15 bags of rocks, a deep cleansing to the copper fire basin and some serious tender love and care to the grass seed have brought about the following results:

I have two awesome adirondack chairs coming in the mail and I’m going to get a few large pots with flowers to put in the back corner. Almost ready to enjoy!

The back corner of my yard is pretty boring and grass has not successfully grown there since I initially purchased the house years ago. See…

So, I devised a highly sophisticated plan to build a firepit.

And here’s where I spend an entire day laying out the area, digging the hole, and prepping the corner for grass seed…again. The dogs, Tilda and Derby, did nothing but watch and lick my salty sweat. Brats. Oh, and I added a bird feeder. I’m recently obsessed but that’s for another day.

A new store in Stone Harbor, New Jersey contacted Karalee Designs after finding the work on Trunkt. Very exciting! So, after a couple weeks of figuring out how I wanted to tag my pieces, I sent off a giant box of product. And now I cross my fingers…

Day 3 of Closet Makeover - Prime and Paint
1 coat of primer and 3 coats of white paint in the 90 degree humid New England heat. Fun.

Day 2 of Closet Makeover - Plastering
I think the wallpaper was holding the walls together. Lovely.

I have one of the ugliest closets in my studio. Apparently, it was super cool to wallpaper a closet at one point in time. The person who came up with that brilliant design idea should be shot.

Day 1 of Closet Makeover - Removing the Wallpaper

I put a hole in the wall just to challenge my plastering skills…not really.

This sounds all too familiar…

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The intern is back for the summer bearing a new time waster. She now has me addicted to Text Twist. My top score 9,840 so far, with the most satisfying accomplishment of clearing the board last night for the first time as documented below.

However, when our two brilliant minds combine forces, we reached 41,500. We is so smat.