We're fostering a dog!  He's a Tibetan Terrier named Sam, and he's super awesome.  A friend of ours works with a dog rescue, and she sent us an email asking if we could give him a home for a while.  I have always wanted a dog, but Steve was kind of ambivalent.  We thought this would be a good way to try it out.  He's super sweet and loving, but ( Read more... )

I *finally* started my drapes this week-end!  2010=year of more sewing/more creative projects!  This project seriously held me up for a while.  I bought the fashion fabric for it over the summer.  It was a 12 yard remnant from an expensive upholstery fabric store in town.  12 yards was all I had so I couldn't afford to screw things up!  I read all ( Read more... )

We made an executive decision yesterday, it will not be possible to fix the dining room chairs properly before our Thanksgiving (celebrated next Saturday), so we may as well stop stressing about it and focus our attentions on the projects that are completable before their deadlines.  But the table is almost finished, and it looks great!  It needs a ( Read more... )

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This could possibly be the earliest I've ever been ready for Halloween.  The costumes are finished, I know where all my accessories are, we decided not to drive super far to an out of town club.  Everything's all ready to go!  I keep reminding myself that the *only* reason Halloween costumes are finished are because we had to get the out of the way ( Read more... )

Well, here we are, well-entrenched in Autumn.  All of summers' adventures are past, it's so nice to actually have time to finish projects!

We haven't done much to the house lately, we've mostly just been acquiring things.  I am *still* working on refinishing the dining room table.  It took way longer than expected!  Until I got to the staining ( Read more... )

We have had quite the whirlwind summer, filled with travels and adventures, weddings and hoo ha, which hasn't left a lot of time to do stuff at the house.  But we certainly have found time to *acquire* things.  So now we have all this stuff, sort of floating around the house, waiting to find a home.  I intend to spend October finding spots for ( Read more... )

Refinishing the dining room table is taking longer than expected.  It's not that it's hard work, but it takes 3 coats of zip-strip to strip each piece.  The table is all un-varnished, sanded, and ready to be stained.  Now we're on to the chairs which require a surprising amount of organization to make sure you cover each surface evenly 3 times.  I ( Read more... )

This week-end we decided it was time to start refinishing our dining room table.  We bought the table about 5 years ago at a flea market, and it was old and in bad shape then, but it looked like it was structurally sound, it just needed refinishing, and it was the best we could afford at the time.  In those 5 years it has suffered several ( Read more... )

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