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Purging for Peace
No I don’t have a philanthropic eating disorder. We’re purging our house of many belongings. Why, you may ask. Well, for starters, who likes to dust all that stuff anyway? Also, I love antiques. Not...
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Baby Steps
We’ve decided to no longer buy bread from the store. No biscuits, no sandwich or french bread, no pizza dough. I, Carolyn, will be the sole bread winner. And it makes me naseous. But I’ve noticed that...
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Taking it easy.
We’re hitting the road this weekend and so we’ve got to rest up. R wasn’t feeling too hot last night, so I decided tonight to fall back on a classic. Soup & grilled cheese. I hardly ever crave soup...
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All dressered up
I’m re-doing our bedroom. No big deal right. The catch is I’m re-doing it into an all white/cream room, save our favorite chest at the end of the bed. That will be the only brown in sight. That’s a...
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Dorm Room Love
That’s what we are affectionally calling it: our dorm room. It’s the smallest place in which I’ve lived (with another person) since college. I thought it would be interesting to see how we’ve scaled...
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She likes me, she likes me not.
I caught myself a few hours into the roadtrip to Manhattan quietly pulling off petals. I like this… oh, I don’t like that… I finally grabbed my camera and tried to capture those petals as they fell. I...
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Postmarked with Love.
Standing for hours shuffling through old postcards doesn’t sound like an appealing afternoon for most people, but it certainly does to me. Especially if it’s raining. Ah, then it’s a perfect afternoon....
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Around the dorm…
Thought I’d give you a tiny update on my decorating is coming along in the dorm aka our current living situation. A couple items have joined our family and I love them to pieces. I wanted a way to...
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I’ve gone too far.
In my quest to find and use everything historical, I want that to extend into my eyewear. I found these babies from the twenties and intended to get my prescription put into them. R took one look at...
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Dorm Bedroom
Ah yes, where all the magic happens…. at least now that I have my Harry Potter glasses. So in case you’ve forgotten, we live in a very small apartment. I can literally wash the dishes while taking a...
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My First Official Book Review Since 3rd Grade
Have you ever been sifting through books, randomly open one up, and fall in love with the first few lines? Where you really could’ve stood there for a few half-hours more and just read, shifting your...
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Squeal!
Look at my birthday present! It rang the doorbell and patiently waited for me to answer it. Squeal! If you don’t remember, I found this lil guy on the front lawn of a house. It was sad and ripped and...
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The Little Things…
Or in this case, one big thing gets me excited. (I heard that, Office watchers.) One of my favorite antique stores in a small town just north of us is building something big. And to me, it makes me...
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We don’t mess around….
…when messing around. Wait. That didn’t sound right. Barbeque messy, people, barbeque. It was rainy evening and as soon as we started our run, my knee swelled up despite the new brace and I had to...
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Pre-Adventure
We were laughing and giggling… obviously having no clue what we were getting ourselves into. R felt like a ballerina in his new long-sleeved synthetic shirt; a mandated item to enter the race. While I...
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When the Cat’s Away…
R has a business trip in KC next week, so he wanted to drive up earlier to stay with a friend. One problem. We’re a one car family and I’ve had an antique shopping day planned with a couple girls from...
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Crocks
We had a couple days off from school this past week due to weather, so I ice skated my way to some antique stores. I always try to have a game plan before entering these fun-filled edifices. If not,...
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A Day to Myself.
R is out of town for a few days, so guess what that means? Girly time … with myself! Hello, my name is Carolyn and I’m an introvert. There, I said it. R and I had gone to some friends’ (T’s blog is...
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Poor Guys
Some people would take home stray kitties. Not me. I’d rather save these stray radiators. A tear came to my eye as I passed by them.Posted in antiques
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Reading Character At Sight
Not so long ago, I was digging through some books at an estate sale and came across these beauties. From 1918, they delve into how to read people’s character (and your own character). As I skimmed the...
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Bye!
I’m out of town this week (Spring Break) to visit old friends on the west coast. The girl that is coming along for the first part is always up for anything, so I know it should be interesting. In the...
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Loose Lips Sink Ships
In grade school, we had to interview someone who either fought in or lived through WWII. I called my grandpa and asked him several pre-written questions. I wish I had done that more often. But I do...
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Fly me to the moon.
It really backfired on him, this surprising me with a trip and planning out the major details thing. Because, before, I would do all of the planning and never knew of this state of being called...
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Thrifting
I always love to point out how much I hate to shop. And I do… for new things. Give me access to pre-used, bargain deals, then my mouth salivates at the thought of going store hopping. It’s to the...
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Ivory
I mentioned a while back that I had tweaked my laundry detergent recipe to make it even cheaper. Well, here goes. The actual recipe is so easy to remember, it’s the identification of each powder that...
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Junk In My Trunk
Yes, there too, but also my estate sale finds. Between the 9 circles of Dante’s Inferno that was last summer and my overpowering swollen ankles during the last couple months of pregnancy, I didn’t make...
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Carthage Thrifting
Well, there went our budget for the week, but oh my it was worth it. I got some fun things and didn’t talk baby talk once the entire day. I asked an old coworker of mine, N, to escort me around some...
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