Friday, December 30th, 2005
posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Demolition | 4 Comments
Remember my fears that the bathroom would be too much for us? That it would sit unfinished – barely begun – until the end of time? Ha. Silly me. All it took was a few hours of hard work, and the whole thing seems so much more possible. Turns out all that tile-bashing we did [...]
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
posted by K | filed under Finds | 8 Comments
Oh boy, today has been a good one. I’ll get into the bathroom project tomorrow when we’ve done a little more work on it. Today I’ll tell you about the mantel. We went to lunch at the Eutaw Diner downtown with a group of fellow Eutawans and decided to walk there since the weather was [...]
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005
posted by K | filed under Society, Tools | 2 Comments
Our savvy, experienced and capable home improver friend D cut her finger pretty badly on a table saw last week. Let this be a warning: if D can injure herself with a table saw, anyone can. Be careful out there!
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
posted by K | filed under Kitchen, Tools | 5 Comments
Expect to see some more action around here in the next month. We’re like kids who want to play with our new Christmas toys. My parents gave me a good heavy-duty step ladder. The woodwork is doing a happy dance because it might just get finished now. The top few feet of the doors and [...]
Saturday, December 24th, 2005
posted by K | filed under Society | 2 Comments
D and I aren’t giving each other gifts this year. As you may have noticed, I’m a shopaholic and love buying gifts. D fears gift-giving occasions more than giant spiders and wizards named Voldemort. So I let him off the hook this year. Instead of worrying about gifts for each other, we bought presents for [...]
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
posted by K | filed under Extreme Temps, Finds | 4 Comments
In these cold days, I take comfort in anything that can make me feel a little warmer. Even when it’s just playing tricks on my mind. Yesterday my sister and I did some last-minute Christmas shopping. I haven’t been to a Bath and Body Works in about a hundred years, because it is The Bad [...]



