The day we pulled the plug… on my outdoor reading room

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My pool’s days are numbered. FJI Facebookers will know a little of this story already. I was nattering about not having the nerve to unplug my pool for the season. I moaned and fussed and whined because the weather was still hot and sunny and I had come to use this little decadent part of […]

How to make your blog comment friendly

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This is not a new post.  But it’s a good one, especially for blog newbies. When I first ran this post, commenting on other’s blogs changed DRAMATICALLY. Gone were the word verifications and emails were finally linked up to comments. It was like magic. To date, the original post, shown Nov 2010  has received 167 […]

The ‘change my mind’ bistro table (with pallet sofa)

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I had a rough Friday. My last firetruck of the day didn’t go quite as planned (a post on my line of work is HERE) , so after filling up an entire garbage can of destroyed striping, I was ready for an easy weekend. You’d think 20 years in the business would have me a […]

SNS 98 – license plates

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Better Homes & Gardens Welcome to Saturday Nite Special #98, the multi themed link party!   Home Decor  Crafts, / Sewing / Recipes Theme of the week Every Fri 7pm  to Sunday 11 pm Pacific. This weekend’s theme: ~ license plates ~ I LOVE me some license plates! They’re so graphically cool and add instant art […]

Staging fun for the whole family!

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I admit I do most of the staging in my own home.  My son will do his own take on this or that, but I tweak all my shoots to ‘get the shot’ if you know what I mean. Recently we’ve been hit hard with Hurricane School. So we as a family have taken a […]