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| I have some artwork to hang yet. |
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| Kraftmaid Layton Peppercorn cabinets. Frigadaire appliances. Behr Lemon Pound Cake Paint. |
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| For spring break this year we flew to Apache Junction and mingled with the snow birds! We had a lot of fun packed into our IKEA! (I had no idea that place had good cheap food! We ate TWO breakfasts!) the Mesa Market Place Swap Meet Filly's Roadhouse Goldfield Ghost Town and hiked the Hieroglyphic Canyon TrailI recommend them all!!!
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| At the beginning of the Hieroglyphic Trail |
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| Desert picture near the top of the trail. The scenery was breathtaking. |
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| Notice how rocky the trail was. It is labeled as easy and I did see all ages on it but my dad and M did turn around about this point and one of the fell on the way down. Be prepared and careful if you try this trail!! However it is free and you can always turn around. I think it took is an hour to get up there and about 30 minutes to get back down. We could've spent another 30 minutes enjoying the scenery at the top but we were on a time constraint. |
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Breathtaking views.
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| Feb. 1- Drove 40 miles to pick up this desk I found off the local swap site. This is for M's craft room, walk in closet. I am so excited to have the mess contained! |
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| Feb. 2- M's room was pained in January. Benjamin Moore, Fairytale Blue. Egress window trim being finished. |
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| Feb. 3- Groundwork being laid for extra outlets. |
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| Feb. 4- Oh no! Both girls have influenza! With the flu shot though it was pretty mild. This teacher took advantage of the sick days to catch up on laundry! |
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| Feb. 5- Hubby is preparing to take over since I had to go do conferences. I think he was a little afraid of getting sick himeself. What do you think? |
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| Feb. 6- Hubby was more productive on his sick day. Old desk spray pained and conduit outlets finished. |
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| Feb. 7- Shaw caramel carpet installed by Home Depot. |
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| Feb. 8- Comp day. Having coffee, staring at the geese one last time. How often I did that the last 10 years. I started dreaming of painting over them, followed by refinishing the cupboards, until they started to fall apart and then I started dreaming of a brand new kitchen!! |
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| Feb. 9- Bed delivery and official move in to new room! M now has the newest, most comfy bed in the house. |
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| Feb. 10- Begin kitchen project, tear down wallpaper, remove appliances. These were the 16th, 17th and 18th walls of wallpaper we've removed from this house since we moved in 10 years ago. We've tried all the solutions, vinegar, DIF, fabric softener, steam. What we have found works best is just soaking HOT water (from the Keurig) and a scraper. A crew of 3-4 people is very helpful as well as a tall guy. |
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| Bare bones kitchen |
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| Feb. 11--Putting finishing touches on M's desk. |
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| Feb. 12--After thinking about what Benjamin Moore paint color I wanted for 2 years, my hubbyt throws a wrench it my decision and says, "You need to buy paint from Home Depot and you need to go pick it out tonight." What?! I haven't researched Behr paint colors yet! So M and I headed to Home Depot after piano lessons, contemplated for 30 minutes, decided on Behr Lemon Pound Cake. Just to be sure I headed over to the cupboards and granite to make sure I liked it with them. It looked great with the cabinets but not so much with ghibli granite I orginally picked out. It was too peachy and after holding the paint up to the Venetioa Gold Slab here I told them to STOP MY GRANITE ORDER! So I picked a paint and switched the granite. |
