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Category: My Cottage

  • 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 we needed and it was actually pretty painless. That was about mmmm, a month ago. We put most everything together right away, but something needed a bit of tweaking, so we just finished that today. First though, what I have been wanting since April. We…

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  • 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 a quick paint the lamp shade project. It turned out to be a paint the whole thing and talk the husband into electrical work project: I almost didn’t paint the rest of the thing white, how horrendous would that have been leaving it gold/cream faux…

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