Longevity

Just looking at it on a hanger, you might not realize exactly what you’re looking at.  So I will tell you.  This is the coolest jeans jacket ever. If I had a dollar for every time a stranger asked me where I got it over the years, I’d be rich.  The thing I love about [...]

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Star, the Problem Solver – #2

In my last post, I talked about how satisfying it is to find a good solution to a problem that has been plaguing you and wrote about how I avoided paying $45 for a replacement bowl for my mist fountain.  Well, today I have another one to share. I have two nightstands that don’t match.  [...]

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Star, the Problem Solver – #1

Don’t you love it when you have a problem for which you suddenly find a solution…and it works?  I do!  It’s one of my favorite feelings in the world.  It’s not usually easy to arrive at an answer, but that’s what makes it even more fulfilling.  I’ve had two such successes in the past week.  [...]

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Birds In The Kitchen?

It was just one of those gloomy, frigid December days until I went out to the mailbox and discovered a little 6″ by 8″ box waiting for me.  I had quite recently placed a custom order for something for my house, but this couldn’t be it this soon, could it?  Turns out, it could! It [...]

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Off The Wall

Hi.  I’m Star.  And I’m a decal-oholic. There, I’ve said it!  Oh, I could pretend that it was just a little decorating sideline, but the problem has really gone a little too far for that.  It turns out I’m obsessed with wall decals.  When I’m not actually busy installing one, I’m thinking about what the [...]

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The Randi Bench

Yesterday I was rummaging around in some of my jewelry when I came across a handmade necklace that my little sister, Randi, had given me from her last vacation to Mexico.  Naturally, it made me stop and think about her, as I so often do.  And it also reminded me of the last birthday gift [...]

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My Living Room Forest

Well, I’ve been at it again!  You all know how much I love doing decorating stuff and, since I’ve been trying to distract myself, I just finished another project.  I don’t know if you remember when I put the abstract flower wall decals on one of my living room walls.  This is the only picture [...]

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New Counter Tops? Done!

Well, Monday was the day!  For those of you who aren’t regulars here, Monday was the day I was getting my old, scratched, dull Formica counter tops refinished.  I knew it would take from about 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and that some of that time my balcony doors would need to be open to [...]

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My New Carpet – An Update

You all may remember me writing last week HERE about my new carpet and how I love it.  Well, that has not changed.  The carpet installers did a lovely job, especially on the stairs, picked up their tools and scraps, vacuumed it with a giant industrial vacuum to pick up the little pieces and went [...]

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My New Carpet!

As much as I love my home, one aspect of it has bugged me since the day I moved in…the carpet!  As I moved my furniture in five years ago, I saw all kinds of stains that hadn’t been apparent before.  The worst place was  the stairs, which must have been ignored by every family [...]

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