you that were taken just a week before.
Moral of the story: Rubbing alcohol works great if you need to clean Sharpie off of somethings, just don’t be stupid about it.. Like, um….* The nail polish remover worked!

So now you really can clean Sharpie off of just about anything!I think it’s fair to say at this point that I’ve gone a little light fixture crazy.Just in the last few months, we’ve put a new lantern up in the front hall,.two pendants in the upstairs bedroom we’re working on.

, bought two schoolhouse pendants for a couple of other bedrooms that are still in boxes (the pendants, not the bedrooms), and now these in the kitchen.. Oooh!It’s hard to stop when you find out what a difference a new light fixture makes in a room.

I’m just lucky Chris is so handy and can put one of these up in just a few minutes for me whenever my little heart desires.. We’re going about things completely backwards in this kitchen by playing around with all the finishing details first before we’ve even started on things like cabinetry, flooring, and all that.
The problem is that I have big plans.I laid the fabric strips down and decided how I wanted to put them next..
I ironed each strip and folded over a seam that was about 3/4 of an inch wide for each.Then I sewed those seams in place.. Next, I became reunited with my old friend the glue gun.
It was a glorious day!.I was going to use velcro strips for this step, but I didn’t have any on hand the day when the inspiration to work on this project struck, so I just went for the glue gun.
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