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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Vermont Vacations
Jake and I will be leaving Saturday morning for a quick trip to Stowe, Vermont. We don't ski so we'll spend the long weekend relaxing and exploring the area. Oh and we'll also be touring the 2011 HGTV Dream Home while we're in town. :) The dogs will be having fun at their favorite daycare and boarding facility while we're away so they'll be blissfully tired when they come home. Love that!
During our August 2009 summer vacation, Jake and I stayed a few hours south of Stowe at the Mount Snow Resort in West Dover, Vermont. It was off-season but the resort and views of the Green Mountains were still beautiful. We planned to spend the week hiking but instead the very hot and humid weather kept us by the pool, visiting the few places in town that are open off season, and exploring the Berkshires. We also discovered our favorite show on the DIY network, Renovation Realities, during this trip.
At the end of our 2009 Vermont vacation, we picked Brewster up from the Vermont breeders' and started our four hour drive home with a 10 week old puppy. We brought a dog crate for her but I ended up holding her in my lap the whole ride home. I had a few towels in my lap just in case but she didn't have any accidents. Whenever she got a bit restless, Jake quickly found a place to pull off the road and give her a break. Fun times!
Of course, I took plenty of new puppy photos!
It's hard to believe she used to be this tiny just 1.5 years ago. She's always adored Jake.
Do you have any plans for the long weekend?
The Dream Home's Guest Bedroom - If you win, can I come visit please?
During our August 2009 summer vacation, Jake and I stayed a few hours south of Stowe at the Mount Snow Resort in West Dover, Vermont. It was off-season but the resort and views of the Green Mountains were still beautiful. We planned to spend the week hiking but instead the very hot and humid weather kept us by the pool, visiting the few places in town that are open off season, and exploring the Berkshires. We also discovered our favorite show on the DIY network, Renovation Realities, during this trip.
We stayed at the Grand Summit Hotel in a cozy studio suite.
We didn't blog back then and I forgot our camera in the hotel room most of our trip. I snapped these at a scenic lookout one hazy day.
During one of our day trips to the Berkshires (about one hour south of the Mount Snow resort), we visited the The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. If you enjoy Impressionist art like I do, you'll enjoy Sterling and Francine Clark's collection. You can see a sampling of their Impressionism collection here. We didn't take the official guided tour of the institute but Jake and I really enjoyed viewing all the different collections on display. We were mindful of the 'acquired by' info on each piece and made up our own stories regarding the circumstances surrounding how Sterling and Francine may have acquired each piece. My absolute favorite was their Renoir collection but it's currently off view because it is being displayed in Madrid.
The Clark
At the end of our 2009 Vermont vacation, we picked Brewster up from the Vermont breeders' and started our four hour drive home with a 10 week old puppy. We brought a dog crate for her but I ended up holding her in my lap the whole ride home. I had a few towels in my lap just in case but she didn't have any accidents. Whenever she got a bit restless, Jake quickly found a place to pull off the road and give her a break. Fun times!
Of course, I took plenty of new puppy photos!
It's hard to believe she used to be this tiny just 1.5 years ago. She's always adored Jake.
Do you have any plans for the long weekend?
Saturday, January 1, 2011
2011 HGTV Dream Home Giveaway - Stowe, VT
The 2011 HGTV Dream Home is located in Stowe, VT. The prize package includes the furnished house, a 2011 GMC Arcadia Denali, and $500,000. You can enter to win daily on HGTV.com and FrontDoor.com starting today!
Tickets for public tours of the 2011 HGTV Dream Home are available now. Since this is a drivable distance from our home in Maine and I love road trips, Jake and are going to tour this house. My sister-in-law's home in New Hampshire home is conveniently located on the same route so we'd like to make it a fun getaway weekend. Probably during Martin Luther King weekend. :)
Tickets for public tours of the 2011 HGTV Dream Home are available now. Since this is a drivable distance from our home in Maine and I love road trips, Jake and are going to tour this house. My sister-in-law's home in New Hampshire home is conveniently located on the same route so we'd like to make it a fun getaway weekend. Probably during Martin Luther King weekend. :)
In May, Jake and I toured in the 2010 HGTV Green Home in Cape Cod, MA. I wanted to pack my bags and move right in. :) I took my own photos then tracked down paint colors, product sources, peeked in inside drawers/cabinets and showed you too, etc. Here are all the posts in one place. Have fun exploring!
Posts from my 2010 HGTV Green Home Tour
Kitchen - Jake's favorite room
Recycling, Laundry, and Mudroom - My favorite room
The Winners! - not us :(
Don't forget that you can enter to win daily! Tune into HGTV tonight at 9p.m. EST to watch the tv special.
Friday, December 31, 2010
We're going upta camp for New Years...
Jake and I will be ringing in the New Year with Bob Marley at Merrill Auditorium tonight. The comedian not the rastafarian. :) He set a new Guinness World record by doing 40 straight hours of stand-up comedy this year while raising money for the Barbara Bush Children's Hospital.
We've listened his CDs but we've never gone to a live show. I'm excited!
Fair warning: All these videos contain some swearing. Do not play these videos if your kiddos are within earshot...
See you next year!
We've listened his CDs but we've never gone to a live show. I'm excited!
Fair warning: All these videos contain some swearing. Do not play these videos if your kiddos are within earshot...
See you next year!
Favorite Tutorials of 2010
If you're new around here, welcome! Yesterday I posted my three favorite house projects of 2010.Feel free to pop over to this post to learn more about this old house.
Ok, here are my four favorite tutorials of 2010 (excluding the house projects showcased yesterday)...two recipes and two crafts...
Visit my three favorite house projects of 2010 for more tutorials. :)
Ok, here are my four favorite tutorials of 2010 (excluding the house projects showcased yesterday)...two recipes and two crafts...
NO cricut or silhouette machine required! I'll be pulling these out for Valentine's day.
Recycled Can Craft - my very first craft post! :)
Visit my three favorite house projects of 2010 for more tutorials. :)
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Favorite House Projects of 2010
If you're new to this blog, welcome to our home! We started Welcome Sunshine Home in May 2010 and it's been a fun hobby for Jake and me to share outside of our full-time office jobs. If you're a faithful reader, I hope you don't mind me gushing about our house. Again.
In August 2005, Jake and I bought this 1892 colonial in southern Maine. Our home has five good sized bedrooms, great closet and storage spaces, lovely moldings, and ONE bathroom. Sigh Gotta love the charm of older homes, right ? :) When we purchased it, every single square foot was screaming for TLC after surviving many years of rental abuse and neglect (chain smokers + absentee landlord = lots of damage). We've used up gallons and gallons of paint, repaired broken windows, done painstaking wallpaper removal, removed nasty carpeting, overhauled the kitchen, updated the bathroom, and on and on and on. So many projects that I can't even remember them. All done before we became bloggers so we didn't think to capture 'before' shots of the house'spitiful original condition.
Ok, let's move on to my three favorite house projects of 2010...
I hope you enjoyed seeing this peek into our home. :) Now, I'm off to see what everyone else picked!
In August 2005, Jake and I bought this 1892 colonial in southern Maine. Our home has five good sized bedrooms, great closet and storage spaces, lovely moldings, and ONE bathroom. Sigh Gotta love the charm of older homes, right ? :) When we purchased it, every single square foot was screaming for TLC after surviving many years of rental abuse and neglect (chain smokers + absentee landlord = lots of damage). We've used up gallons and gallons of paint, repaired broken windows, done painstaking wallpaper removal, removed nasty carpeting, overhauled the kitchen, updated the bathroom, and on and on and on. So many projects that I can't even remember them. All done before we became bloggers so we didn't think to capture 'before' shots of the house's
Ok, let's move on to my three favorite house projects of 2010...
Before
After
We bought a king size bed then decided to move from the house's master bedroom (it has a walk-in closet but no bathroom) into one of our guest rooms. Here's the guest room...
Former guest room BEFORE (crummy cell phone photo from 2007)
New guest room AFTER (different room in our house)
My absolute favorite! Inexpensive, functional, and pretty. Thank you, Jake! :)
Before
awkward third floor half wall
After
Wicked! You can't see me but I'm behind the camera doing a happy dance.
Honorable Mentions
Our Living Room and Dining Room. I appreciate their versatility and love how they've stood the test of time.
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