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Giraffe lamp has been my favorite for a while, followed closely by the Meurice 30-light chandelier, which would add incredible drama to my dining room.

Great products for the home. I'd start with one of those energy saving power strips, and then save my pennys for some cork flooring planks to redo my hallway.

Love the matte finish. I'd slice apples for cobbler.

I love glossy red accessories!

I'd be playing "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" by New Kids on the Block. No joke, you should give it a listen. Ah, Jordan Knight...

I haven't been able to Cure much over the last 2 weeks, but my husband likes our clean kitchen so much (from Week 2), that he's gotten more involved, which has been great.

Last weekend we reorganized our front entryway. It's more of an airport than a landing strip, but it's much more functional and spacious now. Plus, since he was involved in the design and planning, my husband is invested in the upkeep!

Yesterday we finally hung curtains in our LR and DR, a project that's been on our To Do list for 2 years. It didn't take nearly as long as I had feared...

We went apple/pumpkin picking yesterday, so we have a pumpkin in our entryway instead of flowers this week. We've got two sets of friends coming over for meals this week, so we will be doing a lot of cooking and cleaning.

When my husband is out of town next weekend, I'm hoping to do a lot of catch-up with the cure: especially emptying the Outbox (which has taken over my basement) and filing 3 months worth of personal papers. I'm also hoping to spend some time in my little garden, thinning out the daffodil bulbs and getting ready for the winter...

Just writing this, I feel less off-track than I'd thought. I'll get some In Progress pictures posted to the flickr group soon...

So glad to finally have time to join a Cure, after lurking through the last few. I've already posted some horrifically candid "Before" pictures on flickr. Thanks to Strata Chalup and Belledame73 for the encouragement and suggestions already.

My priority for this first cure is to focus on a basic Deep Treatment of cleaning and decluttering. I'm afraid thinking about design and aesthetics will be too distracting and overwhelming at this point, until I've gotten control over all my stuff.

Not sure how much time I'll be able to spend on the Cure Blog and flickr. I suspect the community support is the best part of the Cure, so I'm going to try to get involved!

I've started carrying a kitchen timer around the house with me, to get a sense of how much time it really takes to keep my home clean and orderly. Only 6 minutes to wipe the surfaces in my bathroom!

I live a block from the ocean, but alas, no views. In one of my dreams, I discover a little alcove off my bedroom with a window that looks over the sea...

When I'm traveling for work in different parts of the country, sometimes I find myself in hotels that feel comfortable calling a room "non-smoking" just because it doesn't have an ashtray (and they might not have any rooms that are truly untainted, or the staff can't smell the difference). A travel candle certainly can't erase the nasty smell of stale cigarette smoke that has been built up over the years, but sometimes it can distract my nose just enough so that I can fall asleep.

I've made emergency late-night trips to Target to buy a candle, on those occasions when I've forgotten to bring my own on the road with me. Although I'd never spend $26 on a candle, it's conceivable that the finer/purer/stronger ingredients actually might provide more stink-fighting power...