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Card Tin

Last but not late to the Randolph Flea party (see our other finds here and here) is this tiny tin, found at the Apartment 528 booth. For just 4 dollars (alphabet dividers included, how polite), we planned to use it as shelter for our growing collection of business cards. Yes, I know we can log…

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Clearing the Junk. Or Organizing It, Anyway.

It should be no secret that we have a junk drawer. Everyone does, yeah? But what happens when one drawer multiplies three-fold, and then before you know it, you can’t remember what drawer is holding what junk? While we’re not the biggest fans of our kitchen cabinet finishes (let’s just say we wouldn’t have picked…

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Cigar Box Surprise

With the recent completion of our media wall and the addition of our new 3.1 surround system (soon to be 5.1, if I can convince the lady of it’s necessity), we were left with a common dilemma: Where do you keep all of those pesky remotes so they’re within reach but out of sight? Kim…

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The Wall

Hey, oh my gosh, guess what? This past weekend was spent, for the most part, enjoying our new wall! And if it weren’t for a hot, sunny Sunday or a few evenings dining with friends, we’d have spent every moment parked on the sofa, staring at the wall. The wall that we built! We made…

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Freak

I swear if such a thing existed, I would have a very high allergic reaction to cable chaos. A low tolerance for tangled cable-y messes. I’m a big, honkin’ cable freak, if you will. Velcro strips, zip ties, and wall tacks are our go-to for desk organization, but what about the tube? Hello, Psycho. Thank…

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A Wagon and a Wall

Last weekend, we left Chicago in our Corolla and came home with a Subaru (more on that in a bit) and the long awaited media wall. We spent two days in our friends Ross and Patti’s insane wood shop, dined on the Queen City’s finest pizza (plain cheese LaRosa’s, hooray!), and even squeezed in time…

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