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Target: Petra Sandal Sometimes a girl needs motivation. Why not shoes? My goal is 20 miles.

Today, I decided to hide out in my bed and do nothing. No church, no rushing here, no grocery shopping, no popping into Target, just lying in bed, browsing the internet for design inspiration and reading my novel that I bought for 50 cents at Big Lots. Yes. Fiddy cents. Not happy for the author but happy for me! But before I go back to my book, I will leave you with pictures of my now complete dining area and living room. Before. My goodness. It took forever for me to get these pictures, and I am still not satisfied. They look a bit muddy. But here they are. Living Room Do you see that the bowl from the foyer post is now empty? I don't know what it is, but every time I take a picture of a plant, they die. The gerbera just rotted on me. I wasn't over watering, I promise. I only watered when the soil was begging for water. I tire o. Bookshelf I got this bookshelf from West Elm in Miami. The apartment I had moved into gave me a $1000 giftcard as a bonus for re...

I finished the dresser. Remember this: Goodwill dresser, $29.00 Well, after many suns, I finally finished it. Way after! I will do a proper post soon with maybe better pictures, my camera has been acting up lately. Plus, I still have to style the top. Sigh. No ideas yet on that. Also, I see that my drawers are uneven, they were even when I bought them so back to the drawing board on that. Cost breakdown:  Dresser $29 marked down from $59 -Goodwill Uhaul: $29 (worst mistake ever! never again! more on that later) Pulls: EBay: 29.55 (yes, the pulls cost more than the dresser, lol. Crazy huh?) Paint + Primer (which I used on the bed, nightstand and a chair, and still have 1/2 left) about $20.  I will give this dresser this, it's made of solid wood. I put together my dining room table from Target and I love target but men the difference between particleboard and wood was clear like 7-up.  That was fun. And I am done for now. I did see this really...

Chaos!! My painting studio. ` 9.99! After some paint, and a curtain.

I didn't mean to be gone for soooo long. Wow, 12 days since my last post? How did that happen? I have been busy working on my guest room. It is almost there, just a few last touches and I will post the final reveal, namely, I need to find a curtain rod, a rug, and a lamp shade and then I can finally mark the project complete. Over budget, but complete at last. In fact, my apartment is slowly but surely coming together. My plan was to be done by the end of July but if I am diligent, and would stop eating crackers and reading novels, I might be able to push that up to the end of this month. I finally completed my foyer this afternoon when I finally committed to some faux foliage. Don't laugh. I kept envisoning apple blossom or some kind of blossom branches in my vase but I could never find the right price.  Hobby Lobby was having a sale this week and the price was so right. Anyway, enough of my rambling. The foyer. The breakdown:  Gallery wall. I've actu...

Some  Plans:Thwarted A marriage: never even celebrated Some  children : left with no one to train them Some  husbands : now embraceless Some  wives : left with no one to cherish them My Lord, how could this be? What happened? What could have went wrong? Some  odabos : never turned to e ka abo Some  fights : no chance to be resolved Long hoped for accomplishment : never to be enjoyed I cannot imagine how it must have been did they cry? did they scream? call out their God's name? A planned rest : now permanent Please pray it's peaceful So many plans : O Lord! We need Your comfort Please heal us and dry our tears Replace all we lost with You 112 beginnings : brought to too quick an end aobeo 10/29/05 I wrote that in 2005 for the Bellview air crash victims. Then we had another one, and now the doomed Dana Air flight on Sunday, the worst yet.  When shall we demand accountability from all the airline owners? When shall a human...