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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 few years [...]

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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 think [...]

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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 project [...]

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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 do some things on our own, [...]

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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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Desperate for something to do today, I took the kids to The Pottery Room with my Mom’s Club.
Yes. You read that right. My kids… The Pottery Room.
You know, one of those places with shitloads of breakable things different types of pottery pieces that you can paint?
My kids didn’t break anything, so I’d say [...]

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I just had to post a picture of these bookends I made for Maria. Aren’t they adorable? They were so easy – and inexpensive – to make with Uppercase Living expressions, glass blocks and ribbon. The hardest part was the bow-tying. (I’m horrible at bows.) Or, on second thought, the [...]

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