is that I always, ALWAYS end up coming up with ideas. Project after project after project floats through my mind. I start to daydream. Plans formulate. Plans for amazing landscaping and exterior home improvements. Then I hit the brick wall of realilty: having no funds to see them through.

For five years I’ve lived here, and the very first ( Read more... )

Damn. This past Friday I went to get the boys their pool. We worked on it all weekend, used no telling how much water, and still the thing is only about 1 & 1/2 feet deep because the yard is so un-level. Every clever trick I could think of as far as placing the pool in an ideal spot was completely and utterly useless. So…..the neighbor offered ( Read more... )

this weekend begins our patio project. Now that I’ve gotten some of our more pressing necessary home furniture needs met, I am ready to transfer some of the money I’ve made online from paypal into our regular account and get busy with the patio and pool. It’s going to be a lot of frustration and hard work, I know. But the boys are so excited, ( Read more... )

Well, now you do! I am about to prove it.

I have many ‘collections’….just small groupings of things that caught my fancy at one time or another, so much so that I felt compelled to display them in my home. There is my Coca-Cola tray collection, my unique bottles collection, and my tiki stuff in my kitchen. There are my dried roses in my ( Read more... )

I mentioned my plans for my home theater/media room in a post recently. Now that I’ve actually settled on some colors and a design scheme that I love, I can think about the electronics I’ll have in the room. I already have the cable setup I love (extended basic + dvr + a few premium channels). The main thing now is deciding on a tv. I am going ( Read more... )

Decorating my living room, that is! It’ll have a really cool, loungy feel, since it’s also our home theater. My new sofa is being delivered Monday evening. I’ve decided on a cherry and light oak diamond pattern on the floor. Very whimsical, ‘Alice in Wonderland’-y….but not stark black and white. There will be hanging Morrocan lanterns in key ( Read more... )