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More on Connie's Bedroom.....

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before I get to today's post.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">let me just say.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I AM SO SICK OF WHITE IN DECORATING I COULD JUST PUKE!!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wait.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me clarify.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have done a white living room and sunroom for Connie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe that's why I'm over white.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Been there, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Done that.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I have white slipcovers in my own living room.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>THEY WILL BE CHANGED WHEN MY FABRIC LINE COMES OUT.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need to figure out a pattern to work in that room.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">NO PRESSURE.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OY, I've just told the world.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>WHAT IF I CAN'T DESIGN SOMETHING THAT LOOKS GOOD?????</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>now I have to.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie's white living room is lovely</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">if I do say so myself</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She wanted serine, she wanted peaceful, she wanted white.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So that's what she got.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it works.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT I AM DONE WITH WHITE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give me your huddled masses yearning for color.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's where my heart is.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I should write a book on color......</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wait,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> I ALREADY DID!!!!! </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">look to the right, look to the right, look to the right....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, I'm just being goofy, but I gots some caffeine coursing through my veins and I am flying right now.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>anyway.....</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on to today's post.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let us return to Connie's bedroom.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYjjdQed4gIRbcl_ELwJgflEugFoFEJQpvh6ziYznBhyphenhyphenlyjiDZ4g7OoWMGjDRK5r1-AhjDqx5LbJKu6Sg2de1F5QNEavfBXXkD5KwmHH4NTdV8U8y6UxkFP6s-PcYd5LnBtkIfwRjE/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYjjdQed4gIRbcl_ELwJgflEugFoFEJQpvh6ziYznBhyphenhyphenlyjiDZ4g7OoWMGjDRK5r1-AhjDqx5LbJKu6Sg2de1F5QNEavfBXXkD5KwmHH4NTdV8U8y6UxkFP6s-PcYd5LnBtkIfwRjE/s1600/8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the foot of the bed are a pair of big comfy club chairs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie and I have spent hours in those chairs, combing through our iPads, looking for things on eBay and First Dibs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a shot of the room in transition.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mirrored table moved.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The white table was temporary, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and nothing was on the walls.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To decorate the room, we started with the colors in the rug.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It came with the house, and Connie loved the colors so that's what we worked with.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a woven loop pile called a Wilton.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to <a href="http://www.bloomsburgcarpet.com/resources/weave-structures">Bloomsburg Carpets</a></span></div><ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 15.6000003814697px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="mod" data-md="61" style="border: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 20px 0px;"><div class="_oDd" data-hveid="29" style="overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px; text-align: center;"><span class="_Tgc" style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Wilton carpets</b> are pile <b>carpets</b> whereby the pile is formed by inserting wires in the pile warps of the <b>carpet</b>. After extraction of the wires the pile is looped (in case straight wires have been used) or cut (in case cutting wires are used).</span></div></li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="weave" src="http://www.bloomsburgcarpet.com/images/wilton.png" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Wilton Weave construction is the most versatile & unique weave structure.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wilton carpets are capable of 'all cut', 'all loop' or a combination of the two textures.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 17px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because the yarn is buried on the back and only lifted when a specific color is needed, it gives the wilton product more body, resilience, and great quality.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">now you know as much as I do about Wilton carpets.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We lucked out and found fabrics that matched the rug perfectly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrVH4PCOwnR1UNVK8ZMX-q9acUD8SsDh7GGyr5Bfzte8nnDDBLBlWlubcgHznW6eAiCCe6e-o-YZqYwMEsV4EPHmP5KlkmPz-ydeFrrKPupYrNVxRIYWSAXzdKCOZToqqDQoPWqn43/s1600/fabric+a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrVH4PCOwnR1UNVK8ZMX-q9acUD8SsDh7GGyr5Bfzte8nnDDBLBlWlubcgHznW6eAiCCe6e-o-YZqYwMEsV4EPHmP5KlkmPz-ydeFrrKPupYrNVxRIYWSAXzdKCOZToqqDQoPWqn43/s1600/fabric+a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you believe it?????</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How great is that!!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0CCISc4Q_PuRehVjWRlP5KkeXDNi074OOBvRckV8RuISgKM43z2O5Lz_325PKcXt9vwV599sw6PuClfWJM4Srfeo4SnRePvVDMF1EhLToMRY7tXr8hYAWyEr5A-EXH-utESM4_wGA/s1600/w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0CCISc4Q_PuRehVjWRlP5KkeXDNi074OOBvRckV8RuISgKM43z2O5Lz_325PKcXt9vwV599sw6PuClfWJM4Srfeo4SnRePvVDMF1EhLToMRY7tXr8hYAWyEr5A-EXH-utESM4_wGA/s1600/w.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The solid green linen is what we used to outline the draperies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRMFXdX-1uRVuZ7CyQMO4kORJ-6-elT8EjyZ0RL6UYikd0D7v0wvH2DemKMenjlnKaDAhybu7_h1T8LCtlWKcNcaCv0QUXphvcGJSNZ00c_61CqdwbRpLC2WpJhAaYJXJVmYeeXjm3/s1600/x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRMFXdX-1uRVuZ7CyQMO4kORJ-6-elT8EjyZ0RL6UYikd0D7v0wvH2DemKMenjlnKaDAhybu7_h1T8LCtlWKcNcaCv0QUXphvcGJSNZ00c_61CqdwbRpLC2WpJhAaYJXJVmYeeXjm3/s1600/x.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still need to get new pillows for the chairs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ones that are being used now are from Connie's old bedroom color scheme.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_UZcwc_dMrSzBx7NrmPaxndncazEaEMVej3NNhT2ruNjAH12BGEp_4AmVqCY7M45KwMoH73ke3oSlh-EsN46NoW3ZT7p1_SaavFHtJONTPDPLfFa2jIcRRN_QWsuPgniZRlTmSzPE/s1600/y.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_UZcwc_dMrSzBx7NrmPaxndncazEaEMVej3NNhT2ruNjAH12BGEp_4AmVqCY7M45KwMoH73ke3oSlh-EsN46NoW3ZT7p1_SaavFHtJONTPDPLfFa2jIcRRN_QWsuPgniZRlTmSzPE/s1600/y.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">I just saw that we need to steam the skirts on the chairs.....</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was her old bedroom.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVR_UWaHSUC6sKPNL6fl3uXNeAOQWOajqqqEMaBPiee9dU3hyCSDBPkRBi4U-efttQRdJjuiVC9ozMdLdcFfwyJE9EnbdbaF38Ke49DNK7EHJ18NXu2O0QRnOATkq3CrTf3pD7IXz/s1600/Florida,+Winter+2004-5+061_edited-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVR_UWaHSUC6sKPNL6fl3uXNeAOQWOajqqqEMaBPiee9dU3hyCSDBPkRBi4U-efttQRdJjuiVC9ozMdLdcFfwyJE9EnbdbaF38Ke49DNK7EHJ18NXu2O0QRnOATkq3CrTf3pD7IXz/s1600/Florida,+Winter+2004-5+061_edited-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I designed and made the needlepoint. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">no</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't make one for you, so don't ask.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHmmaRPwOGfJsfWRmeIMkHh6x_-XFLxqM_5YZqXZf1EmumP9D1BVItecpdXcrFrg9cPTm06pi5q-H3gHm5319vD5Y49iSSXtnvYSAc1Es7Ro1mk0J8iW-_hssX3cgwiZGH3Bv-ApAS/s1600/IMG_2494_edited-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHmmaRPwOGfJsfWRmeIMkHh6x_-XFLxqM_5YZqXZf1EmumP9D1BVItecpdXcrFrg9cPTm06pi5q-H3gHm5319vD5Y49iSSXtnvYSAc1Es7Ro1mk0J8iW-_hssX3cgwiZGH3Bv-ApAS/s1600/IMG_2494_edited-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The view out Connie's old bedroom was of the ocean.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the new view even more.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I find that looking out at lush green pretty things makes me feel all happy inside.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1I4HpVC7rUPiOmKOGSHxWcUIu9B3iGrjtduzWLqHpk-wXtXksrRyER2F8yrOzJHNM3YyD22IHWA8GbkOIICpefiRLfRj6TyhI0eKoSkXaz3HVPMHK5IktQQ7nbkFJA2h5yVjEFcRR/s1600/24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1I4HpVC7rUPiOmKOGSHxWcUIu9B3iGrjtduzWLqHpk-wXtXksrRyER2F8yrOzJHNM3YyD22IHWA8GbkOIICpefiRLfRj6TyhI0eKoSkXaz3HVPMHK5IktQQ7nbkFJA2h5yVjEFcRR/s1600/24.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soooooo.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The saying </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A Happy Wife is a Happy Life"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">should be changed to.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A Happy Decorator is a Happy Connie"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'cuz her new house makes me feel all happy inside,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">even if she does have a white living room.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that note,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later, Gator</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/auntdoi/?action=view&current=Betsysignature.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/auntdoi/Betsysignature.png" /></a></div>

More on Connie's Bedroom.....

Before I get to today's post..... let me just say..... I AM SO SICK OF WHITE IN DECORATING I COULD JUST PUKE!!!!! Wait..... Let me clari...

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A Touch of Glam for my Friend Connie

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">OK KLASS.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's continue looking at the miracles I wrought in Connie's bedroom.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I am so modest.....</span>)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie's biggest goal in her new home is to create a feeling of peace and calm.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her bedroom is all white and cream and soft bluey green.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went for a Hollywood Glam feel because <strike>I am a star</strike> Connie is a star.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX2k-ub1DrgHbMKpPsAfsXbAVVa6yy_7fmD-4bi_mMU7XawIGZMM-1hJFum4Nt2Zd4qn70tLAeWM2gZhZpRRi1Bfs4shDOPaNrEXYu59GpTa3G35yfQIp9d0dUG6xiPh3PgNThBWA-/s1600/fabric+a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX2k-ub1DrgHbMKpPsAfsXbAVVa6yy_7fmD-4bi_mMU7XawIGZMM-1hJFum4Nt2Zd4qn70tLAeWM2gZhZpRRi1Bfs4shDOPaNrEXYu59GpTa3G35yfQIp9d0dUG6xiPh3PgNThBWA-/s1600/fabric+a.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We chose an upholstered bed covered in a soft cream linen that has nickle nail head trim.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj08pZEBQUYMd1oMP2nFDF-r3A88Q1VsLi9wNAVw_Mxb9jjYPVcThlql_eUALOwljuFaCiYLG-2DlJ73MJSEciZ994vEk2QWo4qcbVDGpx1ImQuVPyc9kuWfKLwulkqyHMCPJR54z9T/s1600/bed+a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj08pZEBQUYMd1oMP2nFDF-r3A88Q1VsLi9wNAVw_Mxb9jjYPVcThlql_eUALOwljuFaCiYLG-2DlJ73MJSEciZ994vEk2QWo4qcbVDGpx1ImQuVPyc9kuWfKLwulkqyHMCPJR54z9T/s1600/bed+a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The soft white of the bed against the painted green walls is lovely.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We needed to find new lamps, as the ones in the picture below are from her old bedroom.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We wanted more "glammy" lamps.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRKlQXVmL0XXg-Yknhq-51PcPNKtBumAumT7P_eI9rqnmcBPblUAvebHWxQiVVz3rXaxB-B9oPyfGcQK07jZy3O4tj1CCbAAzSYb2pf544YTYwBo679QgibCxaIjQ2N-mGFlYMz52i/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRKlQXVmL0XXg-Yknhq-51PcPNKtBumAumT7P_eI9rqnmcBPblUAvebHWxQiVVz3rXaxB-B9oPyfGcQK07jZy3O4tj1CCbAAzSYb2pf544YTYwBo679QgibCxaIjQ2N-mGFlYMz52i/s1600/5.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flanking the bed are two contemporary night stands in white lacquer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They could fit right into a 1940's movie set.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpL64rebwmu2cBUF6zFBVJCYPNRwqZ2RfaXkqYgx_snrBterKsCV-MixDomV7zcuDwCg66QVGb0cH6C5iETIPq7g35XB2uH2TOVg4QWsBir6qQxy1EJh8LsRi6xbjUQwKOF6KgRc9g/s1600/nite+stand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpL64rebwmu2cBUF6zFBVJCYPNRwqZ2RfaXkqYgx_snrBterKsCV-MixDomV7zcuDwCg66QVGb0cH6C5iETIPq7g35XB2uH2TOVg4QWsBir6qQxy1EJh8LsRi6xbjUQwKOF6KgRc9g/s1600/nite+stand.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To find a pair of lamps, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie and I went to a very high end retailer that is renowned for its classy offerings.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>HOME GOODS.....</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We found ONE lamp.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvA24G8_duepm6_gfTV6gnDxIqOEd4RJfmKhAtF1jDfKS6f31lVjXB0lupoqaMyMu7tW74q9p-NsewYlrpB7ePblROFfBYcj4XaHkQ9j06u47-70ebwn0afz3vqYDymZJxR0UERGrn/s1600/p.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvA24G8_duepm6_gfTV6gnDxIqOEd4RJfmKhAtF1jDfKS6f31lVjXB0lupoqaMyMu7tW74q9p-NsewYlrpB7ePblROFfBYcj4XaHkQ9j06u47-70ebwn0afz3vqYDymZJxR0UERGrn/s1600/p.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We needed TWO.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soooooo</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the nice lady at the checkout line called around to neighboring stores and found another to match the one we had snagged.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie went racing up the state of Flerida to buy the second one and still get back home in time to go out for dinner.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The scheduling down heah in Flerida is very tight, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what between shopping and going out to lunch and dinner.</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>It's exhausting.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lamp is made of solid crystal pieces stacked up in a column on a nickel base.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are beautiful.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXJxiFbsWZ0x860hCbRRHzrMm2XkW5FwQPfBdMmcD5lDDdv7aA7NcDyvFc90za9CU09xm1uy4Rr1ggLcerU8Q6AYRXpxPafKXALW0j2IZMVjJodma5k0EpKdgeJeLZCsXSE6IScAWp/s1600/v.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXJxiFbsWZ0x860hCbRRHzrMm2XkW5FwQPfBdMmcD5lDDdv7aA7NcDyvFc90za9CU09xm1uy4Rr1ggLcerU8Q6AYRXpxPafKXALW0j2IZMVjJodma5k0EpKdgeJeLZCsXSE6IScAWp/s1600/v.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, they are clear, and don't show up well in the photographs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we all know.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it's not about how things look in real life.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>but about how they look in the pictures!!!!!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie doesn't care about the pictures, she loves the lamps and won't exchange them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtgEO7OUB1xVvHSL0dDZ0Vd9ad3Rc1FTkGi2hINR0A5gw7jgdIfe9meWeymE9Vs6p5R0paVfknbe8-kLtBAsRcuIIEhC1c__1EmgEQ5JPIJMdrNvMuMNjn01F1hmRV-OHGXOvP_nnK/s1600/12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtgEO7OUB1xVvHSL0dDZ0Vd9ad3Rc1FTkGi2hINR0A5gw7jgdIfe9meWeymE9Vs6p5R0paVfknbe8-kLtBAsRcuIIEhC1c__1EmgEQ5JPIJMdrNvMuMNjn01F1hmRV-OHGXOvP_nnK/s1600/12.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bed has some really pretty detailing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQcgdhk4lf7zkmaq_-U5gAFfgeJjR_3N9DI1WGiDehh-XoX1NP2IBFZdjG6V3ZY_5c7C0ntZpne7yIKSq0XLUqH2SJwy38iAHLbenpOSMFSNxeDAiuhP3PUf-fcREzPIAE28SUnv6a/s1600/q.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQcgdhk4lf7zkmaq_-U5gAFfgeJjR_3N9DI1WGiDehh-XoX1NP2IBFZdjG6V3ZY_5c7C0ntZpne7yIKSq0XLUqH2SJwy38iAHLbenpOSMFSNxeDAiuhP3PUf-fcREzPIAE28SUnv6a/s1600/q.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The nickle nail heads set the tone that made me want to use lots of mirror and glass.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugYWn9hM83yiV7G61S2qAPNcdyhaV5_gDcZVZ491Fgr9trM929pafCKbkdZeu_sjY0ztjgUWSjYOW8G6QNboQh7G4oDN4z0bD1ViSFGR-5B_On18-yFfWgaytf02CuoQcQRj-BeTt/s1600/r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugYWn9hM83yiV7G61S2qAPNcdyhaV5_gDcZVZ491Fgr9trM929pafCKbkdZeu_sjY0ztjgUWSjYOW8G6QNboQh7G4oDN4z0bD1ViSFGR-5B_On18-yFfWgaytf02CuoQcQRj-BeTt/s1600/r.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I showed you in my last post, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I brought this detail up onto the valances of the draperies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sloS5-Qv_I2AQY_qYUJBsAjC7Sai1Kckfz-4Z3JdgRALLyc8uogPyb9Gqpo0B6ldk663NDSZ4M3Euy-fKKhotYAF_qgRvGjfuwv-mG1D99kuAEeRiUwAbL0SuJLSTuFxT1_OKNaW/s1600/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7sloS5-Qv_I2AQY_qYUJBsAjC7Sai1Kckfz-4Z3JdgRALLyc8uogPyb9Gqpo0B6ldk663NDSZ4M3Euy-fKKhotYAF_qgRvGjfuwv-mG1D99kuAEeRiUwAbL0SuJLSTuFxT1_OKNaW/s1600/a.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of you had voiced concern when I mentioned that we would be going for a more modern look.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have no fear, my rooms always end up having tons of old stuff.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">No, that's not in reference to Connie and Chris.....</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got up and started writing this before I even made my morning cuppa tea,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I will end here and go bang around in my kitchen.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a good day....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later Gator</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/auntdoi/?action=view&current=Betsysignature.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/auntdoi/Betsysignature.png" /></a></div>

A Touch of Glam for my Friend Connie

OK KLASS..... Let's continue looking at the miracles I wrought in Connie's bedroom. ( I am so modest..... ) Connie's biggest goa...

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Connie's New Bedroom!!!!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK you guys.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am sitting at my computer and ready to write my next post.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So pour yourself a cuppa joe</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (or tea) (<span style="font-size: xx-small;">or glass of wine</span>)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and sit down for a good (<span style="font-size: x-small;">in my opinion</span>) read.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year in the early spring, I had started writing about helping my buddy Connie with her new Flerida home.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you want to catch up on those posts.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">click <a href="http://betsyspeert.blogspot.com/2014/03/connies-new-florida-home.html">here</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and <a href="http://betsyspeert.blogspot.com/2014/03/decorating-connies-living-room.html">here</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and <a href="http://betsyspeert.blogspot.com/2014/03/antiquing-for-connie.html">here</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and <a href="http://betsyspeert.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-more-contemporary-look.html">here</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and <a href="http://betsyspeert.blogspot.com/2014/03/furniture-for-connies-living-room.html">here</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and <a href="http://betsyspeert.blogspot.com/2014/03/choosing-new-look-for-connies-florida.html">here</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and <a href="http://betsyspeert.blogspot.com/2014/03/hollywood-glamour-for-florida-bedroom.html">here</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, now that your memory is all refreshed.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which room should I start with?????</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's go with the Master Bedroom.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we first saw this room, it looked like this with the previous owners furniture and window treatments.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn9Hq-Ziu3AAuOpKmFpaB8FghMmQI50e55pxBeFE8P7I8K10tV18g6Alvwubm2J9pLuAz9T6nVSl_J1OhaFWOOECrURLqq8BaiTj_5PT8WqADQAtM2U98N9mNtZJgtgfKHz3F1fByk/s640/35_RX-9995057_31_1386704385.jpg" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibFWWpDdAq3SC_leDjJsKife2TumpARcH4qO5fFnwcxlzVH8QRHdvDmLWohj7l6VmnlRhWeAyqzEDCG4MlgBwbiLyZV9zv6GYkU6zR216B_z_YuNgqhhCBDC00cGuWZrmhh2wpnd9U/s640/35_RX-9995057_32_1386704386.jpg" width="640" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They had installed screens and blackout shades that rolled down with the use of a remote control.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are VERY convenient, but the big boxes over the windows and door were eyesores.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of you had suggested a solution that I had already thought up, so when you see how I treated this problem.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I THOUGHT IT UP ALL BY MYSELF.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You just happen to be as brilliant as I am</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tend to think with a pencil and paper.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I got the dimensions from one of Connie's helpers,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (since I was back up in Massachusetts)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I drew up a design for my workroom in Florida to follow.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHaLGCOYLQV1c8aL10-Z4hB3E07e-3ZFAP5PGkwQ-jEOom7XVyHc72p1fHaOwEsfAz-LkVZFkhIEid3FW2Kg1-u_6aBD8XFzyLxkPnBcaGUSiK2VzpSKpiEQer56kas34_MIdDMH9/s1600/Master+Bedroom+Drapery+elevation+a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHaLGCOYLQV1c8aL10-Z4hB3E07e-3ZFAP5PGkwQ-jEOom7XVyHc72p1fHaOwEsfAz-LkVZFkhIEid3FW2Kg1-u_6aBD8XFzyLxkPnBcaGUSiK2VzpSKpiEQer56kas34_MIdDMH9/s1600/Master+Bedroom+Drapery+elevation+a.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're wondering what that squiggly stick figure is to the right, in the drawings.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>THAT'S MEEEEEE!!!!!</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always draw myself into my elevations, so I get a sense of scale.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see, I've lost some weight. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1wwuJ0aQuHMRWS3CufEe9I7cE3o2S0wpIRZpcN_7_zqOLjY-6Npw9Vql8XiW1loVbxS8MbJCOnVz9jn00ILih-fbx8rqAXWeJyDNAWK0K61mwD1Wary8QY2sDJVDHWi7ciSMHPbnx/s1600/Master+Bedroom+Drapery+elevation+side+view+a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1wwuJ0aQuHMRWS3CufEe9I7cE3o2S0wpIRZpcN_7_zqOLjY-6Npw9Vql8XiW1loVbxS8MbJCOnVz9jn00ILih-fbx8rqAXWeJyDNAWK0K61mwD1Wary8QY2sDJVDHWi7ciSMHPbnx/s1600/Master+Bedroom+Drapery+elevation+side+view+a.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I wasn't in Florida, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">there was some confusion about the draperies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I only drew a picture and wrote out in mind numbingly picky detail how they should be made.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But this is Florida, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so's you gots to roll with the punches.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HOWEVER.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the workroom made everything right in the end, and that's all that matters.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6EpvoSFI5cs4KzVcNcmD9ix9V1QSxjAPvNmSvhaeX_bTiR-9mzFMtHfPAc0NXgQj4wGeKx4Ba3WQ0zHjuJQy4CWAqM6lMZRg_rGk7L4CVCFojXf3cB6WegFsFAXz8fmVwu91qvr4/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6EpvoSFI5cs4KzVcNcmD9ix9V1QSxjAPvNmSvhaeX_bTiR-9mzFMtHfPAc0NXgQj4wGeKx4Ba3WQ0zHjuJQy4CWAqM6lMZRg_rGk7L4CVCFojXf3cB6WegFsFAXz8fmVwu91qvr4/s1600/7.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I originally wanted the buttons to be nickel, to match the nailhead trim on the bed, but the workroom didn't think that they could find any.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I changed the buttons to be a contrast fabric, like the cuff on the edge of the valance, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and then....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LOW AND BEHOLD.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">they showed up as nickle.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB97jMwdoooTR2bB4huASwBgtt4BBIyOPk6oQFxPIgCd7Zyhyphenhyphen0nSWOBXkDBuPIoR4JDwYsAIqVJ8iXz9Xhq42Ksyy-JLdJHvL7CBfJ-y19Ejln-prK_ks6vPYnWCGkfRK9AsJB99CR/s1600/a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB97jMwdoooTR2bB4huASwBgtt4BBIyOPk6oQFxPIgCd7Zyhyphenhyphen0nSWOBXkDBuPIoR4JDwYsAIqVJ8iXz9Xhq42Ksyy-JLdJHvL7CBfJ-y19Ejln-prK_ks6vPYnWCGkfRK9AsJB99CR/s1600/a.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted a scalloped edge on the tiebacks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a contrast lower edge.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a mophead welting cord on the top edge.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two outa three ain't bad in Flerida.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAYdAQZhwdEbUCL29bkxJ2Kk4nh3428Qyezujukbi4RpSWNjtiyqUQ1s85KrEgUsxZ0od46roSWhgKfPcaDyArYveehBr1FGH3LcNiIz3DwD_emfI9A2VAmKgVYyxCyWEClzMaWHzg/s1600/x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAYdAQZhwdEbUCL29bkxJ2Kk4nh3428Qyezujukbi4RpSWNjtiyqUQ1s85KrEgUsxZ0od46roSWhgKfPcaDyArYveehBr1FGH3LcNiIz3DwD_emfI9A2VAmKgVYyxCyWEClzMaWHzg/s1600/x.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those of you confused out there in blogland.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a mophead cord is a thin welting cord, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>like you would see in a mophead</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">I wonder why they call it mophead cord??????</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1l_p84wOv9-cG2lqUgeSz3zswlj4quK6PawYoNNpo6NtULrJAIC30YaFU4qy_SsnKeEGrwUN7sFo-iZQz0B3giq2FLNMAPJ7rqUPZoMkqTC1vlAdtGZCcIlZkjEgQ2DgMt9IYX-RY/s1600/socket+mop+head.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1l_p84wOv9-cG2lqUgeSz3zswlj4quK6PawYoNNpo6NtULrJAIC30YaFU4qy_SsnKeEGrwUN7sFo-iZQz0B3giq2FLNMAPJ7rqUPZoMkqTC1vlAdtGZCcIlZkjEgQ2DgMt9IYX-RY/s1600/socket+mop+head.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I felt the best way to handle the bay window was unifying it with a large valance outside the bay.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was the way the previous owners had done it, and I approve!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6Q-LH72lchMAStBH0Opy4X5dlFS5qMqqH0khFE_1u5lb6dcf76hZP5gewjXROFLxeCRASOWRREbjd87eB9XoHehDX4ss5xkksLfSOcfCvs3ksXCBT5RHsqG8Ch6RZ0IwxKZy6p0p/s1600/24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6Q-LH72lchMAStBH0Opy4X5dlFS5qMqqH0khFE_1u5lb6dcf76hZP5gewjXROFLxeCRASOWRREbjd87eB9XoHehDX4ss5xkksLfSOcfCvs3ksXCBT5RHsqG8Ch6RZ0IwxKZy6p0p/s1600/24.jpg" width="514" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sooooo....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lets's do a comparison of the way it was before Connie bought the house, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the way it is now.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiulbpKHNsfDc3jRwUIHS7PtyGmX74uYAZ6K_DY68ZR7hetFyFX_7Dn0Uxmw9zJqfaNKE8giLWoL8VQHjU8Cq23HA1aN1OeVvjBYYVIgs13DLb5-mQdiRxUMIDektWUPaX3zhhW74Il/s1600/PicMonkey+Collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiulbpKHNsfDc3jRwUIHS7PtyGmX74uYAZ6K_DY68ZR7hetFyFX_7Dn0Uxmw9zJqfaNKE8giLWoL8VQHjU8Cq23HA1aN1OeVvjBYYVIgs13DLb5-mQdiRxUMIDektWUPaX3zhhW74Il/s1600/PicMonkey+Collage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That wooden box holding the mechanics of the roll down shade and screen is completely hidden.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">YOU'D NEVER KNOW IT WAS THERE!!!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the roll down screen is really wonderful.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check it out, here it is down.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrJsZicmLZeZjPPiKJkGlXiNVdHcZ98LPkbNLsgR3ciD64Ap-ESdvwqNGQkNm55JMiCLe9FKYphcDIm-wpoZmQUAlDkfk307sGQD7z47QNoQft3AqFqXJf_JZjqMracC3d7Zu4fa0F/s1600/cc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrJsZicmLZeZjPPiKJkGlXiNVdHcZ98LPkbNLsgR3ciD64Ap-ESdvwqNGQkNm55JMiCLe9FKYphcDIm-wpoZmQUAlDkfk307sGQD7z47QNoQft3AqFqXJf_JZjqMracC3d7Zu4fa0F/s1600/cc.jpg" width="586" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have to be careful not to walk through it, because it is almost invisible, so Connie puts an ottoman in front of it as a reminder.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She is sooooo smaht!!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm in Florida right now, sooooo</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on that note,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later, Gator</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/auntdoi/?action=view&current=Betsysignature.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/auntdoi/Betsysignature.png" /></a></div>

Connie's New Bedroom!!!!

OK you guys..... I am sitting at my computer and ready to write my next post. So pour yourself a cuppa joe (or tea) ( or glass of wine ) a...

2:03 PM

That's a Lot of #$% Snow!!!!!!!

<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to take time from my fabric designing......</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to show you guys who aren't in New England just what all the hoopla is about.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, remember.....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time last week I was surrounded by palm trees and balmy weather.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what the view from my house was Saturday morning, BEFORE the most recent dumping of 12" of this white crap.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first picture is the view from my front door.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notice how there aren't any footprints in the snow down the path?????</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>That's because I was staying inside!!!!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwil75qUnpTQWB0Ab2z0dyKAJdvPkoNeJCAFRG36__m_JTUx0mz_qYdaRvPzKNktkzLOmL5TLIiWwe1JRw2EW5Y0XulByXldy-m18cXm3GlcJKZ4sqyk0wYIF418ph71-jPPPnPFH/s1600/IMG_6705.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijwil75qUnpTQWB0Ab2z0dyKAJdvPkoNeJCAFRG36__m_JTUx0mz_qYdaRvPzKNktkzLOmL5TLIiWwe1JRw2EW5Y0XulByXldy-m18cXm3GlcJKZ4sqyk0wYIF418ph71-jPPPnPFH/s1600/IMG_6705.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can see that the snow is piled up against the glass of my storm door.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me show you the view from my family room.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie0AgDZu2Sav39VYZ38YJXORoTmeiP2KJ-Azn2OjeP5b_38y0r-N0zgs0rPMKsxxj-QirOSXjUxGHGx-080O9tn4YblwDdfeVBors1im_-VfpalfKjwb9R3vE2UF3rvpDQA_rII9IS/s1600/IMG_6709.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie0AgDZu2Sav39VYZ38YJXORoTmeiP2KJ-Azn2OjeP5b_38y0r-N0zgs0rPMKsxxj-QirOSXjUxGHGx-080O9tn4YblwDdfeVBors1im_-VfpalfKjwb9R3vE2UF3rvpDQA_rII9IS/s1600/IMG_6709.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's right, ladies and gentlemen.....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THAT'S ALL SNOW!!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn't some mound that was thrown there during shoveling.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">THAT'S JUST SNOW, PUT THERE BY MOTHER NATURE.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here ya go, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">look out the other side of the room.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkHzy_6ibUXhJzqDi_GeBAoY39ukH_Na2U-vrfElPF_Zfd7fLbqe2Kb2fOauxMb54v3IPKu15zoEBwkRYrJOD06xhffRaAWiY2sIHxR0I416CJKbtaPTLEfjAYhppLOKBxu7WLt_Ga/s1600/IMG_6710.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkHzy_6ibUXhJzqDi_GeBAoY39ukH_Na2U-vrfElPF_Zfd7fLbqe2Kb2fOauxMb54v3IPKu15zoEBwkRYrJOD06xhffRaAWiY2sIHxR0I416CJKbtaPTLEfjAYhppLOKBxu7WLt_Ga/s1600/IMG_6710.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's the view towards the sliding doors in my dining room.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">below is the view looking at my neighbors 6 foot high fence that is sitting on an 18" high stone retaining wall.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soooooo.....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if you do the math correctly,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that makes the top of the fence 7.5 feet high.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL07fc-YcPTi4TgB7Qy9ySYYUQ3W1v2-5arakFtYRjo5wlhLX_pRbN6KKH-jdjToLSkVLALKP95hZIjRaNlhLak9D_PclIcRIQx8DYgIMiWsdDOFrod_yhxTAQOYPijDwBT73mVq42/s1600/IMG_6712.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL07fc-YcPTi4TgB7Qy9ySYYUQ3W1v2-5arakFtYRjo5wlhLX_pRbN6KKH-jdjToLSkVLALKP95hZIjRaNlhLak9D_PclIcRIQx8DYgIMiWsdDOFrod_yhxTAQOYPijDwBT73mVq42/s1600/IMG_6712.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is when I'm <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>really really really really</b></span> glad that I moved into a condominium.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinLwm6E8iFBccEm6WpaFQOucL3sxC0vl0fJ7RN4C0_HpQIpXewqPcTMK7ScdPX-sFvnmey48uZR5V46tUZJwh88i5_urzULi7oGGT6RHuV8QIBhvhs52oMuZ8O0SzAmPLTLHSGRtko/s1600/IMG_6707.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinLwm6E8iFBccEm6WpaFQOucL3sxC0vl0fJ7RN4C0_HpQIpXewqPcTMK7ScdPX-sFvnmey48uZR5V46tUZJwh88i5_urzULi7oGGT6RHuV8QIBhvhs52oMuZ8O0SzAmPLTLHSGRtko/s1600/IMG_6707.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My dentists office just called to see if I wanted to reschedule my appointment.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of folks can't get out yet</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT I'M ALL CLEARED OUT <span style="font-size: xx-small;">so I have to go to the dentist.......</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">@#$%</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not my favorite thing to do.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a completely different note.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The woman who designed my blog emailed me and accused me of bullying her.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was very careful not to include her name in my rant.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I felt that my blog post was just a consumer's response to what I perceived to be a bad service.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I have a question for the class.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Was my <a href="http://betsyspeert.blogspot.com/2015/02/betsys-rant-1762.html">last pos</a>t a case of bullying?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't even name her name.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please leave your comments in the comments section.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Cuz, that's why it's called the comments section!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that note,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latah, Gatah</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3L8k6l5qoIi431H7zlp-6HjhcIx95f4c9rGv4hXQK3OcPY9BCjFQdS42ewR2d6s0poDczniOZOS8nE8Wm7NBCS2PaQaRU96MWZXTG8AT9a3Gas7Gq4lLsty1ux7NwBH47h5RL-g5O/s1600/signiture+photoshop+redrawn.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3L8k6l5qoIi431H7zlp-6HjhcIx95f4c9rGv4hXQK3OcPY9BCjFQdS42ewR2d6s0poDczniOZOS8nE8Wm7NBCS2PaQaRU96MWZXTG8AT9a3Gas7Gq4lLsty1ux7NwBH47h5RL-g5O/s1600/signiture+photoshop+redrawn.png" /></a></div>

That's a Lot of #$% Snow!!!!!!!

I had to take time from my fabric designing...... to show you guys who aren't in New England just what all the hoopla is about. Now, rem...

6:09 AM

Betsy's Rant #1762

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People who don't live up to their word drive me </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>nuts!!!!!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not going to mention any names.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">but</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I paid a blog designer for a blog design, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'cuz</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that's what blog designers are supposed to do.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After lots of back and forth, I finally got her to do what I wanted.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was not the easiest to work with, and she did some strange stuff.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like posting the new design before we had it all worked out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soooooo.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">while it was under design, it could be seen.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>That's like going to a party, and having the hairdresser do a foil wrap for your color right there in the middle of the host's living room.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was not amused.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I kept my calm, and worked with her till it was what I wanted.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She kept some of the images of the fonts used, in her Photobucket account.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She wouldn't let me have them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She wanted control of them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>I asked her what would happen if she let her account lapse???????</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>She assured me that that would NEVER HAPPEN</b>!!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soooooooo.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guess what happened!!!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you guess?????</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give it a try.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>THAT'S RIGHT!!!!!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>SHE LET IT LAPSE!!!!!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">everywhere that there was a word, such as the menu at the top of the blog,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and my links to twitter and Facebook and Pinterest</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WAS REPLACED BY A PHOTOBUCKET ICON</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWy8a0cTRfZDuLjbP4j9D_bCJvxkCRh0MYZtb5UVxV7R-3E64nSrdm1o7kliAzeEPh3CMjQBAvzJ0sYQJc1HcJ2n7LLnWePs_izt6GbY5Q01S5iVhAVa1iTNKp3g-gcE7Ltwxw5P0-/s1600/aaa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWy8a0cTRfZDuLjbP4j9D_bCJvxkCRh0MYZtb5UVxV7R-3E64nSrdm1o7kliAzeEPh3CMjQBAvzJ0sYQJc1HcJ2n7LLnWePs_izt6GbY5Q01S5iVhAVa1iTNKp3g-gcE7Ltwxw5P0-/s1600/aaa.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soooooo.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a line of these marching across my blog just below my header.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then they were sprinkled throughout my side bar.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amy, from Maison Decor, called me a few days ago to alert me to this situation.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She had used the same designer, and her blog had the same problem.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we clicked on over to the designers website.....</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GUESS WHAT SHE HAD POSTED!!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Can you guess?????</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her blog design business is on </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">hiatus</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> </i>until further notice.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sooooo</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amy wrote her an email, writing to the contact address she had listed,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and of course SHE DIDN'T RESPOND.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sooooooo.....</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">today I replaced the Photobucket icons with the best I could do using Blogger's template.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IT LOOKS CRAPPY,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but at least my navigation menu at the top of my blog is visible again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I Googled how to add buttons for following through Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel very smart for following how to do it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>So I did it.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BUT IT LOOKS CRAPPY.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I need to find a new blog designer.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If anyone knows one that they like, please leave a comment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure that some of my readers have used the same designer that I did, and have experienced the same issue.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sooooooo</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">after not writing for a few weeks,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what do I do?????</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do I write about design?????</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">NO I DON'T.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just use you guys for a venting platform.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I NEEDED TO VENT MY SPLEEN!!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whew,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">well, now I feel better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm back in Massachusetts, and the snow is halfway up my windows.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">while I was gone, one of my bookshelves gave way.....</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzRHttEERlPoZOhy9fsRhd4xw0V0-7iDn8OoJWWyS1YanRO3v1JCMe2a5dQBRaO_Sb3E7s_TtA1ZcbdSiRB9djlUSWWGAg6fTMtdBXp_quLYzMOy1djOVlUVLGkqk2u-cA0fLL5EDV/s1600/aaab.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzRHttEERlPoZOhy9fsRhd4xw0V0-7iDn8OoJWWyS1YanRO3v1JCMe2a5dQBRaO_Sb3E7s_TtA1ZcbdSiRB9djlUSWWGAg6fTMtdBXp_quLYzMOy1djOVlUVLGkqk2u-cA0fLL5EDV/s1600/aaab.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I left Flerida yesterday.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">why why why why why???????</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know my parents appreciate my return,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">JEESH!!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On that note,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Latah, Gatah</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(she even screwed up my signature)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">See?????</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It's the cursed Photobucket icon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/auntdoi/?action=view&current=Betsysignature.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/auntdoi/Betsysignature.png" /></a></div>

Betsy's Rant #1762

People who don't live up to their word drive me nuts!!!!! I'm not going to mention any names..... but I paid a blog designer for a ...

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Fiddle Leaf Update & tips

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Do you remember my <a href="http://buhayatbahay.blogspot.com/2013/09/fiddle-leaf-fig-bargain-breakfast-area.html"><b><i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Fiddle Leaf Find</span></i></b> from Walmart 2 years ago?</a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvcTDXubS16_MP4mXWk-5wj8pBE-PXtvr7DiTBgDusajTS8FPfX3Z95DDFFO3O3oWuLE7TiLJ93qlSUF91WEHV00DbJuKapBl8E2EFzF71TiIWVHQAvrfLL0Qn7LjR-WfVQUpmuakVMks/s1600/DSC_0151.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvcTDXubS16_MP4mXWk-5wj8pBE-PXtvr7DiTBgDusajTS8FPfX3Z95DDFFO3O3oWuLE7TiLJ93qlSUF91WEHV00DbJuKapBl8E2EFzF71TiIWVHQAvrfLL0Qn7LjR-WfVQUpmuakVMks/s1600/DSC_0151.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Got them for $4 each</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">Well, surprisingly enough, despite my "black thumb" (which I wrote about <a href="http://buhayatbahay.blogspot.com/2014/06/garden-days-summer-camps.html">HERE</a>),</div><div style="text-align: center;">they have surprisingly held up well and thrived!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsoYztZYRxfZHjYfRZEnPlriHpBfJWa9p71-kJnU1qG_5Ydo4mXUpvkQE3nxFjj7CAMmHH38kWo7aDXO74Z-5lqYaskQ8SxLbu3jzegxIkUUSDPb2f6loOpLbJNKrmuxizPkOSuozkEms/s1600/DSC_0082.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsoYztZYRxfZHjYfRZEnPlriHpBfJWa9p71-kJnU1qG_5Ydo4mXUpvkQE3nxFjj7CAMmHH38kWo7aDXO74Z-5lqYaskQ8SxLbu3jzegxIkUUSDPb2f6loOpLbJNKrmuxizPkOSuozkEms/s1600/DSC_0082.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BEFORE</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ZMUyBWYcBt7JisO7JHjCfJ9g_wBb0K8LEikLkouqRMDx2D0Ug4JrMMoEXe1CA4eFWBDRhpYHUgmGvVFTDKuCNBVPHfiQ1lKYlKHVk5luu5pH6lpVIfJ1ok-hK7Fcc0PzkpA9RRVawF8/s1600/DSC_0551_Fotor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ZMUyBWYcBt7JisO7JHjCfJ9g_wBb0K8LEikLkouqRMDx2D0Ug4JrMMoEXe1CA4eFWBDRhpYHUgmGvVFTDKuCNBVPHfiQ1lKYlKHVk5luu5pH6lpVIfJ1ok-hK7Fcc0PzkpA9RRVawF8/s1600/DSC_0551_Fotor.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AFTER</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">When I first got them, I was expecting the worse, they weren't exactly in great shape at the start (hence, the clearance bin). But I believe that with our TLC (and bigger pot) they truly are quite remarkable now!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZzSQm7nIHx-hG483meol5lajXHk7VXT8rEAu5jdRa1Q4naulWfyzOIpRloCg0o9OSLm1b1UMuD2cm6wMvetfQovptVbcLcamt2zbXXSnH4u979XxPeFuRChOCVy_rWHhUmnjRq-F0zsA/s1600/DSC_0553_Fotor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZzSQm7nIHx-hG483meol5lajXHk7VXT8rEAu5jdRa1Q4naulWfyzOIpRloCg0o9OSLm1b1UMuD2cm6wMvetfQovptVbcLcamt2zbXXSnH4u979XxPeFuRChOCVy_rWHhUmnjRq-F0zsA/s1600/DSC_0553_Fotor.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">They grew so well that I was able to give 3 of my girlfriends this plant!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I didn't prune them, It turned, out there were 2 in each pot. So I actually ended up paying just $2 per plant?!!! My friends were so happy to get their own fiddle leaf fig too since ours have become so beautiful!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihhkKszqZqhySKM52C2FGT_3arbcez3n5RkB28-PrsSUEJsymmRCopnY37TZLdK3NnvZsLWnUq8XgHD8zJ24-vfFpPw5Mgu9-_HqeN7ORkA5rbozBwWHpO6LRzwyJZCyRlAtxJpqf5dOs/s1600/DSC_0552_Fotor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihhkKszqZqhySKM52C2FGT_3arbcez3n5RkB28-PrsSUEJsymmRCopnY37TZLdK3NnvZsLWnUq8XgHD8zJ24-vfFpPw5Mgu9-_HqeN7ORkA5rbozBwWHpO6LRzwyJZCyRlAtxJpqf5dOs/s1600/DSC_0552_Fotor.jpg" width="425" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tallest one so far</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My mother-in-law who's an avid gardener in the Philippines, even thought my the Fiddle leaf figs were artificial since they looked so perfect!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxxc_M8jXqeoCA-3R87d3cUYWab2ai2BUS4TVVYftQSG8-8GL_wnWhNngZXq3h0HcpC2uFaK1-oFpINf2kVsV-S3I9uPcvYOkNkAMf3KOENE7TK3umu6_yp-O8cAEdt_E2E-PHSPqvco/s1600/DSC_0554_Fotor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxxc_M8jXqeoCA-3R87d3cUYWab2ai2BUS4TVVYftQSG8-8GL_wnWhNngZXq3h0HcpC2uFaK1-oFpINf2kVsV-S3I9uPcvYOkNkAMf3KOENE7TK3umu6_yp-O8cAEdt_E2E-PHSPqvco/s1600/DSC_0554_Fotor.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>What's our secret?</i></b><br />Not much really, but here is what we've been doing and so far, has worked well for these plants:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">1) We water these babies generously once  a week in the summer and every 2 weeks in the winter. </span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>2) I do put some indoor plant fertilizer every 3 months or so (whenever I remember sometimes, so I didn't do this consistently)</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>3) Aphids can become a problem and nuisance. I just used water with some drops of dish washing soap in them, spray and wipe away. I don't put any oil in the leaves, their just shiny and perfect the way they are.</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">4) I do trim the bottom (not the top like most experts say) occassionally (like 3x  only since we got them)</span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">5) We did transfer them right away to Bigger Pots for them to grow better! Actually we need to transfer one to a bigger pot soon...</span></i></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrStVEXfKOtmMHTe0r-I5zEPmfsb3EoqWsme5kCZ8Yi6RrhVdAm9mPA_2swU5JH7-hpHEnSALgYMImlZR-U0Zt8GHDDPmeEpsj6LMV5BjX0f9ulbaEi4kKrU9bQziipuofWV1HaOW8FnI/s1600/DSC_0556_Fotor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrStVEXfKOtmMHTe0r-I5zEPmfsb3EoqWsme5kCZ8Yi6RrhVdAm9mPA_2swU5JH7-hpHEnSALgYMImlZR-U0Zt8GHDDPmeEpsj6LMV5BjX0f9ulbaEi4kKrU9bQziipuofWV1HaOW8FnI/s1600/DSC_0556_Fotor.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See?</td></tr></tbody></table>I truly love these plants, and they are perfect touches of green year-round inside our home!<br /><br />I still want them to look like this though...<br /><br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVd3q8mD8NB_67G4vlH22X0OaFhBeVmEDnf0ZE6uDVRmk4eEGaQKcAYgdYbC1i4Z0-lLNaXLXokpzOetMoshnjaLf6X3Ae1QapThXjz3SIIAqPSNaGGQUL7a9OwFcez7wBLn14PIADelQ/s1600/fiddle+leaf+fig+indoor+plant+dining+room+art+greek+key+rug.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVd3q8mD8NB_67G4vlH22X0OaFhBeVmEDnf0ZE6uDVRmk4eEGaQKcAYgdYbC1i4Z0-lLNaXLXokpzOetMoshnjaLf6X3Ae1QapThXjz3SIIAqPSNaGGQUL7a9OwFcez7wBLn14PIADelQ/s1600/fiddle+leaf+fig+indoor+plant+dining+room+art+greek+key+rug.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/">Source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;">So I better get my pruning skills honed right?!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">How about you, do you have any indoor plants that makes you happy?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><b style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-large;">                          Have a Nice Day!</span></i></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">VEL </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Would love to hear your thoughts! Please share away...</div><ol></ol>

Fiddle Leaf Update & tips

Do you remember my Fiddle Leaf Find from Walmart 2 years ago? Got them for $4 each Well, surprisingly enough, despite my "black thum...

5:02 PM