tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85879392003606029312024-02-20T22:56:04.766-05:00kitchen table productionsendless possibilitiesKoleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-27162769677432432292013-04-13T10:34:00.001-04:002013-04-13T12:10:20.229-04:00Age and Friends, A Friendlier Version of North and South<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">Two people met one day a few years ago in a most peculiar way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">We were laughing our heads off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">on the internet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">Is that a site or what?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">Then we embraced, on the world wide web</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">entwined ourselves...it's a crazy happening...unlike spiders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">we became friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">She's older than me. Today's her birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">Have you ever met someone before that you knew you knew but never knew</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">until you knew her and then met her in real life and then were certain you knew each other?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">Yeah. That's how it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">It's an unexplainable friendship</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">For one, she lives in the south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">I, in the north. Oh don't get your guns all in a tether.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">The separation is merely in miles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">Friendship is like that.We don't see each other or talk much or visit often.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">A match made in Heaven is what I say...but I digress!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">Now I'd like to tell you what our lives would be like if the north merged with the south in a</span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;"><b>"What? You didn't! Where? With Ruffles! O.M.Goodness</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;"><b>Seriously....I love that on you....oh who cares what they say....</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;"><b>I mean really we are HIS ART, not theirs and just who are they anyway?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;"><b>Like as in touched it and felt the raised seal?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;"><b>Just asking....what, this old thing? Came from Le Thrift!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;"><b>Sure I'll be right over....yeah I have some carrots and celery, bring them and marjoram, ok?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">Because of distance and life and living we are not as close as one would hope,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">but you can feel it, sense it, whenever we connect there is a truth, an honest experience,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">where there's fun and depth...for now it's North and South, joined in heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">Never afraid to be ourselves. Let the chips fall where they may!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;">The color of my friend's world has changed. Perhaps those bright color </span>Picasso's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;">are</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;">more like the </span>muted landscape of a Monet<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"> where up close it appears like a splatter of</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">paint yet the wider view is a glorious picture so perfect you wouldn't even believe your eyes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;">I love my friend. I wanted to let her know today, on her birthday, that time and distance are</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Papyrus, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;">nothing to what is true! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">Happy Birthday, <a href="http://www.livinglifecreatively.com/">Denise!</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I wasn't until I actually painted a sign</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">reveal coming soon</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I think my friend </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>Ginger</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> saw this sign, thought I was a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sign-maker</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> and then asked me to make a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">plethora of signs</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> for her wedding this past January</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">to be on display</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">400+ everyone at the church</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(there were definite sign makers there - real ones)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">not counting the staff at the country club</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm realizing that prayer is truly the only way for me to </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">~jump off the cliff~</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and do these sorts of things</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I needed to use glitter too</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I've never used glitter in the</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(insert Irish accent)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"whole of my life"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>jumped</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And isn't wonderful that when you </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>imagine</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> that you're <u>not</u> something</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I was a bit slaphappy at this point and starting reciting poetry</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and it can also be wine</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">then I got some glitter in my eyes</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">what to say</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">June</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #783f04; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">August</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">September</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I almost remembered</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">January</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">a little hairy</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">February</span><br />
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<br />Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-49992541448596450452012-04-07T15:53:00.002-04:002012-04-07T18:35:27.985-04:00The EASTER BUNNY target?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Because we have this</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgSco0ND-l9azVet41YkcCzb1Jl2AK_ChykS0bjcW1lz2JYoJJPDYARjvkS1N05rmDBiNewI40FM4msuJXLK_hpAy62C84cJX1a6p9TMrb__JHZ6leIpk5pL0TRbUdDdpfmSQsG0BcOICl/s1600/DSC_0040.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgSco0ND-l9azVet41YkcCzb1Jl2AK_ChykS0bjcW1lz2JYoJJPDYARjvkS1N05rmDBiNewI40FM4msuJXLK_hpAy62C84cJX1a6p9TMrb__JHZ6leIpk5pL0TRbUdDdpfmSQsG0BcOICl/s640/DSC_0040.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">My boys do this</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzW9_F25fP3ovit_xAjr5WNhkcEnIe7rt8weDKrZQmP6ZWOJAPnH7a62fdes4_zXN-Bk8cdaeNs8lyjmtn2IasS3XblLsTXrbJyZcuZBI6Scdy8lULgaKrnR9alDgsFoiyjmtYbxKqKKCn/s1600/DSC_0044.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzW9_F25fP3ovit_xAjr5WNhkcEnIe7rt8weDKrZQmP6ZWOJAPnH7a62fdes4_zXN-Bk8cdaeNs8lyjmtn2IasS3XblLsTXrbJyZcuZBI6Scdy8lULgaKrnR9alDgsFoiyjmtYbxKqKKCn/s640/DSC_0044.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And this</span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And this</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBb4sG_ZK5M7RP60_-oZ99Xp7bxRIsZJJKxzR-dKM_gtxarkdX78GZSEppYzn-hcb5bPKog63-vJdzXstKGrPMtR5sCfjVdUxhJZah0jOqwSUt84bq5Ko8a79qQC2ULdRNHBZccsgY1gTw/s1600/DSC_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBb4sG_ZK5M7RP60_-oZ99Xp7bxRIsZJJKxzR-dKM_gtxarkdX78GZSEppYzn-hcb5bPKog63-vJdzXstKGrPMtR5sCfjVdUxhJZah0jOqwSUt84bq5Ko8a79qQC2ULdRNHBZccsgY1gTw/s640/DSC_0002.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Which makes EC do this</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLv9hv3Xv2snfenli1Z6HvomufSnTHsV6AsbrAtDHdoi3zTR2A6OX8U3dF6Yxk_r05VW-PZp2jq3tWvsJg7HL4fD4ZT4IFeSPlo2MAQ7hx-RWb4rVEjJ5aPk_po6dH0uSTGwt5Fcb0D1Nw/s1600/DSC_0051.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLv9hv3Xv2snfenli1Z6HvomufSnTHsV6AsbrAtDHdoi3zTR2A6OX8U3dF6Yxk_r05VW-PZp2jq3tWvsJg7HL4fD4ZT4IFeSPlo2MAQ7hx-RWb4rVEjJ5aPk_po6dH0uSTGwt5Fcb0D1Nw/s640/DSC_0051.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and this</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqnu4X3FRPxDs57i7O1A1Up3pBsW2UGDUudrV6Aa56UYRJloSNRFAzFZWyYvMhZHvedPqEXR0NDVgEKPT6k252iMfdnkpbGLZdvOZNv_jroGnxQ-TK-r8OnFu4BpFMyYHtNT4MofJoJrIz/s1600/DSC_0053.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqnu4X3FRPxDs57i7O1A1Up3pBsW2UGDUudrV6Aa56UYRJloSNRFAzFZWyYvMhZHvedPqEXR0NDVgEKPT6k252iMfdnkpbGLZdvOZNv_jroGnxQ-TK-r8OnFu4BpFMyYHtNT4MofJoJrIz/s640/DSC_0053.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">then I do this</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjPze8W6f3J387ugdPOB0NmQ8ptkn2frLcASu0H8-131sCdAkL8jO_X02E7RWtD_VaNiZ8jgH6fsmUPrVFoGBCrFlB2KPATpBqFaBVZtnpBtgeOJtDsM6ynJXWbIPNU2pKSDjWeyCsLIb3/s1600/DSC_0021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjPze8W6f3J387ugdPOB0NmQ8ptkn2frLcASu0H8-131sCdAkL8jO_X02E7RWtD_VaNiZ8jgH6fsmUPrVFoGBCrFlB2KPATpBqFaBVZtnpBtgeOJtDsM6ynJXWbIPNU2pKSDjWeyCsLIb3/s640/DSC_0021.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Instructions for Hay Bale Wall</b>: Go to farm, buy bales of hay, carry them in your mini-van to the city, wedge them in between trees in backyard. Secure with rope.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Instructions for Target</b>: Marry a man, give birth to two boys, purchase all archery equipment needed for sport to be Olympic style, let boys loose in back yard. </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instructions for Bunny Target</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Marry a man, give birth to two boys, create hay bale wall in backyard, shoot arrows for days on end into traditional style target......then think.....and think.....grab a hunk of Ethafoam, cut foam with old tool box </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">steak</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> knife </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(EC couldn't throw it out)</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">into desired shape, attach bunny parts with contact cement. Let glue dry. Spray paint bunny <b>target</b> a pretty spring color. Wait for Easter.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Happy</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Easter</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">love you gals,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85782/velvette1216/7f5e8aaea9dc9d6233443383db38a976.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">ps - Yes, EC did all of the above, except for the spray painting!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4nsA08C4YzEottQd4VERePr12Dcr3gEzpeX8G24SOV-rwZrqX9EJgKCnupbNJ9f0VdQotnH3MzMJsomiwvpvGzW77pEtH0wA3pgCimoftcGEKmop08vtk6LdGoerWj0F7Ul1-5igWnypo/s1600/DSC_0008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4nsA08C4YzEottQd4VERePr12Dcr3gEzpeX8G24SOV-rwZrqX9EJgKCnupbNJ9f0VdQotnH3MzMJsomiwvpvGzW77pEtH0wA3pgCimoftcGEKmop08vtk6LdGoerWj0F7Ul1-5igWnypo/s640/DSC_0008.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">*eggs designed by Sean, 8yo.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1694600121">Joining everyone over here tonight!</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com/2012/04/sat-nite-special-127-party-ideas.html"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioBBRzzuoElugbE9Jfx2Mp3L_BLtNYBULl5JQT6QaWuff0jRjTrWK2BpSsySvcWsdRYNhnBvrMV0D9fEgorx20_ZRo0ge_n5DLLkJrgM2OfBcQQWFildmXIHHAH-DbucmVaKN40uS0wV5l/s1600/satnitenew150w-1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</span></div>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-24171419424536246922012-04-04T16:33:00.000-04:002012-04-04T16:33:25.575-04:00Grey Accessories!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Rocked my sweet babies</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">in this rocking chair and rocking ottoman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">some 8 and 11 years ago!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Then I grabbed some confidence, along with a large drop cloth, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">thanks to <a href="http://makeminebeautiful.blogspot.com/">Polly</a> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://funkyjunkinteriors.blogspot.com/">Donna</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://missmustardseed.com/">Marian</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">...held my breath</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and thus began the sewing adventure of a lifetime.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dancing ottoman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ByUVE3HwMXF820g64p3oN9etUHzzBGLLDyJAkr1XUllwfiBjgv4L3TOa2sSbAlDhZJblpvwlq0pLYLC0dx4shIZ_Is9pu0RLDdt0v7faaK-24A-ZLTF-eyMO1QzvofPBlE-wx-FG17PN/s1600/DSC_0009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ByUVE3HwMXF820g64p3oN9etUHzzBGLLDyJAkr1XUllwfiBjgv4L3TOa2sSbAlDhZJblpvwlq0pLYLC0dx4shIZ_Is9pu0RLDdt0v7faaK-24A-ZLTF-eyMO1QzvofPBlE-wx-FG17PN/s640/DSC_0009.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Tailoring details on chair back</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjhUER1YBa0rcQIwN-pLt5IUKNUQLm2srLaP1rGK8z1bRgJj-cvRewYmTa9R3AjTlciufQtSYEHZ6BD5jW43rBb41mIudQGLd8r51ejws_5ugRQY0ZPbnEEcItO3KQYpmPq1FV4QCjKfW1/s1600/DSC_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjhUER1YBa0rcQIwN-pLt5IUKNUQLm2srLaP1rGK8z1bRgJj-cvRewYmTa9R3AjTlciufQtSYEHZ6BD5jW43rBb41mIudQGLd8r51ejws_5ugRQY0ZPbnEEcItO3KQYpmPq1FV4QCjKfW1/s640/DSC_0004.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Here they are now</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">with my favorite grey accessories!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJudNWmpoPBu1GsqxsAYzVUaa8bCRMfU-om4n2xlUrvvaqejN33gh7Xz4y9zROw_BLcvVIKWhrRT8bylc9N8Ii0p5UKSEnScTAjYCWG5F8WeW5spaTlcsW_QC-zHpt9Fxvx-yFUjQ0xJn8/s1600/DSC_0083.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJudNWmpoPBu1GsqxsAYzVUaa8bCRMfU-om4n2xlUrvvaqejN33gh7Xz4y9zROw_BLcvVIKWhrRT8bylc9N8Ii0p5UKSEnScTAjYCWG5F8WeW5spaTlcsW_QC-zHpt9Fxvx-yFUjQ0xJn8/s640/DSC_0083.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">love you gals,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85782/velvette1216/7f5e8aaea9dc9d6233443383db38a976.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAefdaj-ijNo0jEymzj6HhaH5i7X7DgPt9q8a0NfBbwJNHLFhpgvlEsPwLD0Xxc18BM-prmsVOkFL49imVMOE9lzd28QIcnlKBom1AoKvhyZhh3Ur27smtQEpdCUv6gQzi42CUBQorhCna/s1600/DSC_0008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAefdaj-ijNo0jEymzj6HhaH5i7X7DgPt9q8a0NfBbwJNHLFhpgvlEsPwLD0Xxc18BM-prmsVOkFL49imVMOE9lzd28QIcnlKBom1AoKvhyZhh3Ur27smtQEpdCUv6gQzi42CUBQorhCna/s320/DSC_0008.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-57035618854336593902012-04-02T16:15:00.002-04:002012-04-02T18:33:02.575-04:00All kinds of blooms!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzVuMl-73Ua2ovAQ5L06nyyMDalzGek1XB0VdIYQr0PLz0eaJYbPyQBxQur9YsDXmjs44nZJ0bMRzmbTVSgoA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.thenateshow.com/videos/detail/4008/house-proud-older-home">MISS MUSTARD SEED</a></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">blooms!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">This creative woman is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">afire!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">She does and makes and creates and paints and travels and has body parts removed and eats Reese's PB cups and laughs and then sews some slip covers.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">All in the same day!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">(not kidding)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It hurts me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">love</span> every project she has mastered! Marian makes every project look do-able,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">in real life. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">And I can attest to that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">While following her blog for a while now, I have entered the world as a painter of furniture and canvas and have covered nearly all my hand me down furniture in slipcovers with cording/welting!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Thank you, Marian!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So I wanted to give a shout out about her talents and gifts</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">along with a heart felt personal thanks!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">In case you didn't see the show, there's a clip above!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Just click on her blog name!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">love you gals,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85782/velvette1216/7f5e8aaea9dc9d6233443383db38a976.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">can't get the video to work here</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">CLICK on her NAME ABOVE</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
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</div>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-89670363940398467482012-03-27T14:41:00.002-04:002012-03-27T14:49:12.425-04:00Cinchy Stuff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Hi</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Me again.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkHTeVVBA2Ai848_eewBkIU0BKFr1BaEJu44StSVRjedqmBODLV99m-CMadr78SoRwAqEpjPt5_JK8DhwvAt3N7SBBNASKz7ASBwMGj2wy-Ub6b_ZNgaGbvszj9XODMcwbx_WO8vX0d4SR/s1600/DSC_0126.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkHTeVVBA2Ai848_eewBkIU0BKFr1BaEJu44StSVRjedqmBODLV99m-CMadr78SoRwAqEpjPt5_JK8DhwvAt3N7SBBNASKz7ASBwMGj2wy-Ub6b_ZNgaGbvszj9XODMcwbx_WO8vX0d4SR/s640/DSC_0126.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">How 'bout all that heat last week?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Woo!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">23 degrees here today!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Welcome to springtime in New York!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Here's some cinchy things that will most likely <b>not</b> change interior design psychology</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">yet</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">have put a smile on <i>my</i> face.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I'm joining these crazies:</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.itallstartedwithpaint.com/">it all started with paint</a></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://eclecticallyvintage.com/">Eclectically vintage</a></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.thecottagemarket.com/">The Cottage Market</a></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://thespacebetweenblog.wordpress.com/">the space between</a></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://thistlewoodfarm.wordpress.com/">thistlewood farm</a></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">in this:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFRGvMJ-G1ILmoeHrIKBLqSc6q_uDupyKZF1M80OZ7BgiZEdzVT0KmkzNbNv0L1MzLrz_RpKMJYK26DTOahyE-hzDWQlzLm4VTGca0Owy_BITr6eyIEbTVUhFlk4t9hrQOkG5r7xcmmaZ/s1600/littlefolder2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsFRGvMJ-G1ILmoeHrIKBLqSc6q_uDupyKZF1M80OZ7BgiZEdzVT0KmkzNbNv0L1MzLrz_RpKMJYK26DTOahyE-hzDWQlzLm4VTGca0Owy_BITr6eyIEbTVUhFlk4t9hrQOkG5r7xcmmaZ/s1600/littlefolder2.png" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Ready for some cinchy stuff?</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Brace yourselves!</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Instructions for painting shelf</b>: Early summer weather necessary. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Remove wooden shelf from wall. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Hold spray paint can upright. Spray. Look at drips and have not a care in the world. Let dry. Hang shelf in same spot.</span></div>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-41653728630998058842012-03-09T14:54:00.000-05:002012-03-09T14:54:26.638-05:00An honest heart<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">One can never go wrong with an <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">honest</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">heart</span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Never.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Honesty</span> has its ups, downs, swirls, valleys and soap boxes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">But <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">honest</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">hearts</span>, they beat gently.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">They wait.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">love</span> them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">One of my boys began writing a book yesterday.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Because he can.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">As the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">moment</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: purple;">inspiration beckoned</span> him into position, he curled up and began with pencil in hand.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A moment.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My other son was </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">inspired</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> to play the drums, at the same time.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The author quietly asked if he</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">not</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"do that right now". </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Why?", asked the drummer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Because out here is where I have the sensation, right </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">here</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> in this spot."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Then the author came in to tell me that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"the sensation"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> was where the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sun</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> was <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">shining</span>, and the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">birds</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> were <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">chirping</span>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I mentioned that I would <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">post</span> when I got <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">inspired</span>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">When you open the door to our <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">main bathroom</span> you will be greeted with Allure flooring. Easy to install (we've read and seen)! The color is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Alpine</span> - which is more like a white washed grey in real life. I LOVE the name. And the color.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">(these strips are applied right over our 1970's old tile - which means EC won't need to tear up the floor!) We watched a video and found them from <a href="http://fearfullyandwonderfullymade81.blogspot.com/search/label/bathroom">Fearfully and Wonderfully Made</a>!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Since we are adding a stand up shower to this current powder room, we decided to go with a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">pedestal sink</span> - open bottom clears up some visual space. I like that, too. We'll hang towels on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">fun hooks</span> and store bathroom items on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">cute shelves</span>!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">love you gals,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I sat on my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sofa</span></span> - right in the middle of it.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Relaxation</span></span> happened over me. It was a monumental occurrence (well, I <i>really</i> noticed it). I'm a mother 24/7, not only in heart, but in deed. Since having our two boys I have become the constant of all constants. I can NOT NOT be. When I'm out with a friend I feel like I need to be home with my boys. Oh, the guilt is not extremely weighty, but it's there. Being a mother is heavy and serious business especially raising two young boys who will become men.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">kindness </span></span></span>- all kinds...from strangers, older folks, children, babies even, animals, the wind, my car, the preacher. I'll take it all and wrap it up close to my heart and share it and remember it and talk about it for years to come. That's how much I like it. kindness.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">being kind</span></span></span> and thoughtful towards people, my family, my home, my clothing, my friends and those new friends that I meet in grocery store parking lots or check out lanes. I truly love this kindness. It has a ripple effect that becomes the kindness first mentioned.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">love</span></span></span>. I really like love. I love to be dreamy about love. I enjoy keeping it alive by making it a part of my day. It's poetic and lovely and flows and dashes and charms and makes me feel all beautiful inside and out. It makes me dress up and do my hair and make my bed and eat lightly. Someone once told me, </span><i>"Kolein, you live in a dream world, rose colored glasses will get you no where."</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> You know what? I believed them. Until I got my new <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666;">heart</span></span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">mind</span></span>. It's taken a few years to build up the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">courage</span></span>. But here it is. Nourishment like none other, food for the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">whole</span></span>. I always remember to eat. With love, it doesn't require great preparation, or planning, and I don't have to sit down at a table. I just dream about it and there it is, there I am, in it, full of its creation...being adored by it and adoring it. love. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">(if you ask me how I get there...I will tell you)</span></span><br />
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</span></span></span>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-22367774526594448492011-11-01T12:48:00.001-04:002011-11-01T12:53:49.537-04:00Color in the Front Windows<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">From last year's twigs and gourds...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It was banging on my head for two days.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So, I ran over to GW and the SA and found these bottles...grabbed my hot glue gun, squished up a moss ball, threw together some pine cones and glued everything inside the window box on a thick piece of cardboard.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The sun beaming in the front windows makes the colors flicker all over inside the rooms!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">For the night hours I've purchased battery operated white lights to sit inside the boxes, shining up towards the colored bottles!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Happy November!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKY_Ks5laJ-nKKmZ9GbWB_aeHztchd1Y-0S2y26IVOSZcFiq-MlKLOtwioE-_8cL8nC7G_s_4CMK9LqJxZpHxtJl0zYhFmY3A-T1Ha3LsnElMXNXJaHpHZ-5ysrdQwCoUIBTnro4SJ-k2x/s1600/Photo+on+2011-11-01+at+12.46.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKY_Ks5laJ-nKKmZ9GbWB_aeHztchd1Y-0S2y26IVOSZcFiq-MlKLOtwioE-_8cL8nC7G_s_4CMK9LqJxZpHxtJl0zYhFmY3A-T1Ha3LsnElMXNXJaHpHZ-5ysrdQwCoUIBTnro4SJ-k2x/s640/Photo+on+2011-11-01+at+12.46.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">love you gals,</span></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85782/velvette1216/7f5e8aaea9dc9d6233443383db38a976.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-15835505013669433782011-10-14T15:23:00.003-04:002011-10-14T18:03:59.798-04:00Sorry I didn't return your call...really I am!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I have wanted to let you all know why I'm not blogging...MUCH.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Well. Much. Ok. Never.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh by the by, </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Happy <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">October</span>!</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJwVjpbj-NKTgz0utYbs0Gc1PTGgbo-AWuhWarCwxmFA7J0kSCrxiPQnAYHPe2HuMa5CRqAJG9-mz15APnm03aOZ6fLNdzr9ZX4Zat8jEkOhNYxGjDbA4c5s5gi2ZfHW_dD6CddNv4OMg/s1600/Photo+on+2011-10-14+at+13.58.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEJwVjpbj-NKTgz0utYbs0Gc1PTGgbo-AWuhWarCwxmFA7J0kSCrxiPQnAYHPe2HuMa5CRqAJG9-mz15APnm03aOZ6fLNdzr9ZX4Zat8jEkOhNYxGjDbA4c5s5gi2ZfHW_dD6CddNv4OMg/s640/Photo+on+2011-10-14+at+13.58.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Today I straightened my hair.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(<a href="http://www.livinglifecreatively.com/2011/01/i-love-my-flat-iron.html"><b>Denise</b></a> did it once and shared...got the idea from her!)</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGSQUErC0WR1cF2x3DDpb-qdD3e2mQ93P2vfD_gUcNk19gs79RJ-Q0hzdEEZth8HsArAfJS0y2qQxJW3-g1qdUzm9EEweArO1Nwr0i9Fvzv9zh8MkoWC1vcaPGocn-_RJcgsQKjWb_t7mZ/s1600/Photo+on+2011-10-14+at+13.58+%25232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGSQUErC0WR1cF2x3DDpb-qdD3e2mQ93P2vfD_gUcNk19gs79RJ-Q0hzdEEZth8HsArAfJS0y2qQxJW3-g1qdUzm9EEweArO1Nwr0i9Fvzv9zh8MkoWC1vcaPGocn-_RJcgsQKjWb_t7mZ/s640/Photo+on+2011-10-14+at+13.58+%25232.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As soon as I go outdoors</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(above photo is showing you the pouring rain outside our dining room window!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">my straight hair will be no more. You care, right?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Ok.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This is how I progress into the whereabouts of me, here the blogger person.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I don't have a clear answer as to why.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I'm not blogging much.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I feel the call</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">to sit and do school with my children.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Or sip coffee with my husband.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Or.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">*swallow hard, gasp air</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Do laundry.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Life.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">You know that thing we all squeeze in between blog posts and photo uploads and creative genius spurts?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">LOVED</span> the creative energy that you all kicked out of me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And I am a tad jealous that I cannot find the time or focus to devote to that <i>place</i> at present.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">However, that does NOT, no, no, no, NOT mean I have left or gone or disappeared or vanished.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am here.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Still.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I read your blogs in the afternoon or the evening after school is completed and I feel guilt-free.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Cuz, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">guilt is NOT PRETTY on anyone's heart</span>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So here's the update:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">ready?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">MOVING.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">EC and I have decided to stay in our house for the next few years. We will be making some</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, much needed,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> indoor and outdoor updates!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">FIRST OFF... </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">EC will be redoing our <a href="http://kitchentableproductions.blogspot.com/2010/03/monday-madness-bathroom.html">1.5 adjoining bathrooms</a>!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i>can someone shout along with me???</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://kitchentableproductions.blogspot.com/2010/10/for-gitter-done-i-cleaned-toilet.html">NEW TOILETS</a>!!!</span></i></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxrdfVXl2C5MnbqWH5_MVgXHEN5HA8XaKaDgqnuaxUQrHziqBPfGI-jyqmMnf6Jr-7cEYgNiceZ1rZ-Np98hA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He's turning our crazy designed baths into </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">2.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">TWO.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">DEUX.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">bathrooms!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh glory to all that is right and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">sanitary</span>!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I've already begun the process of searching for sinks, faucets, bead board ideas, colors, toilets and toilet handles (they are very important, you know!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Of course, I will share it with you. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It might come as a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">before</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">after</span>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Is that OK?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://kitchentableproductions.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-to-do-when-basements-flooded.html">THE FLOOD</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It took me a lengthy amount of time to get over this. I felt defeated. Not only with the loss of valuable items. But having to deal with the clean up and re-organization of Studio C. I wanted to throw in the towel, but it was soaking wet on the floor. I didn't go down there for months.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">EC did the clean up. I could NOT.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My little creative life down there was all wet and smelly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It's looking healthier now. I've actually spent some time getting stuff back in there to work its magic. I had even asked my girlfriend to pack up my paints and brushes and canvases and sewing materials. But after the room is back in creative order I will unpack those boxes and get going on something.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">OUR MUSIC.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Some of you know EC and I sing and write music. I have another <a href="http://kitchensinkmelodies.blogspot.com/">blog</a> for that (still in its infancy because we all know how long some of these creative things can take).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We have found a sound man to assist with our music studio to begin the works on our first CD.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Our beginning date is some time in December.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">You will all get a copy of it once it's out. I promise. You know, if you want one that is.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It's not the usual kind of music.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">No. Not at all.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But we've performed for folks and they seem to be moved by it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I know I am.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Can't believe it really.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But I know it's real.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">You'll understand more as the release date approaches.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">OK.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">*serious butterflies right now</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">There is more...always and forever....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But for now I hope you accept my long overdue apology for being remiss with posts and updates and laughter and silliness.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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</span>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-3873425561348308512011-09-09T16:21:00.000-04:002011-09-09T16:21:24.643-04:00rare appearance?<div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Happy September!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0RJx-cYU-5F_TFtqbs2uTKcLKhsvt_T19LNdW_jWHHhWNSfvJrbE2D940k1H4yCGMK3B3Yzj9eCek8XfsnZVrnWf3DoSocYMWdF01bHgilM0toQCK0uqnj8KtGl1iXBIlf8nyVkZC7sq/s1600/Photo+on+2011-09-01+at+14.33+%25232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0RJx-cYU-5F_TFtqbs2uTKcLKhsvt_T19LNdW_jWHHhWNSfvJrbE2D940k1H4yCGMK3B3Yzj9eCek8XfsnZVrnWf3DoSocYMWdF01bHgilM0toQCK0uqnj8KtGl1iXBIlf8nyVkZC7sq/s400/Photo+on+2011-09-01+at+14.33+%25232.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Summer has been FULL!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Fall is coming soon!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">School started this week here in our house...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">there's lots to do!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I hope, really hope, I can fit</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">blogging in a bit.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It'll have to inspired</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">cuz otherwise...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">it won't be.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br />
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</div>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-58862692859452691642011-05-08T16:32:00.001-04:002011-05-08T16:36:31.946-04:00Happy Mother's Day<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Happiness is wished for all of you,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">dear mothers!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">Be proud of who you are!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">love,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85782/velvette1216/7f5e8aaea9dc9d6233443383db38a976.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85782/velvette1216/7f5e8aaea9dc9d6233443383db38a976.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important;" /></a></div>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-8753446201374661332011-04-27T16:43:00.004-04:002011-04-27T17:21:25.136-04:00A Rose is a Rose!<div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Last week I met Rose!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rose</span></b></span> from the amazing</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://confessionsofacurbshopaholic.blogspot.com/">Confessions of a Curbshopaholic</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How it all happened, I just can't believe my eyes!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I entered her <a href="http://confessionsofacurbshopaholic.blogspot.com/2011/04/one-year-blogaversary-and-fried-bat.html">'Bat Wing' Giveaway.</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I don't usually enter giveaways.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So I most certainly NEVER win.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This time.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I won.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How fun!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And because Rose lives only an hour from me and comes to our city for work occasionally,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">we met for lunch!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Can it get any funner?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(apparently 'funner' is a word)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZkjAJmTYJ9v7cIoB3yL3i4JvyiV82KHMm8mpzXoOs_4IcWSlWKEKfjujn8ABdT9kELHk2gvk4S29rjKrT_o2RG_vrXLs2Je07IBbZvUL6eG-C3j562nHjA1nsvUhAb260dNwjjTAsIVI/s1600/DSC_0041.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzZkjAJmTYJ9v7cIoB3yL3i4JvyiV82KHMm8mpzXoOs_4IcWSlWKEKfjujn8ABdT9kELHk2gvk4S29rjKrT_o2RG_vrXLs2Je07IBbZvUL6eG-C3j562nHjA1nsvUhAb260dNwjjTAsIVI/s320/DSC_0041.JPG" width="212" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is her in the parking lot telling me something about not being photogenic. Na-uh!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She's very cute!!!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And sweet!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wanna know just how sweet & cute she is?</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I thought so.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She not only delivered the goods!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(you can take a look at what I won over at her blog! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://confessionsofacurbshopaholic.blogspot.com/2011/04/one-year-blogaversary-and-fried-bat.html">'Bat Wing' Giveaway.</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"> oh my!)</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilFVQvhl-U3FFXZIPYfIAFM8HsYw7oMFB3RQQ50pVZFOMHzsiGnSHYav1qKPrQ3j71N2RlKEqFzWOcviG7fHTpawpE_iPUPWjc9TKc0RShAOUbXEmKDiANDUr5XDpiQCUH5q7nLeKl0IsT/s1600/DSC_0039.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilFVQvhl-U3FFXZIPYfIAFM8HsYw7oMFB3RQQ50pVZFOMHzsiGnSHYav1qKPrQ3j71N2RlKEqFzWOcviG7fHTpawpE_iPUPWjc9TKc0RShAOUbXEmKDiANDUr5XDpiQCUH5q7nLeKl0IsT/s640/DSC_0039.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She had everything all wrapped up and boxed for me! And she threw in a few extras!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I really <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">ADORE</span> extras!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Notice that blue scarf?</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She knows I LOVE scarves and gave me a vintage one with a beautiful leaf print and in my favorite up-close-to-my face color:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Blue!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That wasn't EVEN the best part!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She knew that I lost nearly all of my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">novels</span>, poetry and decorating books in our recent flooded basement. I wrote about it in a <a href="http://kitchentableproductions.blogspot.com/2011/04/what-to-do-when-basements-flooded.html">post</a> and mentioned that some books were vintage. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(I still have NOT tossed any of them. They are soaked and stuck together and in the same mushy wet box as the day I found them nearly floating in my studio. Ugh.)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Louisa May Alcott's <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">novels</span> have taught me some of my parenting skills over the years. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>Little Women</u>. Love.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>Jo's Boys</u>. Truly a wonderful insight into my two boys, as well as my husband.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When Rose was a little girl someone had given her <u>Jo's Boys</u> to read.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After reading my flood post she emailed me and said that she had her own copy which was vintage when she got it. She had written her name in it when she was younger.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She wanted to give her copy to me.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">~be still my heart~</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I sat and cried at the computer that night.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Such a touching gesture from someone I hardly know...'cept for the blog!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">She also wrote to me to add that she had windows and tables and all sorts of things for the asking, if I wanted.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wanted.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But we are trying to get our house ready to sell <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or something</span> and if I brought in more than the box of goodies I won...well, we won't even mention what <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">everyone </span>might think!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For now,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> I want to thank you Rose,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">from the bottom of my heart!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm so looking forward to displaying these creative treasures and walking passed them in my home knowing they came from you!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></span></div>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-43415488010479872692011-04-19T18:38:00.002-04:002011-04-19T21:48:21.652-04:00Would you be so kind and wish my MOM a Happy Birthday<div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">HAPPY</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">BIRTHDAY</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">MOM!!!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This kind of a post has very little to do with</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> decorating or </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the kitchen table....or does it?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where there is a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">mother</span></span></span>, there is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">home</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where there is a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">mother</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, there is usually a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">kitchen table</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mom is one of those kind of ladies who, if she lived when Susan B. Anthony was carrying signs for the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">women's suffrage</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> movement, Mom would have been right there marching down the street. I wouldn't call her a <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">women's liber</span></span></i>, but I would call her a</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">woman of movement! </span></span></span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mountains. Yep, she's moved 'em.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life has not always been easy for her. But she makes the most of it. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And still finds ways to give to others.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She perseveres. She manages to enjoy simple things. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">A good movie.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">A good read.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Her cup of tea.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past Sunday she sat, sandwiched between my boys, in church. As I looked over at her I thought that God had saved a little bit of perfection for her that day. Her best friend </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and brother-in-law</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> sitting with her, both whom she cares for in word and deed and her little grandsons and their sweet love for her.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">MEMORIES</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A memory that always <b>puts a smile</b> on my face is being in the kitchen watching Mom and my grandma baking for Easter. Dough everywhere. Flour in air. They would always pull off a hunk of dough for me to knead and prepare. The aroma was heavenly! It is forever embedded in my memory. To this day, if I walk into a bakery I am instantly brought back to those moments!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another memory that makes me <b>roar out laughing</b> is the time I was home from college and Mom and I were doing some grocery shopping. A very long list of items to conquer....as always....Mom stocked our refrigerator and cupboards with TONS of food...no really, ask my friends. They wanted to live in our kitchen! LOL!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took a look at the list and told Mom I'd go and shop for a bunch of items and then meet back up with her.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I walked away and then went around the aisle and walked up to her from behind, changed my voice, and started calling out her name like I was a long lost friend who was bumping into her after all these years. I'll never forget the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>expressions</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on her face. First, a huge smile as she was turning around to see who I was and then she grunted something out at me, her brow furrowed, and then she started laughing!!! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a64d79;">(remember that, Mom??)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another memory, that at the time I did NOT appreciate, but is definitely worth mentioning, was the music my parents </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">chose</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for me to listen to.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK. I was a kid in the 70's. James Taylor, Helen Reddy, Abba, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, John Denver, Jim Croce, Ann Murray. You get the picture.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, my parents thought that was ROCK 'N ROLL. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There won't be any of that in this house!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So at Christmas time I'd make my list of desired gifts.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the tree I'd spy a stack of albums wrapped.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd wonder for weeks which ones they bought.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christmas morning my surprise was a lot bigger than I'd imagine.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Instead of Abba,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Loretta Lynn.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Instead of Jim Croce,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">Roger Whittaker.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Instead of Elton John,</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">Eddy Arnold.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My parents liked country western music. I didn't. But I learned to and then I began to LOVE it. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the adolescent couldn't appreciate these choices, the adult is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">EVER</span> so grateful. I have an appreciation for nearly all types of music because of this influence!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is so much more to mention about Mom. Oh, the stories could fill a book. But we don't want the paparazzi to follow us, so we'll just keep our little family secrets under wraps!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I love you, Mom!!!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have a free moment</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">would you </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">wish my Mom a happy day today</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It would make her <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">smile BIG</span></span>!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85782/velvette1216/7f5e8aaea9dc9d6233443383db38a976.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For about 3 minutes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I turned around and noticed the boxes of books I had packed to get our house ready to sell, sitting in the pool of backed up sump pump water.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No! I can't look!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some were vintage.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know that they can be saved without being triple the size after drying....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Q4ONQqlZOU7DcXZXGnUA1HbmnkHNv-m3WftTtTwKvMUMkJCPR4qiyWXTIoS-rFEda29qazKjrl52OpM-cKjjD8USiPf7vFJzUrLE4oUWCBYXRcc7zQx8sqE1QqHssTmC-hGRKW9kd5Qb/s1600/First-Aid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Q4ONQqlZOU7DcXZXGnUA1HbmnkHNv-m3WftTtTwKvMUMkJCPR4qiyWXTIoS-rFEda29qazKjrl52OpM-cKjjD8USiPf7vFJzUrLE4oUWCBYXRcc7zQx8sqE1QqHssTmC-hGRKW9kd5Qb/s400/First-Aid.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This won't work unless they're in EC's heavy duty mountaineering backpack; which vacates the whole sweet experience of carrying a book and reading in the park.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I crawled <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">up</span></span> from the basement AKA: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Studio C</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and decided what any one of us would decide:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's what <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">transpired</span></span> after so much had <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">expired </span></b>down below.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm still working on the cover for this chair, the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> ottoman</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is finished. You can read about that <a href="http://kitchentableproductions.blogspot.com/2011/03/slipcover-that-moves.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">here</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">....</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">....oh <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">happy</span></span></span> day at the sewing machine...me and my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">naked foot</span></span> on the pedal and my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">little reading glasses</span></span></span> so I can see....<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">slip covers</span></span></i> are <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One</span></span> weakness!</span></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">s m i l e s</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85782/velvette1216/7f5e8aaea9dc9d6233443383db38a976.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important;" /></a></div></div>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-69489845008936206232011-03-30T19:52:00.000-04:002011-03-30T19:52:52.027-04:00The slipcover that moves!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8X8mnCQi9oMmNTzNHJX2dlIXr4r3PmPzy0C6kSlgxAg7TC7FivLD5KhcS5QOngys8LPL-DkvcoKTcJF3eny4DgxcvfLNj3tBg32ovMlRpiCFoiAjKBC08FuZwJ0gJwhLm1gvwQP8HWaQf/s1600/DSC_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8X8mnCQi9oMmNTzNHJX2dlIXr4r3PmPzy0C6kSlgxAg7TC7FivLD5KhcS5QOngys8LPL-DkvcoKTcJF3eny4DgxcvfLNj3tBg32ovMlRpiCFoiAjKBC08FuZwJ0gJwhLm1gvwQP8HWaQf/s640/DSC_0002.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember this?</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://kitchentableproductions.blogspot.com/2011/03/up-next.html">chair and ottoman post here</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyawHUgXDMxfztiZDeBOGHrDdZ8Kf5fyuIztXxK82V014VUdAjOqb_rUr43cdntpIQDrylikjfSiq0OQhNW5PWTOuPxs1nA9maWiFw-3inVzHjGbUnX2_CNM7zw9ktoJbr8XtHu6atjBOQ/s1600/DSC_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAH2ELhfhZjaTHtMolFGK-BsBlsIZHonA9NSj1zUtk6zIi0yVXVt8eI7MSsk7UlCtp8BavFW5jfjFxnEvdzrgSvATBBsQ0-68t1cp_cMezMkcbDpnfgd6XAB4TNm3eqDdMRjnz0nmgsr-/s1600/DSC_0011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAH2ELhfhZjaTHtMolFGK-BsBlsIZHonA9NSj1zUtk6zIi0yVXVt8eI7MSsk7UlCtp8BavFW5jfjFxnEvdzrgSvATBBsQ0-68t1cp_cMezMkcbDpnfgd6XAB4TNm3eqDdMRjnz0nmgsr-/s640/DSC_0011.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with a little more <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">pizzazz</span></span></span></b> now!</span></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Have a dry night,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85782/velvette1216/7f5e8aaea9dc9d6233443383db38a976.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a> </div>Koleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00248290873145151407noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587939200360602931.post-8601713619089932312011-03-24T09:59:00.000-04:002011-03-24T09:59:32.899-04:00Up next......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">LOVE</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">EC</span></b></span>,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for many reasons,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on this occasion,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">being</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">sentimental.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">chair</span></b> below was the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">very comfy</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, extremely ugly chair we bought as I carried our first son in my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">womb</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I agreed to it knowing full-well that it was the ugliest thing I'd ever laid eyes on. Then I sat in it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ahh.</span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My lower back made sounds...of relief and joy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was a high-end furniture rep.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How could I purchase this </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">chair</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and put it in our nursery for our sweet little angel and walk by it 100 times a day and not feel like I'd committed a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">designer</span></span></span> faux pas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or worse, some crime?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">HORMONES.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCKLlPwrDYhzf6EJ2Y299SyML4lnc46uaViFhDGHFUKkU66AreQIdVbnNgNtmmvQThHkGbXi7eoxvdW3HDodOSakMyzYgPuvCnP5gQOvTQp34aNzH10_0TYe1XXN19x0-3qJoHlc_ycjAh/s1600/DSC_0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCKLlPwrDYhzf6EJ2Y299SyML4lnc46uaViFhDGHFUKkU66AreQIdVbnNgNtmmvQThHkGbXi7eoxvdW3HDodOSakMyzYgPuvCnP5gQOvTQp34aNzH10_0TYe1XXN19x0-3qJoHlc_ycjAh/s640/DSC_0001.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">so glad</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> it didn't go to the curb.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The day the chair was almost curbside, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">EC</span></span> said, <i>(I believe with</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><i> tears</i></span><i> forming in his eyes)</i>, "This is the chair you nursed our sons in, this is the chair we sat in to read to our babies, the chair that we slept in as our </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">babies</span></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> lay on our chests, you want to get rid of it?"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*sniff*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What kind of mother am I?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">chair</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> stayed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So did the moving ottoman. No. I can't even call this an ottoman. I'm sorry.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a hassock. Or footrest or footstool.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiXgDMZOEfNOV6nG5i1Lis2aJAQh8-M6cPpOluUjNjSym5MjgURcs6XuCxbqfJ9ZuV_t-RAhbmWqblBH1EqwTX2Gu900CmkWiK2bTd56ZPGH6K3l3ApWqzDOf69C8RI0CmukLznJg_P35D/s1600/DSC_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiXgDMZOEfNOV6nG5i1Lis2aJAQh8-M6cPpOluUjNjSym5MjgURcs6XuCxbqfJ9ZuV_t-RAhbmWqblBH1EqwTX2Gu900CmkWiK2bTd56ZPGH6K3l3ApWqzDOf69C8RI0CmukLznJg_P35D/s640/DSC_0002.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imagine at 3 in the morning, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">holding baby</span></span>, rocking in this gentle motion, both body and legs and feet back and forth in the most rhythmic movement...talk about <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">sleep!</span></span></b></span></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh goodness....all design statements aside...it was/is the most glorious motion your body would <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">EVER need</span></span></span>. And the entire seat reclines.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chair cost over $500.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eleven years ago.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">HORMONES.</span></span></span></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">friends</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> were curious about how the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">slipcover</span></span> went on and off</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">without zippers or ties.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://s745.photobucket.com/albums/xx93/kitchentableproductions/?action=view&current=Movieon2011-03-22at12192.mp4">video</a></span></span> that I did today to show you the simplicity.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">I'm all for simplicity!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pillows were pretty much the ONLY thing I sewed for years. And they came out ONLY when I managed to sew a straight line OR glue the fourth side properly. I kid you NOT.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not follow patterns. EVER. They are scary. Truly.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I do like to get started. Quickly. I don't do things very efficiently at first. If ever. You know, like most of you here. I'm ONLY repeating what I've read.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So without further ado...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here's the wing back slipcover</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">BEFORE <a href="http://missmustardseed.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;">MARIAN</span></a> DID HER TUTORIAL</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdpZc4llobuZtuQ3fs9ccm1PwOFf8KFz2Q-7FEbCYYFyhAPSysL5hmDO-AYuQQuC2EvrOj_VNWdaDavGXaBukmha_cIHZ3oYqQGsiZk9m4Ct0hBO1LdLFhgG4x3LVnHmXzpK1QmWk1hV8H/s1600/missmustardseed_button.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdpZc4llobuZtuQ3fs9ccm1PwOFf8KFz2Q-7FEbCYYFyhAPSysL5hmDO-AYuQQuC2EvrOj_VNWdaDavGXaBukmha_cIHZ3oYqQGsiZk9m4Ct0hBO1LdLFhgG4x3LVnHmXzpK1QmWk1hV8H/s1600/missmustardseed_button.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">ugh.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could have saved so much time, energy, tears, gnashing of teeth...quits and restarts.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, this is the way things turn out.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am saving Marian's tutorial <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">forever</span>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You should, too.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know if you EVER want to know how to make a slipcover. EVER.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's so straight forward and easy to follow that I almost started crying when I saw all the needless EFFORT that I put into this 9 month project.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(ok I did not work on this daily, but IT worked on my brain daily. Just about.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the upside:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have learned so much by just diving into this project. Not only sewing and seam ripping experience, but things about MYSELF that are priceless and will remain anonymous - only EC knows what 'trouble I've seen'.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the before:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKH6NTlughsCnSLrhBOItD3UDjb5pdoczHilp2-5E4wmIrXDNjN8dxfyfKgkC_z-igG2FQqNXX9PCZOftK5AJkF_zHEJVFbj_VE60hFm9IkYncT-Qx_09LAnw-SpTnCt411ZOgJzWTy4D/s1600/DSC_0012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdKH6NTlughsCnSLrhBOItD3UDjb5pdoczHilp2-5E4wmIrXDNjN8dxfyfKgkC_z-igG2FQqNXX9PCZOftK5AJkF_zHEJVFbj_VE60hFm9IkYncT-Qx_09LAnw-SpTnCt411ZOgJzWTy4D/s640/DSC_0012.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got this from CL because I wanted to try my hand at slipcovering a wingback without spending a lot of money.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's what the chair looks like as of today.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(the slipcover fresh out of the drier)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDC4ujOJ8ANlw3kd3VWd1x_wzSTVfzsNXFQtJ8nVXMIgNptBdrGE1S2kAmqfcR2JnEXrBlm9WSQgpUkXbgcDdRpFrR3DaPHPETkXhTZ0vPRu0xiZk-7f3t86wqpRyw9jnMsEVWvQqAO_pX/s1600/DSC_0013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDC4ujOJ8ANlw3kd3VWd1x_wzSTVfzsNXFQtJ8nVXMIgNptBdrGE1S2kAmqfcR2JnEXrBlm9WSQgpUkXbgcDdRpFrR3DaPHPETkXhTZ0vPRu0xiZk-7f3t86wqpRyw9jnMsEVWvQqAO_pX/s640/DSC_0013.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be painting the legs white at some point.</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPfMfeVOEu-buXZxK4IUipcBwIe8KG_VyJ7BcV6diBgNyQcMj3rEgEKvP-7JPL_j_OCpacVCsoJWCUEZGEJ_24cDOlU9nASy3nlZfWt7E6Po3K-AFB_BCmj5t7TNaUKLeXJTChcL7lJ9W/s1600/DSC_0014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkPfMfeVOEu-buXZxK4IUipcBwIe8KG_VyJ7BcV6diBgNyQcMj3rEgEKvP-7JPL_j_OCpacVCsoJWCUEZGEJ_24cDOlU9nASy3nlZfWt7E6Po3K-AFB_BCmj5t7TNaUKLeXJTChcL7lJ9W/s640/DSC_0014.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No welting this time around. I just wanted to see if I could do the cover with all the wings and arms and t-cushion and ruffles!</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a complete slipcover without any zippers or ties, just slip on and slip off!</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(If you recall my first EVER slip - this fabric is the same - just the underside.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like both the grey and the white)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKCvZMXzXA4SCfuadyXT95MkOS3izVcz8Byndoa8qj7IATO_dEyG6BIqkUig4d9GWshRl3aiziq5briSGujm3g0pbRkjthl9kJBHLAdkrNfxZoL-hHMNjnlIufXfo0ilVZFj0I2C4Cknn/s1600/DSC_0031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKCvZMXzXA4SCfuadyXT95MkOS3izVcz8Byndoa8qj7IATO_dEyG6BIqkUig4d9GWshRl3aiziq5briSGujm3g0pbRkjthl9kJBHLAdkrNfxZoL-hHMNjnlIufXfo0ilVZFj0I2C4Cknn/s640/DSC_0031.JPG" width="424" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me know what you think!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a great weekend!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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