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Category Archives: My Cottage
Ikea Love
Ah sweet Ikea how I love thee. Well I really really like thee, but Bj LOVES Ikea. We went right after it opened in Portland and it was crazy. We were a little concerned seeing as how they had people parked fair style on the grass because the place was overflowing, but we knew what …
The Blue Spray Paint Edition
And I generally do not like nasty and gold things. Plus when we took it down to pack it up we realized the whole thing needed to be re-wired to avoid catching fire. I finally decided to tackle this because of the whole craft room renovation. Yesterday morning I thought this was going to be …
Curtains… For Grown-Ups!
Okay so if you were to come over the first thing I would say to you is, "I know, I know, the front of our house does not mirror the cuteness within!" And it’s so true. And a big part of that was the whole sheets-for-curtains situation (one of which was, uh-hum, bright and plaid). …
I’ve been holding out on you.
Okay so still no news on whether or not grandpa gets released today, though this blog post will most likely be interrupted by a phone call on the matter. But before all of that happened Sciarrino and I worked on an awesome project last week. I had been planning on redoing the craft studio all …
Life is Like
I love them. I was trying to use up paint I have and make them really easy to clean so the risers are painted with exterior paint. They got kicked up by a repair guy so I got to test out the whole cleaning them thing, and it was super easy. The tread is also …
Outside In
The little cottage that could. Remember when I first got this thing. And then after I hacked away at the front? Well it pretty much stayed in that state for the last couple of months with stumps and weeds doing their things in the front of the house. The lawn was all crazy from where …
Piano Keys
Well it’s a little bit of progress. Painting the stairs is taking a bit more time than I thought it would. Bj came home from work and said, "Oh maybe you should paint the other ones white and it could be like piano keys." That is not the look I’m going for however. Oh and …
Spick and Span
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 …
Back to Life, Back to the Stairwell
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 …