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Apr 3 2012

Where is a Lighter When I Need One?

by Mary Anne

No one in my household smokes cigarettes, so I would think it logical to assume that if I buy a multi-pack of lighters that they would still be in the kitchen drawer. I know I bought a muli-pack at Christmas for five dollars and put it in the junk drawer by the phone in case we needed one to light the gas furnace or maybe a candle if the electricity goes out in a storm.

So I went to the junk drawer today and was shocked to find just the empty cardboard wrapper in the drawer and not a single lighter in there! Who on earth has been taking the lighters? And what have they been using them for?

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Feb 15 2012

I love fabric stores

by Mary Anne

When I have a few minutes to kill, and I’m near a fabric store, I try to spend some time browsing through the store.  I love to look at all of the new fabric colors and designs, to get inspiration for decorating my house, or for gifts.

I love to sew, and I have to confess that I have bought fabric and patterns with good intentions to sew some clothes but then did not get around to doing it.  I really hope that I DO get around to that sewing soon! My mother-in-law tells me “she who dies with the most fabric wins” but I hope to actually DO stuff with mine!

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Feb 5 2012

Home improvement stores

by Mary Anne

There was a time when I hated to go to home improvement stores like Lowes and Home Depot. If I happened to go there without a man in tow, it was almost completely impossible for me to get the attention and assistance from one of the sales people on the sales floor. The customer service was terrible! In fact, there was a period of time when I signed up for a mystery shopping company and they assigned me some home improvement stores to do the “mystery shop” so they could evaluate the customer service and when I took on that shop I was supposed to walk around the store and time how long it took for a store associate to acknowledge my presence. If after ten minutes of walking around no one acknowledged me I was supposed to approach an associate and ask for assistance in finding a particular product.

Well, no one came and offered me any assistance and when I approached the associate and asked for help that associate blew me off! Needless to say that home improvement score got bad marks on that mystery shop!

But that was another time and another place. A completely different state than where we live now. Now when I go to the local home improvement store with my hubby I like walking around different parts of the store, looking for things that I might have never known existed before. Sometimes I feel like I have led a very sheltered life when I walk around a store like that! When I see all of the different beautiful light fixtures and ceiling fans I just stand in awe and try to imagine which room in our house would benefit from some of those being installed. For example, I would love to have a new ceiling fan in the master bedroom – especially one that is quiet so it would circulate the air but also provide some white noise to sleep by.

The fan we use right now is one that takes up space on the floor, and although it does what it is supposed to do, I really would prefer a pretty ceiling fan in there; I think it would make the room look more like a luxurious retreat. Whenever I find any great deals from lowes stores I am more than happy to accompany my hubby there so he can buy whatever lumber or pipe or cable he needs while I go and fantasize about my dream bedroom.

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Feb 4 2012

Address plaques add a little personality and a lot of visibility

by Mary Anne

One of the things I enjoy doing when I go to a home improvement store is to go over to the area where the store displays mailboxes. I like to take a good hard look at all of the different custom address plaques and mailboxes that they have to choose from. I squint my eye and imagine how the bronze address plaques would look on our house and at the end of the driveway. Having personalized address plaques both street side and on the house are very important steps to ensure visibility to rescue services, delivery drivers, school bus drivers, and they add some personality to a property that helps to make a statement about who it is that lives inside.

For the past couple of years I’ve been wanting to design a pattern for an address plaque that would complement the painted mailbox that we have. My hubby brought a plain plaque home last fall and told me that he wanted to use it but I’m not quite sure exactly where he was planning on putting it. At first he said he was going to put in on the mailbox but I really don’t see the need for that since the mailbox is already hand painted and numbered quite well. It will be interesting to see what exactly it is that he does with it!

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