Waits Family Annals

I decided to have a “Martha Stewart” Halloween this year. My friend Jeanne has some patterns for Halloween cats, and we also wanted to put some tombestones up. This is really a fun holiday to make silly thngs, and of course what is halloween without honoring THE BEST vampire show ever created???

Our Buffy tombstone reads: Buffy Anne Summers / 1981-2001 / She Saved the World… A Lot. Of course, everyone recognizes that tombstone and inscription from the fifth season finale. If you don’t recognize this, maybe you have your own tombstone.

The other two tombstones refer to the first big bad. Count Dracula’s lists each year he has allegedly been killed.

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We finished renovating the Baby’s Room last week. We resurfaced all the walls, redid the electrical (knob and tube wires are not the safest), installed new lights, laid a floor and painted everything. It only took us six months. My excuse is that it is hard to work on stuff when everyone has other jobs. Again, we owe a huge amount of thanks to our awesome neighbor who continues to teach me how to actually do the stuff we do. He also lets us borrow his tools. And additional thanks goes out to Doug who has let us use his nail gun for almost a year now. It has been great for installing base boards and the pigeon problem. Follow the jump for before and after shots!

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We had a lot of help with our living room. Thanks so much Ian and Jay Lefler, Brother Hornby, and the Missionaries. Also thanks so much for our neighbor Dave who taught us everything we needed to know to actually do the living room. He also let us borrow a very very nice amount of tools. Thanks and I’m sounding like a speech so enjoy the pics!!!