tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85658074733568028192024-02-20T09:29:44.467-08:00This Too! ThatMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12968886182747016972noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565807473356802819.post-13244268389602002762012-07-03T08:54:00.001-07:002012-07-03T08:54:38.794-07:00New CameraWe got a new camera!:<br />
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We are so excited to learn how to use it and hopefully take some great pictures. While we are learning to become photographers, I thought I'd show off some practice pictures of none other than our adorable dogs :o)</div>
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Morneau sitting on the couch, isn't he cute? (I may be a <i>little</i> bias...)<br />
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Deuce giving us the "I don't want my picture taken" face:<br />
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I know I have a few old posts, but since there has been an over-a-year hiatus, I would like to use this "first" post to introduce myself. <br />
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I've been married to my sweet husband, Brad, for about 3 1/2 years. We were married on October 25, 2008. He is a wonderful, hard-working, goofy guy who I'm lucky enough to call my best friend and husband. <br />
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(On our wedding day, we look so young!)</div>
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For now, our only kids are our two dogs, Deuce and Morneau, a Boston Terrier and Miniature Pinscher. Love those boys, aren't they cute?! :o)<br />
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I was born and raised, and still reside in Minnesota. However, I think I was actually meant to live on the ocean. I like to think living on the ocean would make it less special than it seems when I only get to go every few years. (Or I just tell myself that to make me feel better about <em>not</em> living on the ocean). <br />
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Speaking of Minnesota, I am a <strong><em>huge</em></strong> Minnesota Twins fan. (Justin Morneau is the first baseman for the Twins and I'm sure he'd be honored to know I named my dog after him ;o) I love going to games and watch as many as I can on TV. I also enjoying spending time at my parents' cabin, spending time with family, fishing, hiking, biking, and of course being crafty and working on our home. Brad and I love to travel as well. A few more of my favorites: Diet Mountain Dew, country music, watermelon, sunshine, and summertime.<br />
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I work full-time for a chain of hardware stores. Perfect for a DIYer huh? In fact, my father-in-law owns most of the company, with my husband being part owner. Ultimately, my husband will be running the show. As for me, I do mostly administrative work for the buyer. Unfortunetly, I do not overly enjoy working in an office all day, so that leads us to what's next...why I'm here. I need a creative outlet after working all day!<br />
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When I was younger, I used to write <em>all the time.</em> I loved writing. In middle school my best friend and I would write what was affectionately called 'fan fiction.' These were stories we wrote about our favorite band, Hanson. (Most stories ended with our preferred brother falling madly in love with us and we all lived happily ever after). Did anyone else used to read this fan fiction? There were websites all over where all of crazy us Hanson fans would share our stories. I had notebook after notebook filled with them. </div>
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After I got a little older and realized I wasn't going to marry Taylor Hanson, I filled journals with the <strike>pleasant</strike> thoughts of a teenage girl. Again, I had journal after journal filled. I took every creative writing class they had in high school and took as many as I could in college as well. Now that I've been living in the real world for a few years, I never write. And I think it's time I started again. While I'm no longer writing teenage love stories, I think writing in a blog will be just as fun and a good way to let out my creativity.</div>
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I've been following DIY/craft/home blogs for about two years now. I <em>love</em> looking at all the beautiful homes and projects of all of the wonderful women in the blog world. They have been my inspiration and I think it's time for me to contribute to this world. That being said, my house looks nothing like all the pretty one I see online! I work full-time and seems I never have the time to make my house into a beautiful home. But....I'm starting to feel that is just an excuse. Sure, many of the blogs I most envy are created by women who are able to stay home with their kids. But they are still busy caring for their family and some of the others also work full-time. I have ran out of excuses! I want this blog to not only inspire and motivate you, but to motivate me and make me accountable for things I want to do. </div>
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So there is my purpose for This Too! That: to continue writing, get out some creativity, and to hold myself accountable for making a beautiful home for me, my husband, and our future family. </div>
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I made these ballet slippers for a different project, but decided I liked them as an ornament for my tree instead. I cut the shape out of pink felt and sewed on a smaller shape of white felt. I hand sewed it all together with thread. They make a nice addition to our tree!<br />
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I painted it a beige-y color. I did everything by hand, including the wavy boarder and the letters. (I am not lucky enough to have a cutting machine...yet! My Silhouette is in the mail..sooooo excited, thank you Hubby!) Anywho, I had to paint by hand and I think it turned out pretty nice if I do say so myself! <br />
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I found these little metal dealy-bobs at a craftstore in Northern Wisconsin (where the cabin is located). They were perfect and really added to the sign. I love how it turned out!<br />
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I put masking tape all around to shape it a little more and give me something to glue to.<br />
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I covered it in batting. I used a glue gun to attach everything because my staple gun was too strong to use on this weak board.<br />
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I added my teal/turqouise/aqua and brown fabric. I love these two colors together--so much they were our wedding colors! And I have a set of dishes we recieved as wedding gifts that are also these colors. Therefore, I want the kitchen to be a more neutral tan, with maybe a brown accent wall, and NO dark red. <br />
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I added some pretty brown and aqua ribbon and wa-la, a beautiful message board! So...it's hanging in my kitchen against the ugly red wall. I'm hoping my husband's decorating side (ha) won't be able to stand it either and he will be inspired to paint! <br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12968886182747016972noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565807473356802819.post-29795126048878711792010-02-17T18:27:00.000-08:002012-06-06T11:14:50.631-07:00My Favorite Frugal FindsI'm so excited about my new rug from Target that I must share! It's on the floor in my kitchen and now everytime I walk in I get a smile on my face. For one, I love brown and I love the natural look of this rug. And I reheeaaally liked the price! It was originally $49.99. I would <em>never</em> have bought a rug for that much (especially since my kitchen already had an okay rug.) But, this rug was on clearance for $12.82! Talk about a steal!! On top of that, I had gotten a giftcard from my parent's for my bithday, so to me, it was free!<br />
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We got 3 of these stools at a garage sale last spring. We had just purchased our house and needed stools for the counter in the kitchen. But they are so expensive! I spotted these while driving back to work after lunch one afternoon and had to stop. They were only $10, yes $10 dollars, each! We only needed two for the kitchen, so the third is down in our game room in the basement. They also have natural elements, which is how I am going to decorate our kitchen once I get the time to paint. And such a good deal! These would have been waaay more expensive in a store. Gotta love garage sales!<br />
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I started with a metal tray I got at a thrift store on half-price day for 25 cents.<br />
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Cute ain't it? Ummm....no. So, I took my handy dandy Mod Podge, some craft paper, and riboon...and turned it into this!<br />
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We started dating in September of 2007, were engaged in May 2008, and married 5 months later! Reading this, it sounds like it happened so quickly, but I can't imagine it any other way! Here are a few pics from our big day:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </p></span><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 228px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 330px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437818620390246946" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPWfp4Fi6faf3mdPrbbI7_mwnUbAEfwc76JLNq5y2Rf2pNxEN9vhtdO7JKWp8rBr4VwXfBYDVIk03BA_LFCFFzCnMCEAyIOGY_5pjfjTYsMhPLNnytTGqIHY2XL_5vYlj1RrXxYf7Mxl8/s320/wed.bmp" /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437115623497686530" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsVX-LV3DNmWVTwEPRZ1F6vdKNzqx2E_m5MBw-uKhYw73GtzUvc5dwSRhLzpb3CtrqrbPlneofEUiT5oP4cIdTx9a3ROLe61dhu3hwCv3Ua9ZqR0UfSRHSBfEuRnbSaKZHTI3JY0Oi75Q/s320/carwed.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437116072714512514" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrbQgfrBGSZ5m0t98UmJ5mx-UzKRbrmzMk5LH1Kad5c6Wq9IrLFJnbjUGq8CsPZjI4zkxo7DxXxefzytVwmleOLgNjAO7okC-Oj73lyCcjZA4TBrbX2t6jtWTbT3sgieDVJqKAd00ttC8/s320/kiss.jpg" /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">2. People think we look waaaay younger (okay, maybe not waaay younger) than we are! I just turned 24 this past week and Brad, being exactly 3 years and 11 months older to the day, will be 28 next month. We get our ID's checked way too often and it gets old hearing "You'll appreciate it when you're older!" Hopefully they're right!</span></span><br /><br /></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">3. My parents are antique dealers. This means that every road trip as a child was littered with stops at antique shops, flea markets, and Goodwill. I'm pretty sure my dad has never seen a garage sale and <em>not</em> stopped. I used to think it took 13 hours to get to my grandparents' house; turns out it only takes 9 if you don't stop at all those antique shops! Now I enjoy going to thrift stores and garage sales with good old dad. If you want to see what a thrifty antique dealer's garage looks like I <em>could</em> show you a picture (but my mom would kill me!)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">4. I was born and raised in Rochester, MN and now live 2 hours west, still in MN. This means that, sadly, our garage sale season is very short! I really extremely dislike the cold and snow is nice for awhile, but so far this year my car has been stuck seven times! That's a lot of shoveling under the tires.</span></span><br /><br /></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">5. Brad bought a sweet (extremely hyper) Boston Terrier puppy a few months before we started dating. I adopted a naughty (but sweet) Miniature Pinscher from a shelter one month before we started dating. So now we have two hyper, naughty, but sweet dogs that live with us. The Boston is Deuce (it was his second dog) and I named the minpin Morneau after the greatest baseball player of all time, the Minnesota Twin's firstbaseman Justin Morneau.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">The boys:</span><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 146px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437120325650845954" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU7WX7ejBMd9WluO7OKDAT3ltbwwLmBNb8YpT6_D_EfoJOpRDMBresbt-6VyFhd9n2gdMigXOxJlliTrjtzM1vyo1sE5VHBusYZcA_CAA17hoenKm-J_fqexo15dFtU_N6aJft0knozDE/s200/pups2.jpg" /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">They are our 'children' for now, but we can't wait to start a family (in a couple of years).</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6. We will have lived in our home for one year on April 1. We got a <em>steal</em> of a deal on it (thank you economy and insider information on how desperate the seller was). We love it and I have so much fun planning on what to do in every room! This is the front the day we moved in, the garage comes off of the right side.<br /></span></p></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><p></span></p><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437121583509669058" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-71TftqUOWzVC5SEVLaJElaVpSyt0WaJhJ0ORNrOnDmNOIU0JJNrjyWHzYWngbsCEmUkRr7tC9kNp_uq3H4PpWItws2nXNQojrHhW0tBSPrYw_chGKR6xocHOboEedeva9FZVBP7LsGQ/s200/home.jpg" /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">7. Finally, few more things I love/enjoy/or can't live without: our families, good friends, country music, the Minnesota Twins, a Mountain Dew in the morning, going to my parents cabin, fishing, and boating, hiking and biking with Brad, watermelon, pretending/trying to be organized, warm weather, and of course, crafting and decorating! </span></span><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Can't wait to start sharing with all of you!</span></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#ff99ff;"><strong>~<span style="color:#cc66cc;">Michelle~</span></strong></span></p>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12968886182747016972noreply@blogger.com0