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Weekend Recap

Posted on August 31, 2009 by carrie

This weekend we: painted the ceiling got the 1st coat of semi-gloss on the trim bought 4 Benjamin Moore samples for the bedroom wall got our resident parking permit obsessed about bedroom paint color mostly drywalled the garden apartment mantle … Continue reading →

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Finally Clean

Posted on August 28, 2009 by carrie

Last Saturday, the Family Team cleaned our house top to bottom. We vacuumed, scrubbed, then mopped every square inch of our 1600 sqft abode. It was truly a team effort. {The camera also got stranded here on the 3rd floor, … Continue reading →

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Adios Regular Phone

Posted on August 27, 2009 by carrie

We have officially cut off our phone line. The phone lines snake around on top of the baseboard throughout our entire house. In preparation for painting our bedroom, the wire creeping up to the third floor and into our bedroom … Continue reading →

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In Progress

Posted on August 24, 2009 by carrie

Saturday was spent cleaning the house from top to bottom. We literally mopped ourselves out the front doors. Unfortunately, we also stranded the camera on the 3rd floor. D’oh! I’m off today and headed to the house to crack open … Continue reading →

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What Weekends Used to Be

Posted on August 21, 2009 by carrie

On those weekends not spent hanging out with our family, this is what weekends used to be. Lazy Saturday afternoons or quiet Sunday mornings. Time spent just hanging out on the sofa. Throwing toys. Napping. Just general hanging out. Doing … Continue reading →

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Left To Do

Posted on August 8, 2009 by carrie

This is going to be a long and probably boring post. Consider yourself warned. We are currently T-minus 55 days until our current lease expires & 42 days away from our move-out date. That would be 5 weekends left until … Continue reading →

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So How’d We Do??

Posted on July 19, 2009 by carrie

We started the weekend with quite the ambitious TO DO list. It’s now Sunday night and boy did we get a lot done!! So lets see where we ended up: Upstairs Overall Get rid of sawdust – Postponed. We have … Continue reading →

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Pie in the Sky Hopes

Posted on July 17, 2009 by carrie

Remember this TO DO list from a few days ago? Yeah. I’m chuckling too. After the fiasco with our lovely risers, I’m remembering the truth I already know. It will always take longer  &/or cost more money than originally expected. With our … Continue reading →

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Wall of Awesome

Posted on July 5, 2009 by carrie

I know a bunch of you check out our progress from your readers. But if you could pop out of them for just a second, I’d like to draw your eye to our latest feature – The Wall of Awesome. … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, America!

Posted on July 4, 2009 by carrie

Hope everyone is having a wonderful 4th of July! We are heading to Hoboken in hopes of seeing the Macy’s fireworks. They’re being set off in the Hudson river this year. We’ve got chairs-in-a-bag (think soccer mom or camping staples) … Continue reading →

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