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Project Time

August 18, 2010 By 4 Comments

Last weekend was our town’s annual garage sales. Any house in the town that wants to participate sets up tables outside their house and people walk around the town finding new treasures out of people’s unwanted junk.

Micaela found her wedding veil at the garage sales last year, on her way to the church.
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We wandered around this year looking for baby item- toys or clothes. I bought a cute ladybug counting thing that Hailey seems to enjoy, even though she doesn’t really understand it. I also saw the cutest chair when we first started walking around and after seeing most of the houses that were selling stuff, still had the chair on my mind. We went to check it out and I bought it. For $2. What a steal.

I bought it with the intention to recover it, since it didn’t really look the cleanest and I was not crazy about the fabric. Here’s what it looked like when I bought it and what it looks like now, halfway done.

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It’s a Hailey sized chair, in case you couldn’t tell. I want to put it in her room to make a little reading corner for her eventually. Now I need to find some fabric to use. I’m thinking green.

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Needing Cubicle Personalization Assistance.

July 17, 2008 By 19 Comments

I started my brand, spanking new job this week and am absolutely loving it! I work for a not-for-profit agency that focusses mainly on people with mental health issues and/or homelessness. I work on the mental health side of things, and have learned more this week than I ever thought possible in four days. My problem is, I have super sweet, huge, spacious cubicle that looks over the city through a floor-to-ceiling window. How is this a problem you may ask? Well, it’s a problem because my desk looks like this:

BORING!

Photo credit: http://dearjanesample.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/cube-decorating-101/

BORING! Although I love decorating magazines and websites – why, hello Jessica Jones – I am not very good at decorating!! I think it comes from years of student homes where how many empty beer cases you had in your front doorway was more important than how cute your room was.

So I need you!!! How can I make my cubicle sparkle with fun, and not be so stark and boring??? I want it to say zen, happiness, and be a welcoming place for me to arrive at every morning and to bring my clients to.

Help me! What does your desk look like? What have you decorated it with to make it exude your personality and be an enjoyable place to be?

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Five Busy Blondes

November 22, 2007 By 2 Comments

Wow, not much going on as of late! Finals are coming up for those of us in school…naturally an important time of year. Micaela celebrated her birthday earlier this month with a new Lululemon sweater which I have yet to see, but am already very jealous of! Paisley – I love paisley! Kate and Scott are obviously back from their honeymoon, but seem to be having the same kind of difficulties that D and I are having getting telephone and internet service worked out at their new house. Who knew the real world would be this difficult? Leah’s birthday is coming up – always a party – and I hear that Lauren is getting snowed on in Ottawa and is planning to head to Tremblant soon?!? Luck-yyy!! By the way, Lo, I see that Allison Forsyth is sitting out the ski season – there’s a spot on the national team open for ya!

D and I went to Pier 1 Imports last weekend – I was there to browse, D was there to buy a coffee table (even though we have 2 already – long story) despite my insistence that we did not need a new one.  I was holding out just fine…until he pointed out a red and brown wood chest with inlaid flowers on the side…possibly the coffee table/storage unit of my dreams.  Browsing turned into buying and we now have 3 coffee tables (though one is destined for the woodpile at the farm).

Now all we need at the new apartment is a rug for in front of the gas fireplace! I love this design for a rug – in fact I would buy that one except it is a coconut fibre doormat. I guess I will continue my search!

I”m always looking for a creative output, and I love computers, so I’ve decided that my next ‘project’ (as in, the project I will take up when I no longer have to spend evenings at school!) will be a blogging project. Or, rather, a continuation of THIS blogging project. I want to use the WordPress CMS and design our own, unique theme for the site! This goes along with a side project that I can’t mention right now. ;) I am excited to get started on it and have found some great resources already, such as those on Lorelle’s blog. I know that there are many super cool free WordPress themes available on the net, but designing one myself will give me so much more satisfaction in the end, and also skills to build on.

Speaking of designing and skillz, we’ve not shared this photograph on the blog and I think we should because it is absolutely beautiful. These are our Oma’s hands as she works on Kate’s wedding dress – she hand-stitched thousands of beads, crystals, and sequins onto the dress over the summer! I like that the photo highlights her own wedding ring. She and Opa will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in January – and we’re having a big party to celebrate next summer!

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Filed Under: environment, erica, Family, furniture, internet, life, personal, photography, thoughts, university, writing

Furniture Shopping

September 26, 2007 By 7 Comments

I believe, in the near future, that furniture shopping will be the death of me (and my money).

Scott and I went furniture shopping last night to browse and get an idea of what’s out there and how much it will cost. We went to 5 stores (!!) in 1.5 hours. We call it speed furniture shopping, see how much you can see in a small amount of time. We hit up Bad Boy, Leons, The Brick, Sears Home Store and Teppermans.

We learned that we don’t like any couches out there and that couches are actually pretty expensive. For couches we found the best deals at Teppermans, and found some pretty reasonable prices in the clearance section. Sadly this was our last store and we did not have enough time to look at everything and they even started turning lights off while we were there.

We learned that we both like dark coloured wood for furniture. For example see this kitchen table that we liked, which is on sale for $498 for the table (including a leaf you can add in, ) and I think 4 chairs.

For bedroom furniture we also found a few that we could tolerate, which were dark wood. We also don’t like bulky sets, which is good because it is not practical for us, as we are renting a house for the first bit of married life, and we will expect to move a few times until we settle down. The set below costs $1299 for 6 pieces (headboard, footboard, rails, nightstand, mirror and dresser). The price is in the lower price range, basically the only one we could afford if we bought a full set.

Don’t even get me started on mattresses. We got nowhere with those. I seriously have no idea how to decide what to get, because I know I will have no idea if I will like it or not, unless I am sleeping on it.

Lucky for us the house we are renting has a fridge, stove, dishwasher, washer and dryer. If we had to buy those we would be so poor. Oh wait, we already are..

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