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posted by Alex @ 3:56 PM 1 comments

Happy Halloween!!

posted by Alex @ 4:21 PM 0 comments

Actual House Warming

Friday night I had the actual house warming party. There was a good crowd and Laurie made a wide variety of appetizers. I think I may have bought too much beer. The cooler is still full - which is pretty strange for a party up here. Anyway - got a lot of nice bottles of wine (some of which have been emptied already). I was really excited to get a bottle of Berringer's Founders Estate Merlot - it's the bomb. Here are some photos.

posted by Alex @ 5:58 PM 0 comments

Sofa

I bought a sofa and a chair from this rockin' store called Ontario Table and Chair. They have a great selection and decent prices. Here's a photo of the sofar and chair - they're just sitting in the living room now. I haven't put them where they need to go yet.

posted by Alex @ 7:26 PM 1 comments

I fixed the plaster. Ok, I lied.

First - there is a conspiracy with Corn Pops (the other blog).

Now on to real news. I didn't really fix the plaster, my dad fixed it. We bought these dry wall patches at Home Depot that have adhesiv on one side. We put them on and then used quick-dry plaster repair to cover the wholes. Tomorrow i'll sand the patches down and then paint.



My parents were up for the weekend and we got a ton of stuff done. Most of the purchases where at Ikea - here's some highlights -

1) INDEX curtains


2) Office furniture




3) Some colour in the bathroom


The biggest deal is this kitchen island -



We were in Ikea looking at one - brand new it's $270 CAN. This guy comes up to me and says they have downstairs in the "as-is" section for $100 off. I go downstairs and there it is with a couple scratches in the top. Nothing major. We picked it up and it's totally re-made the kitchen. My dad cleaned it with a bleach based cleaner and it's really given it a cool look.

posted by Alex @ 5:37 PM 1 comments

Avoiding mowing the grass

I haven't used a lawn mower in almost two years - quite possibly longer (my old house in Florida had no grass, just weeds). My parents are coming up to visit this week - and of course I need to have this place in order and if my dad sees the forest that was back there, well - i'm 29, but I'm still going to be in trouble.

Laurie's dad was nice enough to lend me his lawn mower and after two hours (I had to keep stopping to clear the lawn mower out) - it's a site to be seen -

posted by Alex @ 5:19 PM 3 comments

Chocolate stain on leather

My mom wrote me this....

"Do you think you could ask your house blog friends if they know a way
to get a large chocolate stain off a beige/mustard colored leather
chair.

I think Dad fell asleep while eating some dark chocolate because they
were a large chocolate stain on one of our leather chairs.

By the time I saw it - it was hardened into the leather. I washed it
with dish washing liquid but I think the brown stain is well
ingrained into the leather by now and it won't budge."

Any ideas?

posted by Alex @ 10:29 AM 1 comments