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Outliers – A Synopsis
I’ve just recently finished the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. What a completely fascinating book! The subtitle of this book is called “The Story of Success” and throughout the book Gladwell tackles seemingly unrelated happenings in life and shows how those very circumstances contributed to your success or non-success. For example, hockey players. A few years ago it was discovered that almost every hockey player that was on the Junior Hockey League in Canada was born in January, February or March almost without exception. Why is this? Is it because those born in January, February or March are special? No, it’s simply that the cut-off date for age-class hockey is January 1. Therefore,…
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Making More Room in the Pantry – Installing a Shelf
How’s your weekend going? I’m off to my niece’s bridal shower today (yes, another one is getting married!) but I wanted to share with you a quick project that we did in the pantry this week. For Emily’s wedding I had bought the commercial plastic wrap for all the little mini desserts I made and transported to the reception hall. I didn’t use very much of the wrap but it served its purpose well. I knew I wanted to have the plastic wrap somewhere where I could access it easily in the future but where. My pantry was quite full already and there was not room for this large box of wrap. This is my…
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Spring Mantle – 2012
Today is the 1st day of Spring and here was the view out my window this morning… Being Arizona this is not a common sight in Spring! But since it is Arizona, the snow doesn’t stay around long. Over Sunday and Monday we got about 12″ of snow. So much fun… It seems I just put up my Winter Mantle but here it is Spring already. I like how God has the different seasons. Each one has its own kind of specialness. So here is my mantle welcoming Spring. It seems I always have old books on my mantle. The bird is sitting on a 1×2 piece of wood that I took and glued moss onto. The orchid…
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Decorating the Boys Bedroom – A Reading Corner
Back in February I talked about doing some decorating in my boys’ bedroom. My boys’ bedroom I’ll tell you about in another post sometime but today I want to show you what I did with my From Pallet to Flag projects. This picture served as inspiration… although my area is nowhere near as big. Source: habituallychic.blogspot.com via Elisabeth on Pinterest I decided to make a reading corner. I had planned to put my flags in another area but it just wasn’t working for me, so I fit them here in the reading corner. (In case you missed my reasoning for a Canadian flag here, it’s because my boys are dual citizens.) …
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From Pallet to Flag
Hello, ladies. I’m pretty excited that I finally got to finish my flag project. Two flags, as a matter of fact. I wanted to paint a USA flag and a Canadian flag on old wood. For my purposes, I used a pallet that we had lying around. I removed the boards, cut them to the size I wanted and then we attached them together by laying a couple of strips of wood down and stapling the boards I wanted to them. Sorry, I don’t have a picture of the underside to show you how we attached them but you probably have it figured out already anyways… right? The next step was…
