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the day after thanksgiving (black friday)....
I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving. we did here. i hosted dinner for 21 family members yesterday....it was chaotic and loud and wonderful. the food was fantastic and plentiful....i still feel...
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a bit of vintage....
Yes, i am still here.....and i am sorry i haven't posted for so long. the truth is, i just haven't been motivated lately. i don't know if it is the impending christmas season, the change from fall to...
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the kitchen floor...finally....
the kitchen floor was a long time coming....we lived with builders grade vinyl flooring in our kitchen for 9 years. it was ugly, stained and gouged. when we bought our home it was a new build spec...
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merry christmas.....
from our family to your family.....wishing you the most beautiful christmas holiday andjoy and prosperity for the coming year.....MERRYCHRISTMAS from the mandernach's
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the laundry room revisited....
i think that this room has to be the one i am most proud of in my little diy portfolio.....the before: yuk!!! (and i am the one who painted it like that in the first place....i can't even blame it on...
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handmade christmas gifts.....
i thought that i would share a few gifts that i made for christmas this year. now that the gifts have been given, i can post pictures of them here....the girls each got a quilt this yearscarlett'sand...
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favorite projects of 2011
this past year was a very fun one for me....but it didn't start out that way....when i lost my job one week before christmas in 2010, i was angry and scared. then i was just angry.but i used the...
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a curvy beauty.....
i can't believe that this is my first post for 2012....someone has not been sorting out her priorities....ahem,.....i have had my hand in about 5 different projects at once.i rock at the...
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adding in even more projects...
i haven't had enough to do lately, so i thought i would take on another project. i woke up on saturday, walked into my powder room and decided that i was sick of the black cabinet in there and took...
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the fastest quilt top ever.....
well, that is the premise anyway!! the jelly roll 1600 quilt is comprised of a bundle of coordinating fabric pre-cut into 2 1/2 inch wide by 44 inch long strips. this is called a jelly roll. fabric...
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free storage....always a good thing......
do you remember this piece of trash?.....literally, i pulled it out of someone's trash pile....it was really rough, inside and out, but i loved the curves and the sturdiness that comes with an older...
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a sweater pillow....
who knew that you could take a goodwill sweater for $1.50 and make a pillow cover out of it?ME....that's who.... :) thanks to the internet there are tons of ideas and tutorials floating around.simple...
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a vintage window.....
rummaging around in my friend lisa's parent's barn loft last summer was so amazing. there were stacks of old windows leaning up against the wall. I think that they were originally part of the house...
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congrats to adele....
what a great grammy's show last night....i normally don't watch awards shows because the performers and awards recipients are usually so full of themselves it nauseates me.....i watched the grammy's...
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another quilt....
I started another quilt last week. actually, i started 3 quilts last week. it was a busy week to say the least. my friend lisa came back to michigan from her new home in minnesota and spent a few...
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busy, busy, busy...
well, i have completed 5 quilts in the past couple of weeks....quilts for chemo is on it's way. i love the way this one turned out. it's a very simple pattern and striking in it's simplicity. and in...
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i have some very talented friends {part 1}....
tina and jerry...they used to live next door to us. they moved in a couple of weeks after we did way back in 2000, newly married and fresh off of their honeymoon. they were the most fantastic...
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the winter of our content......
like most of the country, we have had some pretty mild weather lately. and when i say mild, i mean hot!! it was 84 degrees here today and right this minute, at 10:39 pm, it is 70 degrees outside....
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all good things must come to (an abrupt) end....
the weather has taken a bit of a nosedive. granted, it is still waaaaayyyyy better than it was at this time last year but we all got really spoiled this past two weeks. in fact, don had to cut the...
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