posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Ooh, Pretty! | 3 Comments

Remember my fears that the bathroom would be too much for us? That it would sit unfinished - barely begun - until the end of time?
Ha. Silly me. All it took was a few hours of hard work, and the whole thing seems so much more possible.
Turns out all that tile-bashing we did was […]

posted by K | filed under Shopping Disease, Small Town Life | 8 Comments

Oh boy, today has been a good one. I’ll get into the bathroom project tomorrow when we’ve done a little more work on it. Today I’ll tell you about the mantel.
We went to lunch at the Eutaw Diner downtown with a group of fellow Eutawans and decided to walk there since the weather was […]

posted by K | filed under Misfortune | 2 Comments

Our savvy, experienced and capable home improver friend D cut her finger pretty badly on a table saw last week. Let this be a warning: if D can injure herself with a table saw, anyone can. Be careful out there!

posted by K | filed under Kitchen, Paint | 5 Comments

Expect to see some more action around here in the next month. We’re like kids who want to play with our new Christmas toys.
My parents gave me a good heavy-duty step ladder. The woodwork is doing a happy dance because it might just get finished now. The top few feet of the doors and […]

posted by K | filed under Family & Friends, Pets | 2 Comments

D and I aren’t giving each other gifts this year. As you may have noticed, I’m a shopaholic and love buying gifts. D fears gift-giving occasions more than giant spiders and wizards named Voldemort.
So I let him off the hook this year. Instead of worrying about gifts for each other, we bought presents for […]

posted by K | filed under Shopping Disease, Hot and Cold | 4 Comments

In these cold days, I take comfort in anything that can make me feel a little warmer. Even when it’s just playing tricks on my mind.
Yesterday my sister and I did some last-minute Christmas shopping. I haven’t been to a Bath and Body Works in about a hundred years, because it is The Bad […]

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