Hey Time, Where Did You Go?

When I think of summer, I think of relaxing, reading some books, soaking up the sun, maybe mowing the lawn, and spending time with friends and family.  Well, I don’t know why I never learn because my summers are never like that.  I don’t know if I’ve shared this before, but during the summers I work at the Subway in my tiny hometown.  I work about 25 hours a week which in theory gives me a lot of time left over.  For some reason that just isn’t how it works, though.  Blogging takes up a lot of my time but I still feel as if I am not devoting enough time to it.  I also try to work out three to five times a week (which I wrote about here) which takes a good chunk of my day out.  When I’m not doing that, I’m usually reading my favorite blogs and commenting which also takes up a great deal of time.  I relax a little in between, but I always feel as if that is wasting time so I try to stay more productive cleaning (and re-cleaning) my room.

But, even though I have little time to do anything else, I

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Just What the Decorator Ordered

Last week, I shared my newly-discovered obsession with white bedding.  I knew I needed some sort of change because my current comforter was not giving me that “ahhhhh” feeling inside when you really love something and it works well.  I still love it, but I think the color scheme in the room matches it too much in a literal way that doesn’t appeal to me.  I scoured the internet for affordable white comforters that would hold up well, could be recovered with a duvet cover, and were made of a down alternative.  I wanted a down alternative comforter not only because they tend to be more affordable, but also because they are washable and fine for anyone with allergies.  I only have allergies at the end of the summer, but I wanted to make sure no visitors would be allergic to my bedspread.

I found some good comforters that would suit my needs, but were not very pretty.  I decided I wanted a comforter with pin tucks instead of the sewn in blocks, both of which are used to keep the filling evenly spaced.  After searching for a very long time, I found this beauty:

Just What the Decorator Ordered

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2010: More Dreams To Fulfill

2010 has now arrived and although I do not have too many new resolutions for the next year, I have big dreams for the next decade.  One of my favorite bloggers, Bryn Alexandra, wrote about her goals for the next decade, so I wanted to follow suit.  She has five years on me, but our goals are pretty similar.  If you read my post about creating a book of possibilities, then many of these will look familiar, but now I have a time frame to fit many of them into!DSCN4153 I am really hoping to keep blogging well into my marriage (which will not be happening for at least a couple years – I’m not even engaged yet), so that is something I hope I am still doing in ten years.  I love reading blogs about families, home renovations, cooking, and basically everything I already love to do but inside a marriage with kids running around while all the other stuff is going on.

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I have been dreaming of my first house my

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Thanksgiving Review

I had an amazing Thanksgiving surrounded by family, full of love, with lots of food and game-playing.

   The decorations were simple but sweet.  My parent’s house is already filled with really warm and happy fall colors, so a little Thanksgiving decorating goes a long way.  Delicious pinwheels that will now be a staple for every Thanksgiving for years to come. This isn’t even a Thanksgiving decoration, but I love how elegant this wine bottle turned candle holder is.    See?  The decorations already fit in with Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Review

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Big Crafts In My Future

While I was on talking about my therapeutic cleaning yesterday, I posted this picture: What’s boring, dull, and bland all over?  Definitely my bulletin board.  I have big plans of reinventing it, but all week I have been trying to figure out what to do since I want to cover it with fabric in a more permanent fashion than last time but there is no way to remove the frame and reattach it later.  Today, I was impulsive and decided to just cut the corkboard out of the frame.

     Now I can either staple, tack, or tape the fabric to the back.  I think I will add some ribbon in a criss-cross pattern so that I don’t have to tack everything on and ruin pictures.  However, all

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