Double Boiler

How many of you out there in computer land actually use a double boiler? I am having a garage sale this weekend....I think I will put it in. I think I have used it once in 8 years.

Great People in my life-Here's a few!

Check it out!!!!

Okay...What is Owen thinking?, and what is Alexis thinking??? You write the caption!

Amost finished!

I was going to upload a picture of the garage we used to have and the cottage it has turned into, but my computer won't upload the image...Again...sigh! Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
So we have a little cottage the color of Grandma Pickrell's house in Ketchikan (dk brown) with white trim. There are shutters on the windows with fleur-de-lis's (fleurs-de-lis?) painted on them with a little scrollwork and another fleur-de-lis above the window. There are flower boxes as well that are overflowing with color that shouts welcome! Inside the cottage the main colors are powder blue and powder yellow and different shades of white and cream. The bathroom has white beadboard wainscoting and a bit of flowered wallpaper that I pulled the colors from. In the corner of the living room is a small gas fireplace that will keep the place quite cozy. It is about 800 sq ft in size. It has a tile entry, and then the living room & kitchen have laminate flooring while we have wool light beige carpet for the bedrooms. Oh my goodness!!! The picture just appeared!!! The bathroom has a tile floor with a heater in it. It only took that picture about 10 minutes to upload. Let's see if I can get a close up of the windows now...
There will be a walkway with pavers that will extend in front of the cottage for a little patio. Eventually a little picket fence will be out front so whoever lives there won't have to worry about my labs and maybe their picnic lunch. Hurray!!! There it is! The other picture!
Tomorrow we will have the window casings all in place and the beadboard done. The laminate flooring is the next part. We will also lay the walkway pavers tomorrow. We started this in January-It will be good to get this done!

"The Merits of Messiness"

Is everybody's closet clean??? At the dentist office today I was skimming through the Ladies Home Journal (Feb 07) issue and came across an interesting article: It was titled "The Merits of Messiness"
"The idea that clutter can make the world a better place runs counter to everything we've been taught. What's so great about messiness? When you allow disorder, randomness and the unexpected into your world, many good things happen. You save the time and money that you would have spent trying to maintain order. If you have a tightly scheduled calendar, it's easy for something to go wrong, so super-neat people must constantly work at staying in control. But when you're kind of messy, if something unexpected happens you can deal with it more easily. And you also gain tremendous flexibility. For example, when you're tidy, you put that guitar away in a closet. If you're messy, you leave it around where you may happen upon it and rediscover the passion for playing. "

Less is More!

Clean out your closets, get rid of your clutter, throw away garbage, hold a garage sale, get rid of broken stuff or projects you have had longer than two years and have not touched. Give it to a thrift store, or share with someone whether or not they have a need! Get rid of STUFF! DO IT NOW!!!
Thank you!

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