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Today, we picked out a new chair for the family room. This one is a lot smaller than the one we had with the other couches, so I think it will fit in the room better. Mom had some type of voucher for Big Sandy Furniture that she got back because she didn’t use her […]

The week before our wedding day, Nathan brought me flowers and a gift basket to work. The card said, “One week away from our special day.” One of the many awesome things in that basket was a wooden sign that read, “Always Kiss Me Goodnight” It hung above the doorway in our old house, and […]

This is a pretty regular occurence at the house lately. Between my photo orders and all the stuff we’ve ordered for the house recently, there’s hardly a day that we pull up to the house and don’t find a package on the front porch.   Nathan’s convinced that the UPS guy must think we are […]

I picked out this wire frame over a year ago. I had it on my 2010 Christmas Wish List, but before we could order it, they sold out. The customer service people at Pottery Barn couldn’t even tell me if they would be getting more or not. So when I happened to see it on […]

Today our new rug arrived in the mail. We actually picked the rug out last weekend when we were at Crate and Barrel in Columbus. The rug came in three different sizes, and the size we wanted (30×50), they couldn’t find. So we ordered and they shipped it to us from another store.   It […]

One of our main goals for our Christmas trip today was to get a rug for the kitchen. When we ordered our kitchen tables (months ago) they asked us if it would be on a rug or if it would be on tile/wood. We said rug, knowing that’s what the table would eventually be on. […]