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A Personal Announcement

Authors: Carol-Anne (Use the Good Dishes!)

If you've been reading this blog for any length of time, 
you'll know that I work a lot. 
A lot. 
For the last year and a half, I've worked at 3 jobs,
and to be honest, 
....it was just about killing me!  

The problem was, that I LOVED all of the work I did, and as each...

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Guilty Pleasures

Authors: Carol-Anne (Use the Good Dishes!)

I'm off today and laying in bed with my laptop and a book, with a candle burning on the bedside table.

It's been more than a month since I had a whole 24 hoursoff,  with no work. 

Despite this, it's only because it's pouring rain today that I feel like I can lounge around in bed without feeling
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Feeling Blue

Authors: Carol-Anne (Use the Good Dishes!)

I've been really feeling  the whole 'blue/grey' vibe, which has hit the design world in the last few years.  It's shocking for me, because I've never liked blue before.  I've always found it too 'cool' for my taste.  Reds, yellows and greens were always my  colours.

But I...

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Gratitude Revisited

Authors: Carol-Anne (Use the Good Dishes!)


It's Thanksgiving here, in Canada.  
And today, as I prepared the house for our guests....
....and lit the candles, and set the table...
....and turned on the music 
and made sure the house looked especially nice....
And arranged and rearranged all of my silly decorations...
 ....I
...

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Cocktail, Anyone?

Authors: Carol-Anne (Use the Good Dishes!)

What a lot of kind (possibly too  kind) readers I have! Thanks for the nice comments about my slightly imperfect plate wall!  I did  do a bit of re-jigging one morning, and I think I'm ready to call it 'Done'!.....Well, as done as anything ever is in my house!   It's probably...

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Imperfect Life.... Plate Wall

Authors: Carol-Anne (Use the Good Dishes!)



SourceWhen I said I wasn't going to stick to a 'schedule' for blogging, I really never intended it to be weeks between posts! Sorry ~ I realize that I'm just waiting until I get things 'perfect' in my dining room before I post photos of it, and that's just insanity!  So here goes:

A...

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What's YOUR return policy?

Authors: Carol-Anne (Use the Good Dishes!)

I was in Vancouver last week, having a fabulous time with my brother, and his newly pregnant wife (hurray!) and I made an interesting discovery about myself...

I'm not a 'Returner'.

My brother? He's a Returner!
Source One of my 'missions' on this trip was to help my brother & my sister-in-law with the...

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So, like I said....

Authors: Carol-Anne (Use the Good Dishes!)

.....I'm afflicted with "décor boredom" and make a lot of changes around here...So over the summer, when I could stop working long enough, I made a few changes.

In fact, in the last few weeks, every single room in my house has had something rearranged, painted or been tweaked  in some...

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'Decor Bored', Anyone?

Authors: Carol-Anne (Use the Good Dishes!)

I'm not sure what happens, but one day I think my house looks just fine. Nice  even.

...and the next day I look around and think, "I hate that picture! why did I think those shelves were a good idea? how could I have hung those curtains in there? should I paint the walls a new colour?

Yes, I'm...

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I'm Back!

Authors: Carol-Anne (Use the Good Dishes!)




Hope you're all having a wonderful summer and haven't forgotten me!

This is me. In case you've forgotten.
I'm really enjoying this Summer, although I'm still, you know, working... like a grown-up. (Am I the only one who still thinks we should have the summers off, like when we were kids?) Still, there's...

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