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Spick and Span

May 23, 2007

Is it wrong to be in love with my own ingeniousness? Okay well this idea isn’t mine, but hey I remembered it! I think it was in a Real Simple magazine a few years ago, or something like that. Totally easy. I’ve been wanting to do this in the stairwell since I moved in, but I didn’t want to go to all the trouble before I painted the ceiling and everything, because that is messy. Step one: Cut a hole in the box. Hehehe, just kidding. Step one is really to pick out some old silverware.…
Back to Life, Back to the Stairwell

May 23, 2007

Remember what I was working on before, well, everything? The stairwell, the-15-foot-tall-in-some-places-that-are-too-hard-to-reach-full-of-cobwebs-and-a-nasty-beige-colored stairwell. My friends I will conquer this stairwell! With the help of a Making Memories foam brush, copious amounts of blue painters tape, and a super extend-o stick I will do it! Hopefully with pictures tomorrow. I’m kinda on a paint fume high right now and didn’t realize it was 2:48 am, so um, make that tomorrow afternoon, and and wait, that’s actually today….
And Found

May 22, 2007

There is nothing sweeter than a good morning thrifting with your best friend to get you back on the road to happiness.Sciarrino and I hit the sales Saturday morning. The first stop was a house we both adore on High Street, a couple blocks down from me. I got the seven dollar folding card table there. Other finds of the day were the three old crates, index card file, nice stack of totally random charting paper (with graphs and things), old lunch box, bag of trim and notions, and I just realized that I didn’t take…

Spick and Span

Back to Life, Back to the Stairwell

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