Author: Linda

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STAINING SOME BUTCHERBLOCK COUNTERS ~ a really long counter!

How was your weekend? I hope you enjoyed time with family and friends like I was blessed to be able to do.   Friday night our family went to a Durham Bulls baseball game. It was an exciting game and the park does a fantastic job of entertaining the crowd during slow periods of the […]

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UPDATING FAMILY ROOM CABINETS ~ and I need your vote!

Hello All! Hope your week is going well. Tomorrow is Friday so it can't be too bad!!   We're sort of stalled on the built-in bookcases in our family room. The LOML bought a table saw on Craigslist and is reading the manual on how to use it without losing any body parts. I think […]

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TIME CAN STAND STILL ~ while I change the clock

Remember the clock I made? I was standing in McDonalds a few weeks ago with the LOML and as he was paying, I looked on the clock hanging on the wall.  It was a beautiful Roman numeral wall clock. I looked at it for awhile before it dawned on me what was different about it […]

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HIDING UGLY ELECTRICAL CORDS ~ and burning my fingertips in the process!

A few months ago I redid Daughter #2's bedroom. Click the link to see the beautiful peacock room.   I hung these beautiful Chinese lanterns on the painted chandelier. That was not my first plan for them. I imagined these beautiful lanterns hanging from the corner in a cluster with soft lights shining through them.  Daughter #2 would […]

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UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ~ and a long wait for Harry

Rollercoasters scare me to death!! The feeling of falling and almost dying is not fun for me at all. But I don't want my kids to feel like me. I want them to love the excitement. When I was younger, I remember doing Space Mountain at Disney World, which is a rollercoaster in the dark, over and […]