sandhillsis on January 19th, 2010

I’ve been busy trying to get my winter honey-do-list done, like breaking in my Christmas gift from Santa (I can hardly wait to show you), picking out paint for a number of rooms in this old house (do you think you should have a say in color?), mending britches (this time with reckless artful abandon) and [...]

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sandhillsis on September 28th, 2009

So I have this artist friend, who loans me books. Creative ones, that make painting look easy. I read them in bed, with coffee and when I shouldn’t.  They make me feel creative and artsy.

They let me dream about what my house would look like, if I ran a mission in Mexico… a fantacy colorwashed in my [...]

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sandhillsis on September 18th, 2009

So here’s the deal. I started this bathroom makeover….how long ago now? For-ever, and I’m still not done. The fall weather set in and I lost my mind, then threw a pickin’ party, then I canned some more salsa, and I got side-tracked and decided to paint my kitchen counter tops instead because the bathroom ones turned out so well.  (It’s [...]

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sandhillsis on August 26th, 2009

The kids went back to school and I went into mourning. If you missed that self-realization post, you can read it here.  While in mourning, I like to do home improvement.
Ben giggled and said, “The kids haven’t been gone for two hours and you already have the house tore up.”
That was a true statement.
I’ve talked about  the [...]

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