Month: May 2006
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A mighty fine weekend
Check it out! We have a teeny tiny deck attached to our garage apartment, and this weekend we decided to make it more usable. Justin rigged up a really cool canopy-shade thing that rolls up and away when we don’t need it, and he extended our bench to be a larger space for lounging. I…
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Meet Mela
Sorry for the lack of posts in the past few days…what can I say? Sometimes I flake out. This is my first softie, which I made using a pattern from my new Japanese craft book. I love the idea of making softies, and once I made her I just kept gazing at her and hugging…
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Remember?
It’s thundering outside, and it reminds me…remember when I was little, and I was so scared of the thunder and lightning that I would sleep underneath my bed? Remember that? Remember when we went to Lubbock by ourselves and we ate lunch together at Applebee’s, and we ordered dessert? Remember when you would rinse my…
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Summer nights
Today Justin worked on our little deck, making a huge seating area and crafting a roll-out shade out of some old bamboo window shades. It looks fabulous! Now it’s up to me to sew up some cushions for the bench. I need to search for some fabric that’s easy to handle but weather-resistant, too. My…
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Can you believe this?
I’m drinking coffee. I’ve never liked coffee. Coffee = gross. But for some reason, in the last week, it has become the most delicious thing. Not just any coffee, though…it has to be coffee that either my husband or my friends Lindsay and Chad have brewed. Coffee shop coffee? Eh. Restaurant coffee? Bleh. Justin coffee?…