15 September 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Take that, Pottery Barn

I finished the desk!
Here’s the desk after an ungodly amount of sanding and scraping:

Let the finishing process begin! I can’t begin to describe the joy I felt when I saw that the stain was soaking into the wood, rather than beading up (which would have happened if I wasn’t successful in scraping and sanding away [...]

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14 July 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Why we can't have nice things

Rob lost his wedding ring yesterday. It has been 23 days. He ended up finding it (near the machine at the gym he was using to pound his lats, or whatever), but still.
We sprung for a nice coffee table from Pottery Barn and after two months, Molly has already scratched the bejeezus out of it. [...]

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21 May 2008 ~ 1 Comment

A whole new level of expensive

You know what’s expensive? FURNITURE. Specifically, bedroom furniture. I can swallow dropping six hundred bucks on a nice kitchen table that I’m going to have to look at every day while I’m eating dinner off a $400 coffee table while sitting on a $500 couch and watching a television set that cost more than I [...]

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