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Eating Lorna Doones

Snowy Day

It's one of those nice slow snowy days. Nothing needs to be done and it's snowing outside so it's nice to just stay in...

Disney on Ice

Saturday we went to see Disney on Ice 100 Years of Disney at the Verizon Center. Gigi had a great time. We rode the Metro downtown which added to the adventure for her. She enjoyed seeing all the princesses and the other Disney characters. It was a nice warm up for our trip to Disney in March.

Rendition Sadie Augustine

OK here's a shot of Ms. Sadie all cleaned up and pretty. She's been riding the on the coattails of Jim Diamond's win. Lots of extra attention and treats.

Subliminal Design

Recently we remodeled our master suite. I am very proud of the design as it was mine, but was it? Take a look at these shots. The one the top is my recent bathroom upgrade. The one on the bottom is the bathroom at a hotel I stayed at in Portland in 2005. Not exact by any means but a similar feel.



















What's even more interesting are the shots of the sleeping room. The coloring is very similar to my new colors in our master bedroom. I mean the red seems like the exact color! It would be even more spooky if I had put the new ivory bedding I just purchased on our bed prior to taking these shots. The themes that seem the same are one the red in the bedroom and the beige/brown in the bathroom. Plus the dark wood furniture, the white trim and fabrics and the black and white artwork.

This next shot is the hotel room and then

the following shot is our

bedroom.

Who knew we had royalty in the family...

WUSA9.com Fairfax County Dog Wins "Best In Show" At Westminster

The story above is about Diamond Jim who just won "Best in Show" at Westminster. I have heard of Diamond Jim before, he has won a few other shows and has been in the news. I wondered if he was related to our Sadie, because you know, how many English Spring Spaniel breeders could there be? Right tons. So I would always stop when I saw his trainers name because it was not a name I recognized. But then I saw this story and they said he was from Fairfax Station, now that that narrows the field quite a bit. After a little research I realized he and Sadie (a.k.a. Rendition Sadie Augustine) do indeed share some linage, his grandmother is Sadie's mother. How cool, although Sadie is pure family dog, not dog show material at all.

She has always been a bit head strong and not willing to listen well. Even at dog training school, where we saw a young James, a few months older than Sadie obey so well, our girl was Ms. Distraction. Anyway It was fun to see James in the news and if you are looking for an English Spring Spaniel with good lineage check out Felicity Springer Spaniels.

Ok, I also realize she looks a bit scraggly in this shot so she already has a grooming appointment for Friday to get her looking like the royalty she is.

Valentine's Day

A few shots of Ms. G. enjoying her Valentine's Day care package from Grandma.

Playing Dress Up

Gigi has discovered her dress up box and all the goodies in it. What she hasn't discovered is that less is more. :)

New Blogger, New issues

I reposted a few pictures below. I was having trouble with the new blogger...

Finally!

Well finally we are back in the master suite. I can't believe it's actually finished. It took almost a year to the day that we decided to get this done. Really once the plan was decided and our contractor was on board it took about 6 weeks. Why did it take so long well, well we wanted a high end bathroom designed by a designer etc. and went to a high end bathroom contractor. Well it was either retire comfortably or spend every last cent on a "high end" bathroom. Various things came to play in between but finally we decided on the high end look with a realistic budget. I am very happy with the results and and everyone that worked one the project did a fabulous job.

Here are some before and after shots.

The main objective to the project besides new finishes was to remove the wall in this needless area of space between the closet and the bathroom.

We took out the wall and installed a pocket door to enclose the area.

And of course the lemon yellow fixtures HAD to go.

Now you can see the whole shower with the new 20 inch deep tub (instead of the 15 inch tub we had, you could get only 11 or so inches of water in it once you took the overflow drain into consideration).

I love the tile...and the clear glass door...

We also painted the master bedroom. Gone is the mediocre mauve and now we have this really striking red.

Yeah! And just let me say as nice as the pictures are they just don't show how fabulous this space really is.

Red Wine reviews Bodegas Montecillo, Rioja Cianza 2001

Red Wine reviews Bodegas Montecillo, Rioja Cianza 2001

Another great cheap but good wine find! I have to hand to the guy at my wine store who pointed me in the right direction.

On another note the master suite is finished. The bathroom is fabulous and the new color of the bedroom is to die for. As soon as we get all the furniture back in place I'll share some pictures.

Now we need to get the garage door fixed. When I came home tonight about a minute after I came inside we heard this crazy loud noise in the garage. We went out and saw that the spring for the door broke. We can't get the door open, even manually, to get our cars out...

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