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Jennifer Allwood
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Striped armoire anyone???
Color warning: This blog post could also be known as “Are you scared?”.
Here is the before shot of an armoire my client purchased at an antique store. Her new son’s nursery does not have a closet, so it will …
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A late, but special tribute to my firstborn for his birthday
In December, my firstborn celebrated his 9th birthday. My Mom reminded me last week that I hadn’t done a blog post for his birthday like I had my other 2 kiddos. I told her I had started the post …
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The yellow table I wanted to keep
On occasion….I faux finish a piece of furniture and then don’t want to give it back to the client.
Yeah, this yellow number is one of those pieces. I named her Lola. I don’t know why….
She was U.G.G.G.G.G.G.G.G.G.G.G.L.Y.Y.Y.Y.Y.Y.Y.Y……. and
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How we roll during the snowstorms
Gotta find some way to pass all these snow days….. there are only so many Dora the Explorer episodes I can stand to watch.
So we eat snow out of sippy cups.
We tape old gift wrap upside down to
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Target has mailboxes
So I was paroozing thru Target the other day and I saw these cute Valentine mailboxes in the $1 bins…….
Which reminded me of this blogpost I did about painting my own mailboxes to leave little notes for my boys…..
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Please don’t shoot your walls with a bb gun!
This is a closeup picture of our “OSTRICH” finish. We had it in an award winning model home last year. Loved, loved, loved the look even tho’ it took us about 18 hours longer to finish that I anticipated! haha
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Grandma’s rehabbed recipe box
I have this amazing “client-turned-friend” named Lynne. She is one of those super moms who color coordinates her outfits with her daughter and teaches people how to make teacher pails (a.k.a. “brown nosing buckets”). She is incredibly sentimental…..which I love …
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Favorite chair tragedy
Last spring, we did a faux finishing job for a very generous client. I loved this chair that they were selling and her and her husband GAVE IT TO ME. Yes….gave it to me….
It is one of the prettiest …
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Life in Grace
My house is quiet this morning.
My dear babies are still sleeping after our late night of ringing in the New Year.
So I decide to catch up on the blog world since I have just a few minutes to …
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