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Great bedding

I have an over sized bed for the guest room, so I let my fingers do the shopping on the internet for bedding sets. We don’t have any stores around here or at least close to my home, that carry the bigger bedding, and believe me that I was getting rather discouraged going from store to store to try and find what I was looking for in the stores we do have.

With a antique bed the size I have,  it’s rather hard to find bigger bedding sets that are the look and style that I wanted. After about five hours of shopping, I decided to go online. I’ve sort of become a fan of online shopping lately. This site I found even was much less expensive than the bedding I had looked at in the stores I went to, and I was really thrilled to find what I was looking for to use on the bed in the guest room.

Once I hung the wall paper yesterday after having the new carpet installed, I did find the perfect bedding sets for not only the guest room, but also my own bed since I saved a lot of money. All I need to do now is paint the trim, put up the bed and arrange furniture. I’ll add the accents and I do believe I’m going to be happy with the results!

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Wall paper decisions

We have this great place in town that sells wallpaper and carpet. I sort of went a bit overboard and spent more money than I maybe should have, but (shrug) I want this room to be comfortable and inviting. It’s not going to be girly, since I have lots of guy friends also, but it will be sort of a mix. At least that is my plan, so I bought wall paper that would be neutral. It’s still nice though and I’ll figure out the boarder once I go shopping for paint and bedding and such. I have a antique dresser and bed, plus some other things out of storage, so now I’m working with those also. I’m so happy when I do these kind of projects. 🙂 Good thing is, I do believe even though I spent more money than planned, I still saved a lot due to the specials that the store had!

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A new bedroom

I’ve decided to change my spare room into a guest room and I’m rather excited about shopping for the wall paper, paint and all of the items to make it cozy and guest worthy. I have a lot of things to pack up and put in the attic, since I sort of used that room as a storage space. It doesn’t bother me though, lots of things can be donated to various places, and then what I want to keep can be stored. I love to do home decorating and home improvement, so this project will be fun. Redecorating is great!

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T-shirts for a cause

My niece is into donating blood for people who need it,  and she called me and asked if I would please help to find her, or at least look into finding some custom t-shirts for not only donating blood, but also for various cancers and other causes she is involved with. I have to say, that where I live there is no place that I am able to grant her request, so I had to do some online searching.

Custom t-shirts for her causes are important to me. My niece is so dedicated that I really admire her and when she does her walks and supports what she believes in, I indeed want to help her. While looking online, I also found that I could have shirts made up that I would like to distribute and also tell people where they could get them, considering the fact that the nearest big city from where we live is an hour and a half away, that has any shops that we could get these shirts from.

Of course because I wanted to help my niece, I went online. The custom t-shirts I found, not only could be made to pertain to her causes that she is interested in helping, but also the wording can be basically anything that a person would wish to put on a shirt. I like this idea, since I can also buy shirts that can be worn with my niece’s and nephew’s sports and activities to show support to them, or for the fact that I am proud of what they are involved in. I can also have the shirts made up as special gifts, at a great price.

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What a blast

Seems I didn’t have to take off work for the apple festival at all. I got off work a bit early,  picked up the kids from their schools and we came to my house, I had them do the weekend homework they had no argument at all, which was a plus. After that, since I knew there would be plenty of food at the festival, we took off. It was great since it was warm enough out that I just had the boys bring hoodies, in case it did get cooler out. We had a blast. There was a pumpkin carving contest, saw how cider was made, drank cider, there was a hay ride and all kinds of other great things to do. I have to admit that this year was the best apple festival I’ve ever been to here. Of course the kids got a bellyache from drinking so much cider and eating the caramel apples and other food, but they didn’t complain. I’m sure I’ll hear it from my sisters…LOL! Oh well, that is what Aunties do, right? Spoil the kids! 😉

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Apple festival

Every year a local orchard has a really great apple festival. I’ve made plans to take my nephews to it with me. The weather has been totally beautiful, and it’s supposed to be for the next week, especially the weekend… high of 80 degrees, but breezy. It won’t be to warm for the kids to be tromping through the orchards, going on hay rides and their favorite…eating caramel apples, drinking cider and having a blast with the activities that they participate in every year there. I’m really looking forward to going to this so much that I’ve taken off work. Oh, it’s cool with my boss, she is going also. This is a great event around here for both kids and adults.

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A dog bathing mistake

I had this “brilliant idea” to give my dog a bath in the kitchen sink, because bending over the bathtub hurts my back. Wrong idea, and not at all brilliant. I made three mental notes and they are as follows:

#1. I didn’t realize how much a small cocker spaniel weighs until after I got him in the sink and he is going on a diet.

#2. Though he fit well in the sink, he doesn’t like it one bit and escapes by leaping out half way through the shampooing and will always no doubt do this.

#3. (This is important) Always latch the dog door before trying to give him a bath again and never ever forget that he will head right for the tilled over garden.

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A great day

If doing absolutely nothing except reading, catching up on movies I’ve missed and eating what ever I wanted constitutes me being considered lazy, as one of my co workers made mention of…well so be it. I consider it having one great day!! 🙂

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An idea for Christmas

I’ve been doing some research into something a friend told me about, which is self catering holidays for Christmas. All of my friends and family know I’ve always wanted to go to Scotland. So of course when I heard about this idea, my ears perked up and that is when the research started. It would be great to have a holiday there. It seems to me that even though our family is large and used to spend Christmas together, over the years now we go to my Mom’s house on different days during the holidays.

I’ve looked at some travel guides and even though I haven’t asked my Mom what she thinks of the idea, I’d like to take  her with me. Even if it is just for a few days. I think it would be a nice gift to her, and she would be pleased to come with me. Besides, I’m afraid to fly alone. She might not want to go exactly on Christmas day or during Christmas week even, but still Christmas can be celebrated until New Years, since I don’t take my tree down until then. I think sometimes I’m still a kid at heart and don’t want it to end.

Sometimes it’s nice to get away on holiday breaks and this is something that I’d really consider doing.

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Bad eyesight

I found out after going to the optometrist today that basically I’m getting old. Okay, she didn’t say that exactly, but did say that with age one’s eyes tend to get worse. Of course I know mine have, and she said it to be informative, but it sort of hit me like a ton of bricks. (deep sigh) So, I am now waiting for my new bifocals to arrive. Oh well, at least I’ll be able to see a lot better than I have been. Eye strain has also been giving me headaches, so hopefully these new glasses will help.