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The little white cottage in the woods: Love at first sight

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Love at first sight. It cannot exactly be said that our little white cottage in the woods was a conscious discovery; nor have I a sensible explanation on how I happened upon it one morning other than perhaps it was the house itself that enticed us to it? Certainly, there were forces beyond our understanding working on our behalf in finding what it was to be our new home in this new chapter of our lives. The next thing that took my breath away was the pond. Not see all the possibi...

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The little white cottage in the woods: Master room transformation

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Monday, August 3, 2015. When we first bought our little white cottage, the furniture in our master bedroom were all dark and boring. They all looked like this. Until I painted them in this pretty color. This room has been an evolving job ever since we moved here. You all have seen the small transformations that had been taking place here throughout the last year. When I last showed you our master bedroom it was starting to look more like what I'd envisioned, however still not quite what I wanted. I also ...

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The little white cottage in the woods: Small entry

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Thursday, August 13, 2015. Most of you who have smaller homes with a small entry, or worse, no entry at all, understand exactly what I'm talking about. Our home is one of those. we have such a small entry that if you walk right in two steps too fast you'll be knocking your head off with the wall. Believe me, that doesn't mean we have to keep the space looking as bland as this. Our little entry 'before'. Before I decided it to wallpapered it. First, I painted the little entry table here. Oh and don't pay ...

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The little white cottage in the woods: Rain and an anniversary

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The here and now. The house in the roses. Monday, August 10, 2015. Rain and an anniversary. After seven days God commanded Noah to shut the door of the ark, and to plaster it over with bitumen. And the fountains of the deeps were broken up from beneath, and a torrent of rain (fell) from above, for forty days and forty nights, without cessation, until the waters rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountains in the world" (Sacred Texts). I wonder if any of them might had shared my passion for stormy days.

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The little white cottage in the woods: From this... to this

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Monday, October 20, 2014. From this. to this. Ah those sublime autumn days! No wonder they’re the stuff of poems and popular songs everywhere. Balmy days, brisk nights, cozy sweaters, vibrant colors starting to dot the landscape—even our childhood memories are likely to recall an overall theme of fresh starts and clean slates…. This is the reason I'm dancing and welcoming the season of color, pumpkins in the cornfields and leaves of rust and scarlet in the garden. Now, at the end of this journey througho...

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The little white cottage in the woods: Life as it happens

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Saturday, August 15, 2015. Life as it happens. I am reading "The Bell Jar", by Sylvia Plath, for the first time. From its very first pages this book sprouts an apathy so bleak, that I'm afraid I would not be able to muster the end, already announced from its vastly beginnings. What a beautiful messy soul Sylvia Plath was. to shed so much light in such terrible darkness. Flavors so rich with which I've been doing my own 'sofrito' (condiments) to spice our Latin dishes with. 1 medium red pepper. I pruned t...

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The little white cottage in the woods: The kitchen

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Monday, May 26, 2014. And inside the house… oh dears, I’m dancing with joy. Why? Because my kitchen cabinet doors have finally arrived! Yes yes they have! They have been installed and I’m frantically wholly absolutely happily in love…. A lot of work and a lot of waiting, but I cannot begging to tell you how overjoyed I am with the results… remember how my little kitchen looked originally? Hard to believe this is the same kitchen. May 26, 2014 at 12:20 PM. May 26, 2014 at 12:22 PM. May 26, 2014 at 2:34 PM.

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The little white cottage in the woods: Cottage love - a rainy day

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The here and now. The house in the roses. Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Cottage love - a rainy day. I love those awesome, mystic days full of mystery and excitement when the sky turns dark and low and the woods behind our gardens becomes a jewel of deep greens and dark as a fairytale. Thunderstorms days. I hear the music of rain on the roof. the scent of wet soil rising up from the ground tickles my senses. My soul is a bouquet of enchantment. I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my...

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The little white cottage in the woods: The pond

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014. And how it looked on that day I discovered our little white cottage. Sitting at the bottom of the road down the hill. Desolated and abandoned, but I saw so much potential there then. It was something like seeing without yet seeing. then one day this summer we cleaned, dug, hauled, removed, planted… and established a garden around it. Little by little it all started taking shape. Months later we cleaned, drained old water, removed all debris,. Then we installed the pump.

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The little white cottage in the woods: The master bathroom renovation

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Monday, January 12, 2015. The master bathroom renovation. Have I mentioned that I’ve been working on renovating/sprucing up our master bathroom for awhile now? Oh yes, and although it’s not a major makeover, the work done has made such a difference in there! I wanted to wrap up this re-do fairly quickly, and my main goal was to inexpensively refresh the place and pretty it up a bit. I started by restoring the grout on the floors using a toothbrush and a jug of white-colored Grout Renew. The master bathro...