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3 Things I Love
Emily
Today I decided that it would be nice to post about things that I love.
I love my job.  Yesterday we hosted our region's Large Group Music Contest.  We had about 12 different schools come to perform for a panel of judges, receive comments, and a rating.  All 3 of my choirs performed and they all received a "I" rating!  (That's the highest, with a V being the lowest.  I was soooooo proud of them!  We were aiming for a I+, but very few ensembles even received I's, let alone putting a + after it.  Phew.  I'm glad that's over, though.  There was a lot of stress leading up to the big event!  I'll post videos as soon as they're done uploading to YouTube.  Our internet is apparently really slow.

I love my kitty.















Nori and I spent all morning together, just chillin' on the couch.  This afternoon I opened up the patio door to let her experience the wonders of outdoor smells.  She's a bit of a fraidy cat, so she sat under the table for awhile first, but then her curiosity trumped her fear, I guess, because she's been sitting at the door for quite some time now.















Oh, Nori!  My mom bought her a fuschia cat bed for Easter that she has yet to use, but we're trying to convince her to use it.


I love my house.  This afternoon I baked banana bread, did laundry, washed my rugs, did dishes, and tidied up our little nest.  I just love living here.  It's tiny, yes, and it's not ours, I know, but I still love it.  Maybe because it's the first place T and I have had together.  Maybe it's the open kitchen.  Maybe it's the deck with the spring breeze wafting in, or maybe it's the overwhelming scent of fresh banana bread right now.  I don't know.  All I know is that this place feels like home.  Sigh. 


















EDIT:  Here are those videos I promised.  The weird clicky sound is my auto-focus.  Apparently it's really loud.






I'm so proud of them!!!!!
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A Chair Story.
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.

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KITTY!!!!
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.
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