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Cane Back Chair Farewell

Over the summer I found a great set of cane back chairs at a yard sale. They were filthy and yellow with horrendous teal velvet seats.

I got them late into garage sale season, so at that point my garage and basement were packed, and I may have promised Topher I wouldn’t bring home anything else until the garage was cleared out.

These were too good of a deal, but I knew I would have to get these redone and resold quickly so Topher wouldn’t blow a gasket.

I do recall the day I got them — it is was a 101-degree day, but I sat out in the sweltering garage trying to strip them down. After prying-out eight billion staples, I removed the nasty teal velvet seat cover only to find an even more hideous yellow velvet.

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Money Talks

Yesterday, the unnamed child and I were watching a TV show about uber rich teens and the life they live. The child commented that she would love to be crazy rich. I asked her why, and she said that it would make her life so much better.

I explained that people that have crazy money have just as many problems as people without money, sometimes even more.

So we both wrote out a list of what money could buy and what it couldn’t. Here is my list of what it could: …

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Ruffled Lamp Shade Tutorial

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend!

I got a lot of work finished on my projects, and to prove it, I once again have sanded off all the skin on my thumb and I have a huge burn blister on my left pointer finger from the glue gun.

What can I say? I live a life of danger.

The child that wishes to remain anonymous and I spent a big chunk of the weekend on today’s project.

Remember this great old lamp I got at Goodwill awhile back?  It was great except it was filthy and needed some polishing up….

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Dr. Dolittle (and the little grey nightstand)

Last week, poor Gracie had to go to the vet and get four of her teeth pulled. Two were abscessed, and one of those had three roots … so they had to remove the tooth in sections. The poor Muffin has had bad teeth from day one — I guess that’s not an uncommon issue in poodle.

Each year we take her for her annual cleaning, and more teeth have to come out. So now she only has four teeth left on the top!

She was in a world of hurt all weekend, and they sent up home with drugs a decent supply of various drugs.

About 8 months ago, I have a vivid memory of Topher and I sitting across each other in a restaurant booth and I say. “We’re awfully fortunate to have healthy animals.  It seems like we hardly ever have to take them to the vet for issues.”

Apparently, we failed to knock on wood, or we walked underneath a ladder, or some mirror shattered because every animal we have is falling apart. Every. Single. One.

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Roughed Up and the Yellow End Table

Happy Monday!!!

Hope you guys had a great weekend! Mine was fairly boring, but I sit here starting the week a little beaten up (but with a yellow end table makeover). Saturday morning, we visited some yard sales, so there wasn’t a lot of sleep (I did get some great old books, an antique chair, and a fun little table though); lots of time spent bent over painting, and my back is angry; so much distressing that I have blisters and no skin left on multiple fingers; and the virus the unnamed child infected us with last week was passed on the Topher and I. My entire body is so achy I kind of want to die. I took NyQuil along with Lyrica (that I am prescribed), and I woke up Sunday morning and from my elbows down … a bit numb.

Probably not a good thing.

I was trying to work on my blog, and my fingers felt like your cheek does after the dentist fills it with novocaine. Not good — plus, I usually have laughing gas to go along with that feeling. I had to type everything 4 or 5 times before I could club the correct keys.

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What about Bob?

Here it is guys!

A couple of weeks ago, I told the story of my parents living their entire lives dogless, only at the age of 60 to take the plunge and adopt a rescue dog who literally was hours away from being put down. I received so many comments after posting Sweetie’s Story because at the end of her longish post, I had no room to tell you the story about her brother: Bob.

Before I go any further my mom wanted me to show Sweetie’s picture from the Kansas Humane Society when they picked her up after living on the streets.

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