pleased Labor Day weekend everyone! That implies that both summertime as well as the month of August are concerning a close. Let’s all shed a communal tear. however before we psychologically inspect out for the long weekend, it always assists us keep the ol’ momentum up by taking an appreciative look back on all of our happenings from last month (along with some perk never-before-seen stuff). It certainly influences us to keep plugging away, plus it makes browsing our archives a great deal simpler (you can checked out back with January of 2011 best right here in just 19 messages instead of 665). Woot! as well as below you’ll likewise discover a hint about Monday’s giveaway, so feel totally free to assumption away at what that may be…
Most Redeemed: Me, after Sherry’s bit mishap with the lamp made me feel a bit less poor about my tendency to break things around right here (a specific ceramic canine concerns mind).
Mood-iest: This mood board Sherry produced to begin planning what products would ultimately go on our deck. There’s still some work to do, however I believe we got off to a great start.
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Freshest: Taking a trip to Ikea to inspect out all of their new stuff now that the 2013 catalog is out. as well as based on the comments, we’re not the only ones to have drooled over their crop of new chairs. may wanna wipe those seats before you sit down…
Most Painful: The autumn I took while starting to put down deck boards. thankfully the huge marks I got across my back as well as inner thigh from smacking them on some joists are now gone.
Least Musical: Sherry, after she handled to butcher The Brady lot style tune into a publish about framing art around our house. Let’s hope none of the Bradys checked out our blog.
Most Blushy: Us, after the amazing reaction we got from you men when we officially revealed that our book is offered for pre-order (and shared a bit behind-the-scenes story about the cover). Seriously amazing. We’re so grateful as well as so thrilled to tell you much more about it soon!
Most Organized: My side of the closet, now that Sherry upgraded me from a few woven baskets to these smooth white bins from Ikea.
Most Athletic: A lot of you guys. I was so thrilled to see exactly how numerous of you exposed yourselves as runners (whether casually or of the much more professional variety) in this publish about why I’m a runner.
Most fun You Can have With A circular Saw: lastly completing the deck boards. There was something so satisfying about ripping with a lot of boards understanding that it put me that much better to calling the deck done-zo.
Comfiest: This new chair that we snagged for the corner of our kitchen. It sure beats the old too-small one that had been sitting there because we moved in as well as plopped it down.
Longest: Our home to-do list, which we updated for you this month. There’s certainly much more crossed off, however there’s still great deals to do… like deal with the third bedroom (which looks a heckova great deal much more chaotic than this pic, since it’s now full of trick book jobs that we’re saving for a charity auction this fall).
Most Improved: The mirror circumstance in our kitchen. We didn’t recognize exactly how little the existing one looked up until we replaced it with this larger spare from our guest bedroom.
Best Deal: This $295 outside lantern that we scored for $19 as well as hung in our carport to ensure that our too-tiny light might lastly get the boot.
Most likely To get Vertigo: anybody scared of heights (like my wonderful wife) who crossed the bridge on the High Bridge path near Farmville, VA (she felt much much better by the time we shopped the significant furniture outlet nearby).
Most Fascinating: discovering the origin of the basket that we utilized to make this new diy light fixture in our kitchen. obviously they’re utilized to catch fish – just inspect out this Flickr picture to see it in action.
Most Egg-sessive: Sherry, at least when it concerns egg chairs – thus this publish with an egg-tastic update, including egg chairs for Clara’s dollhouse (gotta begin ’em early!).
Most Versatile: These $5 tulips that Sherry had fun reimagining a trio of times.
The “Goliath” Award: The lastly completed deck, which this “David” lastly knocked out after ten sun-drenched, sawdust filled weeks of figuring out what the heck I was doing. however unlike the traditional story, I’m getting quite friendly with this giant.
Most Well Traveled: Us, although only in the sense that we sure do get around when it concerns hitting up thrift stores in Richmond. Here’s a recap of our six-store trip of the River City’s thriftiest spots.
Most Moroccan: This great bit side table that we discovered a thrift store (we particularly liked hearing everyone’s concepts of what they’d do to him).
Wordiest: This award might most likely go to us for each publish we write, however this month we’re providing it to the text-y art hack that Sherry carried out on the painting in our dining room.
Most delayed Gratification: utilizing this teak oil on our new deck chairs (along with polying our table) to assist avoid them from getting damanged over time. sure felt like great deals of scrubing for bit results… for now – however we hope it’ll add as much as less work on the back end.
Most likely To include A Gratuitous Burger Shot: This bit mantra that we shared in this publish about exactly how we choose what to publish about.
Future Fashionista: Clara (who really insisted that she bring her handbag to house Depot yesterday). as well as here’s where we spilled the beans on where as well as exactly how we purchase clothes for our bit lady.
Most Chillaxed: Burger, who’s already testing out a number of relaxation areas on the freshly furnished deck.
Most likely To result In underclothing Chatter: This publish about exactly how the other half whipped up a “so so shiny hoop” for the bean. Leave it to Sherry to bring underclothing into it…
Most Cryptic: This visual hint for Monday’s giveaway. Let’s just state there are three unique hints in this image…
How did August look for you? Did you get any type of major jobs completed? Make any type of especially fruitful buying trips? Or did you just delight in the last few weeks before the youngsters went back to institution to their fullest? Can’t believe our bit one goes off to preschool for two mornings a week in a few short weeks. Sniffle.
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