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PLYWOOD FLOORS

We are laying plywood floors in our family room because we had to rip up the awful stained carpet in that room and ANYTHING would have been an improvement. I didn’t want carpet again. All of our first floor is wood except the family room and guest bedroom. We couldn’t afford real wood floors plus […]

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REMAKING ROMAN SHADES

When we first moved into our present house, I was in a hunter green mode. My kitchen a hundred years ago Our master bedroom I call this stage of our bedroom the JC Penney room. Almost everything you see I bought at JC Penney.  When I got tired of all the flowers, I changed to […]

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HEAVEN…I MEAN HOBBY LOBBY!

I just made my first trip to Hobby Lobby. I’ve heard about the store but because there isn’t one near me, I had never been. WHAT WAS I THINKING??!! A dear friend of mine suggested we go to Burlington to visit the Hobby Lobby. It’s about an hour drive (45 minutes if I’m driving…Just call […]

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WHAT I WANT MY KIDS TO KNOW

Warning: Heavy Mom Content! Time is what we want most, but… what we use worst.  ~William Penn A very tragic thing happened in our neighborhood this week. A mother went to work the night shift. She’s a nurse at a nearby hospital. The dad was home thinking his three boys were all in bed asleep. […]