tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39848174375069157392024-03-12T21:17:20.416-04:00Cindy's fractured fairy taleCindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16980709067973460368noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984817437506915739.post-47978726626571532252015-10-13T16:24:00.001-04:002015-10-13T16:24:04.845-04:00I Can't Believe it's Been 2 Months Since I Posted...<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Wow. Time is moving at warp speed in my world. At this rate, it feels like it was just yesterday that i turned 60 - and before you know it, i'll be 95 years old, and then i'll be dead. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>What i take from that is to have as much fun as possible every single minute of the day even if it's illegal</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>So, the summer wrap up... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It rained a lot here</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>We went to the beach for four days, and of course i came back with a chair stuffed in the back of the car... Last year it was a sofa - so i guess that's the new Oak Island Beach tradition, bringing back furniture so big that you can't see out the back of the car while you're driving home for 3 hours </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Anyway, it's a kind of epic chair in a really different melon color that i sort of love</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>(you can see my Dorothy picnic basket on the stairs behind it, there is always something on the stairs)</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>when we were at the beach, we scooted over to Southport, the cutest little village right on a port at the beach... oh my gosh i love it there. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>So that was the beach trip - really just nice</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Of course there are always the antics of Daisy and Willow to come home to.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>This is what Daisy thought was a really good idea</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>she's smiling isn't she...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and the main place she hangs out is on the white slipcovered sofa... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Ummmmmm... should i let her in .... ever?!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Willow has totally dominated this box, turned it over and thinks she is super stealthy hiding here...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>The rest of the summer was all about the garden, weeding, and lots of flowers! Especially the Dahlias. At the end of the summer, when everything else is weedy and raggedy, you get these pretty girls. I have more pictures of Dahlias than i do of my children</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> "are Dahlias toxic to cats" </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-large;"><i>"are crepe myrtles toxic to cats"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-large;"><i>"are hydrangeas toxic to cats"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>My friend helped me make the cutest fall wreath...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and I hung stuff on the clothesline</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Did a painting of a sweet mama with her fuzzy baby sheep...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">and I did a little surprise painting for a friend, which is on the Fedex truck out for delivery to her right now! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">I can't wait to see if she likes it. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">The inspiration photo was thanks to Anita of Castles Crowns and Cottages. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">Here is her Instagram </span><span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #ea9999;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><a href="https://instagram.com/les_dames_dabord/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Les_dames_dabord</span></a> </span></span><span style="color: #666666;">-</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"> it's a beautiful instagram account!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">Thank you Anita!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>... Have you ever taken eleven thousand years to finally pick out a wall paint color, </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>had Benjamin Moore and Home Depot put out a restraining order on you because you took too many paint color swatches</i></span><br />
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<i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">finally picked out a color you liked</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Had your significant other </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>paint the living room, dining room and kitchen....</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>since you want to still live with that person because he is really pretty sweet and totally hot</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>...you slowly but surely start painting it the new preferred color that you should have chosen all along, while he wasn't at home so he wouldn't notice?</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>So here is the new stealth paint color.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It is subtle, but if you look behind the lampshade and beside the curtain you may notice a square area that it is a tad less yellow and more grayish white</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>if something bothers you, you become mentally ill until you can change it</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I haven't painted behind the mirror yet</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>Anyway, it is subtle, so</i></span> <i style="color: #666666; text-align: center;">you see how i can get by with it without Mr. Fractured noticing</i></span><br />
<i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">I just couldn't bear to make him paint it all again...</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>good thing he doesn't read my blog!</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>So things are pretty much the same around here.... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>The roses have been great this year</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>"Eden"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>This is a sweet one - just a little single petaled rose. I love how simple it is</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Willow was helping me with this bouquet as you can see by the broken rose </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>people think it's so weird and funny to see a cat on a harness</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>actually she has adjusted to it pretty well - except for the part where you put it on, or take it off</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>then she tries to kill you</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I did do a series of 3 paintings that i kinda had fun with </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>They're each 24 x 24 and I painted them using only 3 colors</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I asked my daughter to help me name them</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>The one on the right she said he kinda looked like "derp", which he does - sweet but derpy - that's how he ended up being Wyatt Derp</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>The one on the left she thought looked kinda like a Billy Arthur - seemed perfect to me!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Ok, enough about these guys!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Sooo... I guess that's pretty much the overview...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I've been more on Instagram lately, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>so if you have an Instagram account let me know how to find you! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It works better for me when i'm at work to do a quick instagram post or scan everyone's new pics</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and did ya'll see Miss Mustard Seed's blog post about how she first got started...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It was so inspiring and touching to me</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: #666666;"> I'm guessing you either hate me now for my complete neglect of your blog posts, or...most likely, or you haven't even noticed because you are all out doing and keeping up with a million things too</i><i style="color: #666666;"> </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I'm still stuck in the whole overwhelmed with Social Media thing.. and have not in any way figured out which thing to focus my ever compromised attention span </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>How do you guys do it?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>are you keeping up with it all?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I'm kinda all or nothing, so if i get too behind on things, sometimes i just give up</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> But, between working in the garden, dealing with work, mailing out prints, and generally being all over the place, i did manage to finish a painting that i think is kinda sweet...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>which is something i'm actually not ever in... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>people with anxiety/panic/everymentalillness usually aren't in the moment</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>but when i look at this sheep, it reminds me to try </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> Speakin of the garden, ... Oh my gosh, the roses...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Mine are in their first flush of blooms and they are so wonderful</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I found this new rose that i could just kiss to death it is so pretty</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It is called Francis Meilland</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I mean it really looks like that!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and it fades to the softest cream blush with thick velvety petals</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Could you just die ! I am completely enchanted with it. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Here is some prolific "New Dawn" growing on the arbor</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>This is "New Dawn" again on the corner of my lot - there must be a thousand blooms on it - It has gone so crazy wild, I'm in total awe of how one rose could be so big!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>"Peach Drift" </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Recently Ellie ( my daughter) and I did the funnest thing too - Mr. Fractured gave me a gift certificate to Sephora, cause he knows i love playing in there</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Ok, so now that i've turned into one of those people who show pictures of my cat </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>after preparing for the fight of our lives</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>The next thing i knew she was drooling like she had rabies - </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Of course it turns out that there are a few bugs that are toxic to animals, and yes lightening bugs are!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>She's ok</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Good Grief - if it's not the kids, it's the animals ! </i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">And finally - here is little Daisy with her stash of nasty, stinky, chewed up stuffed animals and treasures... she puts them on our bed to save them from Willow - and we get to sleep with them</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>"Abraham Darby" it's doing it's thing right now too</i></span></div>
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16980709067973460368noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984817437506915739.post-10578584897541300032015-04-13T16:49:00.000-04:002015-04-13T16:49:02.134-04:00Carpet Begone -The Third Attack on the Carpet ! - Painted Stairs<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I am a notorious carpet ripper upper. I'll tear that nasty stuff out any time i can and paint whatever is underneath - I don't care. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>When i showed my daughter a photo of my painted stairs this weekend she told me how much she used to hate it when they were younger and lived with me - and i tore up carpet and painted the floors.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Ok... you know, after the fifty million traumas they put me through - I guess i can just live with them not liking that habit of mine</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Anyway - they still need some touch ups and some sealer but </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I don't have any before photos, but just imagine an off white berber carpet that was about 12 years old and looking gray and dingy - </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Doing the whole thing was more about patience than it was about being difficult. I hired someone to rip up the carpet because it was so totally worth it to pay $20.00 an hour for the hour and a half it took to pull out the carpet, tack strips and staples </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Then i painted the stairs white with floor and deck paint - which for some reason took 4 coats - that was torture </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and then.... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>had to choose the stripe color</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Sooooo, why is choosing a paint color for walls and or stairs the hardest possible thing in the universe?!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>FINALLY I narrowed it down to two colors, started with one of them - nixed that, and then painted them this gray that looked like it would be perfect </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>IT WASN'T PERFECT!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It was just OK</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>You know how you do something and you try really hard to like it - and then you go #&!?%#?! because you know you aren't ever going to like it...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>That was me</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>In the photo below can you see that the stripe on the left is more gray?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>that is the color i did not like</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>the rest of the stripes that are more blue gray are the stripes i had repaint by hand AFTER i had pulled up the tape </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>patience patience patience ... grrrrrr</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It is pretty fun though to walk in the front door and see these pretty stairs, so it was worth it </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>She is around 9 months old and she is so grown up!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>she will snuggle in with you, get all just right, and then 4 seconds later she's over it and up doing something else</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>...and she can be so very sweet, follows us into each room we go into... so happy to see us after work and full of purrs</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> i just want to get all in there, but it ain't happenin because i don't want to loose an appendage</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Willow wants nothing more in the world than to go outside, but she's supposed to be an inside cat.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It seems so wrong not to let her out to walk in the sweet spring grass - she flings herself at the storm door trying to catch moths and get outside</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and now i'm turning into a person who talks about their cat</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Anyway, the phlox and candytuft and viburnum are blooming and it is just all to die for... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Oh my gosh, it is 70 degrees here and sunny. It's so completely wooonderful ....</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>This last part of winter here in North Carolina has been endless...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>We had 8 inches of snow last week, and I had an extra day off of work so i was able to work on this painting and finish it up which felt so good...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> - they are friends...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>If you think i go into a painting knowing what the hell i am doing - you would be completely wrong!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> Honestly half the time i spend on a painting is fixing what's wrong with it...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> Let me show you all the incarnations of this painting</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> Ok, so phase two - I painted in a friend in the background</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>but after pacing around and looking at it for a while, i decided the background cow was distracting - she just wasn't "it"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Next i decided to give just the impression of another cow in the background - </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>at first i liked it better, it seemed easier on the eye, less distracting</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>but then it came to my mind it looked like a big gray male body appendage ...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>if i were talking to a friend in person i would just say it looks like a </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>but i can't really say that on the blog, you know</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and sorry i know that's so crude... but... do you see ?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Of course, once that was in my brain I knew it had to go</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>you just can't unsee that</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>it worked!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>but now i love them both and immediately their names came into my head</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>That's probably more than you ever wanted to know about my backwards painting techniques!</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ya'll may remember that a couple of years ago, i yanked up the carpet in my bedroom and replaced it with plywood cut into planks so that they would look like rustic wood floors. I still love them. I painted the plywood with a wash of Annie Sloan paint in "Old White" and water, and then sealed them with "Stay Clear" and </span></i><i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm happy to tell you that they have held up great!</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Finally a couple of weeks ago i was able to do the same thing in the living room. Yay! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I hired someone to do it because I'm getting too old to crawl around on the floor and pull up carpet and stuff, and I just didn't want to - ya know...?! I'm not as tough and sinewy as I used to be and i don't want to spend one minute of my what's left of my life pulling up carpet and carpet nail strips... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I don't have many pictures to show you yet, but this will give you an idea...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Everything got stirred up and I had to move stuff into the dining room to clear out the living room. I moved this mirrored chippy door against the wall in the dining room to get it out of the way and decided I like it there!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Lord only knows how long she was sittin in there just as pretty as you please.. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Hope you survived the Holidays. Gosh, it's just crazy the weeks before, with shopping and decorating, and wrapping, and getting groceries for that ONE day! You'd think we were preparing for the Apocalypse. ...And then it's just gone.. over.. one day.. t</span></i></span><i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">hen poof!</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>...and I'm like what the hell just happened</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> I finally got my creative juices back and painted a couple of sheep paintings. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> ... and then i knew his name was "Marley" named after Bob Marley. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>but they were too expensive, and i was like no way, not spending that much for these even if i love them</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It was really sweet and thoughtful of her to do that, and I was very touched...</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">I finally switched out my iphone 4s for an android after being stranded in a different town, on a freezing cold night, in my friends car with a smoking radiator and having a dead phone battery because my iphone battery had been draining really fast since the last upgrade</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>for a person who is anxious about everything </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>that was up there on the list of worst case scenerios</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">there are about a thousand things on my worst case scenerio list</span></i></div>
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<i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">the main one's involving tornadoes, throw up viruses and airplanes </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>anyway my friend was standing outside of her car, and i overheard a guy nearby say to her, "do you know your car is smoking"?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and i heard her say "don't tell her that"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>meaning me...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>she knows me well</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>so the next day i went directly to Verizon and i got a Galaxy S4note </i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #666666;">they didn't have any ipone 6's</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I was soooo all about my Iphone</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I LOVED it like my child </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>but the Galaxy is just fine!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>easy to use</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>great graphics</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>amazing battery life</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>just thought you might want to know</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>anyway, the point of this long story about the phone is this - </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>check it out - </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> Also, i imagine you've seen this print online of gold lips </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I decided to make one like it as a gift for my daughter</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> ...hope i don't get sued for copying it, so don't tell anyone</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>i just bought a canvas 50% off for $12.99</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It was kinda fun to do!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I just found the center of the canvas</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I painted on an outline to follow with pink oil paint</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>brushed on the glue from the kit in the lip area, leaving some areas uncovered with glue for lip cracks</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>peeled off the gold foil stuff, which was crazy..</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>it was light as air and stuck to everything</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>then i laid in on the gluey area and rubbed and brushed it on</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>that took a couple of passes</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>then you just brush on a sealer, and it's done!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Anyway, other than the gold leaf being floaty and wrapping around my hands and in general being tricky</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It was pretty fun !</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> Looks like I'm back to my usual rambling posts for 2015 </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I feel like it's ok to do that since ya'll told me to be myself and ramble if i want to and you'd like me anyway... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>...So thanks for saying that...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>...the end...</i></span></div>
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16980709067973460368noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984817437506915739.post-5839064968410337422014-12-09T12:09:00.001-05:002014-12-09T12:09:34.413-05:00Short and Sweet....<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I'm, gonna keep this blog post short, so ya'll won't hate me for my previous unendingly long ADHD posts!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Just finished this new painting.... She is a very very shabby sheep</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">... you didn't expect that did you...</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>neither did I</i></span></div>
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16980709067973460368noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984817437506915739.post-76977930015014819562014-11-11T15:22:00.002-05:002014-11-11T15:22:32.345-05:00Leggings, Pink House, Faux Fur, and Fantasizing...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i style="color: #666666; font-size: x-large;">Hi Everyone...</i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Can you even believe how fast time is going and that it is almost Thanksgiving! Christmas trees are out in the stores, and as much financial stress as the Holdays have brought me in the past, I swear i still get excited about decorating with all the little white twinkle lights and glittery shiny baubles and fluff...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Whenever i see Christmas decor in stores i get this combination sick sinking feeling, nostalgia, and desire to decorate. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It's a weird combination...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and tell me this.... there are so many faux trees out there... Michaels, Home Depot, Lowes...EVERYWHERE... but not one </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">white </span><span style="font-size: large;">flocked tree to be found!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> I mean they are literally the prettiest trees ever made, and no one sells them. Well, except places online where they cost about $400.00 to $800.00 ! So that's not happening...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>So check out the cool surprise that arrived for me in the mail the other day! It is a pink faux fur jacket from my sister! How great is this!!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>A builder is building this darling house near where I live, and i want to sell my house right now and move into it. It is the complete perfectest shade of pink ever - and check out those vintage looking windows they used... I could sooo rock this house...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">... blogged about these leggings she found at</span> <a href="http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/bp-pintuck-panel-leggings-juniors/3727033?origin=keywordsearch-personalizedsort&contextualcategoryid=2375500&fashionColor=Burgundy+Stem&resultback=5168&cm_sp=personalizedsort-_-searchresults-_-1_14_C"><span style="color: #e06666;">Nordstrom's.</span></a> <span style="color: #666666;"> She had just had a baby and was talking about great post baby outfits and had on these leggings. I went to Nordstroms and found a pair, and i dearly love them in every way. Especially since my stomach has ALWAYS looked like a post baby stomach. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>They're cute, and they're cotton, so they're not itchy and don't feel like you have rubber bands on your legs... plus they have a wide soft waist band so they don't show your lumps. And none of that crotch drop thing that is torture... They're comfortable enough to wear to bed, get up the next morning, put on a top and go... and believe me, i have... is that too gross?'</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and the lady there asked me if i sold Milk Paint... and i was like uhhhhhhh no, why do you think i sell Milk Paint? and she told me she thought since i knew Miss Mustard Seed, and had painted her cow "Eulalie" and stuff that maybe i did because she had clients who came to her shop looking for milk paint and she didn't sell it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>...and it would use all of our teeny little savings to set something like that up...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and then no one would buy anything from me ever again, and i'd end up penniless and wont even be able to buy my prescriptions, or even have enough money to shop at the thrift store etc... and more of the worst thing ever etc etc.... </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">you know, like </span><a href="http://missmustardseed.com/"><span style="color: #e06666;">Marian, Miss Mustard Seed</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> did, when she took leaps of faith... and look at where she is now or</span><span style="color: #e06666;"> <a href="http://www.thenester.com/"><span style="color: #e06666;">the Nester,</span></a> </span><span style="color: #666666;">how great is she!?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I think i feel like i have to get my house and my mind in order before I can talk about anything. But it just keeps not happening. It's one extended period of overload that is not giving way to calm and order... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">So just to let you know I'm still here, and reading you guys whenever i can sneak a peak at while I'm at work, and that basically </span></i></span><i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I'm doing this blog post without anything whatsoever substantial to say other than "</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">hey</span><span style="font-size: large;">"! </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Can you even believe summer is coming to a close!??!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>The older I get the faster everything goes. I mean really fast. Like a year seems more like 4 months fast.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> Before you know it I will be dead. So that being said, I think it's ok to eat chocolate any time i want... right?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, Mr. Fractured and I finally took a little vacation and went to the beach. Other than the drive down which involved apocalyptic thunderstorms that looked like F5 tornadoes were going to drop out of them, and having to pull off the road 3 times, which made Mr. Fractured go into his </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">"I'm being patient" </span><span style="font-size: large;">mode... which really means, she's completely out of her mind... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>it turned out to be so relaxing and just beachy wonderfulness as the beach always is. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>One of the best parts of Oak Island, NC is that it is near Southport which is this little port town with boats and shops and benches and cute old houses and cottages. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>This pink tattered and torn settee!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Here it is on the front porch of the little shop - that box covers up a hole in it, but i didn't care</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Just look at those adorable rolled arms, and the pretty little legs</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I am going to have to make it taller or the table shorter or both... I know i can take at least an inch maybe two off the table base, but how to raise the settee... hmmmmm - do ya'll have any ideas on how to do that? </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Plus my dining table is really too big for the room, and now the chandy doesn't hang over the center anymore </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>aaannnd ... if i lower the table I may need to cut off the little apron around the round part of the table so your legs don't bang into it... and i need to move the little desk out of the way</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>all of that and more to infinity...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Moving stuff around did inspire me to move my "Miss Daisy" print to over my mantel and i really do like her there better than the rose that was up there</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Well, i've been growing my first dahlias and it's been an interesting experience.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I had no idea the stems could get as thick around as a quarter at the bottom... so some of them have fallen right over from the weight. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>By July the tomatoes had gone crazy...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>like, what the heck crazy!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>they are growing up all over the place, as tall as me, covering up the peppers and sage and lavender</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>everything is now totally overgrown and messy</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>kinda like a cottage garden, but not in a good way !</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and you know how it is in the garden, you go to do one little thing, and don't put on your gloves, and end up sticking your hand in places where you just really really hope a snake doesn't bite you</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and i had a skirt on because i always wear dresses or skirts because i can't really stand the way pants feel all up on my legs</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>ok and i know this is TMI but 99.9% of my life i wear undies, but for some reason didn't have any on in that moment</i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">anyway a branch of a flower or something went up under my skirt and <b>BAM</b> something bit me right on my ass! and it wasn't a small little bite either! </span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">i was like </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">GAAAHHHH! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I didn't want to touch anything because i had poison ivy on my hands, but i didn't </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">even</span><span style="font-size: large;"> want whatever thing that was to bite me again!!!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>And of course i didn't have my undies on! Really???!! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I froze for about a millisecond and then just dropped my skirt down around my ankles with my bare bottom and everything else showing... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I mean i didn't know what the heck horrible thing was up under there </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> i didn't really have good choices here</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It could've been a hornet, or even worse, a spider </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>or maybe even a mutant hornet black widow spider poisonous snake for all i knew.... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>anyway, i live on a corner of a neighborhood, where cars do go by and people walk by all the time, and i had to make it into the house with the skirt around my knees without being seen... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It was a great look</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I walked in and Mr. Fractured just stood there... like uhhhhhh</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and he is very polite</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>because seriously, my bottom half is not my best half especially in broad daylight...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and that is most of the latest from cindysfracturedfairytale and fractured cottage garden </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I finally met <a href="http://missmustardseed.com/2014/07/woman-behind-eulalie/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Marian, Miss Mustard Seed</span></a> !</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Three years after doing her first painting "Eulalie" </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> She is adorable.... and I have to tell you, it was just like seeing someone I already knew. I mean from reading her posts and talking in the email... seeing her in person and talking was so familiar, like being around an old friend. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It actually kind of blew my mind how a friend from online can be just as real as a friend in "real life"</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> I was so happy to finally look at her face in person, and give her a big hug... it was awesome, she was awesome...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> good easy energy, </span></i></span><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">a very loving spirit, and </span></i></span>cute as hell </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">But don't let her adorableness fool you... </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">This woman is a force of nature...</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">She not only has moved mountains in her home</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">She moved mountains in my home</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to her I sell quite a few prints</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and i almost, just almost </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Here is the new painting i did for her</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> I was painting this to sell at the shop where i sell my work</span></i></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Fetchantiques?ref=br_tf"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Fetch Antiques and Interiors in Hillsborough, NC</span></i></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">.... and i started thinking ... this would look good in Marians house</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">So I emailed her and asked her if she wanted it, and she was like "Heck yeah"</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and that was all she wrote... the painting was officially Marian's before it was even finished.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">anyway, all i can say... is thank you Marian</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I'm sorry ... don't hate me... I know i've been so absent. I'm just seriously overwhelmed with the whole social media thing.</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> There are just so many options out there now... </span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I know <span style="font-size: x-large;">I love Pinterest</span>, and then there's Facebook... so I have a personal Facebook page, and a Cindysfracturedfairytales Facebook page... and i follow a bunch of people on both of those. And THEN, i decided I would stop boycotting Instagram as<span style="font-size: x-large;"> just another form of social media</span>... and tried it, and I really like Instagram, so there's that... and then the blog, which I've totally neglected because Instagram is instant gratification... and there is summer and the garden and life and work and trying to paint ....so... Half the time i don't have any idea where to focus my energy with this stuff, and then i get behind on all of it. I really need to find a rhythm and balance here...</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(is rhythm the hardest word in the world to spell or what...)</span> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Anyway, thanks to a lot of you talking about it, i finally caught on and watched a couple of episodes of "Fixer Upper" </i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: white;"> it is totally home decor porn! </span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> The season finale almost make my head explode it was so cool</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">So of course now I've gone completely insane <strike>again</strike> and did intense online research good enough to qualify me to become part of the the CIA to find out the colors she used -</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> and as you can imagine decided to repaint my living room, dining room, and kitchen which has entailed buying 8 thousand paint samples to try, which look absolutely nothing, nothing at all like the gorgeous wall colors in the episodes. What the heck is the deal with that!??? <strike></strike></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I mean, I know i know all about how lighting and the computer monitor can change the look of the paint and all that... </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but come on... surely my walls would look something..... even a teeny weeny bit like the walls she painted!!????</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">now that i see it here on the blog, i like it</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but in person it looked so dark</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">see the current wall color on the left and above</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Whoa don't like this one - way too dark</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">my current wall color on top </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">it's becoming pretty clear that at this point that i am starting to lose it right? </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>lord help me and all who have been around me this weekend</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">you can see a giclee print of Eulalie on the table, i am proofing it for a buyer - looks good! </span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">In addition i then tried each one of these same colors in my living room and it looks like i painted cold gray steel on the walls!!!</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">how is it that Joanna from 'Fixer Upper' can take these exact colors and they are soooooooooo incredibly beautiful</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">what the heck!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Well i made this lemon meringue pie, twice in three weeks</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I can't eat dairy products, so i found this recipe with no dairy and it was so darn good</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> i literally ate this pie every day for one week</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">skipped a week</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> then made it again</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and ate most of that one </span></i></span></div>
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<br /><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I mean Mr. Fractured ate some of it</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but i don't know,... it seems like it may be a little too big and fancy for my lowly little cottagy space </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">What do ya'll think? </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I know the frenchy mirror is so amazing, but hmmmm... </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">seems so boring after seeing Fixer Upper... sig<span style="color: #666666;"><i>h</i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">i realize i just blathered on about 4 different topics in this post</span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">...as always, thanks for putting up with me... </span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">that's all for now</span></i></span></span></i></span><br />
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<br />Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16980709067973460368noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3984817437506915739.post-72158056652572249252014-05-27T13:03:00.001-04:002014-05-27T13:03:43.502-04:00Are Ya'll Even Still Speaking to Me?<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I wouldn't be surprised if all of you just went pffft... the heck with her... she's never around when you need her!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I know i've been so absent. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Honestly, I think i've just been shut down... Do you ever get like that where everything you do just seems overwhelming, or pointless, or you feel like everything in your life is just stupid?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Well, i sure do.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I worry about my kids, money, the future, storms, asteroids hitting the earth</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>pretty much anything you can think of</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>and sometimes all of it just saps the life force right out of me</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I haven't even really been able to paint in like 2 months! Just couldn't do it... well except for one painting that i worked on intermittantly. Just today, for the first time in 2 months i felt like i could pick up the paint brush, and get it close to finished</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://missmustardseed.com/"><span style="color: #e06666;">Marian, "Miss Mustard Seed"</span></a> </span><span style="color: #666666;">might want it if she has a place for it, if not it will be for sale...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I'm really lucky that she likes my paintings, because people notice everything she does, and lots of people have bought my prints because of her! Especially "Eulalie"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Thank you Marian for making my paintings look so good with all your beautiful things !</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>anyway, here it is...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>but dosen't it seem like two old friends have a peaceful graze together</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>First one of the dogs wants out, so after a minute the other dog realizes that the first one is out, and decides she wants to go out too, but when i let her out the first dog decides to come in while the door is open - so when i let her back in, the other one messes around in the yard a few minutes and is like crap, now i want back in too... and so it goes 90 thousand times a day...</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Anyway, it is very very clear to me that I need structure, or I will stay up until 2:00 in the morning drinking vodka and watching movies like Armageddon two nights in a row... seriously , i did that... </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Honestly, the way i talk about drinking vodka, i guess ya'll think i'm a terrible alcoholic</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>just perfectly buzzed</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> i don't drink at parties because it makes me feel flushed and weird and stupid</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>The snowball bush was humongous and slam full of big fluffy white balls, and roses are tumbling around the yard everywhere! </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Found a darlin little birds nest tucked into the branches of an Eden rose next to the house</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i> I think it is called Peach Drift </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>It has a smallish bloom and the colors are divine</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>all those colors are on two little rose clusters!</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>I did find this little desk at the thrift shop and painted it grayish with a mix of Annie Sloan paint colors, and then painted the inside pink</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">I want to use it for my computer so it isn't sitting on the kitchen counter... but i need my friend </span><a href="http://www.mycottagecharm.com/"><span style="color: #e06666;">Missy from "My Cottage Charm"</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> to come over with her tools and help drill some holes in the back for computer cords!</span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;">My Friend Karan of </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Fetchantiques"><span style="color: #e06666;">"Fetch Antiques" </span></a><span style="color: #666666;">found me a an old chippy frame and it fit my print of "Good Morning Miss Daisy" perfectly!</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">I saw this print hanging on a pink wall once at another friends shop - </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Uniquitiques/101238416412"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Uniquitiques</span> </a><span style="color: #666666;"> - she purchased the print for herself and we tacked it up in her shop on the pink walls just to take a look at her </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>in fact, if you want her, and you let me know you read about her in this blog post, i'll give you 20% off the price</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>So anyway... just want to say thanks to all of you for being there, i'm not kidding... even when i miss your posts, things happen to me all the time that make me think of each and every one of you - and i plan to spend the next week catching up on you guys...</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">In fact, she just recently did a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/amymaisondecor?fref=nf"><span style="color: #ea9999;">facebook post</span></a> about some chairs she painted over a year ago! </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> After it dried, i sat on it, and i poked and proded it with my finger.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I mean the paint totally stays on and doesn't get on your clothes or crack or anything! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It's cool! It feels a little like stiff chalky vinyl. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Aren't ya'll glad it's finally Springlike outside! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">We've had the worst, cold, rainy, looooong winter!!!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I was so totally over it, and completely getting seasonal affective disorder to the max</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and things are starting to burst into bloom here at Rosebud cottage!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> It was my daughter Ellie's 24th birthday, so i made the yearly lemon pansy cake! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> I found a bouquet with this 'cafe au lait' in it last year at a garden center, and knew i had to try them out...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I've seen this flower in person, and it is really that pretty! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway... sorry to blather on</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I always think i have nothing interesting to blog about, </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and then when i finally do a blogpost, i have like 10 different things to talk about!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, one more photo of 'Cafe Au Lait' and I'll leave ya'll alone and go catch up on some of you while it's quiet here at work...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">beautiful flowers and photos!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">oh yeah, and if you want to read all about growing dahlias and other flowers, you should go check out this ladies website </span></i></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.floretflowers.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Floret Flower Farm</span></i></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">She is so totally charming and gracious. They grow all their flowers without chemicals, it's a small but growing family business, there are gorgeous photos of flowers, and she tells you all about her tried and true remedies for growing flowers of all kinds!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(was that the longest sentence with the most adjectives ever?)</span> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I just wanted to drop a quick post and say</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Hi, everyone! I'm surprised you'll even talk to me, i've been so absent... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> i miss the luxury of perusing your blog posts. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Instead lately i have been forced to frantically try to catch up on your posts and read like five posts at once until i look like a stalker... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">In fact i'm at work right now and trying to sneak a quick post in...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I just wanted to show you this Dash and Albert indoor outdoor rug I purchased for the dining room... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I really kinda like it! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> I had a sisal rug here, and was feeling it was kind of dark...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I've had one little spill of coffee or soda or something on it, and i was like... ok... let's see if this cleans up well...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Just blotted it up with a clean damp cloth and you couldn't even tell it was ever there - so that's cool...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">None of the dogs have thrown up on it yet, as they usually do within 15 minutes of getting a new rug... </span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.rugstudio.com/dashandalbertcatamaranstripeplatinum-ivoryarearug.aspx"><span style="color: #e06666;">Dash and Albert Catamaran Stripe Cream and Ivory</span></a></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Also i saw these outdoor cushions at TJ Maxx the other day</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">they were great colors - </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">usually outdoor cushions are awful colors, but I thought these were nice!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Geesh - I kinda thought when i was 60 years old that i would be </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">living happily ever after</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">with normal grown up children ( oh lord help me)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">maybe working part time just for fun</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">getting manicures</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">driving my pink caddie to my beach cottage</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and having fun luncheons with all my friends</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">not sneaking blog posts from work at a job i <span style="font-size: x-large;">have</span> to have to pay my bills and buy my vodka and my vegan chocolate chip cookies from Whole Foods </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(ok, i know vegan chocolate chips from Whole Foods is a luxury, i'm a brat)</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">oh well, whatever...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">...i'm thankful for the job </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">definitely for the cookies </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Big hugs to you guys</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">...the end... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I accidently bought a new chandy for my dining room... oops</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">ok, so it wasn't exactly an accident.. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I obsessively shopped for a chandelier that i could even remotely afford that had some bronze on it until i found one, and then i just impulsively bought it... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">filling the void again... lord ....</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway... i do really like it better than my previous chandy which i purchased at a very low price from an online lighting shop... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">it was all clear glass and bright silver, and it was ok...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">But i really love that dark bronzy look with the crystals, and i thought this new vintage chandy was so more of what i really wanted </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but it just wasn't quite "it" if you know what i mean...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I added my pink Annie Sloan dyed lampshades to the new chandy, ..</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but haven't added all the crazy drippy ribbon yet... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I love decorating chandy's with ribbons and feathers, and flowers, and random crazy stuff, don't you? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">you might notice that the "proof" of the "Good Morning Miss Daisy" print is still taped to the wall in the background. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I finally got a large print of her for myself, and i'm so glad i did. Damn those prints are expensive!</span></i></span>, <span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> I hate that lady, why are her prints so expensive!? oh...oops, that's me</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>really there are reasons for it, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i>i'll explain more some time about Artificial Brightening Agents (which you don't want) and Archival canvas and real pigmented inks and stuff</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, so my little dog "Daisy"....</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">What the heck !!!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and finds leaves somehow, even though the whole yard has been raked</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and the leaves magnetically adhere to her fur</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">you can't even pull those leaves off, they're just stuck! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">ok, but here's the crazy part</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">as soon as she walks in the house, POOF! they explode off of her and cover all the floors and rugs in my house in these little crunchy brown leaves!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">whenever she comes in the house covered with leaves like this ... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">i always look at her and say <span style="font-size: x-large;">DAISY!!!!</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and she's always like "Whut"?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, i'll leave you guys with a photo of some dresses that i saw at Macy's this weekend...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">they were all just fairy fluff</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">now THAT'S what i call a prom dress! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">soooo pretty...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I think i showed you guys this horse i painted a few weeks ago. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I liked him pretty well, but was just itching to do something that was more me...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes when i paint, i think about what other people would like</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and sometimes i just want to paint something the way i would like it...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">even if it is a little weird or different</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> so NEXT "Good Morning Miss Daisy" is going to get the Cindy treatment...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">a pink bow!</span></i></span></div>
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ribbon around her neck, maybe even a ribbon with a big bell</span></i></span> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I already have a satin ribbon draped over the print giving it "the eye"to figure out the perfect shade of pink</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I'm not quite sure how i'm gonna pull it off yet</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">doesn't everyone tie ribbons around their pet cow's necks anyway!? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">My newest favorite thing is my two cowhide rugs.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I love them...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I have one in my bedroom ... you can see it below</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Also you can see how the settee in the bedroom usually looks, with my furry vest thrown on it, and a nubby throw, and folded blankies and towels<span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: #666666;">that <span style="font-size: x-large;">arent' </span>put away...</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I'm sorry a sweet cow had to die for me to have the rug, but i imagine millions of cows get slaughtered everyday, and at least a couple of their coats can be appreciated and admired long after they are gone...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, those are all the furry, animaly things i have around</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">oh yeah, and check this out...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">this is my furry vest</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and this is my dog and best nap buddy "Daisy"</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>My next all time favorite thing is baskets!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br />ok, and finally, I have a basket that i carry to work everyday with all my papers and bills and my lunch in it.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>So that's a crazy amount of baskets isn't it!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I haven't even talked about all the baskets filled with towels and napkins and stuff in my closets!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">You know... things like shells, and baskets woven from natural fibers, and cowhide rugs, and beautiful wood, and feathers,and wool and cotton ... all those kinds of natural things are always pretty darn wonderful </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Everytime i come over here to do a blog post, i get distracted by all the stuff you have going on and then i run out of time!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Good golly molly, ya'll are some interesting and talented friends!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Of course then there's Pinterest which can suck me in so bad... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and Facebook, with kitten and puppy videos and cool decorating ideas</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">i don't even do instagram or twitter and i'm still overwhelmed </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Social media is crazy right now, there are so many things!</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">i'm not even sure what i think about it at all... </span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">how do you guys prioritize your social media stuff!!?? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, I've been crazy busy at work, so there is no time to goof off and read blog posts... and then i come home from work, and me little Daisyboo dive into the warm bed for a quick little nap, and then Mr. Fractured gets home from work, and then before i know it, it's the next day and back to work!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Sure would be nice to be a millionaire so i could work a little less </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Do ya'll ever fantasize about what you'd do if you won the lottery? It's a really fun game to play...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, so i'm just gonna chatter on and show some pics since i don't have anything even remotely important or profound to share...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Here is a horse painting i am working on today...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I have to let it dry some before i do more to it</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br />and i'm not exactly sure what i might add to the painting, </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">some queen annes lace at the bottom left?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> a pink bridle? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">nothing?</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">anyway - just not sure yet... i'll have to live with it a while </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It's at one of my favorite shops in the world </span></i></span><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/salvagesistersnc"><span style="color: #e06666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Salvage Sisters" in Burlington, NC</span></i></span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> it's not really for sale, it's for renting for weddings and stuff... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I'm so renting this when and if me and Mr. Fractured get married</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I know ya'll probably thought we were married, but we're not yet</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Every spring i get all gushy and start thinking about planning a small wedding with wildflowers and twinkle lites </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">all kind of hippie and fairieish...<span style="font-size: small;">(new word)</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and then it never fails, one of his or my ADULT KIDS will have a crisis (mine) or move back in our house 3 - 9 months for one reason or another ( his)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and then we both end up so emotionally disturbed from the whole experience </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Fractured's kids are "perfect"</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">my kids are, how do we say it, uhhhh challenging</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> see my face - </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">that</span> challenging !</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">this is probably after a phone call from my daughter</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">actually could be a call from my son too </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Plus i can't even plan something 15 minutes ahead of time</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">so the whole marriage thing is just too daunting for me</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I have the dress, i have the rings... and that's it so far</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> Ok, i told you this was going to be a random bunch of stuff so there's more...</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I am calling it "night light"</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">because white flowers just glow at night </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">anyway I wasn't sure if it was any good</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but my friend liked it </span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">so now i like it</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Isn't that stupid</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">that i don't know whether to like something unless someone else does</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">what is that?</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">especially with all the white and gray goin on... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It's not big, so if anyone wants to buy it, i don't think shipping would cost too much</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">it's $225.00</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">aren't they pretty!</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I am DYING to paint something in a soft lavender</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Her house is painted in this heavenly lavender and everytime i see it i want my house to be all in lavender too </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">wouldn't one of these colors be gorgeous with a cream stencil on top</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">kinda like <a href="http://www.hellolovelystudio.com/2013/12/more-stenciled-dressing-room-goodness.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">Michele at "Hello Lovely"</span></a> did in her magical little closet room </span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">you should go see, it's soooo pretty</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Also been busy mailing out prints!</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Now i just <span style="font-size: x-large;">have</span> to show you two things from Pinterest</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Look at this lantern - oh my gosh - isn't it wonderful!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and this dresser</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">love it to death...</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">love that shabby brick wall behind it too... </span></i></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/176184610/sold-painted-cottage-chic-shabby-pink?utm_campaign=Share&utm_medium=PageTools&utm_source=Pinterest"><span style="color: #e06666;">here's where you can buy this</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">So you see, at least half of this blog post is about stuff ya'll are doing!</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">You're so smart and talented and inspiring!</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> I'm serious!</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and i know i talked about 50 different things in this blogpost</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>sorry! </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>it's just that I haven't talked to you in so long </i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and there are so many things i want to ramble on about</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>How DO you prioritize your social media stuff</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>there's so much of it! </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>and now luckily Mr. Fractured just came home and spared you even more random meanderings! </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, so fine... I'm clearly not a terribly interesting person if the most important thing i can show you is my new sheets</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Believe me there is enough "interesting" stuff going on in my world that is just too batshit crazy to talk about here - So simple things like new sheets are easier to talk about...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I found these at "Ross" - Queen size - 300 count - for $24.99</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> I mean, they are a little much, but i think they're cute in the room and what a great price!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I read somewhere recently that when you start going over 300 count sheets you're just paying alot of money for something that is not that much better</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I don't know if it's true - but i find that often when sheets get too high of a thread count they are slippery</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and i don't like that</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Do you remember fresh sheets from when you were a child ?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">My memory is that they had a little cottony texture</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I don't know what that texture is called, but i love it...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">...probably alot like what real linen sheets <span style="font-size: small;">(which i can't afford) </span>feel like</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">See that fur throw on the bed</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">it is a real lampskin, washable, and you can find it in a big bin at Sam's for $30.00</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">at least you could about a week ago... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">i love it, my kids love it and my dogs love them </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Ok, so check this out</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I finally took "Good Morning Miss Daisy" to the photographer so i could make giclee prints of her</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">(she is now available in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/174058600/white-charolais-cow-giclee-print?ref=listing-shop-header-0"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Etsy shop</span></a>, and on my <a href="http://www.cindyaustinpaintings.com/"><span style="color: #ea9999;">website</span></a>)</span> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">This is part of the process of making sure the prints look just like the original painting</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Here is the original painting sitting with the best two proofs</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">they look alot alike don't they?</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but there are very subtle differences... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> I have a clear preference for which one i think reflects the painting better than the other</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">which one do you think it is? </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">it took my printer 13 proofs to get the color just right</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It takes a good bit of work and time and money to get a print looking the way you want it too - </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">to be just perfect for your buyer</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but when it's right, it is so fun to send them off to good homes where people will love them</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It's been a while, and i imagine she thinks i had forgotten all about her... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but i most certainly did not... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I had a print of her beautiful cow sitting in my art room </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and that photo started pulling at my heart</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Well last weekend the moment came, and i felt compelled to paint this beautiful girl... i have searched out the owner's email and sent her a letter explaining that her cow is ready.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">She is under no obligation to buy the painting - </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">who knows what her circumstances are now... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">But I did promise I'd offer her first choice - </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Now I'll just wait to see if i hear back from her</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, I'm enjoying her right here in my house </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">so either way,... I'm sure she'll find a good home somewhere, </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> so that's the simple little story of the painting named</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Good Morning Miss Daisy"</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">...the end... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> Soooo my favorite tree of all... is this little beat up, raggedy, faded white christmas tree . I have had it for years</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">The base is gone, and all of the branches are twisted...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">But when i add a few twinkle lights and some pretty ornaments it looks like the prettiest little magic fairy tree ever...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> before i decorated it, i pulled out a bunch of ornaments and stuff... and laid them around, and i had some ribbon i was going to tie on it - </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but in the meantime, i stuffed the unwound ribbon into the base of the tree for safekeeping</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">... and when i looked back at it... i loved the way the ribbon looked all pooled and drippy and loose, so i decided to leave it just the way it was...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">in fact if i'd had more ribbon i would have done it all around the bottom of the tree... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> I would show you the tree lit up, but in photos it just looks like a glowing light blob - </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">i have no idea how to take photos of lit up Christmas trees...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">...And below is this years front door wreath... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">It's a grapevine wreath that's another thrift shop find</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> and I change it about 3 times a year for the different seasons</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">I had this crazy vine with silver balls on it </span></i></span><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">in my closet upstairs </span></i></span>that drove me nuts ,because it was just always in the way, and getting tangled up in things, and i almost got rid of it a hundred times</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but i decided to wind it around my wreath to see how it looked</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> and i think it's kind of fun! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (this just reinforces never getting rid of stuff...not good!)</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">My sister dosen't really enjoy her mother in law - let's just be nice and say it is a bad personality match - but let me say this - my sister is really nice to everyone sooooo ... you figure it out</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">anyway... she was having her over for Thanksgiving with the family, because it is the nice thing to do of course...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">As the mother in law arrives - In my sister's words:</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">"So as soon as she walked in the door, I grabbed a bottle of wine and started drinking " -</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">finally the table was set and the candles were lit </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;"> and after a while we sat down to the beautiful Thanksgiving dinner, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was the one who was supposed to say the blessing ... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">and i had been drinking wine ... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">anyway i started to say the usual blessing we have said a thousand times,, and rattled off the first sentence... and it sounded kindof mushy </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">like - let ush give thanks... uhhh</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">and couldn't remember the rest!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">it's that moment when you realize you're totally buzzed and you've slurred your sentence, and sound like a drunk</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">so when i realized i had forgotten the blessing, I said </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;"> it just came out!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">and then the kids started laughing at me, because they thought it was funny, and then their dad fussed at them for laughing... so i asked the mother in law to say it - and of course </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: small;">she said THE PERFECT blessing" </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>anyway... I know it's a silly little story</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>but i thought it was funny</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>if i'd been there i would have fallen out of my chair i'd be laughing so hard</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>now i could be wrong...</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>the "S" word is not generally supposed to be part of the blessing as a rule</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>we all do the best we can, don't we...</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">or what other prayers will be said in a less than perfect way </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">So, i repainted my bedroom about a month ago, and updated the bedroom floors from carpet to plywood strips, and my friend suggested adding two little settees she had in her shop...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">So sure enough, i stuffed them in the car, and hauled them home for mr. fractured to carry in... </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> he's so lucky to have me disturbing the peace around there all the time... smile...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">there are two of them - </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">but i have no idea what contortion it would take to get a good photo of them both, so this is the best photo i was able to pull out with my iphone...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">of course there is a wadded up blanket on one of them... did you ever hear of STAGING A PHOTO Cindy!!??</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>(that's the blanket i drag onto the bed when daisy and i take a nap)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">so you've heard me talk about my friend with the shop </span></i></span></div>
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<a href="http://karanatfetch.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #e06666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">"Fetch Antiques and Interiors"</span></i></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">this is the shop where i sell my original paintings also </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">she finds the best stuff!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and it's awfully tempting to want so many of the treasures she finds</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">so i have to be selective</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">and leave stuff for her customers! </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">she gives me great prices </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> but she has to make money too!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">so now she has this chandelier that i am dying over </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">anyway, that's all i've got for now my sweet friends</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">gotta go catch up on you guys!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">...the end... </span></i></span></div>
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