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Twitter Home Tour

A couple of awesome girls in the twitter universe came up with the idea. I love checking out other peoples homes & getting ideas, so I joined on. Our house is definitely not model home quality, but its ours and we like it.

Let’s start with our foyer. I couldn’t get a good picture of the overall, so here’s my three favorites from the area: dried flowers from my bouquet, wedding portrait, & wedding Bible quote & favorite beach wedding photo.
This room is a disaster. It was an office/junk room. Husband’s trying to turn it into a “man room”. It’ll eventually be the nursery (who knows where all the stuff will go then). Yall only get a brief glance.Next as we make our way down the hall is our guest bedroom. This is almost the exact same room as my college & right post college room. But I still love my Chi Omega owls & photos.When we moved in, this bathroom was awful! Multiple layers of wallpaper + boarder. The paint turned out brighter than I wanted, but I love how this beachy bathroom has turned out.
Now our bedroom. We’re still working on a headboard~ first couldn’t find one we like, then all too expensive. I think we found one just last week~ my Dad’s cousin offered her extra for $50!! The jewelry tree in between the windows is very special to me. My mom made it out my her mom’s costume jewelry!
Our bathroom is bad. Needs to be painted but one wall needs to be resheetrocked due to prior owners. But this is working for now. (PHOTO TO COME LATER)

Back down the hallway to the foyer. Take a left & you enter our kitchen. We redid this about a year & half ago!
The dining room & den are one big room but we have divided by couches. This is were we spend most of the time & from where I blog!
Hope you’ve enjoyed Suz’s home! Now go check out the other lovely ladies of the twitter home tour!

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Spring Planting

I certainly do not have a green thumb. It might be olive on the verge of brown, but I’m working on it!

I was inspired though after the weekend visiting my parents & I brought home some spring flowers to add color around our mailbox in between the day lilies. Here’s a phone I took from my phone right before Easter. They’re continuing to live & actually thriving! I’ll take another update photo later this week.
For Easter Nana gave me a knock out rose bush. I was nervous about roses. They sound hard! I was kinda thinking it wouldnt make it, but its survived the week so far! Tonight I replanted it into a bigger pot as per her instructions. I’ll take a photo of that soon to show my green thumb results!

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Reader?

Do yall use reader to keep up with the blogs you follow or just click from links on your blog? I always link from links if I’m at home. But I’ve realized that google reader isn’t blocked at work! It’s so nice to take a five minute escape break from work and just see what my blogging buddies are doing.
Are there any other great blogging tools or tricks I might be missing out on?!

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World’s Best Cat Litter?

I’ve been unhappy with the standard clay cat litter for a while now. We’ve kinda tried it all~ Arm & Hammer, Fresh Step, Petco’s brand, whatever Costco sells in huge tubs~ I like how well it clumps, but hate the smell & dust from it all. I am also the one who deals with the litter & don’t usually clean it but twice a week. I was on the look out for something new~ especially if I could get good deals on it at first.

I found a coupon a couple of weeks ago for pine shavings litter & bought it when Harris Teeter was doubling them. Showed it to hubby & he was less than impressed so I took it back.

I follow sue_stock on twitter and her blog mentioned getting World’s Best Cat Litter for free & then also listed a bunch of $3 & $4 off coupons. I talked to my brother who has multiple cats & he said they used something like this too. He & his girlfriend love that it’s FLUSHABLE! My first bag was free then got another one last week when they were on sale at Harris Teeter & I had a $3 coupon. I cleaned out Moe’s box & added the Litter last Wednesday. Its made of corn & I bought the clumping version. It looks like thicker clay litter but smells kinda like a cornfield. I was nervous at first because Moe didn’t seem to be a fan, but by Thursday he was using it and seemed ok with it.So far, I’m loving that it’s flushable. Makes it easy to just scoop out poop as I see it walking past that bathroom. I think it clumps almost as well as clay litter. There’s no dust, but Moe does track it a little when he jumps out of the box (he did that already though). I was going to take a photo to show yall~ but really who likes to see cat litter pics?!

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First OIB Trip of 2010

I was about to title this post “First Beach Trip of 2010”, but I remembered that I’d been to FL. Oops! But OIB is “my” or even “our” beach since Jason & I got married around there. I CAN’T wait! Toes in the sand, freckles out, a few tan lines, & frosty drinks!! Also hoping to get in some reading time. The weather is supposed to be fabulous. I’ll try to take a few pictures.

Update with photo~ couldn’t resist posting this cute one (the only photo I took all weekend!) of Jason & Bocce. It’s so hard to keep Bocce still. This is the best we could do!So far this has been a good week for Jason & I. 🙂 I’ll update y’all on Jason’s work news & maybe car news next week. We also found out we’ll be getting money back on our taxes!