posted by K | filed under Paint | 8 Comments

All last week we’d planned to decorate for Christmas on Saturday. But when the time came to put up the tree, we got distracted. It hit us simultaneously, I think, that once the tree was in the foyer, all work would stop on stripping the woodwork until well into next year.
Somehow, without even […]

posted by K | filed under Misfortune | 4 Comments

Ugh. Blech. D and I are both sick with colds. I don’t think we’ve ever been sick at the same time in our 5.5 years together.
Usually, it goes like this: D gets sick, mopes and moans about the house, sleeps constantly. I continue kissing him and whatnot because I am not a person who […]

posted by K | filed under Ooh, Pretty!, Shopping Disease | 7 Comments

This weekend we put up Christmas decorations. I do solemnly swear not to leave them up until February this year. Okay, I take that back. I will probably leave them up until February or maybe even March. And it’s not just laziness. I love Christmas decorations. I admit it.
For me, the highlight of our […]

posted by K | filed under Hot and Cold | 4 Comments

Today I found some fabric that’s sort of suede-y on one side and a very soft, low-pile faux fur on the other side. I got some and bound the edges to make a throw blanket. Boy is that thing warm! It’s like the miracle blanket. I actually got almost HOT in it, which is […]

posted by K | filed under Entertainment | 7 Comments

You can tell we didn’t get any work done this weekend because I didn’t post yesterday. Saturday was the Iron Bowl, the longstanding, high-stakes rivalry game between the University of Alabama and Auburn University.
I grew up an Auburn fan but attended UA, so I’m one of the few people in the state who confesses […]

posted by K | filed under Bathrooms | 5 Comments

I love a good gaping maw, don’t you?

Turns out the beadboard actually reaches to more like 9 feet, leaving a gap of 1 foot between it and the ceiling. This gap corresponds with the height of the slight ceiling slant on that side of the room. The slant is there because about 1 foot […]

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