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Tips Build dog house designs . All About Puppy Houses Sparky1 - our quite individual Do it yourself entry! An insulated medium-sized dog house having a removable roof for ease of cleaning, a cedar deck with roof, an optional inner wall, and sound building throughout. A lot of pictures and thorough development instructions.
Asheville Humane Society Dog Residence - An easy but practical dog property which has a gently sloped roof, an offset doorway, interior wind break, as well as a 2x4 raised floor. Among the nice functions with this particular strategy is that all the measurements are provided in terms of your dog's dimension which means you can quickly custom build the home to suit your dog. Instance: dimension X is dog's length plus 12". [ PDF format].Tips Build dog house designs
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My dear friend, Flip, whose house I have shown several times, has her house on Apartment Therapy and she’s receiving the most marvelous comments from the audience, which can be rather caustic at times.You can see some pictures of Flip’s house:
Salvage Chic Part I
Salvage Chic Part II
Flip Says Thanks
Flip’s Bathroom
More Details
I hope that you will take a few minutes and look at Flip’s house and the accompanying slide show. You will notice in her details that she’s gotten several pieces from our talented friends, including David at McLain-Wiesand and Tracey at Housewerks. Flip is super-talented, a marvelous person and someone I am so pleased to call a friend!
Congratulations, Flip! I am so proud of you.
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Sometimes, I just get the feeling I’ve got to go somewhere and check out what they have, and more often than not, I find a treasure. There’s a charity shop right around the corner from my office, so I swung by there at lunch today just to check it out.
When I went in the shop, one of the gals pointed at an old laundry cart and just left it at that… When I walked over to it, I was gob-smacked to see that it was full of old silverplated pieces of serving-ware. But all of the way at the bottom of this cart, I found something I’d never seen before. There were about a dozen silverplated cups. Not like a Jefferson cup or a julep cup, but almost like a tea cup. They were absolutely filthy. Dirtier than almost any other piece of silver I’ve ever seen. But when I turned them over, the underneath was fine, so I thought I could clean them. I still have some work to do on the one on the right, and then seven more to clean, but isn’t it amazing what a little (a lot) of elbow grease will do for a piece? The other little treasure I found was a sweet book called “The John F. Kennedys” by photographer Mark Shaw. He was a photographer for Life Magazine who became a friend of the Kennedys in the late 1950s and early 60s. There are photos I’ve never seen before which present a side of the family just before JFK became president and then immediately after. Here are a few examples. I love how contemporary the top image of JBKO looks. It could have been taken this summer. If you want to come treasure hunting with me, I am thinking of doing a Friday-only pre-holiday shopping trip to a couple of my favourite places in Baltimore. Probably the first Friday in December. Let me know if you’re interested.
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Now, I know it’s about 41 days until Christmas, but I have no idea how many days there are until Valentine’s Day, because it’s not even on my radar yet. Hell, I’ve got to get through the next three months before Valentine’s Day will even be a glimmer on my screen.
But the good PR folks at Dempsey & Carroll, one of my favourite stationers, are already out there pushing for us to order our Valentine’s Day cards. I am probably not even going to figure out what I am sending for Christmas cards until, oh, about December 24th! D&C… please let us get past these upcoming holidays before you barrage us to buy for the next one. If good PR was your mission in sending this e-mail reminder, you failed.
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A few months ago, in a fit of insanity, I agreed to decorate a doll house to be auctioned to raise funds for the renovation of the Minton-tiled kitchen at Evergreen House. A few months ago, the deadline of Thanksgiving sounded so far away. Now, however, it is right upon us. My über-talented friend, David Wiesand, proprietor of McLain-Wiesand, is also creating a dollhouse, but since he’s got a whole workshop full of amazing artisans at his beck and call, I knew he’d be the hands-down winner. So I had to think of a strategy that was both frugal and creative – just like me! (HA!)As I was drifting off to sleep a few weeks ago in a Nyquil-induced delirium, I had a semi-brilliant thought. Why not make a paper-doll house? Everything in the house will be done in paper. It’s taken me some time to really work out how to do this, but I think I finally have it!Thank god for Google and my printer! I have finished the outside and am now working on the inside decor. At least I won’t be totally mortified when I show up with my paper-doll-house. David will still win, though.
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