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One of the best things about having a nude or two around the house is that no one ever talks about anything else! There could be an inch of dust and a dead mouse on the floor and all anyone sees or remembers is the art "Did you see the nude in the bathroom? Go to the bathroom!".
I saw a rather striking blue nude statue, bright blue , I am thinking of getting it soon, forget refinishing the floors, they will just get worn again, but that lovely statue!
As long as folks talk about the art in my home and not the dust bunnies I gotta keep going with the naked.

Instead of building the dream home at the lake, there was the joy of moving into and remodeling my husband's childhood home. Last decorated in 1976, by very patriotic people. Charming people, salt of the earth, red blooded citizens who shopped at Sears. Raised the most wonderful man on earth and Gawd bless us every one but they were patriotic!
Vinyl upholstery with Liberty Bells, the founding fathers in brass and termites swarming through the walls. Trust me, I could see the imperfections. When I quit crying, which took a while, I could see the honey oak that had never been painted over, the workmanship hidden under duct tape ( I said a great many heated things during this time, some that I regret but two shall remain law-1st, I will crucify the first person who tries to paint any original woodwork and 2nd, that duct tape repairs have a half life of one week, at week two I throw whatever was repaired with duct tape out the door and it never comes back! Life is just too short to deal with looking at the liberty bell AND duct tape, on a daily basis.

I have re-grouted an entire bathroom only to have hidden termite damage from_ behind_ the wall dump my work into the bathtub six months later. That was a tough one.

But now the house sings to me while I tend to it, seems happy and the garden blooms and all those things I saw as imperfections? Those things are dear to me now. This house NEEDED me and maybe, just maybe, I needed to make a neglected place feel loved.

Nail polish remover or paint thinner has worked for me.
If the glass can be removed from the fixture and placed in a plastic bucket covered with paint thinner overnight, that is the easiest way.
All you need to do is wipe off with a paper towel any remaining bits.
Polish remover is easier to use on small glass items that cannot be removed from metal fittings, a light coat of petroleum jelly protects the metal while you clean around it with remover soaked swabs.
I have also read on crafting blogs that bleach, in various solutions, can be used the same way to remove the colored film but have never tried the bleach.

Good luck, they will look great!

I love my soda stream so much! Ours is used daily and the savings are adding up, less sugar for me and less artificial sweeteners for hubbie (we both like just plain soda water best-maybe a squeeze of lemon) , less cost, less waste and less WAIST is a side effect too. Both of us have lost weight due to drinking almost no regular sodas anymore.

It would be peed in, promptly. Yes it would.

Here is a pic of the brick treatment I suggested in a post above.
I hate the thought of painting brick as much as the next person but am facing the same problem and my brick is DARK red. I found these images and really enjoyed the look.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/decor8/3429407588/

If I do it to my fireplace I plan on using a very chalky mix that can be washed off fairly easily, that way I am not making a permanent change unless I like it.
Just a thought.

The NYT is striking out, in their death throes, at the only hope they had to survive.

This is why newspapers are dying and it is time for those that can't, or won't adapt, to die.

Screw em.

I have several large trees inside, on wheels and for one very odd month or so, until she grew tired of it, the kitten found that with a running start she could make the trees "sail " around the room! The ficus careened into the coffee table, the banana took to ending up in the hall and the norfolk pine visited several rooms.
You never knew when a 6 foot tall tree, with a kitten clinging to it and laughing!-I swear!- would thunder through the room, very disconcerting.

I have put down 3 cats, two of them on one horrid day, and my beloved dog, in the last year, due to the poison pet food.
The grief, the guilt for feeding them a deadly product was and is..staggering.

I still have a survivor, a young cat who will not grow old. With care, we might have several years together and part of that care is letting him go when the time comes. I killed him once when I fed him the poison that killed his kidneys, when I believed the lying advertising, giving him a painless death will, in comparison, be easier.

What I have learned about commercial pet food means that I will bury his body myself, lest his body be rendered down and put back into pet food. Cremation is another option.
I am trying very hard to be grateful for what turned out to be a very expensive, painful, unwanted education in the horrors of the pet food supply. I hope what I know now may give my next pets a better life.

Always good to be cautious but if you are feeding many of the commercial pet foods the food is FAR more likely to kill or sicken your pet than any house plant.

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