Emily
Wow, what an incredibly normal day.  Normal, except they changed the firewall so now I can access blogland at work!  This could be very dangerous indeed! As I was checking my blog traffic this morning, I got to thinking.  I put up so  many pics of my home, maybe you'd like to see my second home!  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my choir room.
Yup, here's where the magic happens.  This is my choir room.  



It's true.  The only thing better than singing really is more singing.  I used fabric for my bulletin boards instead of paper, cause it's reusable!  I think I bought it at Mill End Textiles for something like $1 a yard or something.  That solfege chart is my new best friend.  See how famous we are?  Check out the newpaper clippings about us.  Yay publicity!

Well, now you've seen where I take a group of 50 ordinary hormonal teenagers and turn them into something classy and fab!


Let's move to my office.

It's not exactly the corner office, but it's home to me.  I have my piano, my mini fridge, and my plastic composer busts to keep me company.  They help pass the time.



I love that I have a little sneaky window into the choir room.  See my travel posters on the wall?  Always dreaming of some faraway place.  

Hey, I'm making it my new goal to have at least 2 new followers every week.  So, if you're an occasional reader, would you mind leaving a comment and saying hi?   It's nice to make new friends in blogland.  And, if you leave a link to your blog, I promise I'll give it a read!

Happy almost Easter!

Emily
Every time I walk past our console table in the dining room, I smile.  I love the new little vignette!  

T and I picked up this antique Moonstone vase at an antique store a few weeks ago, and when I found this sort of matching candy dish at a thrift store, I just had to have it.  Paired with the sunflowers....ahh, it just makes me smile.
This set also came with mugs, but I just set out my favorite pieces.  Thank you Hobby Lobby clearance. I forgot I had this set in my cupboard until I went scrounging around for serving trays.  Yay for stuff I forgot I had!

I recently started adding splashes of yellow in the dining area.  It all started with a mustard colored tablecloth that matches the yellow chair in our living room.
Then came the funky little yellow dish on far right bookshelf.  (Yeah, I know you can only see half of it...)  Then came the sunflowers, which I usually hate, but they just added to the whole yellow, black and white motif.  I may have a new favorite color scheme, folks!
Emily
T and I are currently watching "Life" on Discovery.  It's absolutely beautiful!  Tonight's episode is on fish. T and I being the geeks that we are, are totally enthralled.  The colors are so vivid and clear, and fish are just, well, really interesting!

Remember these flying fish guys from Super Mario?























Well, there are actually real fish that fly!!  No, really, look:

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From what T and I can tell, they jump out of the water and then fly/float with their extra-long fins.  And here we thought Nintendo was just that creative.....hmph.

In other news....T and I broke out the grill tonight!
























Yummmmm!  We had chipotle cinnamon rubbed chicken and grilled potatoes with onions in garlic.  Oooooh man, you should be jealous.  We had nearly 70 degree temps!  I actually swept out the garage today and got rid of all the winter grime.   Yesss.  Spring cleaning!
Emily
Our chair is done!  We finally finished it tonight, after it had been sitting in our garage "drying" for a week.  (I use the term "drying" loosely because really it was just taking up space in our garage, forcing me to park outside and scrape my windshield all week.  I'm sure it probably only took like 4 hours to actually dry.)

Here's the before pic:
Notice the bizarro pant rack or whatever it is hanging off the back?  Well, we completely took that off, removed the ugly brown vinyl, T sanded down the base, we painted it, recovered the cushion...and this is what we came up with:



We absolutely love how it turned out.  We don't have any white furniture, but this contrasts nicely to our dark wood furniture in the bedroom.

It makes me laugh because we got the idea from Michela's chair project and ended up finding a fabric that nearly matched hers but in colors that worked in our room.


I actually have a necklace rack in the shape of coral sitting on the dresser just next to the chair.  I don't think you can see it in the picture, though.

Here's the best part:


There's a secret compartment!  We ran out of fabric to cover the inside of the lid too, but I think I might run back and get some more to completely finish it off.  Best part?  This was a cheap project!  The fabric was less than $4 and the chair was $1.  We did have to purchase a new staple gun, staples, and spray paint, but those will all come in handy on future projects.  A new chair for less than what, $20?  Not bad!

Doing all those corners on the inside were the worst, but I think it turned out ok for our first go at recovering a chair!



Nori enjoyed the show too.  It's funny, T can't get the camera to focus on her face because it's all the same color.  Haha.  We've been absolutely loving our time with our new addition.  Nori and I spent all afternoon watching HGTV together and dreaming of our future house together.  Love how her eyes match our comforter, don't you?!  What a doll.

Emily
Ooooh....

Lovely Little Nest is doing a giveway for really really cute planner and noteblook sets.  I'd enter if I were you, but hurry, it's over at midnight!

I love the blue geometric print...so springy and graphic.  Totally me.


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Check out the great prints at Richelle's etsy shop.
Emily


Dear friends, meet our new kitty, Nori.  She's officially survived the first 24 hours in the Danger house, and she's adjusting fairly well.  About as well as can be expected, that is.  She's the most affectionate cat, always nudging and loving on every human in sight.

Nori is 5 years old and has been at the Humane Society for 2 years.  Why she's been there so long, we don't know.  She really is awfully friendly, but we think people probably just want a kitten or they don't like black cats.  There's at least 4-5 MORE black cats at the Humane Society.

You're probably wondering how we got our landlord to agree to letting us have a kitty.  Well, we convinced him by reminding him that he said he was planning on replacing our carpet when we move anyway.  He still seemed iffy about it, and so Ted told him we'd pay a pet deposit equal to a month's rent and get an adult cat that was already litter trained.  We didn't even care about the money that much (even though it's ridiculously expensive) we just wanted a cat so bad that we would have done anything to get her.



We thought she'd stay up and cry all night, but she was an angel, only meowing once all night that we heard.  Her favorite spot is a cubby hold in our entertainment center, behind one of our storage boxes.  She gets scared when we leave, but we always find her there.  She's eating and drinking and thank goodness she found her litter box.

Currently we're watching HGTV.  I love my kitty.

In other news, I recently went thrifting and found this gem of a chair for a buck:



T and I have been working on it and can't wait to show you the results.  We got inspired by Michela's chair makeover.  This is our first project, so we may completely mangle it. But, the thing was so ugly we couldn't do much worse that this, now could we?  Nope.  

Okay, back to my kitty.
Emily
Spring hasn't fully sprung here yet.  We're still waiting on some stubborn snowdrifts to melt into oblivion.  However, I did get to enjoy some sun on our deck after donning my sweatpants, fleece jacket, and flip flops.

Other exciting spring things:

New tablecloth and centerpiece!  I picked up this vase ages ago at an antique store.  LOVE it now!

Also, picked up this new candleholder for our bathroom:  $8 clearance at Gordmans.  YES!



In other news, the end of 3rd quarter is Friday!  I was telling T tonight, 3rd quarter is the absolute pits.  There's nothing to look forward to, like Thanksgiving or Christmas or summer.  It's just cold, snowy, and bleak.  Monday we'll begin the last quarter of the school year, which tends to FLY by.  I'll be wearing flipflops and sundresses in no time!  Hallelujah!

That's all for now.  Just thought you might like some new pics.  It's been awhile, friends, hasn't it?


Emily
We're working on a Rachmaninoff piece in choir right now, and we're singing it in Russian.  We had an excellent rehearsal today that just made my heart happy.  It wasn't the best rehearsal ever, but they made music!  I love it when that happens.  I just thought I'd share.

In all our wallowing over med school, we decided to talk to our landlord about getting a cat.  He was pretty reluctant (according to T) but he said yes!  We only have to pay an extra month of rent as a security deposit.  I don't really understand this though, because he told us he was replacing the carpet after we leave.  I suppose he just didn't want the cat stinking up the place too badly.  Whatever.  We promised him we'd get an adult, litterbox-trained kitty.  :D

So, we did what everybody in our shoes would do, we went window shopping for kitties in the middle of a snow/rain storm.

Awww!  I think her name is Kadyn, from what I can tell on the Humane Society See, our local Humane Society is located in a downtown storefront, so when we get bored, we like to go look at the kitties in the window.  They have free reign over the place because all the dogs are in "foster care".

So, I guess we're getting a cat as soon as we can russle up another month's rent!  Ha....ha...ha...
Emily
Well, the day the letter actually came was sometime last week while we were in Minneapolis.

The answer was.....

No.

T's not going to med school at USD next year, and we're dealing with major disappointment right now.  We were both ready to pick up our lives and move.  We had a house picked out, a job for me figured out, everything was planned.  Then God told us, "nope."  We're not very happy creatures right now, T and I.

We're surviving, trying to learn what happened, but mostly we're just shaking our heads in disbelief.  Surely this was supposed to be our year!  Surely all the hard work would have paid off!  Nope.  Not yet, at least.

T is going to meet with the Dean of Students to see what insight he can gain from his file and see if its worth trying again next year.

We're trying to learn to be content no matter what the circumstance, but it's really freakin' hard.  Really.  Hard.
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