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Category: My Cottage
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Well that didn't last. I told all my friends to take the extra candy. In a fit of pregnancy induced craziness, obviously! So I have been dismantling it with my paper piercer. I got desperate, you see I'm a bit trapped: (the backyard, normally I wouldn't show you a picture of it, since it's full of building material and overgrown everything, but hey snow makes everything pretty!) It's been crazy cold here. The kind of cold where when it snows it sticks. That doesn't happen often and as a result not many know how to drive. The streets are like…
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Ahhhh I feel so much better. I even waited yesterday to post about the fiasco hours after it happened and I was still so upset (as you might have read). This morning I had a talk with my builder and he was very apologetic and just wanted to make it right. I did end up letting him paint it. My mom came over as well and cleaned for 8 hours! If cleanliness is next to godliness surely she is an angel. Tomorrow I will get curtains back in the dining room, the table centered, put leaves in it and welcome…
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Sometimes it's the little things and this afternoon I finally got the straw that broke my back. I had been down in the basement working when the guys came to clean up (at 3:30, not a long enough work day if you ask me). I had gotten one of them to put a second coat on the new wall down there in one spot, despite them saying that it didn't need a second coat. People paint almost always needs a second coat if you want it to look good. So the guy goes to clean out the paint tray and there…
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