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Decorating

How-To Make French Enameled Numbered Tags

July 24, 2010
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I can’t take credit for this very clever way to make your own French enameled tags.  Rachel at One Pretty Thing  found this project and shared it on her site.  I read the post and loved, loved, loved the tags and couldn’t wait to make them to label my kitchen baskets.  Gail, at Can’t Stop Making Things came up with this project.  She used brass [...]

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My Very First…

July 22, 2010
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…authentic, found on a northern Pacific beach, shiny, bubbly - glass fishing net float!  I am so excited.  I cannot tell you how much I adore these and have wanted one since seeing a home in Hawaii with them displayed all over.     Large and small ones under tables, on window sills, piled in baskets - everywhere.    Mine, that sounds nice doesn’t it?  Mine [...]

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How-to Make a No-Sew Cushion Cover

July 15, 2010
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I have been trying to get all my overdue outdoor projects done this past week.  I have been pretty successful.  I wish I could tell you that I just love to do these projects, but that would be lying.  The biggest reason this project is complete in a timely manner is because friends are coming to stay with us for a few [...]

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How-to Make a Towel Slipcover for an Outdoor Chaise

July 7, 2010
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These two chaise covers have been patiently waiting for a make-over since last summer. They are faded, ripped, and too short for the chairs.  If you have outside cushions you know they can get beat up pretty fast, especially if they are left outside rain or shine.   I had a plan to re-do them, but just kept putting it off [...]

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How-to Make an Easy Seashell Window Treatment

July 5, 2010
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Being “down the shore” last weekend and seeing all the” beachy” decorating reminded me of a window treatment I made for a segment I did for Lifetime Television’s,  Our Home Show.  The segments topic was super easy no-sew window treatments. I demonstrated how to make 3 or 4 treatments using all sorts of items.  I can’t remember all of [...]

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My Studioffice Part 2

June 19, 2010
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 A while back I wrote about my studioffice work-table and told you that I was going to be changing a few things – that a Part 2 post would follow.  It took some time and I finally got it done!    I had some incentive, as in a deadline- by participating in Where Blogger’s Create 2.  If you [...]

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Trash, The Dollar Store, and Me

June 16, 2010
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I am one of those people who is not afraid to stop my car on the side of the road to pick up other peoples cast-offs.   I find it very adventuresome and love transforming my finds into functional pieces.  Best of all – it doesn’t cost me a thing.  I found this hollowed out dresser in [...]

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How-to Revive an Old Dresser with Paint

June 4, 2010
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Before   This dresser is a classic – you probably have one in your family  -  the classic  hand-me down that keeps getting handed-down one generation to the next.  It is not an antique, but so well made even after it takes a licking, it still functions perfectly.  Before it gets handed down once again to my daughter Mandy, I [...]

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How To Make Inexpensive Artwork

May 31, 2010
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My daughter is moving into her own apartment tomorrow and I made this modern looking canvas for her to hang in her room.  I call it a  Tissue Paper Picasso.  I hung it on a wall in my family room just so I could get a photo of it in it’s finished state, before it goes to [...]

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How to Summer “ize” Your Bedroom

May 27, 2010
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I’m melting, I’m melting…It was 92 degrees here today in the suburban Philadelphia area.  HOT HOT HOT.  3 HOT strikes for me today -  1.  The temperature     2. My camera is burning up, it is getting old and overheated when I took these photos which it has never done before.   3.  My car’s cooling fan would not shut [...]

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