Housewarming Party Video!

When my uber talented friend Evan Palazzo who made this video for us is NOT shooting and editing video or acting in a film or play, he’s playing the best jazz piano you’ve ever heard either on his website or as his alter ego heavydutyfats on youtube! I’m apparently not quite as talented at embedding […]

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The Power of Daily Candy…

  As discussed in the comments of my last post about the Housewarming party, our charm jewelry was featured in Daily Candy Deals this past Tuesday and the response has been unbelievable! Things are a bit chaotic as a result and I probably won’t have time to do anything to the house and won’t really […]

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The Housewarming Party Blues

After all of the stress, money, last minute renovations and repairs our housewarming party was sort of a bust. I KNEW things weren’t going to go well when friday night (the night before the party) we discovered that the faucet we bough for the downstairs party room didn’t have the bolts on it.  We had […]

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Smooshing – Don’t Try This at Home!

Have to be quick, preparing for party tomorrow! We tried the smooshing, rolled on the BM metallic veil cream over the BM revere pewter undercoat.  Applied the plastic sheeting and shmooshed.. then peeled and it looked really weird..the patterns the plastic made seemed too busy, too close together. Maybe we didn’t do it right? So […]

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Muddy Gray Powder Room – EEK!

We painted the BM Revere Pewter in the downstairs powder room last night.. its one of those chameleon like colors. It looked like a pure gray in my test patch, but when I got the fan deck outside in the natural light it had a distinct mauvish pinky gray undertone.  And last night, but the […]

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Weekend Update – in which Not Much gets done

But we have an excuse – we had our first overnight house guests! We had hoped to have the bathrooms primed and painted before their arrival, but we only got as far as the priming and then lots and lots of cleaning ensued. I have to thank Mike and Tracy because had they not come […]

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