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Through Our Eyes
June 18, 2013
June 2013.

We toured the house for the first time with our realtor, and for the second time during our home inspection in mid-April. The property was a lot different then than …

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Our First Weekend
June 17, 2013
Seeding the new lawn.

I didn't leave myself much time to chime in with a happy Monday post, or more so, organize photos to complement. As you might understand if you followed my photos …

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Buying and Renting and Selling

Welcome Home
June 13, 2013
House Tour, Day of Closing

As we cautiously anticipated, we closed on our new home yesterday afternoon. I know, blah blah blah, it probably sounds all dramatic that we didn't know when we would close …

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Buying and Renting and Selling

Bonus Berries
June 10, 2013
Our Pink Lemonade Blueberry Bush.

We're planning to transplant some of our favorite plants from the backyard of the old house when we close on the new house; in the four years that I've lived …

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Backyard  / Gardening

DIY Network: Whilst Planning and Packing…
June 7, 2013

We've got a feeling that next week is going to be legendary/life-changing/super fun... but in the midst of packing up our current home and  making other repairs for our future …

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HGTV + DIY Network Projects

Packing It Up
June 4, 2013
Packing the living room books.

I've spent a lot of time packing over the past few days to get the non-essentials prepared for the move. We aren't hiring movers because I'm cheap, and we haven't …

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Buying and Renting and Selling  / Organized

It’s All About The Money
June 3, 2013

It was only about 45-minutes after I launched the post detailing how we were going about getting an FHA mortgage to buy a second house (with co-signers/co-borrowers) that the mailman …

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Buying and Renting and Selling

Well, That Was Easier Than We Expected
May 31, 2013

As if I haven't shared enough big news this week, I have some more: We've rented our house! I realize this announcement is a little bit out of nowhere; you knew …

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Buying and Renting and Selling

More Good News
May 30, 2013
I'm pregnant!

Come November, I'm pretty sure it'll look like that watermelon is tucked beneath my shirt. Side note: Fruit salad being is served with every meal this weekend. Now that I'm in …

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Casual Celebrations

The Countdown To Landlord-dom
May 29, 2013
Installing the new kitchen faucet, sometimes a good place to nap.

When we set out to rent our home, we made ourselves a list with about 30 line items detailing what we needed to do to our current house to "make …

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Buying and Renting and Selling  / DIY

DIY Network: Lots Of Updates
May 23, 2013

I've been spending an inordinate amount of time on a few big projects: Renting out our current house (comes with the joy of city permits, inspections, and repairs), finalizing the …

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HGTV + DIY Network Projects

Squeak-No-More
May 22, 2013
The inner structure of our staircase.

I've written before about the state of our oak floors. They're squeak-tastic but we love them anyways. We've done a lot of work over the last year to improve them, spending …

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Stairwell

Taking A Breather, Eating Pancakes
May 21, 2013

Two years ago today, I left my job for a run at self-employment. Two years, and ran it has, I still feel like it's a life change that I just …

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Casual Celebrations

Another Fine Mid-Century Find…
May 17, 2013
Vintage Norelco Speaker - A freebie find!

It's always pretty impressive to look back into a company's history and find that not only are they leaders in the LED light bulb category as much as they're leading …

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Being Thrifty

Ikat At Uncommon
May 16, 2013
UncommonGoods Canvas Ikat Storage

UncommonGoods graciously opened up the doors to its online storeroom and offered me to review almost any item of my choosing. Talk about being like a kid in a candy store, …

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Decor  / Organized

Backyard Laziness + Home Anniversaries
May 15, 2013
Hello spring, how do you like them dead tomato plants?

I'm usually pretty amped for anything spring-cleaning related by the time my home-a-versary rolls around in mid-May, and this year was no exception; today marks the day four years ago …

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Backyard  / Casual Celebrations

Im(PENDING) Excitement
May 10, 2013
Our house has a pending sale sign in front of it!

This week, this happened. Subsequently, it's been the best week ever. I had been not-so-patiently waiting for that taunting "for sale" sign to change its status, and as a result of …

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Buying and Renting and Selling

We Have Grout Issues, Yo
May 7, 2013
Eesh, what a crack job. Our kitchen grout has gone bad.

Our kitchen floor tiles were once something that brought us a lot of joy and happiness, but quickly turned to something that we were annoyed with (sing it, joooyyy, and …

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Kitchen

Last We Left Off…
May 6, 2013

...we were still in a waiting pattern, learning a little more about our new house every day. New house, we still can't believe this is happening. I wasn't sure if my silence …

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