art family home observations

Feng Shui Insight

Bit by bit, load by load, Hubby and I are moving our stuff from storage into our house. Yesterday, we brought home some of our artwork, hanging a couple of pieces and arranging others. I was happy to hang a painting of sunflowers that was in my childhood home and somehow became mine. It was like seeing an old friend again. I also placed my Grandpa Jens’ painting on the mantle above one of our…

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family home observations

Junk Mail Pet Peeve

Now that we’ve moved into a new house, we are getting junk mail again. Apparently, as soon as you’ve signed the papers to buy a house, your name and new address get spread far and wide to advertisers, who make sure you get a flood of “Welcome to the Neighborhood” mailings. On one hand, it’s nice to get mail when you first move in. It gives you a sense of what businesses are in the…

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design family home projects work in progress

New Home Office

Work continues apace in our new-to-us home, which was built in the 1960s. One of my first orders of business was to set up a home office. We have four bedrooms in the house. I chose the one I wanted as an office and then promptly set up a temporary office in the bedroom across the hall. I had work to do before moving into my room of choice. The day we moved in, Hubby…

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