Remodeling a Vintage Farmhouse in the Middle of the Country
I totally feel a little Robert Frost-like today.
“I shall be telling this with a sigh.
Somewhere ages and ages hence…
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I….I took the one less traveled by.
And that made all the difference.”
It’s true.
We are walking on the road less traveled. You know…the one with horse barns and cows and acres and acres of green pastures and hay trucks and miles of fresh air.
That road.
And I love it…..but did you ever wonder how we got here? Continue reading
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I have painted this armoire a 1000 times…..in my mind.
In my head…..I’ve painted it white and distressed it. Seriously. And then the next day my mind started painting it red with khaki stripes. And right after that…..my mind was back at work again…. painting it black with silver leaf doors. And then cream with an orange chevron pattern. And then my mind had this total internal struggle because I read somewhere that chevron is so not in any more and I wasn’t even sure if orange was on the approved chevron list.Continue reading
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The other day….at the end of the hallway in the bright pink room with the brown twin beds and the flowers scattered on the carpet…..
…..school was in session.
Two tiny teachers with blonde ponytails and big blue eyes were holding class. Each instructor had a whiteboard and was busily scribbling and circling and drawing arrows with verbs and adjectives and adverbs…..intent on passing on all the knowledge one could ever learn in elementary school to the next generation of stuffed animals.
All the students were present and accounted for.
The whole class was there….the two frogs and the bear with the bonnet and the furry one-eyed cat and the monkey and the zebra and the dolls……
……even Santa Claus.Continue reading
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