October 29th, 2007
This morning I get a phone call from Patricia of PVE Designs asking me if I had received her illustration. I hadn’t, but when i went to check my email, there was this lovely gift waiting for me: Illustration by Patricia van Essche of PVE Design Isn’t that the most charming illustration you’ve ever seen? […]
read more...October 18th, 2007
First of all, a huge thank you for all the vacuum suggestions, I’m still doing some research but am very grateful for the starting points! So Monday was my birthday and I was NOT happy about it. In fact, I spent a good portion of Sunday sobbing and rejecting Jeff’s attempts to arrange a dinner/party […]
read more...October 10th, 2007
And product reviews. Seriously, how did people used to do buy anything before product reviews? Word of mouth? A little background… We need a vacuum. The tiny cheapo one I got from walmart for my 13’x16′ NYC apartment 5 years ago is just not going to cut it (yes, I said 13′ x 16′!!). Among […]
read more...October 9th, 2007
I finally had a second to snap a picture of our fabulous new Simplehuman step trash can. It was my choice as a housewarming gift from my aunt who asked me what we wanted/needed.. (I hope she didn’t read anything into the symbolism!) Here’s a pic of our “trash can” before: and now after! Simple […]
read more...October 5th, 2007
So apparently Jeff has acquired a fence bug after putting up the back yard privacy fence.. I got an email from him asking where he could get a picture of the front of our house (um, yeah, he doesn’t really read the blog much..) I sent him this: And about an hour later I get […]
read more...October 2nd, 2007
Well, it makes us good neighbors, I’m still not too sure about THEM. By THEM I mean the family who live next door who are very nice but clearly don’t count home maintenance among their virtues. Oh yeah, Hi, I’m back!! Well, sort of back..Jeff (Aka the Charmed & Dangerous widower) has been doing house […]
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