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I do not consider myself an expert in decorating by any means. I often find inspiration in the simplest, oddest places. When we were remodeling our bathroom, I found a wallpaper border that I really liked and everything took off from there. Now I’m using a rather inexpensive Bed in a Bag set to decorate the guest room. I used the steely blues for the wall paint and examining the bedding further, I noticed a really nice taupe that I think would be a perfect carpet color. Ryan and Jacob will be here today so Jeff will finish up some of the loose ends in the guestroom. He needs to rehang the white wood blinds and get new baseboards. We’ve been slowly replacing them throughout the house and that’s the last room left. If Jessica doesn’t work on Friday, we’ll try and go carpet shopping then.

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It’s holidays like this when I miss the old days of country-style graphics when we used to decorate our websites and send little greeting cards to one another. I looked in my card file and found I still had several on line. Here’s one from 2006. Continue Reading »

Today is painting day. Not sure how much I’ll be able to contribute because I’m also going to go over to Jessica’s to watch “the boys” while she goes on her job interview. That’s at 2 PM so Ryan may even be asleep since his naptime is usually from around noon to 2:30 or 3 PM. When they’re here, I try and get Jacob to sleep at the same time. I’m sure Jeff will do fine without my help since it’s a pretty small room but he has a doctor appointment in the morning and then he has to go by Dunn Edwards and buy the paint. Still not sure which paint color but we’ll make that decision in the morning. I’m sure either will be fine.

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