Maybe my favorite change in the basement. The stairs open like this are so nice. I’m going to save up for a rod iron railing piece and have it powder coated white. The little wall behind the stairs blocks the water heater and furnace, so it will be quite over in Ribbon Jar land. The …
Yearly Archives: 2006
First the Good Stuff
Okay seriously this weekend was phenomenal for getting the old stuff, the old good stuff that is. After the thrilling morning on Friday Sciarrino, Brain, Melissa (his girlfriend) and I headed to the McNary Estates garage sale. They only have it one day a year and this year 97 families were participating. We still had …
A Prayer to the thrifting Gods
The paper said it first, a church pew, at an estate sale. I had to have it, entry way, what? what? A dollar each, love the type on these, and I love having little bits of chowder or a handful of crackers in this size of thing. I am going to have the weirdest collection …
Your mission, should you choose to accept it…
Do you have a nasty (usually brown) old thermostat? Like this: Do you want your old place to look like it has a whole new heating system? Do you want to save the earth one little unit of energy at a time? Do you want to save money too? Then you need a new programable …
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Bizzaro Salem
Today was the weirdest day, just plain psycho weird. You know that episode of Seinfeld where Elaine starts hanging out with Bizarro Jerry? Well it was Bizarro Salem today. First of all I spent the night last night up in Portland and as I was driving back into town I see this sign "incident ahead" …
Violet Clementine
I love little baby Violet. Spent the day hanging out with Michele and the babe today. Baby love, it’s the best. Baby Violet and Mommy: My favorite:I remembered to have Brett take one of me and Violet together, doesn’t she look like she’s kinda smiling? hehehe. Oh and on a totally separate note I stopped …
An ode to paint
I want to tell you something that you should never forget: Trim should only be white, nice clean, white. It should never ever be cream. Cream looks dirty. It should be white. Now, you may disagree with me, but you will never change my mind, especially after today. Because I had to undo years of …
Swapity Swap Swap!
Dude, the swappin is rockin. The peeps are getting their packages and some of you are just so over the moon about it:"I know the RAK you’re doing is meant to be random…."Wanting to nominate their buddies for the jar o ribbon prize. I am going to wait to draw for that until the end …
1 wedding and a concert
On Saturday Bj and I went to his friend Salman’s wedding. Well it wasn’t actually a wedding, it was a kind of ceremony for the bride to say goodbye to her family and the families to join (as I understand it). I really had no idea what to expect, I had sought out some help …
17 cubic feet of cold cold love
It has like a million slots to move the big shelves and the little ones on the door. A sweet drawer, ya it also has some kind of perfect temperature system but I haven’t read those directions just yet. But this people was the real clincher. Check out this freezer. Now, having not used it …