Author: Paula
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Pinterest Quotes: Affirmations That You Are Powerful and Loved
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Every once and awhile, you just need the affirmation that things are good, you are OK, and you are loved, and that you are the key to unlocking the future you deserve and will love. Here are a few quotes from Pinterest for this Friday 🙂 Source: quotehimonthat.tumblr.com via Paula…
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Gardening: Cleaning up the Palm Trees in Our Front Yard
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Last night, I decided to tackle some of the palm trees in our front yard. They had years’ worth of dead fronds on them. You can see them hanging near the top of the fence here: So I got out my ladder and went to work. It took about twenty…
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Our House: A Few Favorite Spaces
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It’s funny, watching a house become a home. We bought this little place as is, with a lot of dreams, and a lot of hopes of how it might turn out. Over the last five months, we’ve put in a lot of work. I love doing it. It feels like…
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Hall Bathroom: Painting and Updating the Medicine Cabinet
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This last weekend we made some major progress on our Hall Bathroom. A couple of weeks ago we’d bought new glass sconces for the light fixture. The old ones had been frosted and heavy looking, and we bought some new clear glass ones, and swapped out the light bulbs for…
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House Tour: Where We Started
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Since we moved in, I realize that I haven’t shared a room by room tour of the new place. Many of these first shots are from our walk through, so the furniture belongs to the previous owners. Our home is a 1971 two bedroom, two bath, ranch style home. It…
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Home Update: The Yard, the Master Bedroom, and Baseboards
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We moved in to our home about three and a half months ago, and have been working on a bunch of renovation projects. Things happen a little each day, as we can get to them. Here’s a little recap on some of the work we’ve completed. I can’t wait to…
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“I love you and I will keep you safe” – Words of Wisdom for a Toddler
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From the time Zoom was very tiny, I have always talked to him. Full conversations and explanations. As a baby, he’d listen intently, and smile, coo, react in gibberish. But it didn’t matter to me. This was all still quality time with my little one. Zoom, eating some sand, just…
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Fall on the California Coast
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Fall is a subtle season here, a cooler breeze, sharper colors. Here is a bit of the scene from coast earlier this month: