has to be about 15 grams of carbs, no more. Anything more would cause his blood sugar to go too high which (over time) would be unhealthy. He decides to have 15 Pringles and a glass of Crystal Light.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">{Having high blood sugar here and there is okay and to be expected. But having high numbers consistently would lead to complications later in life. Also having high numbers can lead to your body breaking down fat cells for energy and creating keytones in your blood as the waste product. This is very dangerous and another reason why we check blood often and limit snacks to 15 carbs.}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It's lunch time. We approach it just like breakfast. Casey checks his blood sugar and I ask him what he would like to eat and how much.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">{Casey needs to know how much he will eat so he can take the appropriate amount of insulin. Once he takes enough insulin for a meal he then has to eat all the carbs we counted so that he doesn't get low blood sugar. This is why he always eats his high carb foods first, it's not something we told him to do or even thought of. It's something he figured out on his own and has always done. The boy has always been wise beyond his years.} </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He decides to have a hot dog without a bun, 1 serving of doritos and some fruit with water to drink. That adds up to 23 carbs. We divide by 20 because that's the number the doctor has told us to divide by at lunch. The resulting number is 1.15 which is the number of insulin units he will get (we round to 1). I prepare the insulin and give him his shot where he tells me he would like it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Casey has been playing outside and comes in to tell me he is dizzy and feels low. We check his finger and his number is at 83 but his insulin from lunch hasn't even gotten to it's peak yet which means he'll go even lower in the next 45 minutes. He eats a snack of 20 Cheez-its.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It's snack time again. Casey checks his number and it is 104. He picks out a 15 carb snack and has some crystal light with it. Crystal Light, Vitamin Water Zero and drinks of that nature are carb free (or very low carb) and are fun for him to get to have. I let him pick out lots of different flavors at the store every week.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It's dinner time. I try to make a meal that everyone will like at dinner but I don't specifically ask Casey what he wants. Dinner is dinner and you eat what mommy makes ;) When the food is almost ready I ask Casey to come up to the kitchen and see what we're having. I measure out a serving of the noodles or rice or potatoes etc. and ask him how many servings he thinks he will eat. He checks his blood sugar and usually gets his insulin shot ready since I'm still cooking and this can be a hectic time. His number tonight is 111. The number of carbs he's having is 59 so we divide by 22. The resulting number is 2.68 which is the number of units of insulin he'll get (we rounded to 2 & 1/2). Dad's home so a lot of times he will do the injection at dinner.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">{Low blood sugar is a constant danger for people with diabetes. Taking too much insulin, not eating enough carbs or getting a lot of exercise are all things that can cause your numbers to go too low. For Casey in his honeymoon stage his pancreas can randomly shoot out some extra insulin and cause him to have extreme lows. It's scary and can cause passing out, seizures, coma and even death. We carry a special emergency glucagon shot with us everywhere we go in case of this. Casey can usually feel when his blood sugar is getting low, he gets dizzy and sluggish. During travel baseball for the whole month of July we were battling lows. His teammates thought it was awesome his mom made him eat gummy lifesavers in between innings!}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Casey's number tonight is 92 which is too low for bed so he gets a bedtime snack. He loves it when this happens :) He usually gets some kind of dessert which makes it even more exciting. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">After he has a strawberry shortcake popsicle he goes up to the bathroom and does all of his asthma and allergy medicines and brushes teeth. One of us (Casey, Scott or I) get his bedtime insulin ready. A lot of nights Casey gives himself this injection.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">{Casey's bedtime insulin is taken at the same time every night and is very different than his meal time insulin. His meal time insulin works almost immediately and peaks 2 hours after injecting. The bed time insulin works slowly and basically lets off a tiny bit of insulin each hour of the day for 24 hours.}</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As you can see diabetes can feel like a lot of work. But every week it gets more and more a habit and is becoming 2nd nature. As long as Casey sticks to a schedule, takes the right amount of insulin and is careful about snacking things go very smoothly. But sometimes sticking to a strict schedule with smart snacks is not so easy for an 8 year old. Sometimes people offer a snack of donut holes at a playdate after he's already eaten a snack. Even if he <i>hasn't </i>had a snack he can only have about 3 donut holes. Meanwhile littler kids run around and eat 8 over the course of the whole playdate. Casey can't do those things. Those are the kinds of times that he feels different and deprived. It's hard, even on a kid who's acted like an adult his whole life. We've been told by every one of Casey's teachers over the years how <i>responsible</i> he is. We've talked about how God made him that way to prepare him for his life with allergies and asthma and catastrophic teeth grinding. We found out this summer that God was actually equipping him with the personality he would need to live his life with Type 1 Diabetes.</span></div>
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-76310399902412326652013-08-02T18:36:00.000-05:002013-08-02T18:36:22.051-05:00Deep Thoughts<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes it's easy to be selfish. I don't even realize I'm doing it. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Casey has been acting strange lately. He doesn't want to go anywhere or do anything. I offer to have friends over and get a head shake "no", I tell him his friend has invited him over and get a "no way." Today I sat here thinking "what is going on?!?" Could this have to do with diabetes? Is his asthma bothering him? Did travel baseball just wear him out?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I still don't know that answer but as I sat here thinking something dawned on me. I've been talking about going back to school with diabetes non stop all summer. I talk to my friends about it and my family about it and my nurse and doctor about it, but I haven't talked to CASEY about it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Turns out he's feeling nervous. Sometimes it's so easy to think about my kids as MINE and to think about them going through trials and hardships as something that affects ME. Sure it makes me nervous to think about Casey being out of my care for 7 & 1/2 hours a day! But that's not what I should be thinking about. It's his life and his trial and this is happening to HIM. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So we looked into other options. Of course there was the option of sanding and restaining. In order to do that we would first need to screw down all of the boards because they had only been nailed down and a lot of them were popping up. And since we live in Chicago where the weather can be very harsh staining would be something we'd have to redo every other year to keep it looking fresh and nice.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So here's the part I'm struggling with. Buying a yard of the white and 1/2 a yard of the pink fabric ended up costing me about $15. I could easily buy a dress from Old Navy for that much money or less probably and could even possibly get a dress on sale from the Gap for that much. So is it really worth it to be sewing my own clothes if it doesn't even save any money?? Or is there some magic way to find and buy amazingly cute fabric for a steal??</span><br />
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-17789206086423754272013-06-23T13:16:00.000-05:002013-06-23T21:51:13.843-05:00Dry Brushing Video Tutorial<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I posted the video on YouTube and put a link to it down below for you to click on. Let me know in the comments if it's not working or anything please! :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Also a disclaimer: This is my first video tutorial. I was <i>nervous.</i> :) The more times I saw/heard it while I was editing the more I wanted to forget the whole thing and throw it away! Hearing your own nervous voice for an hour straight isn't the funnest way to spend an evening ;) But my whole reason for making it was to be helpful to one person out there who is nervous about trying dry brushing and my hope is that that one person will find it and feel more confident :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Last week my 7 year old son, Casey, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It came basically out of nowhere. After a month of on again off again drinking & peeing spurts I decided let's just take him in to be checked. Sure I was sick to my stomach that morning waiting for our appointment, but I kept telling myself to stop being silly, that I'd be embarrassed afterwards for asking some family members to pray before we went in...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And that's when diabetes took over. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">After being diagnosed we were sent straight to urgent care being told we were lucky he was healthy enough to not need a 2 day hospital stay as most children do. We spent the rest of the day there getting insulin, IV drips, blood tests, and lots of information.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We left with a nauseous, tired little boy, a bag full of samples and leaflets and our heads spinning. Don't get me wrong, they did a <i>wonderful</i> job helping Casey and us through the whole ordeal. There's just only so much information one brain can take in in a 5 hour period, especially when that brain is still trying to cope with a new diagnosis.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My house is a mess of papers and empty boxes and books and half put away groceries. My week has been about surviving from one meal to the next. I feel like our whole <a href="http://allthatbringsjoy.blogspot.com/2013/05/summer-bucket-list.html" target="_blank">summer bucket list</a> is a thing of the past. How am I going to plan a trip to Six Flags Great America when just packing a lunch stresses me out? How am I going to take my daughter for our special mommy/daughter day to the American Girl Store when I'm the only one who knows how to take care of Casey?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Starting with my mind set. I will stop looking at my friends' pictures on Facebook and feeling sorry for myself. I will stop feeling like our life is over. I will get this mess around me cleaned up so that our house feels normal again. We will accomplish every single goal on that summer bucket list and we will enjoy it that much more because we will know that diabetes won't get in the way of our life. </span></div>
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-5710087520630855772013-05-29T14:48:00.000-05:002013-05-29T14:48:50.181-05:00Summer Bucket List<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-20901946594035726172013-05-28T15:13:00.000-05:002013-05-28T15:13:56.794-05:00A Surprise 65th Luau<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">When it comes to the yard Scott is a bit of a perfectionist....to say the least. So for weeks we worked HARD finishing up landscaping and the deck and the playset and cleaning the garage and on and on....</span></div>
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-39415961428342009022013-05-21T08:41:00.001-05:002013-05-21T08:41:27.602-05:00Painting the Front Door<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This month is flying by. We've been working our tails off on all of our <a href="http://allthatbringsjoy.blogspot.com/2013/05/our-florida-vacation-and-may-goals.html" target="_blank">May Goals</a> but aren't <i>quite </i>ready to show off the results. Except for one, the front door!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">But I've been trying to change things up and step outside my color comfort zone, and I'm so glad I did! Also, I looked up and down my street at all of my neighbor's doors and noticed a lot of black, white, green and tan. I wanted my house to stand out and a beautiful blue door will definitely help!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This color is called Blue Suede and is a Martha Stewart color from Home Depot. I had them mix it for me in an outdoor Glidden paint in semi gloss. I used only a brush to paint the door and it only needed 2 coats. An hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon and I was done!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I ordered these vinyl numbers from a great Etsy shop called <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/90294363/custom-vinyl-front-door-house-number?ref=sr_gallery_1&sref=sr_ac3b48cf45cbe96ccff4e228eff39d0885c77acaaaeaef5e7783ebe6ef246dd1_1369143250_14260942_house_number&ga_search_query=house+numbers+vinyl&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=all" target="_blank">WelcomingWalls</a>. Candi had them made and shipped to me in less than a week, and for only $9! I couldn't be happier with my front door now! :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As soon as I finished writing my May goals last week I decided I was going with that blue color for my front door, and I wanted to get started <i>immediately.</i> But unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate with that plan. It turned rainy and cold and I wasn't able to do a darn thing outside all weekend :(</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">But this week is looking promising!! I decided that if I couldn't paint the outside of the door I'd at least do the inside of it this past weekend. Here's how it looked before.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> That wood door to the right of it is our coat closet. It's the last door on this floor of the house that needs to be replaced. It's not a very big closet, but just the fact that I <i>have</i> a coat closet makes me very happy. Living without one for the first 4 years of our marriage drove me crazy.</span></div>
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-39842075189864302102013-05-08T15:37:00.000-05:002013-05-08T15:37:21.294-05:00Our Florida Vacation and May Goals<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Hey guys! So in my last post when I told you how April completely got away from me I was dying to say, "But we're going away to Florida this Saturday, <i>Hallelujah!!!!</i>" But announcing to the world that we're going out of town didn't seem like the best idea ;) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We had a wonderful time on Anna Maria Island with Scott's parents. While we were there I got to play with my <a href="http://allthatbringsjoy.blogspot.com/2013/03/playing-with-my-new-nikon.html" target="_blank">camera</a> a little :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We worked long and hard on it last Spring but never finished. I'll give you a review of how the Deck Restore is working out for us and also we'll be painting all of the lower lattice white.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We had a new door installed a year and a half ago and to save on cost we decided to paint it ourselves. It just hasn't happened yet! That color swatch on the door is Blue Suede by Martha Stewart. The jury is still out on that one too.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So there you go! A long list and it's already the 8th today!! Thankfully these are goals that Scott feels strongly about too, so there's a better chance that they'll actually get done ;)</span></div>
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-28285795057604730922013-04-25T15:58:00.000-05:002013-04-25T15:58:44.290-05:00April Goals<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So it just occurred to me the other day that I never made any April goals. The truth is that my April goals would probably have been the same as March, paint a lot of furniture!! But April has not been the best month for me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It started with helping out a friend by watching her sweet and wonderful boys. A little bit too busy to be painting furniture. No problem. It then turned into sore throats and colds and a lost voice all during the last week before the Little Lambs spring program. I'm the MUSIC teacher at Little Lambs. My voice is kind of <i>needed. </i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And then it ended with torrential down pours, a flooded basement and crawl space and our church's basement flooded. We hold Little Lambs in the church basement. And it was now the actual week of the program.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So needless to say the month of April got away from me. And let's not forget that the stomach flu has now come to visit my house. sigh. I'll be back in May with some goals and hopefully a finished project to share. Thanks for putting up with my sometimes sporadic blogging :) </span></div>
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-3715287482841741192013-04-10T21:48:00.000-05:002013-04-16T20:15:42.683-05:00Spring Chalkboard Calendar<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">It's been a cold and rainy week here in Chicago. So I decided that maybe if I gave Spring a chalkboard welcome it might decide to finally show up! Worth a shot, right?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My last <a href="http://allthatbringsjoy.blogspot.com/2013/01/some-chalkboard-fun.html" target="_blank">chalkboard creation</a> was nothing to write home about...well I guess I <i>DID </i>write a blog post about it which is about the same thing....but anyways. I didn't love it and so I never bothered updating the week's activities. Which just made life even more confusing when every week someone asked me what we were going to have to eat at grandma's on Thursday night.... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So this time I worked extra hard and used some tips I found on Pinterest making sure that the end result would be something I'd actually want to update every week :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Not too shabby, huh? Especially for someone with TERRIBLE handwriting! Even those little flowers are a tiny miracle for this untalented doodler. ;)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">My tools were a bowl of water, a towel, a yardstick, and a ruler. I was hesitant to wet down my chalkboard before writing on it even though multiple sources had said to do it. I was afraid it would leave unsightly smudge marks every where making it obvious where I had wet it down, but in the end as it dried it still had a hazy, chalky finish making it not so noticeable. And really, who says my entire chalkboard should be smudgless??? (other than the voices in my head of course)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So WELCOME SPRING! Come quickly please and warm up this tired woman who desperately needs some fresh air!!!!</span><br />
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-22307092605188648422013-04-09T05:34:00.002-05:002013-05-06T13:46:20.989-05:00Dry Brushed Antique Dresser<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So March is over. My goal was to get lots of furniture painted so that when I figure out <i>where</i> to sell my furniture I'll be ready. I started with 2 chairs that needed painting and reupholstering but the reupholstering was pretty darn difficult and so those are on the back burner for now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I was able to complete a beautiful <a href="http://allthatbringsjoy.blogspot.com/2013/03/blue-nursery-dresser.html" target="_blank">dresser</a> for a wonderful couple I'm friends with who are expecting their first baby. I made a <a href="http://allthatbringsjoy.blogspot.com/2013/03/fresh-eggs-sign.html" target="_blank">fresh eggs sign</a> which is a quick, fun project that I would love to sell along with my furniture somewhere. And I did a quick re-do on two <a href="http://allthatbringsjoy.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-quick-paint-job.html" target="_blank">little tables</a> that were collecting dust in my garage. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">There's the Kane County Fair that is about 30 minutes from my house which is a good option if I can figure out all of the logistics of it (hauling that much furniture!!). </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And when summer comes and my babysitting slows down I plan on visiting as many antique shops as I can hoping to find a store that feels like a good fit for me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.houseofhepworths.com/2013/04/10/hookin-up-with-hoh-143/" target="_blank">House of Hepworths</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.funkyjunkinteriors.net/2013/04/party-junk-182-hydrangeas.html" target="_blank">Funky Junk Interiors</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.findingsilverpennies.com/2013/04/silver-pennies-sundays-link-party-and_14.html" target="_blank">Silver Pennies</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.alderberryhill.com/make-the-scene-monday-70/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20AlderberryHill%20(Alderberry%20Hill)" target="_blank">Alderberry Hill</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://twelveoeight.blogspot.com/2013/04/pretty-things-16-link-party-and.html" target="_blank">twelveOeight</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://knickoftimeinteriors.blogspot.com/2013/04/knick-of-time-tuesday-82.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:" target="_blank">Knick of Time</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://elizabethandco.blogspot.com/2013/04/be-inspired-features-and-link-party-65.html" target="_blank">elizabeth&co</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The other day I was super frustrated with a reupholstery project I've been working on all month, so to calm myself I went out to the garage and found something to paint! I actually found TWO somethings :) Two nice, small tables that I could whip up in a day and feel like I'd accomplished something. I'm realizing how much I <i>love</i> painting. Sewing, reupholstering, refinishing, they're all fun and everything, but I <i>love</i> painting.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Sigh...the other day I was putting my pictures from my camera onto my desktop and on mistake instead of hitting open I hit <i>delete</i>. I looked in my "trash" but I couldn't find it anywhere :( I didn't realize that these before pictures were on there. Well that kinda sucks, huh? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">When the college years came around she went off to college and I stayed home and married/had babies immediately. So we lost touch for a bit until recently. She came back, married and moved into a house 2 doors down from my parent in-law's! And is now expecting a little one :) I couldn't be more excited about this and so when her and her husband asked me to paint a dresser for the nursery I was thrilled!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">They found this dresser on Craigslist and boy is it a good find. Very solidly built with great working drawers, it's going to last this kid's lifetime and then some. They chose the color themselves to go along with their gender neutral nursery. I <i>know</i> that is a blue dresser, but it's the perfect blue. Put next to some of Lainey's pink things and it's the prettiest blue you've ever seen, put next to some sports paraphernalia and this dresser is all boy :) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The color is called Lazy Sunday by Benjamin Moore. I had it color matched at Home Depot in some Behr semi-gloss. I took pictures of the whole painting process for you to show how I paint a piece with latex paint.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We knew we only wanted one hole for a knob instead of two for a pull so I filled in the hole closest to the middle of the drawer on each side. Sometimes I fill in both holes and drill a new hole right in the middle of the two but in this case this placement was going to look best which worked out wonderfully for me! ;) After filling all of the holes and sanding I filled them again to be safe and then sanded the whole dresser with my hand sander.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Now I did run into an issue at the end, because it just wouldn't be <i>me</i> without some issues. The roller was leaving roller marks for some reason, I'm not sure why seeing as this is how I always do it. ??? But I just took some fine sand paper and went over the top to smooth it a bit and then rolled on another coat. I made sure to have plenty of paint on my roller and to use smooth even strokes and it looked much better after. That's what I get for telling people how <i>perfect</i> this project was going!! ;)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I decided on it because it had good reviews, was a starter priced camera (in other words less expensive!) and most importantly....Miss Mustard Seed uses a Nikon. I know I'm a nerd, Scott even asked me at the store why I was set on a Nikon and when I wouldn't answer him he guessed right. We all have idols we want to be like, right?! ;) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Good morning :) Sorry I've been missing since last posting about my <a href="http://allthatbringsjoy.blogspot.com/2013/03/march-goals.html" target="_blank">March Goals</a>, I've just been really busy trying to <i>accomplish</i> those goals. Those chairs are proving to be a lot harder than I expected! Not a problem though, it will be worth it in the end.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">One of my goals for the month of February was to finish the little hallway area at the bottom of my <a href="http://allthatbringsjoy.blogspot.com/2013/01/painted-stairs.html" target="_blank">newly painted stairs.</a> You may remember I needed to paint the walls, paint the paneling, add baseboards and finish it off with a picture collage. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I first painted the walls at the top of the stairs with some light tan paint I already had. It's called Natural Linen by Glidden and my whole 1st floor used to be painted with it until my husband talked me into going darker. But after doing these walls I let him know the rest of the house was going back to this color at some point ;)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I measured, cut, and installed all of the baseboards with very minimal help from Scott. He only needed to hold the long board in place while I nailed but other than that it was all me, baby! I even caulked afterwards for the very first time! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I filled the frames with pictures of us, our kids, and kids that I've babysat over the past 4 years. When I'm babysitting we play all day in this basement area and I want to fill this space with all the happy memories I've made with so many wonderful kids! I didn't have good pics of <i>every</i> child I've sat for but I plan on adding to this wall with more frames and more color as I go :) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So there you have it. I finished 2 out of 3 of my February goals this month. Our coat closet didn't get worked on at all, but Scott dealt with some sickness this month and a trip to Home Depot for plywood never happened :( Oh well! I've just informed him that really that closet needs a lot more than a shoe rack....so we'll see if I add it to March's goals. Speaking of, I need to write that post!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">I was excited to get started on a new piece of furniture right away this week so I went out to the garage to look over my stash of projects waiting to get worked on and picked out a pair of chairs that need painting/reupholstering. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">But after about 3 hours of pulling staples I still am not done :( The good news is this chair was made and upholstered VERY WELL! But I think the stapler person kinda over did it on the staples....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Oh and did I mention that those 3 hours were all spent on ONE chair?! I haven't even started the 2nd one. sigh.</span><br />
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<br />Heidihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17575474928934880745noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1716950131262083959.post-431558318141715232013-02-20T19:17:00.000-06:002013-03-10T15:22:34.655-05:00French Linen Secretary<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://twoyellowbirdsdecor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Two Yellow Birds Decor</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://delightfulorder.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Delightful Order</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://too-much-time.com/" target="_blank">Too Much Time on my Hands</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://myuncommonsliceofsuburbia.com/tuesdays-treasures-125/" target="_blank">My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://cupcakesandcrinoline.com/2013/02/project-inspired-link-party-4-and-some-new-faces/?fb_source=pubv1" target="_blank">Cupcakes and Crinoline</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.notjustahousewife.net/" target="_blank">Not Just a Housewife</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://adventuresofadiymom.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Adventures of a DIY mom</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://carolynshomework.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-inspiration-board-link-party-91.html" target="_blank">Carolyn's Homework</a></span><br />
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