Not much to report on the home front. Friday night we went out with friends to celebrate a birthday. We dined at Kanki, which is one of those Japanese places where your food is cooked at the table. Always fun. Sunday was rainy (yay!) and cold, so after picking up my free saplings from the [...]
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Yum.
Posted in Home Sweet Home, food, tagged Anne of Green Gables, cold, cooking, food, free, guacamole, homemade, Japenese, Kanki, Mexican, rain, saplings, tortillas, trees on February 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Goings On…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cooking, flowers, food, garlic, hobby, Home, Homer Simpson, Kodak Duaflex, pasta, roses, ttv, tulips, veggies, vintage on February 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I know that the title of this post is way off grammatically speaking, but I hear it a lot down here, so there you go, it’s stuck.
I stumbled upon a group on Flickr called Through the Viewfinder. It’s dedicated to those who take vintage cameras and rig up their digital cameras to them using “contraptions” [...]
Valentine’s Week at our House
Posted in Home Sweet Home, Love, tagged baking, cooking, flowers, food, Kitchen aid mixer, Love, pie, pink, recipes, roses, steak, Valentines on February 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Surprise!
Chocolate Curl Makins’
Sugar Cookies
Pie in the making
Yummy batter
Done (with melted whipped cream on top)
I used my mixer twice this week- TWICE! That’s more than I used it all of last year! Since Matthew had class on Valentine’s Day night, I made a big dinner at home. The menu consisted of:
Pan-fried Ribeye Steak
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Snow [...]
Bathroom One Year Later
Posted in Home Sweet Home, tagged bathroom, Beadboard, Before and After, damask, Exteme Home Makeover, Home, House, Marines, red, Redo, renovation, tile, valance, Walnut on February 10, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Continuing last week’s trend of showing our progress in the last year, I present to you, the bathroom- voila!:
Before
During
After (!!!)
It only took us a year! But, you can see how much there was to do. When we purchased the home, we thought we’d just do some cosmetic updates. We quickly found out that years of [...]
February 9, 2008
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aged, Front Porch, old chair, Project 365, vintage, Yellow on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chair
Rural North Carolina
This is my photo of the day for Project 365. Yellowed by the elements, I figured it worked for Yellow Week. I passed this in the car and turned around, fascinated by such an elegant chair on the porch of an abandoned little house. Love it!
Living Room One Year Later
Posted in Home Sweet Home, Uncategorized, tagged Behr Peanut Butter, hardwood, Home, living room, one year later, red, renovation on February 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
January 31 marked our first anniversary in this house. And while we still have a long way to go, looking back, we’ve come a long way. Here was the living room the weekend after we closed:
During renovations:
And as of tonight:
Notice the red tables. I think they look great. You can see that I learned to [...]
Saving My Trigger Finger’s Life…
Posted in Home Sweet Home, Project 365, tagged chainsaw, cheez its, Home Depot, home renovation, orange, Project 365, red, spray paint furniture, stump, trigger finger on February 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This little gadget right here saved my trigger finger’s life today:
I noticed it when I was buying spray paint at Home Depot, but passed it over, figuring it was a gimmick that didn’t really work. I did make a mental note that it was the last one left however, which could mean one of [...]
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