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First, a doormat.
After that, I'd put some flowers climbing those railings. I'm guessing that the stones to the right in your pic are there for necessary drainage purposes, and in that case, I'd put a pot on the step in front of each railing and start some clematis climbing up each side.

This is gorgeous.

Just the other day, my husband and I had BLTs for a quick dinner, but we needed something a bit more filling to hold us through the evening. So we made what we're calling a COBALT- Cheese, caramelized Onion, Bacon, And Lettuce, andTomato. They were delicious. Adding avocado would be yummy, and it would fill out the acronym...

I hate cleaning. I hate it with a fiery red-headed passion. Actually, it's not the cleaning, but the maintaining that I don't like.
Anyway, the one maintaining system that also helps me overcome my hatred of mornings is this (it's a system originally printed in "Hints from Heloise"):
1. put dishes to soak in hot water and soap
2. make beds
3. pick up clutter
4. heat coffee/tea
5. use toilet paper and rubbing alcohol to wipe bathroom fixtures
6. hit high traffic areas with vaccuum/swiffer/broom
7. quick dust coffee tables
8. return to dishes and wash
9. sit down with coffee/tea

I like this system for several reasons- it's quiet and doesn't wake up my toddler; I get the reward of a hot cup of tea and a rest at the end; it makes my home look put together enough for a surprise visit; and seeing the main living area cleaned up like that makes it a lot easier for me to deal with big jobs like laundry and scrubbing the bathroom or kitchen in the afternoon.

I have two also:
The first is an old white mug (more delicate than sturdy) that has a half-faded blue scene of an Entenmann's bakery. It's the mug that I always remember my grandmother drinking her coffee from when we went over and I got it when she died.

The other is a mug that I painted at one of those paint-your-own-pottery places and it's large (helpful for holding immense cups of coffee) and square at the bottom, but round at the top. It's the only mug I have that I've never spilled my coffee or tea from while running to class- perhaps because it's big enough to have a generous cup of coffee and still have room at the top for sloshing without spilling.

I would paint it a bright color that complements whatever dinnerware you use and use it as a low china cabinet jsut outside your kitchen- to display and store things like serving dishes, pitchers, and other things that might otherwise clutter your kitchen or be hard to store in a small kitchen- like bar-ware and alcohol maybe.

I would get another towel bar and hang a curtain one or two steps up and then alter a curtain so that it could hang diagonally and would basically turn the makeshift closet into enclosed storage

My husband and I got married 3 months ago and I never thought that I'd want a sewing machine and a washing machine more than I wanted a laptop or a digital camera...
If I won the machine, I would make:
1. Curtains for the windows
2. A quilt
3. Some skirts
4. Pillows and a slipcover for our comfy, but ugly inherited couch
5. A bedskirt for our bed
6. A curtain for our closet that doesn't have a door
7. I would also get the huge pile of mending finished- it grows too fast for me to keep up with when sewing by hand.