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DIY Mason Jar Oil Burner

I had an impromptu day off of work on Friday so that was pretty unexpected. Hell yeah! My new garage freezer was delivered which I am totally excited about! Oh I did not tell you about my new freezer purchase yet? My bad! I finally bit the bullet and went and purchased one a couple of weekends ago. I've been eyeing one for a while now but kept waiting for it to go on-sale. It has- a few times- but I was waiting to see if it would go lower on-sale. It hasn't. It was originally $649 and shockingly after shopping around to all of the big box home stores- the cheapest was at Best Buy. I bought it during the 4th of July savings event so it was on-sale for $552. They were also running a special that if you used your Best Buy card- you'd save an additional 5% off plus have free financing for 18 months. Showing a little boob got me free shipping and free haul away (a combined cost of $90) so for the grand total I paid $527. Not bad. It ends up being about $30 a month

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There Must Be Something About This Color

I've done it again. I think I need more friends because it seems when I have down time, I paint things. If you haven't noticed, I paint a lot- therefore I apparently have no friends. So painting is what I did yesterday. At least this was something that was kind of necessary. Since I went and screwed the piece up by doing another project way back when. Let's start with this. You remember my cute little pedestal table in my kitchen, right? Don't mind the old photos. There are no pumpkins currently on the table. I'm not that crazy. OK- while I was staining my new laundry room shelves however many months ago, I somehow got splatters of stain all over the top of this table. Which, as you can see, is no where near the laundry room or the shelves that actually got the stain. Apparently I'm super talented like that. After I finally realized that the stain got on the table top, well after it was dried of course, I knew I needed to try to fix it. I

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My Awesome Porch Facelift

OK if one could actually marry a screened porch, I'd be the first in line to get that marriage certificate. I mean, in some states you can marry a goat, so I'm thinking I might just have a chance with my porch. This makeover is FAR from done but the last two days I have spent almost every waking hour out there fixing 'er up and getting 'er done. Beware, you might want to go potty or get a drink cuz this is gonna be a long one. Don't say I didn't warn you. If you've followed this blog for a while, you will know that I hate my screened porch. Like DESPISE it. I was so unbelievably excited to spend $5,000 on it when purchasing my mansion. I had dreams of sitting out there, bug free, enjoying the sunsets with a nice cold beer. All of the houses that I toured did not have a screened porch and when I closed on my house, I knew why. Cuz it was the worst $5,000 I had ever spent. And I throw 5 G's around like it's nothing, let me tell you. I was

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DIY Mason Jar Oil Burner

I had an impromptu day off of work on Friday so that was pretty unexpected. Hell yeah! My new garage freezer was delivered which I am totally excited about! Oh I did not tell you about my new freezer purchase yet? My bad! I finally bit the bullet and went and purchased one a couple of weekends ago. I've been eyeing one for a while now but kept waiting for it to go on-sale. It has- a few times- but I was waiting to see if it would go lower on-sale. It hasn't. It was originally $649 and shockingly after shopping around to all of the big box home stores- the cheapest was at Best Buy. I bought it during the 4th of July savings event so it was on-sale for $552. They were also running a special that if you used your Best Buy card- you'd save an additional 5% off plus have free financing for 18 months. Showing a little boob got me free shipping and free haul away (a combined cost of $90) so for the grand total I paid $527. Not bad. It ends up being about $30 a month

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Snowed In... Therefore I Will Show You My Laundry Room

I mean, that makes sense, right? No? Just me? Bueller? Anyhoo! Back to the laundry room. Remember way back to December 2012 when I ripped out the wire shelf in the laundry room and replaced it with gorgeous dark walnut stained wood shelves with gorgeous brackets? No? Well you can read all about it by clicking here . And now that you've refreshed, remember when I said that I was going to find some cute baskets to decorate those shelves and take down the wood key chain holder that now clashed with the luscious dark walnut stain? Yeah. Oopsie. Over a year later I finally got on that shit. Technically, I've had the baskets and bins for a while now, I've just been pretty lazy on posting about them. The wicker baskets I found at a store here called Gordman's. They were pretty cheap to begin with- I think about $4 for the smalls and $7 for the larges plus I had a coupon for a percentage off. Can't remember at this point, but they were well worth the money.

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There Must Be Something About This Color

I've done it again. I think I need more friends because it seems when I have down time, I paint things. If you haven't noticed, I paint a lot- therefore I apparently have no friends. So painting is what I did yesterday. At least this was something that was kind of necessary. Since I went and screwed the piece up by doing another project way back when. Let's start with this. You remember my cute little pedestal table in my kitchen, right? Don't mind the old photos. There are no pumpkins currently on the table. I'm not that crazy. OK- while I was staining my new laundry room shelves however many months ago, I somehow got splatters of stain all over the top of this table. Which, as you can see, is no where near the laundry room or the shelves that actually got the stain. Apparently I'm super talented like that. After I finally realized that the stain got on the table top, well after it was dried of course, I knew I needed to try to fix it. I

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Landscaping Part 786.....

Happy Belated Mother’s Day to all my mommy readers out there! Hope you were spoiled rotten on your special day. We had gorgeous weather here in Indy and I was hoping to get a LOT of landscaping done this weekend. On Thursday I headed to Menards to pick up some Miss Kim Lilac bushes that were on sale for $14.88 each. I was also on the hunt for some Knockout Rose bushes. Meijer (supermarket) had them on sale for $12.50 each but I wanted to check Menards first while I was there. I grabbed 3 of the Miss Kim lilac bushes (the only ones remaining) and saw that the rose bushes were $19.99 so I passed on the ones there. As I headed over to the supermarket I looked up Lowe’s on my phone and saw that they were on special there for $9.50- which was $3 cheaper than Meijer. Score! So after grocery shopping I picked up 4 rose bushes from Lowe’s as well as another hanging plant on special for $5. Here’s the back of my car after that shopping excursion. Crazy!

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Check Out My New Sun Room

Guys....... you have no idea how happy this post makes me! This is a huge one boys and girls. Are you ready???? So way back 8 years ago when I built my house, I added on a screened porch. And I hated it the minute I saw it. Like if I could have ripped it down with my bare hands, I would have. It was made with quite possibly the worst materials these idiot builders could have found. So I did what any sane person would do.... I closed the curtains on my slider and ignored it for two years. I finally decided to put some furniture out there and "try" to make it work. Well, it didn't. So I did what any sane person would do..... I closed the curtains again and ignored it for another two years. Then a few years ago I was determined to make it work. I thought I didn't like it because it was blah and boring and tan and brown. And it had ugly paneling on the walls. And a shitty screen door that was falling apart. So I did what any sane person would do a

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