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I stumbled onto a home tour online a couple of weeks ago, that instantly had me scooting my chair up closer to my monitor. There were so many little details I wanted to lock in my brain! The house is located in Mesa, Arizona and belongs to a sweet gal named Kristin Alber. Check it out...
When asked about her personal...
Kev and I had to make a trip to Home Depot for some epoxy yesterday, and (as usual) we wound up looking at flooring, and tile, and counter tops while we were there, too. We're both kind of in permanent "look-out mode" when it comes to interesting new design solutions, and we love discovering useful/affordable/neat-looking...
Every time I pass one of those great big pre-assembled doll house kits at Hobby Lobby I think about how wild it is that (insert ever-changing mortgage company name here) gave us a great big pre-assembled grown-up house to play with just because we promised to pay for it. Do you ever think about wacky stuff like that?
And...
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It's Friday- yay! And what a fun "word week" it's been! Thanks to everyone who participated in our link party, and to Liz Lamoreux for allowing us the opportunity to give away one of her beautiful bracelets. (The winners name is at the bottom of this post!) We're wrapping things up with...
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I "favorited" an Etsy shop by a gal named Liz Lamoreux last summer, and I've been waiting for the perfect time to buy one of her pieces ever since.
She's such a creative person...
And she makes the most beautiful necklaces...
and "word" bracelets...
As soon as I...
I like writing about all kinds of things, but it seems like I'm most drawn to blogging about interior design...
and INTERIOR design...
Today I feel drawn to the latter, but I never really know what I'm going to feel like writing about on any given day. That's kind of what I love most about blogging- the excitement...
Welcome to our "This Little Word Of Mine" link party!
If you'd like to link up your word of the year blog post, just look for the little blue "Add Link" button at the bottom of this post- and if you haven't chosen a word of the year yet, I've got someone I want you to meet.
This is Ali Edwards...
Photo © Tracey...
I was inspired to call this Monday's link party "This Little Word Of Mine" because of a sweet story my friend, Traci, shared with me in Nashville last month. It had to do with her, (then) 3-year-old son, Jonathan, singing the song "This Little Light Of Mine". Today, Jonathan is 12 years old, and he can still sing like nobody's...
Neutering and leg pin removal surgery for Kit-Cat: $360.
Bladder stone surgery for Maximus: $1370.
Seeing them recovering together in a sun spot on our bed:
Priceless.
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I stumbled across a website called I Used To Believe yesterday, which is chock full of funny and bizarre beliefs that adults thought were true when they were children.
There were beliefs about nature...
"Thunder is created because of the collision of clouds." -Anonymous
"I used to believe, when I was like five,...
Pictures of parents conjured up cherished memories today. Funny how they can just race right across time to find us, again and again...
...bringing things with them that haven't been thought about in ten...fifteen...twenty years.
Kevin's memory bridges back a few years further than mine. Mine, for the most...
Have you chosen a Word of the Year?
Apparently, a Word of the Year is the new New Years resolution.
Basically, you choose one word that has the potential to inspire you and create intention in your life, all year long.
My word for 2012 is up, and it was recently inspired by these two...
...who also...
There's a refreshing sense of ready-set-go in the air, and it feels like the perfect time to promise to learn more, love more, live more, and lean more this year.
So here's to recalibrating, and taking bigger, bolder, more meaningful steps.
To harnessing more energy, honing it more gently, and to creating...
Soon after I blogged about the Things I'd Tell My 17-Year-Old Self, I wondered what I might tell myself in right now, if I was 57, and looking back 20 years in the other direction.
Then I thought: Hey- my Mom is 20 years in the other direction.
So I asked her if she'd be up for sharing her thoughts on the subject,...
We decided to change out some of our door knobs with some ($13) oil-rubbed bronze ones from True Value yesterday...
We shot a little video tutorial about the switcheroos, too:
(Click the play button on the video below)
(Click here to watch on YouTube)
Over the next few months, we plan to install several 5-panel...
Christmas was pretty low-key at TLC this year, but it seems like life has been moving at a peppier pace than usual, so it was nice to slow down and let the fullness of the holiday sink in for a few days.
(Thank you for surprising us with the snowy Christmas card confetti, Deborah!)
About a week before Christmas,...
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Congratulations, Christyn!
I'll be in touch with you shortly about your prize!
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The other day I blogged about how we covered up an oddly-shaped patch of concrete in our living room with some super-soft/sisal-look FLOR carpet tiles...
I...
Two days ago we were $3,545 away from digging a well for 500 families that currently don't have access to fresh water...
...but in the past 48 hours dozens of friendly folks donated enough dollars to push this effort 3% over the goal...
Thank you doesn't even begin to cover it.
Clean water is something...
One of my very best friends in the whole weird world lives 700 miles away, but every time I visit her blog I feel like I'm sitting right there at her little blue desk with her.
A few months ago, she created something that we could all be a part of together, and I wanted to share her idea here on our blog today.
She's...
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