December 20th, 2007
..Unless of course you live in Mission Viejo, because Clarkstown (which Nanuet is a part of) was rated the #2 safest community based on a National analysis of the FBI’s crime statistics! Following hot on the heels of being voted #24 best small town to live in, this is turning out to be QUITE the […]
read more...December 4th, 2007
My husband isn’t known for his, -hmm.. how do I put this politely? – “restraint” when it comes to decorating. Witness what happened to our faux fireplace mantel when I wasn’t supervising looking last night: Help! Where is my mantel?? Yes, Rudolph and all his Misfit Toy Ornament friends have taken up residence on the […]
read more...August 21st, 2007
Ok, I have my camera cord! So here’s the result of this weekend’s progress..or lack therof. But I DO have a semi-decent excuse for my lack of productivity, Saturday was my grandma’s 85 b’day party over in Stroudsburg PA, so I only really had one day to work on the house.  Here’s my Grandma Eunice, […]
read more...August 17th, 2007
Here’s where my mind has been the past few days…follow if you dare! (Or just want to get really dizzy.) Battle of the Blinds I don’t know if you remember that I decided I wanted roller shades as undertreatments in the living room because they have a smaller profile when in the “up” state. Well […]
read more...August 13th, 2007
The weekend started with a Friday night whirlwind shopping expedition with stops at Ikea, West Elm and Crate & Barrel. At Ikea I got both the white AND natural color curtain for the dining room (what, you actually expected me to be decisive?) and red ones for the office. The red ones are going back […]
read more...August 9th, 2007
The evening started out well enough, I stopped in at TJMaxx to look for (what else!) pillows and picked these up: But of course once I got them home I hated them. For one thing, I think I realized I don’t want much of an overall print on the pillows. Even though the branchy pattern […]
read more...August 8th, 2007
Last night Jeff and I took a trip to target and picked up three prospective roman shades..(cause, you know, I can’t be expected to make an actual decision!) Here’s a pic I snapped this morning (sorry its so dark, overcast skies today): I definitely think I like the middle one best even though the color […]
read more...August 6th, 2007
Taking all your advice into account from my last post on the living room redux, here’s what photoshop and I came up with: White Ikea white Lenda curtains on all windows (sorry brocade, I love you but you’re just not working for me!) and these Jute/Poly shades from West Elm, miraculously in the exact width […]
read more...August 6th, 2007
It started out innocently enough on Saturday morning..picking up an antique coffee table I won from a local ebay seller for $10 back when I hated the way the dark coffee table/ottoman looked in the living room: Ebay $10 Coffee Table And because Ikea was on the way home from picking up the table, we […]
read more...August 3rd, 2007
Part of the reason we’re not completely unpacked yet is that its much more fun to do the little things like hang curtains and art than say deal with this: The Mess that is the Office Speaking of office mess, did you find that the amount of paperwork needing to be filed increased like 100% […]
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