Friday, January 17, 2014

Sparkle Chairs

We got these sweet vintage chairs from the Salvation Army. They were Eddy's pick and I think he did a great job.

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As you can see, though, our living room and dining room are a mustard color and the chairs gave it a little bit of a ketchup and mustard feel. Also, they had these kind of icky feet on them and a lot of ancient gummy tape that was holding the feet on.

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They also needed some basic repair.

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After a few quick repairs, I did some sweet upholstery work complete with rusty little nails.

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And a big old roll of brand new sparkly vinyl.

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So I got to work laying on the new vinyl.

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Ta da!

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It's even Rupert approved.

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Mario Atonement

When we were kids my grandma, Moe, made Evan and I little blankets. Mine had girly flowers on it and I bet you can guess how much that appealed to me as a kid. Evan's had Mario on it. Eventually that Mario Bros. blanket *somehow* made it to my house and it's been there ever since.

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The worst part is that Evan totally knows and probably wants it back. Do I want to give it back? Nah. Do I feel bad about it? Well, yeah. I feel so bad that one of the first quilts I made when I started quilting again was for Mario Bros. atonement.

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Happy birthday, Evan!

Friday, January 10, 2014

LEGOLAND!

When we visited DP^2 for Thanksgiving we spent a day in LEGOLAND. Literally the first thing we did when we got there was find a smooshed penny machine for Dana.

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She hearts smooshed pennies. We saw lots of sweet Star Wars stuff.

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We also stuck our heads through lots of things.

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We also saw some strange stuff.

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Also, Eddy made a friend for life.

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

The Un-Hole

One of the first things Eddy did in our soon-to-be-demolished kitchen was to close up one of the doorways so that we could eventually have cabinets that go all the way around the kitchen. The first (best?) part of any project like that is always the demo.

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Then Eddy started framing up the doorway.  

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When we framed in the door with drywall, we left a little signature.  

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This looks like a job for master spackler Eddy.  

Friday, January 3, 2014

Beach Birthday for Old Doc

For Eddy's birthday this year, he wanted some beach camping.  We got in late one night, had our dinner and set up camp in the dark.  It was kind of cold that night.  Eddy even let Norman cuddle up in the bed with us.

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By "let" of course I mean that Norman jumped in the bed at the first opportunity because it was frosty cold. The next morning we opened birthday presents.

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Then we had a good breakfast.

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And went for a little run on the beach.

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Happy birthday, Old Doc Westbrook!

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