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• Good lord is this not the cutest dustpan you have ever seen??  I might actually sweep more often if I had it
• Very clever – make your own Otter Pops (or whatever they are called now) using these bags.  Is it just me or do Otter Pops make you cough when you eat them?
• Keeping with the frozen treat theme – wouldn't these ice cream cups be cute for a Summer party?  Here are the spoons to go with them
• This is what I strive for

Another week come and gone.  We have been interviewing contractors for our main bath remodel.  I would say the economy is definitely on an uptick because most of them are too busy for our poky little job.  We have had only one of them actually get back to us with a bid.  We do have two others that we are waiting for and hopefully they will follow through.  It would be nice to have more than one bid to choose from.  

We did get Rick's corner desk put in.  This entailed painting the laundry room/Rick's office area and building the corner unit.  It turned out nicely.  I'll try to get some pictures of the before and after next week.  

Tomorrow we are focusing our attention outside and will be putting up a trellis for the jasmine we bought.  Rick sunk a post and hung my wall fountain and we want the jasmine to grow up behind it. Another post forthcoming…

The irony here is that I finally have things to post about but no time to do it.  

We will be having houseguests again this weekend.  The weather promises to be hot so maybe we'll be able to eat outside.  Hmmm….maybe I should go hang some fairly lights out there….

Have a marvelous weekend everyone!

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• I want to make these just so see if they would actually work.  They would make cute favor boxes, wouldn't they?
• I can't decide if these measuring cups are really pretty or a bit too gothic.  
• I already have a recipe box but if I didn't I would get this one.  Matching recipe cards.
• Clever save the date cards.  I think they wouldn't be that hard to make, either.  Which gives me an idea for this year's Halloween invite….
• This is the key hook I posted this week.  I was able to select the color I wanted (I went with jade)

As you can see I've changed things up just a little bit around here.  I can't decide if the images are too big or not (and the old posts with the smaller images bug me now…I may have to go back and update those).  I may play around with the layout some more.  I also want to design a new Friday's Favorites banner.  Edit:  We'll play around with this one for now…

We don't have much scheduled for the weekend.  Just more puttering around.  I really need to focus on getting the walls painted.  It's just SUCH a chore I'm having a hard time getting motivated to do it.  

Maybe I rewire a chandelier this weekend.  I want to swap out the one in the kitchen and that's a pretty easy project (says the person that doesn't actually have to hang the chandelier…)

Happy weekend everyone!  Hope yours is fantastic!

 

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• Treats for our feathered friends:  Bird feeders 
• This seems like just the sort of thing Zach Galifianakis would do
• Ha!  If only this were true…..
• Then I could eat as many as these as I wanted: Margarita popcicles
• Okay I know I did a house tour last week but isn't this place so fresh and pretty?  And only 750 sf!!

I'm probably hooked on house tours because we are still in the throes of trying to pick out paint colors and I get lots of inspiration from them.  I think we have it figured out – at least the bedrooms and living room.  

Sorry about the late Friday's Favorites.  This week was especially hectic work wise since I started a new job and had a conference in San Francisco to attend.  I'm telling you the new job is going to be fabulous.  I can tell already.  It's going to be fast paced and busy but a creative kind of busy that I can get behind.  

Today Rick and I spent the morning at Ikea and the afternoon assembling various bits of furniture.  I've made some changes with my office/craft room which I will share next week.

Have a splendid weekend everyone!