tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83816547451384825752024-03-18T05:18:54.161-04:00Never ListlessCrossing off the ol' TO DOs and being super random just for you!Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.comBlogger322125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-89723608464270832142014-08-07T08:30:00.000-04:002014-08-07T11:38:29.738-04:00Decorating Bins With Kid Artwork Bunting<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Closets are sacred around here. You know we like to use every inch of space (example <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/11/introducing-cubby-hole-under-stairs.html">#1</a> <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/02/nursery-in-closet-gets-tenant.html">#2</a> <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/09/walking-at-work.html">#3</a> <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-hall-closet-ehhhhhh-would-we-call.html">#4</a>) and closets are the hidden gems that make our house work. So it is time for another closet in town to shine. And that closet belongs to my sweet little baby girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eventually, we plan for Cora and August to share a room. A very smart lady suggested that we give them each a space that is just theirs when shared bedroom city comes to town. And that space is called Cora's huge closet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are calling it her "hidey hole" to differentiate it from her and August's cubby hole. Too many holes? I am not ready to introduce you to it completely but I wanted to give you a taste of the pink party that is involved and let you in on a fun little way to decorate plain bins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cora got to pick the colors of her hidey hole and it is no secret around here that her favorites are pink and yellow. I even let her pick the swatch. It turns out that "Shrimp" is the winning shade of pink in her eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found a few bins in the Target dollar aisle. They were $3 each and a bit better looking than the bins you can find at the dollar store. The only problem is that pink walls and pink bins equal WAYYYY too much pink. This is when my love for bunting stepped in to solve the problem. Cora's <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/06/displaying-kids-artwork-in-slightly.html">artwork display</a> was in need of a big purge so I decided to make use of her lovely paint strokes by turning it into bunting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">you can see another bunting project in the background that I still haven't shared with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hammered a few nails in each bin. Then I cut a few pieces of yarn and kind of randomly strung and knotted the yarn across each bin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next, I cut out diamonds from colorful bits of Cora's artwork. Then I folded the diamonds in half and glued them as triangles on the yarn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I take photos of the pieces of art that I like the best and plan to use them as the backgrounds in photobooks that I will one day make. And I save a couple of my very very favorite drawings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was so happy with how it turned out and how easy it was! Usually, a project like this would end up on my to-do list for a year and then I would end up doing something else. But I just decided to do it right away (ignoring the other year old to-dos) and I am loving it! It really broke up the massive pink explosion and it makes me happy to see some of Cora's old artwork.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I hung the yarn a little differently on each bin so they didn't look identical.</span></div>
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Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-69258600641419479412014-07-08T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-08T09:00:01.924-04:00The Big Yard Overhaul Starts!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Spring hit Scott spent most of two full weekends working on our front yard. He also goes outside to check on and admire his plants at least 6 times per day. That dude is obsessed with plants. There are a lot lot lot lot lot of plant jokes being made in our hizzie these days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We don't have much land to deal with but he redid every inch. I loveeeeeeeeeeee it! And, there is more to come (he couldn't find what he wanted in the store so he ordered some plants online... craziness! We are super-futuristic-Jetson-people ordering plants online). And, there is more to grow (secret bulbs hiding out waiting to surprise us with their beauty!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am tricking you here and it isn't fair but I am going to show you a really updated yard photo and then just talk to you about round one of Scott plant time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been meaning to post this post for a long time. Because of that all of the super-futuristic-ordered-online-bulbs have now popped into our mailbox, into the ground, and have peaked out of the ground with some greenery. Sooooooooooo you will have another thrilling yard update very soon. Every week or so Scott says, "OK I am done for the year." Then he rinses off his shovel and retires his gloves. But guess what happens... those plants pull him back in again. He can't help himself. He wants every inch to be covered. Then he realized that there was room left to catch the sun's rays on both levels of our porch so those spots got planted up too. Please don't misunderstand me. I love these plants and I am thrilled that they make Scott so happy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let's get on with the plant convention, shall we?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was lots of Juniper. At the time, I thought it was fine. Scott did his plant magic and fine turned into fine-tastic. Uhhh Whoa Whoa who liked that cleverness?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First, he built a wall with the help of his dad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then round one of plants went in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Scott got all of the plants situated and did lots of rearranging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We bought Roosty the Rooster and gave him a home. Those plants on either side of Roosty (called Loropetalum) were the only things that made the cut from the landscaping we had when we moved in. Scott planned to ditch them but they had pretty purple blooms when he started and decided to give them another chance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cora hearts him big time</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here comes plant nerd time. I got some info from Scott so I could tell you a little about what you are seeing. He did a lot of reading about his plants before he planted them. Then he came up with a couple of spreadsheet presentations for me. I had a little say in the whole deal but not much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Creeping Phlox didn't have flowers for very long. Cora loved all of the pink flowers and wanted to smell them every minute. The four plants in front of the wall are Gardenias. Scott thinks the Snap Dragon flower is fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This one is my favorite. I love the chartreuse color. It is called Stonecrop and it has spread like crazy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This red stemmed plant is called a Red Stem Dogwood. It is pretty cool because when the leaves fall off it shows off its awesome redness! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The little purple ground covering has been hard at work. Looking outside right now, that stuff has gone wild. It's called Burgundy Glow Ajuga. It has started to grow on me a bit but at first it reminded me of a weed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This Bonsai-ish-looking plant is called Harry Lauder's Walking Stick. I think she's pretty cool but apparently she is supposed to look pretty droopy and it is confusing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wow! It is crazy how different this first round of yard overhaul is from what is going on out there now! I will try to be quick with the next update. It is fun to see how much things have grown- for me, anyway, and we all know it is fun for Mr. Planterino.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is a peak of Round 2. Scott brought the whole squad out to show it off. We are seriously up to Round 35 now. I will be kind and include the rest of the yard updates in no more than 2 more posts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the top left of that photo, you can see a spiny-looking plant called Winter Sun Mahonia. It was one of Scott's favorites but we don't think it is going to make it through year one of the new landscaping. Fascinating, I know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'll be back soon with some more updates for you!</span>Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-77585744599970731242014-06-30T09:00:00.000-04:002014-06-30T09:00:10.980-04:00Here's What's Coming Your Way!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sorry for another phantom post last Monday. I have a thrilling post about Scott's plants almost ready for you but I just need him to do a little plant IDing and he's a busy dude. I should have it for you next week or the week after.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who needs a little update about all of the random things that will be coming your way over the next few months?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everyone?!?!?! OK, let's get to it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My sister came to town and brought with her... a sewing machine! Ohhh buddy it was exciting. She had fancy cutting devices that are sharper than anything I've ever used and were pretty much life changing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I made some BUNTING! Have I told you how much I love bunting? I want to cover every inch of my house with it. It is going in the living room as a photo display. It isn't complete but here's a little peak:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cora's closet hidey hole is coming along nicely. It is not good looking yet but the function is starting to show!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We cut a little hole in our garage to get some extra storage under the stairs = SUPER!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I added some shelves to the cubby behind <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/11/introducing-cubby-hole-under-stairs.html">Cora's Cubby</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Scott put up some swings for the kids in front of the garage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The foyer is in the process of a big makeover. We painted it. A new lamp came in. Art came down and art went up. A mirror got painted and hung, as did some repurposed window shutters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An art wall is in the process of going up in the stairway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've been painting some Mexican-inspired art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A Master Bedroom Closet Update (sorry... I did this update a LOOOONGGGGGG time ago) but it more than doubled our storage so it will be shared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was a pantry update that happened approximately 33 years ago but will still be shared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The living room got a mini update with a clock and a painted frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And... THE YARD! It should be the next post you see. But the good yard stuff will come in the future. That yard is really looking good these days!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And there you go. A little update for you. I hope you have the happiest of happy days today!</span>Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-82538313548528291542014-06-09T09:00:00.000-04:002014-06-09T09:00:00.978-04:00Paint City Keeps Rolling In The Bathroom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is another paint party here at Never Listless. I have some other exciting new things to show you on the blog but they will just have to wait. Let's keep rolling on the paint train. A month or so ago I showed you the beautiful artwork that Cora painted for our hall bathroom. Now you get to see how awesome that art looks with some fancy paint behind it. The paint color is Gray Horse by Benjamain Moore. It is the same color that we used in the hallway outside the bathroom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">dfjsdjkfsfsfkjds I love it. It really may be my favorite room in the house!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And, now, here are some more photos of my fanciness:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who likes looking at my toilet plunger and cleaner? You know you do. I know it isn't super classy but it is so much better than my usual deal (having a plunger in a grody plastic bag). This little contraption sells at Big Lots for about $7.99. I have bought 2 of them over the last 5 years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Peak-A-Boo paintings! I just wanted to show you that I painted the ceiling too. Painting ceilings seems like a crazy idea until you do it and you want to stare at it all day because it looks so good. That may just be me. But boy oh boy does it look a thousand times better than the rest of the off-white ceilings in the house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-align: start;">Get ready... Things are about to get a whole lot classier in here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You have seen glimpses of how I used to hang Cora's preschool art... taped and sticky-tacked to the wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had been looking for a way to display all of the art Cora brings home from preschool and change it out regularly. That girl is a painting machine. She often comes home with 3 or 4 new masterpieces per week. It took me a while but I finally landed on an idea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I bought 3 8' 1x4s and "olded-them-up" (yes, that is a real term). I used a hammer, screws, chains, nails, and a random belt-hole puncher that has come in handy more than a few times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lucky for me, I had my handy little helper girl with me. She had her own hammer. It lit up and exploded with noise every time she hit the wood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next, Scott stained them. I loved how they turned out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We let them dry for a couple of days and then we used Liquid Nails to glue on strips of metal that I had bought from Lowes. I had to buy the metal strips in 4' sections because their options were limited. So, each board had 2 strips on it. We put paint cans and random heavy things on them and left it overnight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">OOPS! The next day, when I returned to admire them the ends of a few metal pieces were pulling from the board. I messed with them a little and they pulled right off. So I scraped all the Liquid Nails off and we tried again with even more Liquid Nail. So much that it bubbled out of the sides. No Bueno. That didn't work either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On to plan #2. The boards were looking awful from all of the glue and scraping. So I flipped them over and olded up the other side. Then Scott stained them and we were ready to try again. This time we ran a very thin bead of Liquid Nails down each metal strip. Then we got some chunky bolts and screwed them right on the edge of the metal so it kind of clipped it in place. Yay! It worked! I felt certain that those heavy metal strips would stay in place. If you do this project I recommend using a bolt with an even bigger head so it really grabs the metal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now it was time to enlist the help of some kind visitors. My mom and her husband, Emery, were coming into town just as we finished our art display construction. I located the studs before we painted recently so I could patch my stud-finding holes in advance. Now all I had to do was a bit of math to figure out how to center the boards and where the studs would hit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is my calculation work. There was some weird math going on but it ended up working pretty well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To secure it to the wall, I used the same bolt head that I used to clip the metal on. I just used a much longer screw that would go through the wood and drywall to the stud. I put 2 bolts in each board. I threw a 3rd (and 4th... measuring wasn't perfect) into one of the boards that bowed out a bit in the center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I bought some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CEA1QI4/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1">magnets</a> off Amazon and I plan to eventually paint them or glue pretty paper on them. Cora is old enough that she wouldn't put these in her mouth. But I am going to trade out the lowest board's magnets for some bigger ones when August is mobile just in case one ever ends up on the ground and he tries to eat it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is our lovely painted wall before the art party came to town. The color is Gray Horse by Benjamin Moore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are some more photos of the final project. If you really pay attention you will notice that these photos were taken at different times and that Cora is in the background of some of them perfecting one of her crayon drawings.</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/03/coras-art-gets-framed-and-hung-above.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Framing your kiddo's art so it looks legit!</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-magnet-board-comes-to-town-part-2.html">Making a magnet board</a> & <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-magnet-board-comes-to-town-part-1.html">Part 1</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-magnet-boards-friend-chalky.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hanging a chalkboard</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/11/introducing-cubby-hole-under-stairs.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Play area in the cubby hole under the stairs</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/02/nursery-in-closet-gets-tenant.html">Fitting a whole nursery into a closet</a></span></li>
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Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-43214484544101696182014-05-19T09:00:00.000-04:002014-05-19T09:00:00.730-04:00I Like To Paint It, Paint It! Dining Room Paint Party<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oooohhhh la la we painted the dining room and I love it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm going to take you on a little trip down memory lane. Here are some of before photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is what the color looks like on the swatch. In real life it is a lot greener.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh and you can see in the photo that we added a baby gate because August likes to move it, move it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you want to see any past dining room posts check these out (<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/01/dining-room-update-curtain-time.html">curtains</a>, <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/12/dining-room-update-organized-play-area.html">other</a>, <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-dining-room-set-up-new-table-chairs.html">other</a>)</span></div>
Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-10064930760333992772014-04-24T09:00:00.000-04:002014-04-24T10:38:26.353-04:00Paint Party! Finally!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Until now, the only place that we had painted in our house was <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/02/nursery-in-closet-gets-tenant.html">a closet</a>. That closet does happen to also be our baby's room, but still. It is a closet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ooooohhhh how times have changed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We now have 6 walls painted. Some of those walls may be pretty small but they are still walls! We have had the paint sitting around for these rooms since we moved into this house. I'm not really sure how I convinced Scott to do this considering we still have almost no down time but I did and now it is done!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before we added a fancy dancy art display (I will share it on NeverListless in a few weeks) I had hung Cora's paintings with both tape and sticky tack. The sticky tack came straight from my 1985 collection that I have diligently held onto. It seems to have lost most of its stick but I'm not giving up on it. The sticky tack left a dark green residue. If you are familiar with sticky tack you know exactly what I am talking about. And the tape left a majorly gooey film. I pulled off the sticky tack as well as I could but there were still grease spots. I tried a number of methods to get the tape goo and the grease off. The best one turned out to be rubbing my fingers quickly over it to roll it loose. Neither adhesive was removed 100% but somehow the paint covered them both up perfectly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here are a few before photos to jog your memory:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was paint city around this hizzie for a few nights after the kids went to bed:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The color is called Gray Horse by Benjamin Moore. I had it mixed at Lowes using their No VOC paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We did one side of the hallway and the walls connected to it one night and the magnet board wall the next. Scott was the roller master and I was Ms. Cut-In. We even caught up on a few TV shows while we painted. We acted like it was 1940 and listened to them like radio programs. It was kind of fun! And, I'm glad that we painted in small sections because I decided that this is, in fact, not the right color for the entire level. It is a bit too dark for a lot of the space and a bit too green to go behind my teal shelving unit. I plan on using Winter Orchard by Benjamin Moore for the rest of the space but that may change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here it is with everything back up:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last (and, definitely least) here is the terrible after shot that I took of the kitchen wall that was painted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can't wait to share the rest of the progress that we have made in the house!</span>Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-70839673959222378452014-04-14T09:00:00.000-04:002014-04-14T09:00:00.360-04:00We Are Going Bi-Weekly.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sorry folks... it is happening. Neverlistless is only going to have one new post every two weeks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">HOW IN THE WORLD did I put up a new post five days a week when I first started. That is some shenanigans. I honestly don't understand how it was possible. Now I don't even have time to shave my legs. You would not believe how long it has been. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You are probably wondering why I don't go shave my legs now instead of spending the time to continue talking about them on my blog. Actually, I'm wondering that too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have so much cool stuff to update you on but I just cannot make the time to do it. I have the photos, I have the lists, and I have plenty of bizarre stories to tell but just give me a little time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is a little peak at the massive yard overhaul Scott did and the new little buddy that we added to make it exciting. ps Cora is obsessed with the new yard art, "Roosty."</span><br />
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Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-39153978364130992882014-04-07T09:00:00.001-04:002014-04-07T09:00:05.726-04:00THe Hall Closet. Ehhhhhh Would We Call This An Interesting Topic?<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who loves the line in Love Actually where Hugh Grant is talking to someone about a new lady who has started working for him. The person he is talking to refers to the new girl as chubby and Hugh Grant says, "ehhhhhhhhhh would we call her chubby?" That line cracks my sister and I up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Back to the blog... I have the most minor update in the world but you are still getting it. Sorry! I don't have much time to do home-related updates these days so when I do them you are going to hear about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our coat closet is a disaster. Always! Cora calls it my cubby hole since she has<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/11/introducing-cubby-hole-under-stairs.html"> one under the stairs</a> and Scott has his <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/09/walking-at-work.html">cubby hole office</a>. I guess she didn't want me to feel left out. So I feel personally accountable for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We have made some <strike>not so</strike> exciting changes to it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You are really going to wonder why I think this is all worthy of being a blog post. I tried to justify it earlier but I changed my mind. It really isn't worthy. So I will include a *LIST* (yay lists!) for you. After this amazing list I will have really lame photos of my hall closet. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tricks to add more storage in your hall closet:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>1.</b> Fill it up with your junk and then take a look at it. If you are really tight on space in the rest of your house like we are you will find a ton of ways to store all of your random stuff. If you aren't tight on space then you should probably find a slightly more normal place to keep your extra junk so your hall closet doesn't look like it belongs to a crazy person. Either way<b> this tip is all about purging your junk and assessing your space.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>2. </b>I mean it... <b>just look in your closet.</b> Is the back of the door empty? Not for long? Throw some coat racks, shoe racks, bins, etc up on there. Make sure to use "hollow door anchors" if your doors are indeed hollow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>3. Hooks!</b> Go hook wild in there! A hook for a bag full of bags? Yes! A hook for your child's lunch bag shaped like a bee? Yes! (Side story... try your best to send your child to school with a lunch bag. Otherwise you will feel bad when you send your kid to the first day of school with a tupperware container with their name taped onto it. You will feel especially bad when the weekly class newsletter mentions that all of the kids loved showing off their lunchboxes... oops! At least by the time Cora got to pick out a lunch bag they were all half off at Taget!).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>4. </b>You may think that that area at the very top of your closet is unusable. You would be wrong. If you are a youngin' you obviously use that area to hide in when playing hide and seek. If you are a cat, you find a way up there and nap. And if you are me (as an adult) you <b>smack a shelf up in that gotta-have-a-ladder-unless-you-are-a-giant-like-me space </b>and store the ridiculous amount of used tissue paper that you have accumulated up there. The first two vertical closet space ideas came from how it was used in the linen closet of the house I grew up in. Poor kitty was constantly getting closed into that closet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>5. </b>When our house was being built we paid a little extra to have an <b>electrical outlet put in our hall closet</b>. It is a great place for the dustbuster. It would also be a good place to keep a charging station.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And finally here comes... <b>Our Hall Closet Updates </b>(I cannot stress enough how fantastically exciting this will be):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Soon after we moved in I added a shelf to it so the super high up space wouldn't be useless. And I didn't even write a post about it. How about that!?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I added a plastic bin for hats, keys, random things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I added a coat rack to the door. I liked it so much that I added another one:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The lower one is nice because, not only does it give us a bit more hanging storage but Cora can reach it. So when we want her to grab her bag or a jacket. Tada... she can!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you need some more terribly unexciting before and after closet photos be sure to check out <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/01/oo-tips-tricks-mail-shoes-coats-art.html">this post</a> of hall closet reorganization happenings at my old house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you want even more organizational inspiration check out my not-at-all-up-to-date <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/p/categories-and-archive.html">archives</a>. 75% of the way down I have a ton of links to organizing stuff and every single one is more interesting than this post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next week, I am going to show you the fancy paint part that has attacked our house. And the week after that I will be showing off the awesome (no sarcasm here) art display that we made. I love it and you will too! </span>Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-54422664196869404672014-03-31T09:00:00.000-04:002014-03-31T10:52:54.392-04:00Cora's Art Gets Framed And Hung (Above A Toilet).<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ooooh La La! My two and a half year old is now producing fancy art for my walls. I love it... even though I hung it above a toilet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In my old casa I had a couple of random tree photos hanging in a hallway. I think they're nice and all but I have no memory of when this type of art was my style. I'm all about some funky modern. Those little diddies did not make their way back up on the new house walls. In case you haven't figure this out yet I love a good repurposing! Those framerinos did not go to waste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the best photo I have of them up on the wall. Ehhhh... sorry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had big plans for this art. I busted out the painter's tape and taped up a random design on some paper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Out came the art supplies and the old t-shirts and that little artista in the making got to work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted to ease her in with some crayons before the paint started flying around the room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The paint happened. And my old t-shirt made Cora look like she had no legs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The old mat was cream. So I painted it up and made the shiniest white in town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cora's art dried and it was time to pull off the tape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">tape does not pull very well off paper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Change of plans. I pushed the tape back down and went with it. I looked to see where the mat would look best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I cut the painting and put it in the frame. Up it went.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We painted the bathroom walls the day after I took these photos. I cannot wait to show you! As strange as it may seem, this bathroom is now one of favorite rooms in the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ps I painted the frames months ago and I don't think I have any photos of the process. A little paint peeled off after they were painted and I decided to go with it. I sanded a few areas of the frame down to show the original black and gold frame. I like how it turned out! Here is a close-up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-3116383144099357392014-03-26T09:00:00.000-04:002014-03-26T09:00:04.106-04:00The 2nd Floor Porch Gets An Upgrade (And An Introduction To You!)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whoops! It looks like I am way behind on letting you in on a bunch of areas of our house.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This particular area was for good reason. It was where all random furniture was laid to rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's a peak at what's coming your way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ps I am only showing you this so the before photo is not the first little thumbnail that you see!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This space still has a loooooong way to go but progress has been made. I am not thrilled with it at all but just wait until you see the before pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Scott's brother and sister-in-law gave us a twin bed a while ago that I was sure I would be able to use in our house. It ended up having nowhere to go so we put it on the 2nd floor porch. And for more than 6 months it sat there looking like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You would think that I would care more about this section of the house than a lot of others since our neighbors could literally jump onto this bed from their porches and can see how abandoned and creepy ours was looking. But, for some reason, I was totally fine with it looking like it belonged to a crazy person. The reason may have had something to do with a newborn coming my way. It was Scott who finally threw in the towel. He had been asking me my plans for the area pretty much since we moved in and he had volunteered to take care of it himself. After the 30th time he mentioned it I finally got to work. And all it took was one 30 minute trip to Target. I didn't come home with exactly what I wanted and I definitely could have found better stuff. But 30 minutes and a heftier-than-expected Target receipt later I was done! Plus, Cora had a blast sitting on all of the chairs and picnic tables at the store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I went outside to take some photos for you but Mother Nature unleashed her biggest and baddest wind on me. I was met with this so I held off for another day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then Ms. Nature showed me some Dorothy Oz-land-ish skies too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A few days later, Ol' Mama Nature stepped aside and I snapped a few for you:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That grossy looking rope mess against the wall is a hammock that we have no room for. We loved it at our old house but it cannot find a home here. We are working on getting it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You may ask the question: "Why did I decide to stage it with some bananas and an empty wooden bowl? "</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is a valid question to ask.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The answer: Unknown.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Talk Scott into liking the idea of curtains on either side of the porch</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A rug? (I would also have to talk him into that one)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paint the mini white table with a cool pattern</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Change out the pillows so they are a bit less (I feel like a doofus saying this but) cheesy 2013ish pillows</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paint the little black table and chairs a bright yellow</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paint the frame of the daybed yellow</span></li>
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Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-56856761773793512532014-03-18T09:00:00.000-04:002014-03-18T11:42:55.782-04:00Projects All Over!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is a lot happening in the land of babies and fun and awesome things. Yes, that is the land that I live. Doesn't it sound fantastic?!?! There are a few tantrums and non-sleepers mixed in there along with a bunch of back pain. But other than that it is a pretty fabulous place to be. We are finally coming out of the haze of newborn-ness and are getting cooking on lots of house stuff. It is so nice to live in a brand new house where nothing has to be done! Unfortunately, that doesn't stop me from wanting to do things to our house. And now that we have started a few projects it is hard to take my attention away from all of the changes I want to make to this house.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Walls are getting painting or at least getting ready to be painted like this photo shows.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cubby holes are getting better storage. This one included another life lesson that I will be sure to share with you.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 2nd floor porch starts to look normal. You may not think that this is normal but just deal with it.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don't want you to worry about missing out on an ounce of the fun... even the most boring topics (most of them) from the list above will be blogged about.</span>Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-6840642599227713772014-03-17T12:38:00.004-04:002014-03-25T21:08:59.942-04:00Sorry... again!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The completeld post that went up for a bit day will be up on either Tuesday or Wednesday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I realized that I still have not introduced you to my whole house. Let's get you one step closer to you feeling at home here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How about taking a little look-see at the entryway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Before we moved in, I showed you <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/04/floor-plans-and-ideas-first-floor-part-1.html">my plans for it</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Plans changed. This is what it looks like:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And, unfortunately, this is what it looks like on most days... ehhhh we're a bit messy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Soon, I will hang something above the bookcase, probably a mirror.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who is fascinated by this?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did anyone want to see the exciting view that you get coming down the stairs?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are the frames that I had in the entryway of my old house. I framed a bunch of different fabrics and scrap paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is the first thing people see in our house and I still haven't finished it. It is amazing how low house-updates fell on my list of priorities after having a second child. I don't understand how this was happening but a year and a half ago I was posting 5 blog posts per week. Pure craziness is what that is.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">hanging a mirror above the bookcase</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">changing out the group of paintings of one big one</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">painting the six large frames white</span></li>
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<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/03/oooooh-some-pretty-master-bedroom.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Master Bedroom</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/02/nursery-in-closet-gets-tenant.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nursery In A Closet</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/01/big-girl-room-updates-curtains.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cora's Room</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/12/whos-looking-for-another-living-room.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Living Room</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/11/introducing-home-of-our-infamous-murphy.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Guest Bedroom</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/09/parking-car-in-garage-and-storing-all.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Garage</span></a></div>
Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-58721807105293400812014-03-05T09:00:00.000-05:002014-03-05T09:00:09.288-05:00Oooooh Some Pretty Master Bedroom Curtains Are About To Enter Your Life!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello! Happy Wednesday to you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I apologize that a phantom post went up on Monday with nothing in it. Fooled you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today, I have the real deal. And, if you like curtains then boy oh boy was it worth the wait!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A couple of weeks ago you got to see <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/02/nursery-in-closet-gets-tenant.html">the final Nursery-In-A-Closet product</a>. Somehow I managed to keep the curtains out of that post's photos and wheeeewww weeeeeee did I build some suspense. I can't even count the number of people* who emailed me asking to see what kind of awesomeness I had done with the windows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love how they turned out but I think I may have laid it on a little thick!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I went with <a href="https://www.fabric.com/buy/um-226/premier-prints-chipper-twill-storm">Chipper Twill Storm by Premier Prints</a> for the fabric and my awesome Mother-in-law was kind of enough to sew these little diddies right up for me. She finished them hours before August was born and claims that August wasn't going to come until she had finished sewing all of the curtains in the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had decided that the width of each curtain panel should be half of the width of the window and no more. My mother-in-law suggested that a wider panel might look better. She was big time right! She added about 8" to what I suggested and it really helped. They would have been super skimpy if we had gone with my measurements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since the window to the right of the bed (pictured below) butted right up to the headboard I decided to go with just one curtain panel. I'm into it the result! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is driving me crazy that I didn't straighten up my comforter or pillow better before taking these photos but I took them in the 3 minutes that I had while no babies were sleeping in a room that was actually tidy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is a glimpse of my snazzy curtains peeking into August's room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's another Fooled You, Bert (that's a common expression around here... it is the title of one of Cora's favorite Sesame Street books). I removed all of the extra baby stuff to take some photos of the room looking fairly decent. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Aha! I am tried to fool you once again. I removed the huge piles of clean clothes from the bed, the boogered-up Q-tips from the bedside table (ewwwww yes I did say that and I apologize), I made the diapers look orderly and I took out the massive dirty clothes piles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ignore that gross wall situation above the changing table. I tried to put up 2 different floating shelves and neither worked. It is not at the top of my list but eventually I will make that area look good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On top of getting the room baby-ed up the way I just showed you we have also classed it up a good bit by adding our signature look of garbage bags to the windows. Yes, yes we are classy folks. Now, between the curtains and the blinds there are trash bags to make the room pitch black with The Aug Man is going down for his naps. It makes a huge difference! Naps instantly improved. We will remove the fancy black bag layer of the window when Sir August moves out of our room.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">We had a yellow chalkboard in Cora's room at our old house but it didn't quite fit into her new room.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bam. It was just that easy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50089231/">Luns message center from Ikea</a>. It comes in a neutral wood color. Scott had painted it yellow for Cora's old room and luckily, it worked perfectly in the space. Looking at these photos makes me realize how excited I will be when we finally get around to painting our house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I used the hangers that they provided to hang the chalkboard but I added a screw into the stud for added stability. You can see the screw down toward the lower right-hand corner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We use the letters from the <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-magnet-board-comes-to-town-part-2.html">magnet board</a> for this chalkboard too. Cora got a bunch of foam magnets from Santa this past Christmas that have random objects on them. Sometimes I will put one of the magnets on the chalkboard and ask Cora to find the letter that the object starts with. She likes that game OK but what she really likes to do with the magnets is get the queen, the x-ray man, and the doll and pretend that they are a family. Then she gets the blanket and tucks them in for naps and bedtime. She feeds them the food from the magnets and gives me showers and baths even though there are no magnets for that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cora's other favorite thing to do with her magnets is to get the lower case "I" and "J" and pretend they are ice cream cones. Somehow the combination of lowercase "H" and "L" is also an ice cream cone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That little lady has an imagination like no other. We don't need even need any toys. I think she would rather pretend things are here than them actually be here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And now you know the exciting history of the magnet board and her friend, Chalky Boarderson. I will try to keep things a bit more mind-blowing for you in the future.</span></div>
Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-65883869408482439272014-02-17T09:00:00.002-05:002014-02-17T09:00:00.384-05:00Nursery In A Closet Gets A Tenant!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I introduced you to the newest resident of 123 Nursery In A Closet Ave. <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/12/happy-holidays-its-family-time.html">recently</a>... Sir August Connor Spencer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today, we are going MTV Cribs up in here. August himself wants to show you around his new digs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He has requested that, before we show it to you, we tidy it up a bit from every day living. So I will first show it looking spiffy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">FYI picking out which photos to use with August in them might be one of the hardest things I've ever done. I love that little bitty bundle and I think he looks super adorable in all of them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ps please ignore the gross stuff on the front of his crib... I pulled the information sticker off of our crib and it left some funky residue. I need to do a little Goo Gone action to it but haven't had time to look for a less potent alternative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He is especially fond of the super organized basket situation above his crib.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ahhh I love organized baskets! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As I have already let on, August's abode does not always look so spiffy. Next, let's take a look at it in the everyday world:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had to make a couple of changes in order for his shack to be ready to get Cribbed-Out. First, I had to get the lobster picture that Cora made and the dolphin picture to stay up. I had initially used tape but the pictures were constantly falling through. I fixed it by stabbing some little holes through the pictures and the cardboard-covered fabric. Then I put some of my old earring studs in and fastened them in the back. Tada! The pictures now stay put!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next, I had to remove all of the toys and stuffed animals that Cora brings into his crib on an hourly basis. Cora loves to assign people dolls. Scott is the princess, Tiana. I am Cinderella, amongst a million other animals, dolls, fingers (I usually get to be her thumb), etc. Cora's favorite thing to do is find a group of items and assign them all as mom, dad, Cora, August, Kelly, Gram, Grandad, Suzan, Pop, Bu, Wren, Uncle Rick, and Aunt Jennifer. If you have recently visited you usually make the list for a while. Then she makes sure that she calls you by one of the names that she has assigned you. For example, I have been called nothing other than Rosita (a Sesame Street character) for the last month. Slip ups are surprisingly rare. August is Elmo, Princess Belle, a pig and a few others. So those dolls are often found on his crib.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lots of junk underneath the crib, the basket of too big clothes is overflowing, his crib is full of toys that Cora thinks he needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this photo you can kind of see the Belle doll that Cora slipped into August's crib. There is also a random bunny that she thought he might like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That concludes another edition of Cribs. Sorry August doesn't have any fancy cars or bling to show off yet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You may ask the question, "Why did we put our baby in a closet?" Well, my friend, that is a good question. And, I answered it in detail in this post: <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/10/nobody-puts-baby-in-corner-look-into.html">Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner (A Look Into Our Strange Nursery Situation)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you want to know more details about how August got such a fancy-looking closet check out the links below.</span><br />
<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/10/nursery-in-closet-update-1-fabric-goes.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Step 1: Fabric Goes Up</span></a><br />
<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/10/nursery-in-closet-update-2-crib-goes-in.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Step: Fancy Dancy Art And A Crib</span></a><br />
<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/10/nursery-in-closet-update-3-shelves-go.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Step 3: Up With The Shelves</span></a><br />
<a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/11/nursery-in-closet-update-4-last.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Step 4: Get Yourself Some Decorations</span></a>Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-20374700695976428882014-02-10T09:00:00.000-05:002014-02-10T09:00:09.513-05:00The Magnet Board Comes To Town, Part 2<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last Monday you got to check out how we made our new fancy dancy <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-magnet-board-comes-to-town-part-1.html">magnet board</a> with the help of my parents! Now it's time to show it off a bit more and tell you about how we use it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In case you forgot what that little door in the middle leads to it is <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/11/introducing-cubby-hole-under-stairs.html">Cora's cubby hole</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After my dad put in lots of hard work building the magnet board he wanted to do the fun stuff and spell out some words on the board for Cora.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We surprised Cora with the magnet board after she returned home from preschool. She loved it and immediately started giving out letters. In this photo she is insisting that cameraman dad take the letter D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The other way we use this board is by playing the "Chasing Letter Game." It is one of Cora's favorites and I like it because she gets exercise while she learns her letters. We have all of the capital letters down now but the lowercase ones are tricky. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The complex game goes like this: I say, "Go find the letter G [or whatever letter I choose]" and Cora races to get it as I run after her screaming, "I'm gonna get you." Then she runs a lap or two around the kitchen and hallway and we play again. Tada! I may contact the Olympic committee to see if they are interested in it for the summer Olympics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is a distant memory now but there was a time when I could find hours throughout the week to blog, put up magnet boards, watch TV, shower when I wanted to, etc. These days we are happy if we can keep both kids fed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I had dreams of putting a magnet board up in our main living level before August was born. I thought it would be another fun solo activity for Cora to keep herself occupied while I nursed August. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I went to the Google machine and found out that people love to use oil drip pans as magnet boards. I liked the idea because it looked super easy. I searched for oil drip pans and they are hard to come by locally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amazon had a few options but the reviewers said that the pans often came dented. I nixed the oil pan and decided to look for something that looked a bit more finished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I went out on my own. I decided that I would just find a sheet of metal and frame it with some wood. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I bought this metal sheet from <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/10/nobody-puts-baby-in-corner-look-into.html">Lowes.</a> Online it says it costs $9.34 but I'm pretty sure I paid close to $20 in the store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I bought some wood to trim the sheet out and had them cut the pieces to size for me at Lowes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also bought some self tapping screws and some corner braces for extra stability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you take on this project make sure that you clean the metal sheet really well. Every time you touched ours you would get totally oiled up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Those lovely yellow boards stayed painted and ready to roll for a couple of weeks. I don't think I mentioned that I took on this project the day before I was induced to have August. At about 9pm both Scott and my mom told me to call it quits on the magnet board. So I did. They were right. I was glad to have a nice night of sleep before the start of a new episode in my life called, "You have a wonderful family but nowhere in the foreseeable future will you sleep more than 4 hours a night."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My dad came to town a day or 2 after August was born and that is when phase 2 of build-a-magnet-board happened. The day after we were home from the hospital it seemed like having two kids might be a piece of cake. August slept a lot during the day and we had plenty of family in town to entertain Cora. It was so easy that one day, while Cora was at preschool, I decided I would try to finish the magnet board. I got it all ready to roll and then August demanded some food. My dad kindly offered to finish the job. Thank goodness he did because my plans were different than his and my magnet board would have resulted in a flopsy wopsy (that is what Cora has named all of her stuffed animal bunnies) magnet fest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then he put the metal in place and started up those self-tapping screws. This is the part where our methods differed... I would have just put a few screws in but my dad used almost all of them and it made a huge difference. If we had just put the screws every 6 or so inches (my method) the board would have been very bendy but with the extra stability of having the screws spaced about an inch and a half apart the board was feeling mega-sturdy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My parents are pretty awesome, aren't they?! I can't wait to show you more photos of the finished product and tell you all the fun ways we use it. Tune in next week! Thanks again, mom and dad!</span></div>
Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-36920560551451723072014-01-30T12:54:00.001-05:002014-01-30T12:54:48.169-05:00Will This Post Be Another 1/15 Of The Way Done Nursery Post?<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nope! This post is an apology for the last two posts that have mistakenly gone up. I ran out of completed pre-written blog posts and the unfinished ones started going up before I noticed. Sorry about that! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How about a couple of very random photos to tide you over? ps If you are not a member of my immediate family or one of my closest friends these photos will not tide you over at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had snow in Davidson 2 days ago! We built the lamest snowman you've ever seen and made some pretty fancy snow angels!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">August dressed up like a man. So cute and so funny! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Australia Day was a few days ago. We celebrated by digging up some of my old Aussie t-shirts from I was little and doing a photoshoot of Cora and August in them. Cora's says "Aussie Champ" and August's says "I'm a Vegemite Kid." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Auggie in a fat man suit. Yes, below is a photo of my son looking like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. I did not dress him up like this because I thought it would look hilarious (although I do think it looks hilarious). He is sleeping in something called <a href="http://www.magicsleepsuit.com/">Baby Merlin's Magic Sleepsuit</a>. It is supposed to be a life-changing sleepsuit that magically gets your baby to sleep by [insert funny comment here... I'm too tired to think of one myself]. The verdict is still out. His first night in it was far from magical. Night 2 was pretty decent. If it ends up being as amazing as it is supposed to be I will certainly let you all know.</span></div>
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Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-32177555918589561522014-01-20T12:33:00.000-05:002014-01-20T12:33:19.134-05:00Big Girl Room Updates: Curtains, Organization & Some Art!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was wayyyy late in doing it but a couple of months ago I finally gave you an <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2013/12/thebiggirlroom.html">introduction to Cora's room</a>. Progress has been made since then so I am here to show it off!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The to do list for her room:</span></b><br />
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<li><strike><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reassemble all furniture</span></strike></li>
<li><strike><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang art above day bed</span></strike></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang floating shelves above dresser</span></li>
<li><strike><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang blinds</span></strike></li>
<li><strike><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang curtains</span></strike></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang more art in her room</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paint</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe paint the back of her tall Ikea Billy bookcase a fun color</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Touch up all furniture (the move was hard on it)</span></li>
<li><strike><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Organize the bookshelves</span></strike></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now it is photo time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You have seen my mother-in-law's handy sewing work a few times. Here is another example of it... look at those beautiful curtains! I had just asked her to add about a foot of extra fabric to the bottom of Cora's old curtains. But she decided that she wanted to fancy them up even more. She changed out the old lining to black out lining (I guess she was sick of seeing our classy looking trash bags covering the blackout blinds we bought). It made a huge difference! Even though we have pull down blackout shades in Cora's room the sun still pours in like you wouldn't believe. There are 1/4" gaps around the window and that sunny sunny sunny sun sneaks on in. She also made the curtains wider. We used the <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30219889/#/60217228">Betydlig brackets</a> and <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90217161/#/30217159">Racka curtain rods</a> from Ikea again and are really happy with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some of the art from Cora's old room went up above her daybed. The illustrations are from The Wild and Woolly Animal Book by Nita Jonas. And, I organized her bookcase a bit better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A little more organization but still missing some decorations: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The floating shelves above the dresser still haven't been installed. I think the room will really come together when I finally get around to that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who knows... the next update may be when Cora and her brother start sharing a room!</span></div>
Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-32010125015936503182014-01-13T09:00:00.002-05:002014-01-13T09:00:05.741-05:00Dining Room Update: Curtain Time!This is just a quick little dining room update for you. A few weeks ago I showed you the curtain magic that my mother-in-law made happen in the living room. Today, you get to see her sewing skills put to work in our dining room.<br />
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I picked out the <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90233095/">Smaborre fabric from Ikea</a> for the job.<br />
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The curtains were even delivered to me on hangers:<br />
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I am a big fan of Ikea's easy to use and easy to hang curtain rods and brackets: <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30219889/#/60217228">Betydlig brackets</a> and <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90217161/#/30217159">Racka curtain rods</a>. So far, they are the only curtain rods we have used in this house. I like how minimal they are. There are no fancy scepter-looking things attached to the ends. And, they are pretty darn inexpensive. I'm into it.<br />
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Scott had to cut the middle Betydlig bracket with a hack saw so it would fit between the window trim and the molding.</div>
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I like the look of floor-length curtains much better than curtains that stop at the windowsill but it made a lot more sense to have them this length. Now, you can easily pull the curtains across the window without having the fabric get stuck behind the bench.<br />
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Ikea let me down big time with their <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80228462/">Tupplur roller blinds</a>. These things stink. They were very easy to install but they do not do their job. The won't stay in place at all. They just roll straight back up or they stop at a totally random spot. Definitely not what you want in a roller blind. We got them because we knew I would be doing a lot of nursing in the dining room and neighbors have a fantastic view of my nursing chair from the street outside.<br />
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I made the blinds work by putting a nail at the bottom of the window. </div>
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I am really happy with the curtains! Yay for house progress!</div>
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ps who likes our dining room view? The close neighbor thing really hasn't been a big deal. We get tons of light in our house and none of our windows line up. So it never feels like you are face to face with your neighbor.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is a sad time in our house. Christmas is over and Cora is letting the world know. The Christmas tree and ornaments are gone and so is her dancing snowman. She talks about this at least 15 times per day and goes over all the Christmas ornaments each time. I am partly writing this post so we can look back at the decorations whenever we want and think about how exciting it will be to see them again in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cora also hijacked a number of the ornaments to use in her doll house. We now have one less Strawberry Shortcake ornament and the Grinch is now referred to as "dad" to about 10 of Cora's dolls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My mom was in town the weekend after Thanksgiving and she suggested that we put up Christmas decorations while she was there. Sold! She is a master holiday decorator! So we put on some Christmas music, drank some hot chocolate and got to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The tree fit perfectly by the front balcony. Next year, we plan to have legitimate outdoor decorations but this year we are getting by on the fact that you could kind of see our tree from the street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> We picked up a real tree topper this year (unlike <a href="http://neverlistless.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-christmas-tree-topper.html">last year's DIY action</a>) at the dollar store. Cora picked it out and was quite proud of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My Christmas themed paper chains with tinsel inside them were strung from our metal bookcase. Yay! Instant festivity!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Check out that awesome Christmas kangaroo pillow. That pillow and almost all of our other decorations are hand-me-downs from my mom. This pillow is my biggest score to date!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An assortment of random decorations lined the window sill... including a stained glass Fred Flintstone Santa Claus from Kings Dominion and framed notes to and from Santa when Kelly and I were little.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About a third of our Christmas book collection is not pictured below. We have a MASSIVE DOSE of Christmas books! I stored them inside the coffee table for easy access. Cora was pretty excited about them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While we were decorating Cora took the opportunity to put all of the stockings, hats, and other random decorations on and go for a little stroll. Stockings became boots. Santa pants became a scarf. It was good times!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can't wait for the holidays next year. By then we ought to have two kiddos old enough to dress up in crazy Christmas outfits and get excited about all the random little things that come along with the holiday season!</span></div>
Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-86616150200456256412013-12-30T09:00:00.000-05:002013-12-30T09:00:01.205-05:00Introducing The Big Girl Room<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since Cora is not the baby anymore I guess I can't call her room the nursery. She calls herself a big girl so I guess I will too! We have been living in our new house for over 4 months now and I still haven't showed you Cora's room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Your lucky day = Today!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Photos Of The Room Before Moving In:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cora came on the final walk through with us and thought her closet was just about the coolest place in the world, especially for gymnastics moves and push-ups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I worked hard on Cora's room early on to make it a nice livable space and then I slowed my roll like crazy. There is still plenty left to do. I cannot wait to get some paint up in this house!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is the to do list for her room:</span></b><br />
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<li><strike><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reassemble all furniture</span></strike></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang art above day bed</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang floating shelves above dresser</span></li>
<li><strike><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang blinds</span></strike></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang curtains</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hang more art in her room</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Paint</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe paint the back of her tall Ikea Billy bookcase a fun color</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Touch up all furniture (the move was hard on it)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Organize the bookshelves</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It should be noted that even though I am calling this "The Big Girl Room" Cora is still sleeping in her crib. We tried the Big Girl Bed but gave up after a few nights. We will try again when things have settled down with the new baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is Cora seeing her room all furnished for the first time:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She was so super excited! It was better than Christmas morning. There was squealing and a ridiculous amount of "Oh Man"s coming out of her mouth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Withing the next few weeks, we got the room a bit more organized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That bookshelf was a mess for a long time. Even Cora was recognizing it with some subtle "Mom, that is a big mess" comments here and there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I put all of my kids/ young adult books in there including a box of Baby Sitter's Club books that brought me up to about book #55. The box also included some sweet Baby Sitter's Club Super Specials (pictured below in the blurry back row).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But that was not the only thing I found in the box. Does anyone remember that there used to be such a thing as New Kids On The Block Trading Cards? Well, it turns out that there was. It also turns out that I must have had all of them. And one more fact for you: They are unbelievably awesome! Just check out Jordan Knight below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In case you didn't guess these cards were what motivated me to organize the bookcase. I couldn't wait to find out what other gems might be hiding among the books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And, some more views of the whole room: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There have actually been a few more items checked off the to-do list at the time that I am writing this. But 27 photos is way too many photos. So, just you wait another month or so and I will get you some updates!</span></div>
Never Listless Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10470835853028558065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8381654745138482575.post-79171536886903564312013-12-23T09:00:00.002-05:002013-12-23T09:00:00.701-05:00Happy Holidays!!!! It's Family Time!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Happy happy holidays! The last month has been crazy town around here. I am very glad that I got a bunch of posts ready to go up each week before I had the baby because there is no way it was happening otherwise. Things are starting to settle down just a little bit. So I thought I would drop in with a little holiday cheer for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Grinch! Not so cheery but at least it is festive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Christmas in Davidson" is a big celebration where we live. They have a couple of weekends full of activities, a parade, a dog costume show, tap dancing older ladies... they do it up big here! We took Cora and August out for one of the evenings and had a wonderful time. Cora got to meet the Grinch. She wasn't so sure about him but it was the highlight of the night. She talked about him nonstop after that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She got to see Santa in the parade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She also got to meet Santa at a Cookies with Santa event.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">August took part in all of these events but he pretty much spent it all snoozing in my arms or Moby wrap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was a trolley offering free rides right outside our house so we took them up on it. And there is August in the Moby wrap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And here is that little dude sleeping in my arms during the parade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh... and on that note- August is my son! He was born 11 days late and used every second of those 11 days to grow into one massive 9pound 15ounce monsterous baby. We think he's pretty awesome.</span><br />
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