noir was waiting for the bedding to finish being washed, so she hugged onto one of my scarves until fresh linens were ready. and how was the dryer fixed? with steven and his dad taking it apart and figuring it out. in all honesty though, the dryer was kind of falling apart when the previous [...]
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sweet sweet goverment stimulus pt. 2
so now that we have an idea of what colors the house might end up as, what is it next that we are wanting to fix up? well, this was actually first on the list to fix since we want our dogs to have more freedom. a fence! fencing, it turns out, is crazy expensive. [...]
sweet sweet goverment stimulus pt. 1
if you buy a house this year in the united states, you get 10% back or 8k (which ever is lower) in taxes. since we bought the house at the very end of feburary, we were just in luck. when we learned of this amazing awesomeness (thanks to a tip from my friend Cat who [...]
for the love of the reclaimed
i am some one who finds high charm in making things out of found objects. because of this fondness, i even like to paint on what other people consider trash. i love wooden shipping pallets. like, i’m crazy about them. i think they are just amazing and they come in so many crazy shapes and [...]
the haul across the back yard!
when we were looking over the place to buy, nobody knew that the building on the property was… on the property! let alone going with the house. once we got an old copy of the survey done in 2005 (we couldn’t afford to get a new survey done and there was some problems about not [...]
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