tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35417935827013826192024-03-05T11:02:32.389-08:00Read Between DesignsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717985697787413989noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541793582701382619.post-82737466913304616672013-03-06T01:07:00.001-08:002013-03-06T01:07:41.296-08:00My Announcement!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Where to start? There has been a gazillion things that have happened in the last month or so and it's hard to even know how to begin! It's almost 2 a.m. and I'm just finishing up for the night so this may be short, and possibly a bit rambling...hope you understand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For almost 2 years now I have been planning, working and dreaming of opening my own store. I have accumulated a vast array of old things, and new things, and furniture and the list goes on. The time has finally come! About a month ago a dear friend and mentor called and asked if I would be interested in taking over her store in Heber City, Utah. After a brief moment of doubt, I quickly was assured that this was absolutely the right direction for me to go. I have been blessed beyond belief and and now a fully operational store owner! With my name on the sign and my daughter at the register we are open for business and holding our own! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With all of these changes will come some other changes. My new website is about to be launched which will also be the new home of my blog. Keeping up on the blog has obviously been a huge challenge for me and from here on out my blog will be housed at www.apriljamesinteriors.com under the tab that says "Blog"- go figure. We will be using the blog mostly to update events and classes offered in our store, highlight new inventory that will be available, and hopefully I will get a chance to post a project or two here or there. My daughter and store manager will be posting and updating regularly, and I will pop in here and there to say HI! I hope that those of you who have patiently followed along here will join us in our new adventure with our new direction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of you are my friends or family and are hearing this for the first time here. Trust me, I would have called each one of you individually, but as I mentioned above, it's been a crazy month! I hope you will forgive the informal way of finding this out and know that your support and love means everything to me! I have such great people cheering me on and I love all of you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it! If you are local, I hope you will come and visit us! If you are not, I hope that we can still continue to create and inspire creativity in all the ways we do in blog-land! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For now, it's past my bedtime...again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you wanted to know...the store is located at </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717985697787413989noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541793582701382619.post-10871852092382106772013-02-04T10:57:00.000-08:002013-02-04T10:57:39.286-08:00Fireplace Makeover<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We moved into our "new to us" home a couple of years ago and I have a LOOONG list of rooms that need makeovers. When Superman goes out of town I seem to get sooo much done! For some reason I just don't feel like sleeping much when he's not here. Anyway, so his last trip was a doosey- 3 weeks! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You know what that meant? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yeah, makeover time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some pictures of my main living room wall before...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Excuse the clutter. I have kids. We live here. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After playing around with a few colors for the walls. I decided to keep the walls pretty neutral because I had other ideas for bringing color in. I went lighter and less "pinky". </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Much more refreshing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">See that fireplace? Yeah, it's hard to miss. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know. I've never been a big fan of river rock. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think it's something about all the colors and just the look in general I guess. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had a SUPER great idea, but no one agreed with me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The more everyone told me I shouldn't do it, the more I wanted to do it and make them all </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">eat their words! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mwahaha! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided that I wanted to do an antique white wash over all of the rocks. Picture it...a nice old white with a distressed glaze over top. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was in LOVE with the idea! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I tried finding pictures of others who MUST have had that idea before...nope. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Made me want to do it even more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But, then I painted the walls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The light walls screamed for a dark fireplace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How could they do that to me?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dang you walls!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was so disappointed!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If any of you have a river-rock fireplace and darkish walls..PLEASE let me fulfill my dream!!??</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rather than lightening the fireplace, I stained the whole thing...dark. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Almost</u> as much as I would have if I had been able to paint it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But then there was the mantle. Bleck. Needs to change...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cue some Annie Sloan Chalk Paint...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Better, definitely, but still not what I wanted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And finally this is where I landed with this baby...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chalk paint, some cracked plaster, glaze. Yep. Fun times!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel soo much better! How bout you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you like my dark rocks better than the river rock mayhem?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's like Christmas morning..almost...I'm not wearing my jammies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've got some super exciting things brewing with my business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can't tell you yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a story behind this piano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have some daughters that have taught themselves to play. As they were growing up my sunday mornings were filled with the sound of my oldest daughter playing out of our Hymn Book. I often would sit in the corner of the room, close my eyes, and just listen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They learned to play the piano on a much different piano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was very old, and very cool. It was the piano of their grandma on their dad's side of the family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, when divorce hit our family, the piano left along with a number of other things, both physical, and emotional. I'm sure that those who have experienced it know what I'm talking about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We missed having the piano very much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I missed hearing it's sweet sounds and the peace that came from it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I mentioned this to a few friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One random day, a dear friend showed up at my door, and told me that he had a piano to deliver to our house. Apparently, someone in my neighborhood had heard of my situation, and had arranged for him to pick up and deliver this piano to us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cried.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We lost many things, but have gained so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there is my little story of my little piano.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It isn't fancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has moved a few times with us now, and has joined our new family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Above it hangs our new family picture, and together we will make new memories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SOoooo... enough of the mushy stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you want to see what my piano looks like now?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. I could have done it in a day, but because I have a life and kids, it took 2 days. For those who may not know about chalk paint. It's so great!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No sanding.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No Priming.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just Paint.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Typically, you seal with wax.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">For this one, I'm experimenting.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I love how smooth chalk paint gets when you buff it out really well.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I sanded over it lightly to distress it on the edges, and then lightly all over.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Then I buffed, or polished it with a soft rag.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I did that until it felt slick.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I LOVE how it feels!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm just gonna leave it and see how it goes. I don't have little kids anymore, and my teenagers know if they are in that room with food, or with icky hands they will likely loose something important to them. They don't like that, so I'm not worried about greasy handprints etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I painted some planters in my front yard last summer with Annie Sloan.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just like Annie suggests, I left them alone without any sealer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They have held up amazingly. Heat, sun, wind, rain, snow </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and daily watering of the plants in the box. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I figure if my planters can hold up to all of that, my piano might have a chance in a home of teenagers and their friends. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm almost done with a major makeover in the room my piano is in, can't wait to show you!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just picked up some chains yesterday to use with the last little details.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Hows that for a hint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what do you think about my piano now?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Do you have an old piano in your home?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Wanna paint it now?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I know I can't wait to get my hands on another one!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">SO many ideas!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd love to see pictures of your painted pianos...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">please share!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then maybe I have a few consecutive entries and again:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(a year later) "Well, since the last time I wrote I got pregnant and now have another baby!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I REFUSE to start this blog with another comment about how</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I will just pick up where I left off and catch up with some projects I did a few months ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been following the Chalk Paint trend since it first found it's way onto the web. I have been right there with everyone else and said </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"It sounds too good to be true"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then I tried it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I broke down and sold cookies on the street corner to earn the money and bought it! (ok, I didn't really sell cookies...but it sounded good, eh?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I join with those who blog because we blog and not because anyone is paying me to do so. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If that were the case I'd be sittin in a cardboard box typing this on my "speak-and-spell."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before I get to the details of how I feel about chalk paint, let me briefly tell you a few things about me. I am a professional. I have been doing custom finishes on walls, ceilings, floors, cabinetry and furniture for about 12 years now. I have spent a LOT of money to take classes on the use of various products and have found that there is definitely something to be said for good quality products, there is usually a reason they are expensive. I have also been a struggling homemaker who has this huge desire to make my home beautiful and fun and decorated with little to no money to work with. I get the need to use what I have and go with "cheap" because I had to for many years. Now, my name is at stake. Now, my business depends on quality, or I don't get jobs. Another HUGE factor is time. Soo, after all of that, here are my thoughts on Chalk paint, in particular, Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few months ago I had the perfect opportunity to put Chalk Paint up against a paint I had been hearing about from other bloggers. It is the new paint that Home Depot offers that is a paint and primer in one latex paint. I figured maybe it would be great and maybe I would love it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a client that I've been working with for months as we have transformed her house room by room. We needed some tables for her new office/craft room and used one she already had, one that I had in my inventory, and one that I found and had modified just for her. Perfect, I would use chalk paint and the new paint and primer in one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Top painted with 3 coats of the paint and primer, and then the stencil pattern and light wash done with ASCP. The legs were painted with ASCP. The whole thing got a coat of poly to help seal it up nice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both paints work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did not prime before using either paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">P&P from HDepot took at least 3 times as long to dry, which slowed me down substantially.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cost of Annie Sloan is twice what I paid for the P&P, but I will get more out of the Chalk Paint. Besides the fact that it covers better, ASCP dries in a fraction of the time. For me, time is money. Saving the money on the paint, and then spending twice the time to get the job done doesn't have much value to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sand in between coats to get a nice smooth finish. Chalk paint sands smooth in MUCH less time than the P&P. If time wasn't a factor and I wanted to wait a day in-between coats I'm sure I would like the way the P&P sanded, but for me, time is money and I didn't have the luxury of taking multiple days to get the job done. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If I was a homemaker doing a project for myself and was on a tight budget, I would get the Paint and Primer in one from HD and patiently take 2 days to do the project. I would like it, it would be inexpensive and would do the job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I put my business on the line every time I use a product and hope that it lives up to what it is supposed to do. I have yet to be disappointed with ASCP, which happens to be the one I use the most. There are other brands, and homemade recipes, but that is a whole 'nuther post, for a whole 'nuther day! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm so glad that there are brave, intelligent women in the world willing to put themselves out there, willing to try, and fail, and try again so that we can have such amazing products to make out lives happier! They inspire me to keep chasing my dreams!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you Annie, and Marian, and all of you amazing women bloggers who have changed the world with your crafty, witty, entertaining, and informative posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we only knew how much we influence people we have never met.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blogging is a little like exercise for me. I really love to go for an early morning run, or a really long afternoon walk, but if I haven't been for a while, it's REALLY hard to get started again! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Truth is that I've been just crazy busy in every aspect of my life lately. My last post was about moving my craft room because we had a friend moving in with us. Well, he got moved in and we were just settling in with a great routine and then it happened. He got very sick. We hoped some OTC meds would help, they didn't. I ended up taking him to the ER and that began what has now been over a month of hospital stays, Dr appointments, coming home from the hospital, but not being well, going back to the ER, more tests, learning how to administer an IV here at home, and yet another stay at the hospital again. It's been a crazy month, and to think I didn't even know David a couple of months ago. Have you ever met someone that changed your life? David has been one of those people. When Superman and I heard he needed a home to live in, and a family to be a part of we both knew, we KNEW he needed to be a part of our family. David is special. In this past month of serving him in the most humblest of ways I have been blessed, and I have been changed. I thank my Heavenly father for trusting me to be His hands and being here for my new brother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While David is enduring yet another stay in the hospital I watch as he touches the lives of those who are helping him there. Just being around him, with his kind and gentle heart makes a person a little better. I pray he will recover quickly and that the doctors can see the big picture and find out what the problems are all about very soon! We love you David! Come home soon! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While I've been trying to help my friend, I've also been busier than ever with work and other projects. I've wanted to blog about them, but simply haven't had much time for anything other than what is required of me. I had planned on posting a bunch of pictures of the projects I've been working on, but for some reason I'm having trouble pulling them off my phone and don't have the time to try and figure it out right now. Story of my life!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Add to the following pictures 3 antique chairs stripped and refinished, Mantle decor changed at retirement home, and multiple interior design projects finished!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are a few of the fun projects I've been playing with in my spare time this past month or two...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been lucky enough to be able to decorate the offices and am now working on the teacher's lounge at a new Jr high in my area. It's been fun to create some unique art for their school!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This next project was soooo fun! One of those things that I had in my head, but when I tried to explain it I got some interesting looks. SO glad they trusted me to just do what I wanted without too much explanation! I've got some really fun ideas I want to make after having done this one. They will be a little smaller scale, and something for a home setting rather than a school, but I think they will be super fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I used 2 stencils from Melanie Royals at http://www.royaldesignstudio.com/ for the patterns. If you are ever looking for a great stencil, hers are amazing and I LOVE the patterns she has available. So many possibilities, wish I could buy them all!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Measuring 8ft X 6.5ft It was a bit of a beast to transport, deliver and install this one. Good thing Superman loves me so much and has some great friends who are willing to help out! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And to finish off the month I helped with my nieces wedding decor as well as her cake, which is probably the most simple cake I have done to date, but fit her perfectly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alright, I gotta run for an appointment, visit David at the Hospital, and get busy on a table refinish as well as 2 curio cabinets I'm working on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hope you have all been well and thanks for being patient with my lack of posts lately! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A while ago I showed you what I did in my scrapbook/craft room in <a href="http://readbetweendesigns.blogspot.com/search/label/Craft%20Room" target="_blank">this post.</a> Wellll turns out we need the extra bedroom for a friend who needs somewhere to live. That means I needed to get creative with other spaces in my home to move my scrapbook area to. Right outside the extra bedroom is this rather large hallway, but more of a nook area...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cabinet was storing linnens for the downstairs bedrooms, but after cleaning out my upstairs linnen closet, there was tons of room up there for that stuff. Poor kids are going to have to walk allll the way up stairs to get clean sheets. I think they will be ok. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I knew that I had almost no money to spend on this little project. I did have a little birthday money left, all tucked away for just this type of decorating emergency. After a trip to the ReStore, I was soo happy with the $42 I spent on all of this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cut the two bookshelves in half, and put them one in front of the other to give it more depth. I then nailed the barnwood to the sides which served to hold the two bookshelves together nicely. Finally I trimmed out the front with some narrower barnwood I had. The wood counter-top was $4.00. Yes, that is four dollars! When my money tree has finished blooming I will do one of my counter top finishes on it and it will be spectacular!! You have to look into the future a little with me sometimes, cuz it all cain't happen at once ya know!</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717985697787413989noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541793582701382619.post-52179537983327303202012-08-07T17:34:00.001-07:002012-08-07T17:34:24.953-07:00There's a problem with my truck!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Some of you know that Superman goes out of town from time to time for work. Right now is one of those times. I hope you don't mind, but I'm using this post to tell him something. You are welcome to read along and tell me what you would do in my situation...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So you know that pile of stuff we wanted to donate to DI? (the local thrift store) Well great news! I loaded it all up and took it away! It's so nice to be getting rid of some things, isn't it! While I was out and about, I was right close to the Habitat for Humanity Restore, and you know, I just had to stop in. Also while I was out I got a phone call saying that our friend that needed a place to live is coming to live with us. That means I have some rearranging to do. WELL taking all of that into consideration, I have something to tell you. There is a problem with my truck. I left the house with a full truck bed, and then emptied it. When I came home it looked like this...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I mean, I don't get it!? I think that there is something wrong with it. Should I take it in to get looked at? Of course it doesn't look like that anymore, so maybe the problem is fixed. Maybe I should retrace my steps and see if it happens again?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My friend/client just made over her daughter's room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I couldn't show you until her daughter saw it first!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">just the two things I helped with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love them both. Really, I almost got giddy doing them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever seen a puppy play with a ball, bouncing one way and then the other...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Honestly, I loved the fence before I painted it. Old and rusty and just so very cool! I have 2 sections of this fencing propped up in my flower/weed garden, and then I just put a small section near my front door with some ivy climbing it. Love love L.O.V.E this fencing! The rust and chipping paint wasn't gonna work for this room. It's totally vintage, but I just couldn't let rusty paint chips fall off on to the bed below. SO my task was to make this old fence look old, but be clean and nice for her headboard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started with a good power wash to get anything off that wanted to come off. Followed that with a coat of Annie Sloan Country grey mixed with a little old white to lighten it a bit. After that I hit it with a smattering of straight Old White to help make the details pop a little. When that was dry..which was almost instantly, I lightly sanded the whole thing with a fine sanding pad just to burnish it a little and give it a smooth feel. Dust it off and voila! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a few more of these fence sections around if anyone local is interested ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My friend used to ride this trike when she was a little girl.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Isn't it sooo amazing?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What other paint can you just paint right over something like this without having to use a primer and even then I would have to use paint meant for metal..blah blah blah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One more look at the before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before you die a little, I didn't paint the whole thing, just couldn't bring myself to do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And today, this is what it is...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's done, and I actually am using it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm preparing a class schedule and sooooooon </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Y'all can come paint with me!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm so excited!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you stopped by from the party, so glad you came!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's summer and that means everything is either going 100 miles an hour or in slow motion. Do you ever feel that way? It's sorta like a tornado...sometimes I am in the middle of the vortex, and other times I am whirling away on the outskirts in a mad frenzy. Anyway, I'm finally getting around to part two of my two bedroom makeovers in two weeks episode. I showed you my first daughter's room in <a href="http://readbetweendesigns.blogspot.com/2012/06/bedroom-makeovers-part-one.html" target="_blank">this post</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My 14 yr old has been putting up with this room since we moved here a year and a half ago and dreaming for the day she would get a more grown up room. She gave me some paint cards with the colors she wanted which were all bright. Her favorite color was the one I landed on mainly because I had some paint already that matched it almost perfectly, and another lighter color to paint the walls which was a nice much lighter shade. ANyway...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a cute idea, for a much younger girl, and I personally would have chosen different colors, but I'm sure that the little girl that lived here before we moved in loved it and that's all that matters!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are a few finishing touches that I still need to finish up...I'm waiting on new hardware for the cabinets, and need to "cute up" her dresser a little, and obviously there aren't pictures in her picture frames yet....But I thought I'd show you what got done in the week while she was at camp...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She desperately needed more storage in her room. I found the cabinets at the thrift store and thought they would do the trick. I'm not totally happy with this space yet, but I'm sure I'll figure it out. When I get the new hardware I will be covering the lovely built in handles on the bottom drawers with a thin piece of wood so you won't even know they were there! I already had the vintage mirror as well as the lamp. The bed may be a little boring, but with no budget and a blanket I already had that fit her order of "I just want a soft fuzzy blanket, nothing fancy" I figured it will do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I already had this shelf below..it's actually one of those fancy things you put over doors to make your house look nice..technical term would be a lintel...but I'd rather just call it a door do-hickey-thingey. She quickly added a few of her special things up there, her own touches!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I painted it with my latex that I used on the cabinets, but then had a little fun with my ASCP by brushing it on and into the cracks and then wiping it with a damp rag. This shelf is her favorite part of the room. I'm pretty happy with the look, and like how the green is a nice break from allllll the blues!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And there you go! I really need to get back in there and finish up those last few things, and then spend a day and help her put all her fun things in fun little places. I just love my girls! I just can't imagine doing something so fun with a sports theme for a boys room...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I mentioned in my last post that I've had a lot on my mind as well as a lot on my plate. I'm having one of "those" days where I feel that maybe as I write some of what has been on my mind, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To be honest, I really don't know where this is going to go, maybe I will get to the end and junk the whole thing. I feel a little like there are bouncy balls in my head, thoughts bouncing in one direction and then another. Sometimes one thought collides with another and caos begins. Sometimes one thought just bounces, and bounces, and bounces into the wee hours of the morning. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think I'll start with something I think we all struggle with at times, us ladies anyway, not sure about the men-folk. I've really struggled lately with seeing the seemingly amazing and wonderful lives, and vacations, and careers, and..., and...., and... of seemingly everyone around me and then feeling sorry for myself. Honestly, it's really ridiculous that I'm having a hard time with this because </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I KNOW that so many of those vacations are only due to the great and mighty credit card, andy many of them are laced with pain, and stress, and negativity that doesn't show through in the pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I KNOW these things from experience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yet, no matter what I KNOW to be true, there are times when that green bouncy ball of jealousy bounces and bounces until it has touched every aspect of my life to the point where it's hard to be genuinely happy and at peace. GRRRRR! Why do I allow that?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And so, in attempt to make myself feel better, I will focus on the wonderful, great, and fulfilling things in my life. You know what?! I am going to start right now, here, in public. I think I'll practice what I often preach and make a list of the blessings I have in my life...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am so thankful for a husband that is easy going and willing to listen to me pout. He talks things out with me and even accepts my criticism with a simple "I'll do better". He loves me even when I'm really not that lovable. After spending 18 years of never feeling that kind of unconditional love in my previous marriage, I am so very thankful for my Superman and his patience with me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am thankful for a home full of energetic, fun and (mostly) happy teens. I am thankful for the laughter, the jokes, the hugs, the music, and yes, the noise. I know that there will be a day when I will sit in my quiet home and cry because I will miss them terribly. I am so thankful to be their mom, and to have them bless my life daily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am thankful for my dog. Yes, I said it. The companionship, love and devotion she gives me blesses me, and my family daily. She is a sweet and loving addition to our family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am thankful for amazing neighbors and a community of strong, faithful and caring individuals. I regularly am filled with love for this city and the people who live here. The beauty and peace that surrounds me daily has lifted my spirits many times. As I am walking the streets and have strangers wave and smile I am reminded of what a blessing it has been to have moved here to heal from past pain and start a new life with Superman and a truly great community by my side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am so blessed and thankful to know of God and my Savior Jesus Christ. I live each day in hopes to be a true disciple and to help Him carry out His plan in any way I can. I am blessed and thankful to know of their deep love for me and all of their children. I am thankful to know that the burden of judgement does not fall on my shoulders, but only the call to love unconditionally. I am so thankful for their mercy and grace and the role it plays in my life. I am thankful for repentance and the eternal plan of happiness that will allow me, you and everyone to live in a place of love and peace for eternity. I am thankful that I have been blessed to have faith, and to be able to take peace in knowing that my Heavenly Father has a plan for me, and that He will guide and direct me. Even when I don't know the next step, He does. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He knows me. He Cares about me. He provides for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am thankful for tender mercies. You know, those simple and yet almost profound miracles that although small they may seem at the time, are a token of the love my Heavenly Father has for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last, but not least, I am thankful for the pain, the doubt, the fears, and the struggles that have brought important life lessons to my heart and soul in a way that could never have happened in any other way. I'm thankful that my Father believes in me enough to test and try me in real and lasting ways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well then, so there you go. That's what it looks like a little when the bouncy balls in my head spill out and hit the keys on my keyboard. Like I said in the beginning, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had no idea what I would say. I think I feel better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I guess the "moral of the story" for today is that we are all here to learn, to grow, to help and lift one another. Although I get on Facebook and see your amazing lives, your skinny bodies, successful businesses, and seemingly endless amounts of money, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know that you struggle with something. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know that where my life may lack in some areas, there are many areas that are blessed beyond my comprehension. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know that with each happy and fun post on FaceBook there are many that are sitting behind glowing screens with tears, sorrow and pains that dare not post about the truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To you, the one with the struggles, the one with the pain, and the empty wallet, please know that you are not alone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please know that it will get better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know it because I have lived it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you don't believe in a Father in Heaven, reach out to someone who can lift and help you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope this wasn't too much, and that you'll come back for more "Designs" on another day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you read this, and you don't mind saying so...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">could you please leave a comment, so I don't think I'm bearing my soul to the world and no one is listening??? Please :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now...finally...one last thing I am thankful for...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Chocolate Chip Cookie waiting for me in the kitchen as well as the cold milk in the fridge.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717985697787413989noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3541793582701382619.post-39908528059301680962012-06-29T18:39:00.001-07:002012-06-29T18:39:56.082-07:00"Bedroom Makeovers" Part One<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not sure how to start this post. I've had a lot on my mind, and a lot on my plate. I'd love to share what's on my mind, but it will wait. My studio is done, and waiting for me. Classes are in the works and projects are lined up; and yet, there it sits. About a month ago I had a moment. In that moment I decided that I had some projects in my home that I needed to get off "my list" before I can go gung-ho with the studio and my super exciting business plans. (yes, I said gung-ho, and I meant it) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wanna see some of my at-home projects?? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While my girls where at their dad's for a summer stay I decided to makeover their rooms. My youngest two girls' rooms were painted "cute" already when we moved into this house a year and a half ago. I know that they were loved by the girls who lived in this house before, and that they were painted with love, so anyone who helped with the decor of these rooms for the previous family, please know I'm not unappreciative of what was done, and the circumstances under which it was done... ANYWAY!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the BEFORE of Riley's room....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had an almost non-existant budget, but lucky for me my sweet sister in law had some things she was getting rid of. And I made a trip to the thrift store for an idea I had for a head board. I had 2 major goals in this room:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. To give her a "home" for all of her crafts, collections and "treasures"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know, it's hard, but if you tilt your head a little, and then squint yer eyes, you can see it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This could be a really long post, so I'll cut it short and get right to it. I added some trim to the top of both units, and then painted them both black with a paint/primer in one that worked great on the wood bookshelf, but not so great on the slick overlay on the other, wish I had been using chalk paint. I added wrapping paper to the back of the tall bookshelf and a cheap-o plastic table liner to the back of the entertainment center(along with a new back since it was missing most of it).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a little of this and a little of that, her is the room AFTER:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On this wall I wanted her to see pictures of all the people that love her so much, and pictures of her as a baby and young girl so she can see how adorable she was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the book shelf complete with a cute way to display and store her cute little collections, including a jar of crayon shavings I found when cleaning out her room. Just couldn't bring myself to throw it away! My lovely friend Mandy helped me with getting the room put back together and she did a great job staging the bookshelf! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the frames are empty for now because I am waiting on some pictures, and I want her to help pick out some of the bigger Pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The posters and pictures she had plastered all over the walls I kept and put on her door. I know, some would be bothered by the clutter, but it's her room, and they are special to her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She has a few boxes and a laundry basket full of "stuff" she gets to sort though and find a home for, so it's a little cluttered for now, but you can see the difference, I hope!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO there you have it, room one of two makeovers in the last two weeks. I'll post soon with the second room. I'm a bit in love with one thing I did, can't wait to show you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She had no idea I was doing this, when she came home she was a little upset because she could see remnants of me cleaning out her room by the trash can outside, as well as some boxes as she came into the house. After she walked in her room her mood changed drastically and I'm pretty sure she cried a little :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I pretty much love it :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's been a long week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First week having the kids home from school for the summer and I'm loving that! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No waking up at 6:30 and no homework to worry about at night, it's great! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The other thing I have enjoyed is being able to get up before my kids, (not hard..they are teenagers :) and take a few min each morning to read, and think, and pray. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went running a few times and started work early the other days. Mornings are nice :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My task for the week has been one that has been hanging over my head for almost 10 months now. Many of you are familiar with the renovation of "The Barn" in my back yard. Last fall I began tearing apart the old building and ever since then there have been huge piles of wood and other debris smothering my poor grass! Well I am proud to say that I actually was able to MOW THE LAWN this week! I have a few injuries, but nothing life threatening, I think I'll survive. With out further explanation, here's a little pictorial on how to make a big mess, and then clean it up again!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At Christmas time, the boys had fun using the yard as an obstacle corse for their new rock crawlers. Note to self, if your yard qualifies as an obstacle corse, it's probably not the cleanest yard on the block :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now to nurse my grass back to health...poor poor grass. Darndest thing how weeds grow just fine without being watered, yet the grass doesn't. Maybe someone should've decided long ago that weeds were acceptable and possibly even preferred over grass for their sustainability?! Sure would have saved me some work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While out on my walk this morning I was reminded by a friend that I hadn't posted pictures of my additions to my recent <a href="http://readbetweendesigns.blogspot.com/2012/05/cake-anyone.html" target="_blank">Wedding Cake</a>. Since they are having two receptions we needed a cake that would last for both, so the big cake is actually a "dummy cake" which means it has foam forms under the fondant rather than real cake. Funny how I have told a few people that after they saw the cake and suddenly they weren't nearly as impressed with the cake, as if it makes it so much easier to do on a "fake" cake. I also thought it was humorous that I was making a "faux" cake, since that is my forte in life- faux finishing. Ha ha ha, do you see the irony? You don't? ohhhh, welll...ummmm....anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mandy still wanted to cut a cake at her receptions and although she insisted that she could just go buy something at Walmart to cut I insisted that that wasn't an option. After dreaming up some amazing ideas that failed in execution, here is what I came up with:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(Please take note of the excellent photoshop skills as to cut out the huge green soap container and large pile of dishes that SOMEONE didn't bother to take care of a 4 a.m. when she finally finished the cakes)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's mother's day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to admit that there have been many of these "special" days in the past that have left me feeling inadequate and sad. I have at times felt that I could never live up to the Halmark card moms or the mom's that were described in the talks in church on Sunday. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not sure if it is age, or experience, or just a totally different place in my life that has taken many of those feelings away and replaced them with a pure gratitude for the blessing of being a mother. I have an amazing family and I'm truly honored that I have been given such strong and beautiful children to have </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love them more than words are able to describe. I love them enough to do almost anything for them, including being hard on them sometimes to help them learn an important life lesson. I love them enough to put teaching them in front of making them happy at times. I love them enough to listen and learn with them. I love them enough to do whatever I need to in order to help them grow into the amazing adults I can see in them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I often wish that others could see themselves through my eyes. I wish they could see themselves through God's eyes. Wouldn't our self image be so different if we could see what our Father, who created us, sees in us? If only my children, and my husband could see how I look at them and see </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beauty</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Faith</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could go on and on about my wonderful children and talk about each one individually, but the truth is that I'm so tired I can barely stay awake and I don't know what I might type in my half awake state! So I will end with a few pictures...okay a lot of pictures. I think that as you look you will see what I see, what I wish that they could see when they look in the mirror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jessika, Ashley, Tyler, Emma, Corey, Micah, Riley, and Superman</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love you all more than you will ever know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You are my everything and you are exactly what I had always wanted as a little girl dreaming of being a mommy some day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you for all that you do for me, and give to me each day. Together we can do amazing things!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's looking forward to many great and happy memories to come!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are days that I feel like I'm going to burst if I don't let some creative juices flow in some way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you know that feeling? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's been a bit of a tidal wave the last few days and it's so much fun! It's funny how I can go without sleep and be totally fine and happy as long as it was something I'm enjoying that kept me awake. All is right in the world today despite the chaos that surrounds me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what have I been doing? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Welllll, it's crunch time for Mandy's wedding that I've mentioned <a href="http://readbetweendesigns.blogspot.com/2012/02/romance-and-chalk-paint.html" target="_blank">HERE </a>and <a href="http://readbetweendesigns.blogspot.com/2012/05/meet-my-new-friends-they-are-bit-chalk.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. I've been building her cake in my mind for weeks now and finally got to put all the ideas together. Here is the picture Mandy sent me for what she would like, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">just with a different color bow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to give credit to whoever made it, but she found it on the internet somewhere and I have no idea who did it. If it looks familiar to someone out there, PLEASE speak up and take a bow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sorry, I don't have a tutorial for this, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and no progression photo's either. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was just one of those creative whirlwinds that doesn't stop for photo opps! These are obviously just taken in my kitchen, with my best photographic skilzzz! Nuttin' but da best! :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think I got it pretty close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I already showed it to Mandy through a text,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she approves :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm off now to find me something to wear to the wedding tomorrow that doesn't make me look like an Aprilpottomus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love is in the air! Oh, wait, no...that's the smell of chalk paint and crackle paste! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you remember my amazingly wonderful friend Mandy, and her amazingly wonderful guy Aaron?! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are FINALLY getting married on Saturday! I'm so happy for them because they are really so perfect for each other and they both just make life better for anyone they meet. I love them both almost as much as the next couple I'm going to introduce you to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You've already met the OTHER guy in Mandy's life in a <a href="http://readbetweendesigns.blogspot.com/2012/02/romance-and-chalk-paint.html" target="_blank">previous post</a>....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, Aaron will be happy to know that Apolo has found himself another woman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She is equally as solid as Apolo, although I can't help but feel that neither of them are really grounded. They just seem to be missing something, but I just can't put my finger on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was love at first sight for both of them, they hardly took their eyes off of each other all night!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We started with an ASCP de-stressing application...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One more <u><i>perfect</i></u> project for chalk paint!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's Apolo with a partial coat of Annie Sloan Country Grey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the happy couple discussing wether Apolo's tan looks fake or not. Athena is a little jealous, but that was soon remedied...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I used some McClosky's Special Effects Crackle Paste that I recently got for 50% off at my local hardware store. I've used it before and thought it would be good for this application. Really there are lots of crackle ideas out there, but this is what I landed on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After they were both done, as well as the column you can see in the background, I took my gloves off and basically "sanded" the unnatural bumps and any fingermarks with my fingers. The paste starts to set up pretty quickly which allows you to smooth it out easily. It's not like any product I have used before, it's very spongy and soft even when it's dry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Their reception is going to be vintage and classy like you wouldn't believe! Mandy is a great interior designer and we have had so much fun planning and putting together the decor. These busts will be part of the decor. She has a huge sofa-size, breathtaking picture of two images that look much the same as these busts that will be part of the decor also. They fit right in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They cost her $5.00 each at the thrift store!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I showed you my floor, now for another fun project in my studio that's finally finished up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once upon a time I imagined a bathroom in the right hand </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm pretty durn happy about how it turned out! I love old wood floors! This is as close as I'm gonna get! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After the sheetrock was installed, I took some of the tin scraps from the outside of the barn and nailed 'em up to the outside walls of the bathroom...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next I used a smattering of Modern Masters Metal Effects (our local hardware store has been selling it at 50% off, sadly I think they are clearing their inventory and won't be selling it anymore), mostly the Iron, but a little copper and bronze also...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After painting the whole thing and letting it dry completely, I sprayed Modern Masters rust activator fairly generously randomly and with a few spritz of blue patina spray as well. For the spray to activate you need to let it dry totally. After the first layer was dry I repeated it 2 more times which really allows the activator to do it's job and deepens the rust color. I finished it off with a water based clear coat and some old barn wood to trim the door. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, the door. That would be another chalk paint project, definately didn't want to mess with priming and painting with latex. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was obviously followed by a nice coat of red. I left areas of the blue and green peek through the red. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I then sanded a few areas to show even more of the underlying colors as well as sanding down to the bare wood. </span><span style="font-size: large;">A nice coat of wax (dark in the corners and crevices, with clear everywhere) and this is what I have now...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My last couple of posts have been pretty "word-y" with not a lot of pictures of fun projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This one is different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm about to dump a bunch of pictures through the screen and on to your lap!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We start our little pictorial skip through time wayyyy back in last fall when my studio-to-be looked like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My oh my...it seems like forever ago! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After week after week of hard labor, demolition and rebuilding, we went through these stages: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to do a plywood floor with a vision in my head of doing something fun with the plywood. There are a lot of really great pictures online of amazing floors done with </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Rather than laying down the 4x8 panels I had the nice young man at the lumber yard cut them in half, giving me 4'x4' squares. They were much easier to handle, and I thought it would look better anyway. I just screwed them down right to the wafer board (which was glued and nailed to the existing 2'x6' plank floor) I alternated the way the grain went, just 'cuz I'm like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next started the fun part! I raided my stockpile of odds and ends stain, and paint and went to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As for the other squares, sorry, I was too wrapped up in the process to stop to take pictures, but I used Annie Sloan chalk paint, and a couple of other odd cans of this and that I had. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I got all of the solid colors down and once again skipped the ever important progression photo and went right on to the next step. When doing something as busy as this I feel that there needs to be something to tie it all in together. I decided to stain over all of them with the same stain so that they would all have a common hue to them. Some of them I applied the stain all over and then wiped it off, others I just "skipped" the brush lightly over the surface while it was filled with stain to create a little more variance. I love how it turned out! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have to say I have a little crush on my stairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think they are cute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It wasn't hard to make them look rustic, they've been through a lot in the last few months, no need to bang them up, the construction zone did that for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I mean, why do something simple when you can make a lot of work for yourself and complicate things a whole bunch?! Besides, who can decide between just one finish when there is soooo many choices? Might as well do them all, RIGHT?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"You can tell a lot about a person by the finish on their floors."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not sure I'd do this in my house, but not bad for an art studio right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have mentioned before that the title of my blog...Read Between Designs... infers that there are things I may post that have nothing to do with designing, or decorating etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think that this will be one of those posts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hopefully you will do as asked and read anyway...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you were to go back to some of my first posts you would see posts about my family, my role as mother and wife. You would read rants about my ups and downs and my challenges. I could just repost those, but today is a different day, and while the sentiment is a lot the same, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My last post mentioned that my month has been a bit out of balance. Honestly it has been for a while. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes I take a step back from my life and examine things and just scratch my head in wonder as I ponder what it is that I'm really doing. Do you ever feel that way?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the past few years I have had to make some major life changing decisions. I have been blessed beyond my comprehension to have strong faith in my Heavenly Father which has allowed me to make many of these decisions with peace, as difficult as the situation may have been. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel like I'm a pretty strong woman, but not really any stronger than any one else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What I do feel I've had though is plenty of opportunities to learn hard things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I learned at a young age that there is no such thing as a "normal family" and that that's ok. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have learned that fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters all have different ways of giving and receiving love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have learned that when a child of God cries, He listens, even when he must stay silent for a time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At 19 I learned how to be a wife </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At 20 I learned how to be a mommy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At 21 I learned how to let go of an miscarried child and move on</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At 22, 24, 26, and 29 I learned how my love can grow with each new baby in my care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've learned how to rely on others for a short time, how to rely on myself less, but mostly, how to rely on God the most.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've learned that no matter how good others may seem to have it, they don't have it as good as it seems. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've learned that life is hard. If we would stop expecting it to be easy, we wouldn't be so disappointed and heart-broken when things go wrong. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we should walk around with a "doom and gloom" attitude and just expect the worst out of life. What I'm saying is keep your head up, life is hard, but so what, get over it and move on. There is plenty of good around you if you look hard enough. While you are looking for the good around you, chances are you will find someone whose life is much worse than yours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So my life, my out of balance life. It's interesting how we go through phases. I am a bit of a "Go Getter" and I think I've been taught a lesson lately that I need to find a balance. It's a HUGE blessing to have a career that I love, that I'm passionate about, and that I can do largely at home. It's a dream come true to be almost finished with my own studio/workshop right in my backyard. I have some BIG and exciting things coming up with my business and I'm thrilled about them! With all of these things comes challenges. My biggest challenge is finding a balance between the things I do and the REASONS I'm doing them. I'm blessed with a husband that supports me totally, but has also been strong and in-tune enough to help me see the imbalance and help me set it right. Ultimately nothing I do in the world will ever be more important to me than what I do within the walls of my home, within the chambers of the hearts and souls that I love and cherish. One more thing I have learned is that I will never be wrong by putting my family first. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So to those of you just starting to follow my blog, please be patient. To those who have been holding on, waiting for the next project, hold on. I've had a little juggling to do. I've needed to put things in their proper place and move forward in a way that allows me to be in control of my life and career and not the other way around. Before painting, pastering, junking, creating, and yes, even blogging, there is a far more important job I love and that is mom, friend, cook, seamstress, life coach, daughter and happy servant of God, and finally, I'm the wife of Superman! If any of you are any of these things, you will know that the projects sometimes have to wait, or go much slower than I'd like. There is a limit on the days I will have to go fishing with my kids, or help my hubby with a struggle. I don't think there will ever be a limit to the things that can pull me away from these most important things. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Started out with some custom countertops for a great client</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This finish is done right over her concrete counters that she was tired of having to re-seal every 6 months. I did the actual finish 2 years ago, just came back to give her sink a makeover and touched up the shine on her counters while I was there :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That says "yes" just to make sure they can tell which knee to operate on,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">as if the nice "shave" job wasn't enough of a give away...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here he's just coming out of the anesthesia...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So beside all of that, there was more work in the Studio, flowers got planted in the yard, a new stand for some "soon-to-be-Sloaned" flower-boxes, and a list of a myriad of other things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Really?! It's been a month since my last post?! Wow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to pop in today and show you a few pictures of how my last month has been...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and why I haven't been posting...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Despite the fact that we have not been snowmobiling ONCE this year, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am actually so excited for spring! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I've noticed new sprouts on trees and plants, new green grass growing around the construction zone in my backyard, and my new puppy just wants to lay outside in the sun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although I'm not decorating a bunch at my house right now due to my extra-curricular studio activities, I did decorate for one of my favorite clients last week and brought spring in with a Bang! Legacy Retirement in South Jordan has been a client of mine for about 5 years now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I get to go there and change their mantle and large bouquet in their grand salon for the seasons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The clients are great and I often comment on how much I love my job after spending a day there. How often does someone get to go to work and have everyone tell them </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Thank you! Thank you!" or "How lovely!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its not often that we get to feel so appreciated, so every couple of months I have the privilege of getting paid to do something I love and have multiple compliments while doing it...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So just for fun I thought I'd share a little spring with you today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hope it brighten's your day like it did mine to do it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Starting with my base of greenery...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The studio is coming right along!! If you are new here..Welcome! If you aren't new you already know about my "barn-turned-studio" saga. After months and months and months and months... Okay, since last September-ish we have been working on the overhaul of this barn in my backyard...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been so excited to show you one of the projects I've been working on this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It all started with a visit to my favorite second hand remodeling store...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They had a big rack of miscelaneous odds and ends of different hardwoods and laminant flooring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had this idea, and I bought a bunch of it, and then had to go back and buy a bunch more because I loved it soo much and decided to do much more than I had planned on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most people would be buying flooring to put on the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started with a pile of mismatched tongue and groove slats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So lucky to have some great kids around to help me load and unload all that wood!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I love all the different woods together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some boards stick out a little farther than others, and I like that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are a little dust right now, and generally a good blogger would have it all finished and staged cute, but I just had to show you! Besides, I've got to get busy on the floors before I can make things look super finished in there. Staging and "cute" will have to wait for now. I've got work to do. No cute here. Just me and dust and grubby clothes. No cute yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it. Just a quick post today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really mean I can't wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here is just a teaser...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, It included Annie Sloan Chalk Paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Yes, it started at the Habitat for Humanity Restore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What do you think of all my recycling?<br />Have you ever seen flooring used on walls before?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3 years ago, after almost 2 years after separating from </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the next several months, I found myself having to part with many things that hurt to let go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found myself watching my girls part with family pets, an abundance of personal belongings and a life we had built together. In so many ways, as hard as it was, I found myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had also found my Superman during this time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We dug deep, we packed up our favorites and left the rest behind. We took with us our love, our faith and our memories and moved to a small duplex waiting for the next phase in our lives together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We quickly unpacked and tried to settle in to that house and a week after we moved in I was feeling very proud that I was stacking empty boxes in my new little garage and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Little did I know. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just over a week after we moved there Superman got a sudden boost of something and asked me to marry him! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some doubted our quick engagement, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but when it's right, there is no denying it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We knew it was right,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and we knew we had the blessing </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two weeks after leaving my old home behind and moving </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">into the duplex I was packing and moving my family once more into an older home that would fit 9 of us! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After settling in there and spending a year of healing and loving, and growing, and unpacking again, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">we were blessed with an </span><span style="font-size: large;">opportunity</span><span style="font-size: large;"> we couldn't pass up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We moved one more time just a mile or so away to an amazing home, in an amazing neighborhood, with so much to offer us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">WE ARE DONE MOVING! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm finally starting to feel like I'm almost unpacked! Which brings me to the project I'm sharing today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's not hard to guess I am a crafter. Over the years I have built up quite a supply of crafty, scrap-book-y, sewing-y stuff. I had it all organized for the most part before all of my moving around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have had the "nag" to get it all in it's place, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but it had no place, so I have created one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are at the point where kids are leaving home and moving upwards and onward so we had this extra bedroom....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Isn't it cute how I didn't bother cleaning it up for the picture? I just couldn't disturb the cat on the bed. Yeah, that's it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that's the space I had to work with, and I needed to keep the bed available for kids or guests, so it got moved to the other side of the room. I had some old cabinets from a church building that were being thrown out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They seemed to fit the need, although I didn't love them...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They were free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided they needed some love and attention. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First decision was to take the doors off the cabinets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BIG improvement right off the bat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to save money I would use some latex I had already. It was a good quality paint that works as a primer/paint in one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I painted the inside a nice white.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THREE coats, and hours later (because of lengthy dry times in between coats) I was really wishing I had used chalk paint. I would have been done way sooner. On top of it, although you can't see really well, I could still see through the paint and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Definitely looking better, feeling a little more inspired...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stain the wood, and UNPACK all my craft stuff!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to my sweet assistant/daughter who did such a great job unpacking and organizing while I was out working in my studio, here is where we are today!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It feels so nice to have a space like this again! Especially now that my girls are old enough to share in the creativity this should be a room we can all enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but I just couldn't wait to give you a little look!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am humbled to my knees regularly for the abundance that has been brought back into my life. I always knew that if I had faith, my Savior would help me to heal, and my Father would take care of my needs. I had no idea to what degree, just that it would suffice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I mentioned that I was working in my studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm soooo excited to show the things I've got going on in there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and I think I'm gonna recycle some leftover tin from the exterior of the building...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Typically when I think of using chalk paint on something I think of cute curvy lines, french country, fun colors and feminine features. Well, I went a little off the wall with this one. I have a friend with a new antiques shop in downtown Provo. <i>Iron Horse Antiques</i> sells a specific style of antiques, mostly geared towards the more manly side of collectors. He's got hand made knives made from old sheep shears, neon signs and a variety of things a little </span><span style="font-size: large;">"out of the norm" in the antiques world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(I'm pretty sure that is it's technical name)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can't really tell in the picture, but the bulbs glow purple. like a black light, then there are a few red bulbs. All of the bulbs are individually switched so you can turn each one on and off at will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's cool. It's old. I like it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway. My friend has this wardrobe in his store that he had this great idea for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The picture makes it look better than it was. The color was really more of a peach than an orange. While the piece was really amazing in many ways, the color just wasn't working, especially in David's </span><span style="font-size: large;">manly store. His thought was...gun safe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As usual, I got ahead of my photographer. SHE really needs to do a better job at taking pictures of each step BEFORE the next step starts! She really should know better by now ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here you can see that I have started the dark wax. Really makes the graphite a nice "warm" black. I waxed some areas darker than others. It has a real old, </span><span style="font-size: large;">worn and "manly" feel to it in person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really worked in the wax and the old paint underneath really did a nice job of </span><span style="font-size: large;">showing off how old it was with cracks and all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Followed by a little silver leaf gilding...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I couldn't do anything about the glaring sun through the window, couldn't really move the</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and the window was just right there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">David did a great job picking out some new hardware for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is a nice and blury close up of the detail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I quite liked how it turned out..</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Too bad my friend decided he didn't like it so much and I ended up painting over the gilding with the graphite and waxing it again. That's one of the things I love about ASCP, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">if you don't love it, just try again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what do you think? Do you like the orange-peachy look?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I totally understand that some may prefer it~</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but we were going for something a little edgy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a little different. Did it work?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it. He's all ready for his new interior makeover so that he can house a few guns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some things hit me a little funny and I think funny thoughts-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe you are too young to know what I'm saying, but the thought just came to my mind~</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Annie, get your gun!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">TO CLARIFY: That is funny because I used Annie Sloan paint, and it's a gun safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In case you don't know what I'm talking about, </span></div>
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<i><b>Annie Get Your Gun</b></i> is a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theater" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Musical theater">musical</a> with lyrics and music written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Berlin" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Irving Berlin">Irving Berlin</a> and a book by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Fields" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Herbert Fields">Herbert Fields</a> and his sister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Fields" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Dorothy Fields">Dorothy Fields</a>. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Annie Oakley">Annie Oakley</a> (1860–1926), who was a sharpshooter from Ohio, and her husband, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_E._Butler" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Frank E. Butler">Frank Butler</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0" style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Get_Your_Gun_(musical)#cite_note-0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[1]</a></sup></div>
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The 1946 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> production was a hit, and the musical had long runs in both New York (1,147 performances) and London, spawning revivals, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Get_Your_Gun_(film)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Annie Get Your Gun (film)">a 1950 film version</a> and television versions. Songs that became hits include "<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_No_Business_Like_Show_Business_(song)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="There's No Business Like Show Business (song)">There's No Business Like Show Business</a>", "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doin%27_What_Comes_Natur%27lly" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Doin' What Comes Natur'lly">Doin' What Comes Natur'lly</a>", "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Get_a_Man_with_a_Gun" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="You Can't Get a Man with a Gun">You Can't Get a Man with a Gun</a>", "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Say_It%27s_Wonderful" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="They Say It's Wonderful">They Say It's Wonderful</a>", and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anything_You_Can_Do_(song)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Anything You Can Do (song)">Anything You Can Do.</a>"</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there you have it~</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The gun safe. The chalk paint. The Wax. The gilding, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and the <u><i>really bad </i></u>sense of humor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are you still going to be my friend now that you see that </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm a little weird? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope so :)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">Many of you have probably already heard that</div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: blue;">G</span>O</span><span style="color: #ffcc00;">O</span><span style="color: blue;">G</span><span style="color: lime;">L</span><span style="color: red;">E</span> Friend Connect will go away</h2><div style="text-align: center;">on Feb 29 for any one that is not with blogspot</div><div style="text-align: center;">but rumor has it that it is being completely phased out for everyone soon</div><h2 style="text-align: center;">BUT</h2><div style="text-align: center;">there is good news</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://itssoverycheri.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LinkyFollowersLogo1-13.png"><img alt="" height="88" src="http://itssoverycheri.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LinkyFollowersLogo1-13.png" title="LinkyFollowersLogo1-1" width="221" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">There is a<strong> NEW awesome tool–<a href="http://linkyfollowers.com/">Linky Followers</a></strong></div>It has so many amazing features (that GFC never had). If you have not signed up you should. (yes you can have both.) I love the new tool so much and want everyone to enjoy all the new features.<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">…and did I tell you its super easy and<strong> FREE</strong>!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://itssoverycheri.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LF-HOP4.png"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12661" height="377" src="http://itssoverycheri.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LF-HOP4.png" title="LF-HOP4" width="472" /></a></div>What better way to celebrate a fun new blogging tool than to have a party<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">so break out your poodle skirt and saddle back shoes cuz’ we’re having a <strong><a href="http://itssoverycheri.com/">LINKY FOLLOWER PARTY HOP</a></strong></div><h1>RULES:</h1><h3>1. you <span style="color: #fc54ab;"><strong>MUST</strong></span> have the <a href="http://linkyfollowers.com/">LINKY FOLLOWERS</a> tool on your site to participate.</h3><span style="color: #ec2762;">If you see that your link has been deleted you need to add the LINKY FOLLOWER tool to your site and then come back over and re-enter your link</span><br />
{You can have both the LINKY FOLLOWERS & GFC on your site but you <strong>must have the LINKY FOLLOWERS tool </strong>to participate in this party hop.}<br />
<h3>2. You <span style="color: #fc54ab;">MUST</span> follow the person who has the party on their site as a thank you.</h3><h3>3. Just add your blog button to the LINKY PARTY below.</h3><h3>4.Then grab the BLOG HOP code</h3>You will find the code right under the Linky Party where it says <strong>CLICK HERE TO ENTER</strong>–<br />
just under that it says: <span style="color: red;">WHAT IS A BLOG HOP? <strong>GET THE CODE HERE </strong></span><br />
<span style="color: red;">Click on <strong>GET THE CODE HERE</strong> and enter it into a post on your site.</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">You can grab the party button code in the<strong> FOOTER </strong>at </span><a href="http://itssoverycheri.com/2012/02/29/linky-follower-party-hop-2-29-2012/">Its So Very Cheri</a><br />
You can grab info from my post if it helps you with your post.<br />
<h3>5. Then you follow other bloggers–(as many as you want)<br />
–leave each one of the blogs that you follow a comment letting them know you are following them and ask them to follow you back.</h3>If you want to add the BLOG HOP to your own site <em><strong>you</strong> will get lots of new followers</em>–<strong>(<span style="color: #fc54ab;">see rule #2</span>)</strong><br />
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