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Kitchen Table Re-do

This kitchen table has been around the block a time or two.  It started it’s life when my parents got married in the early 1960’s.  My mom calls it Danish Modern.  It originally had a dark stain on it, and it was a good useable table. …
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Office corner clutter

I work from home in a sense in that I am an Occupational Therapist that travels to people’s houses.  I have my own toys and therapy equipment that I bring with me, so I need to keep all of my therapy stuff somewhere.  Our office…
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Home Made Ice cream cookie sandwiches

I have been thinking about these for weeks, since we last went to Disneyland.  I am going to give away a little known secret of Disneyland, and I hope that I am not sorry later.  There is a little hole in the wall ice cream stand that is off…
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Dresser Makeover

I had originally bought this dresser about 5 years ago from Salvation Army. It was just plain wood, and boring. My daughter had needed a bigger dresser and she wanted it to be a painted dresser. At the time she wanted pink. (Now she hates…
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home made charging station

In my continual efforts to manage the chaos, I have been looking at charging stations for cell phones, ipods etc. The ones that I have found are $40, and that is at a discount store. I just couldn't pay that much. I found the materials, and…
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Outside guinea pig cage

The Guinea pigs have a nice big cage in the family room, which you can read about here. I thought that it might be nice for them to have a big cage outside so that they could enjoy the out of doors without fear of being eaten. I also wanted…
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new cloche (bell jar)

On several sites, people are big into decorating with the bell jars, or cloches such as at a soft place to land, and at the nesting place. Well, I tend to go slow with decorating because I take time to decide what I really like, and I have to…
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Guinea Pigs and Cages

Let's start by saying that we got two guinea pigs this summer. They are very cute little creatures, and they squeek whenever they hear my voice (they always want lettuce). The girl is black and white and her name is Shasta, and the boy is tortoise…