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Category Archives: House and Home

A Design Link-Up

Today we are linking up with our designer friend Andrew DeYoung over at Walnut+Ebony. We’ve known Andrew for a few years. We met him when he re-designed our kitchen for a class project. While he was measuring the space, he noticed Gina’s volleyball schedule on the refrigerator. Their mutual love for volleyball got them talking…

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Project: Headboard

On January 5th I began making my queen sized headboard. I sold my headboard with the rest of my bedroom furniture years ago and have had my bed on just the frame. Last fall I decided I would make a headboard and drew up my idea in November. I found some on Pinterest but this…

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Traditions

Growing up as the youngest of five in a Catholic home, we had traditions. As a kid, we just knew what to expect when the holiday’s roll around. In our house, we went had a big Italian dinner, went to midnight mass, then came home to open presents. This was the tradition when I was…

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A (sort of) New Extension Cord

Recently I came across an extension cord in my garage. It had been up on a shelf since the day we moved in. The previous owners left a few things and this was one of them. I left it on the shelf since September of 2004 because the female end was missing. The three wires…

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The Dog Gate of Our Dreams

With four dogs in the house, we decided long ago that the kitchen had to be off limits to them so we bought a baby gate.  It was a plastic pressure gate.  It was angled against the corner of the cabinet and the wood alongside of the fridge.  Before the gate, there were times when…

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