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Our old rusty medicine cabinet had been bothering me for quite a while. Finally, I could not wait any longer. I had to do something about it, because it was ruining my mornings. I have a hard enough time waking up and getting to work on time, and I did not need this ugliness to make it any harder than it had to be.
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Labor Day Weekend was good to Douglas and me. A good friend from college came to visit me. We had a blast looking at old pictures and talking about the good ole days. She and I also explored New York city. Therefore, Douglas and I did not do any projects around the house. We did score a couple of great finds on the curb in our neighborhood. The first one was a drop leaf table. Our neighbor was upset when we took it home. It turns out that he had been eying it, but he did not take it in time. It was ours!
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So, last Monday, I had two projects going, three if you count the one I was helping my friend with. Hers we finished on Monday. The mirror for the dresser was finished on Tuesday, and on Saturday I finished the final project. It was a cabinet for the kitchen.
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For those of you who do not know what a curb sale is, it means taking something out of the trash or off of the curb. One man’s junk truly is one woman’s treasure in my book. A good deal of my cache comes out of the trash. Douglas used to cringe when I would call him and ask him if he could pick something up in his truck, because he knew that it was most likely is sitting on the curb somewhere. Of course, the good husband that he is, he often finds things now on his runs or bike rides, and he is the one telling me about them. Then again, yesterday on the way to a friend’s house, he covered my eyes when we passed a big pile of possible treasures on the side of the road. Sigh.
So, on Monday, I teased you with this picture. I was working on two projects that day.
One of my projects was to paint the frame of a mirror that I found on the curb while living in Manhattan.
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Just a short update on my post from Friday. My friend Kathy really liked the coat rack, and since I had more of the panels in the basement, she decided to take me up on my offer to take one….or two. She came over this afternoon and had hers painted in just a few hours. She plans to use them in a different way behind the coffee tables in her living room. She still does not have the hooks on them, but here is a picture of her panels newly painted.
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My plan was to write the next blog about the apartment upstairs that I rent to a lovely couple. However, shortly after I finished my last post, I spilled a glass of water on my laptop. It still is not working, and all of my pictures are trapped on it. That post will have to wait for later. Therefore, I thought that I would write about the coat rack/medal display that I made for my husband while we were still dating. You might have noticed it in the living room in my last post. Of course you might not have realized what it was.
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Today, I am going to show some before and “after” pictures. I am not able to show any true after pictures because all of my rooms are constantly in transition. I like to rearrange things every couple of months, and I am frequently changing locations and bringing in new pieces. However, I do have some pictures of the rooms as they were when I first came to the house, as well as pictures of the rooms as they are today, August 08, 2012. So, here are the pictures “Before” and “August 08, 2012.” All of the before pictures are from the realtor.
The Front View
Not much has changed physically to the outside of the house. I am planning to put on a new roof soon, but up to the present day I have not changed anything about the outside of the actual house. I did buy a new bigger mailbox last summer at a garage sale. It is a beautiful one from Restoration Hardware, but I only paid $5 for it. We also took the air conditioner out of the upstairs front window.
The garden has changed. I put in a lot more plants. My roses and irises to the right of the front door are doing especially well. I also added two beds in the front. The stones came from the school where I work. They were thrown over a hill during construction, and I was told that I could take as many as I wanted. I really like the circular bed, but I did not put enough plants in it this summer. It looked a lot better last summer. It even looked better last week when the lilies that are in it were blooming. I like the wildflowers in the front bed, but I would like to make that bed bigger next year and plant more than just wildflowers. The new tree in the front yard, the very small one that almost looks like part of the wildflower bed, is a sour cherry tree. I just planted it this spring, and there were not many cherries in it this year. The birds ate them all. I cannot wait to have enough for a pie!
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Cape of Dreams 