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I guess I’ve finally gone off the deep end.  After posting about the Lego shelf, my friend Katey sent me a message telling me about how she’d just sorted all their Lego.  By color. I asked for pictures, and she provided them.  I drooled.  And then I spent every spare moment of my next day [...]

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I haven’t posted much lately because Pinterest is stealing all of my time.  It’s ridiculous.  Now, if I could just create some of the six billion things I’ve seen and liked, I wouldn’t feel like such a bum. I did manage to make this the other day, and only for the cost of glue, as [...]

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I LOVE it when a project comes together! Between Pintrest and talking often to my extremely talented project-oriented sister, I’ve caught the project bug.  And, in a house like this, with a family like ours, there is ALWAYS a project to be done. This one, though, was easy and quick and (drum roll, please….) cheap! [...]

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I saw this adorable onesie on Pinterest and thought, “I could do that!” How cute would Andrew look?!? But then, I forgot all about it.  Until I came across it again, only it was a version in which someone had made a t-shirt rather than a onsie and used felt instead of paint. Well, this [...]

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All of my kids are blankie lovers and thumb suckers.  So, I expect #5 will be the same. My sister, Caroline (she of tremendous talent), crocheted blankets for my babies when they were born.  The kids each latched on to them immediately.  Although I lack the talent she has, I was somewhat inspired. So, a [...]

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This is the big Science Fair weekend at the kids’ school.  I never thought I’d be excited about a science fair, but I am! Jack has taken his project and run with it.  He chose to do his project on Anacondas (much to his father’s dismay) and the diorama he created is wonderful.  While I [...]

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The MUCH anticipated Uppercase Living Fall ’09 Catalog is here!  And, it’s immediately viewable on my website.  Just got to http://fourinarow.uppercaseliving.net.  You won’t believe all of the new expressions, accessories and colors now available – including chalk walls and clocks!  There’s waaaayyy too much to mention here.AND (my favorite)…  The MyDesign Tool has been completely [...]

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Finally, we finished our first window “box”! I’ve been wanting window boxes for the front of the house, but have found that the ones wide enough for our windows are waaaayyyy out of our price range.  Coincidentally, as I was lamenting this, our March issue of The Family Handiman arrived.  And in it, a quick [...]

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What originally had been a regrout project has turned into a partial bath remodel.  Now I wish we could just do the whole thing. Here’s what we started with this weekend after trying to remove some grout: And then we went to this: to this: to this: and finally, to this: While we’ll continue to [...]

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Not to the upstairs bathroom, mind you.  Ours.  The first floor bathroom.  This is the bathroom that is tiny and pretty ugly and needs serious updating.  This is also the bathroom we’ve all been relying on while the upstairs toilet was replaced and while we find a solution to the rusted out bathtub (which I [...]

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