Measure once, cut twice ?

The carpenter's credo is "Measure twice, cut once."

I have just learned why it's not "Measure twice, then two weeks later when your in your dad's garage, grab the circular saw, cut once , then take the wood back home on the train and find out you'd forgotten those bothersome little fractions that come after the numbers you remembered."

While I pouted over my newly painted shelves that are 1/4 inch shorter than their cabinet, Lily wedged some matchbooks into the little gaps.

Stable? Enough so. And ghetto enough to match the rest of our home!

Now nobody breathe...

Outbox runneth over

As we've been unpacking and setting up our new home, we've been setting aside things that we don't have space for. This pile has been dubbed "The Outbox", and soon grew to over a dozen (big) boxes.

Most of these items will be donated to charity, but we'd like to give all of you first dibs. There's a good selection of kitchen stuff, as well as home decor, video games, and stuff. If there's anything here you would like, please reply to this post to "claim" it.

Yes, we know that some of these things were gifts from some of you in days gone by. We cherish every gift we receive! But we have many duplicates now that we've married, and others are things we wish we could keep but simply cannot fit into our home. It's been very hard parting with a lot of these things. Thanks for understanding.

Listed art a brief description of the item and it's general condition. (Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor)

[ List removed, thanks for taking our stuff! ]

Ghranny Penthouse

It occurred to me today that we never showed everyone what our place looked like when we got it.

We have nine pictures and some commentary on Flickr.

Perhaps this will help you better appreciate how far our place has come, even though it still looks like a bomb shelter. I'll take horrendus-work-in-progress over swirly-grandma-decor any day.