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Lovely sideboards and buffet cabinets for your dining room

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I’m not sure if I’ll count today as a write off, as in a wasted day, or if I’ve actually accomplished a few things that needed my attention. I think it will fall somewhere in the middle.

As I said in an earlier post I’ve spent a lot of time lying on the couch today because I threw my back out with all the snow shoveling I did on Saturday. I filled my time by watching some TV, writing a few posts on my blogs, reading a new forum and browsing online stores in an attempt to get some redecorating ideas so I’ll be ready when we complete our living room dining room renovation.

I think quite a few people start to get a yearning to redecorate as Spring approaches. I know I’ve gone through stages where I’d move the furniture in our living room around once or twice a year to give the room a new look, changing some of the rooms accessories each time as well.

One of the sites that I visited today was eBuffet.com. They carry a wide line of buffet tables and buffet cabinets in a range of styles and price ranges to suit any budget.

I already have a beautiful antique dining room set and I don’t plan to replace it anytime soon, but perhaps you’ve been thinking of purchasing new dining room furniture for your home or adding a beautiful sideboard to add to the look and function of your dining room.

buffettable.jpg eBuffet has beautiful antique sideboards and buffet cabinets. This one, to the right, actually looks quite a bit like the one I own.

Buffet tables and sideboards usually have drawers and cabinets that are perfect for storing your fine china and other dining room accessories that you’d use when serving a meal in your dining room. They’re impressive pieces of furniture to look at and functional too.

Along with sideboards and buffet cabinets you’ll also find buffet hutches, as well as complete buffet and or dining room sets. Their buffet cabinets and sideboards come in many styles ranging from antique, contemporary and traditional. Take a look at their selection. Oh and if you want to save some money take a peek at their clearance section. They have some great deals listed there!

Now I’m off to get more redecorating ideas.





Dying to finish our renovation jobs!

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I’m still stuck lying on the couch today. My back is still aching terribly.

It was a bit better at 5 a.m. I’d fallen asleep on the couch with a heating pad set on medium under my back and that seemed to have loosened up my muscles. Now though it’s back to being very painful to move around. Grrr

So I’m spending my time looking at the computer. Typing away at a few posts and also doing some online shopping at places like directbuy. Well … I’m just window shopping really. I’m trying to get some ideas for the house. You know for when we finally finish renovating our living room dining room and also for when we begin to renovate our basement.

I hope we can started on those projects soon. I’m so tired of living in a half finished house it’s not funny!

Have you been stuck living in a house with a half finished reno job for an extended period of time?

Time to replace our mailbox

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One of these days we’re going to get around to getting a new mailbox for our home. The one we currently have came with our house when we bought it, but over the past two years it’s started acting up. It squeaks when we open the lid and then the lid sticks up after we take the mail out.

I’d like to get something that looks nice against the red brick of our house.

If you’re looking for a new mailbox you might want to check out the mailboxes at Seattleluxe.com.

They have a wide selection of mailboxes. There are both residential and commercial styles.

Seattleluxe even has an assortment of anti-theft mailboxes that would go a long way towards protecting one from identity theft!

There’s literally thousands of mailboxes to choose from including multi-unit styles and unique designs. You can even purchase custom mailboxes or personalize them.

Perhaps I’ll find a mailbox that suits our home at SeattleLuxe. Visit their site if you’ve been thinking of replacing your mailbox too.

Finally upgrading my WP sites and their plugins!

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Over the last few days I’ve spent a good portion of my time updating all of my blogs. All of the new ones – the hush hush ones – have been updated to WP 2.3.3. It was easy to do because I was able to use Fantasico in my web hosting C-Panel to do it.

Now I have to update all of the blogs on this domain! Argh … I’ve moved those blogs to new web hosts twice in the last year and the last time was a manual update so this time round all the blogs will have to be manual updated too. It’s ok to do one or two manually, but when you have seven or eight that need to be upgraded manually it’s a pain in the butt! By the time I’m done I’ll be the WordPress upgrading queen! (17 blogs later!)

I’d also been having trouble on all my blogs when I’d try to save or publish a new post. A few months ago I had some kind of conflict occur when I upgraded my bad behavior plugin and the Google Sitemaps plugin on the same day. Ever since then I’d always get an error message when I saved or published a post. The posts were published but I’d have to check to be sure. It was a pain! I didn’t realize it but it was also messing up the do follow tags on my sites too. So there was a conflict between three plugins!

Luckily I discovered that there was yet another new Bad Behavior plugin update as well as a new Google XML sitemaps plugin. I updated those two plugins and refreshed my permalinks and TADA everything works right again!

Now I just hope that I don’t have any problems with my wordpress themes when I upgrade the sites on Feverishthoughts.com to the most recent WP upgrade. I think all my blogs on this domain are using 2.2.1 so it’ll be a big upgrade. If you drop by and notice that one of my feverishthoughts blogs is sporting a new very plain bare bones theme then you’ll know something strange happened when I updated the platform. It will only be temporary.

Once all that is done I can get back to work on the new blogs. One is a home and garden blog that will discuss mostly home type topics (my gardening blog will go back to mainly gardening!) such as decor, interior decorating, great recipes, tips for around the home and so on. The other blog is a shopping blog where I’ll talk about fashion trends, cosmetics, new home decor designs – who knows I’m sure I’ll even talk about platform beds on one or both!

Working on those two sites has inspired me again. I’m full of ideas and of course every time I find something cool to write about I also want to go out and buy it. I’ll be unveiling these new blogs shortly and I really hope that you like them. I’m trying to keep it fun, interesting and of course full of helpful information.

Have any of you updated your sites recently? Did it go well?

Anyone start any new blogs too? What is your new blog about? Are you being re-inspired as well?

I love Dogs and I’ve found a great site for dog lovers

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I adore my puppy. She’s become my new muse. I’ve spent an awful lot of time over the last three month researching everything dog.

Whenever I become interested in something I tend to do a lot of research on the subject. I go to the library and borrow books, I search the internet for more information on the topic and I also tend to talk to others that are also interested in the same topic. Often I read so much that I end up creating a website to not only discuss my latest intense interest, but also to create a place for others so that they can quickly learn all the things that I’ve learned on one site. I certainly did this when I became interested in reptiles! I’ve got two huge reptile related websites as some of you probably already know.

I haven’t gotten to the “make a website” stage yet and I may not this time round, but you never know. What I have been doing is visiting a number of dog and Labrador Retriever related websites, joining dog forums and reading up on dogs in general.

You might remember that my puppy was quite sick when we got her. I had to learn as much as I could in order to try to make her better. She’s doing a lot better these days. She’s still got some problems, but over all she’s doing quite well. I thank the many great sites that I discovered for helping me help her recover from her many ailments.

One of the sites that I came across along the way is the I-Love-Dogs.com website. If you’re thinking of getting your first dog or getting another doggy companion you can spend some time on the site reading the pros and cons of various dog breeds and of course looking at the many dog pictures that proud owners are more than happy to post.

I-Love-Dogs.com is a major dog portal where you can talk to other dog owners, discuss dogs in general on the forums, talk about your dogs health or behavioral problems or share some tips that have worked for you and your dog companion.

Along with the extensive dog forums you’ll find sections with dog games, lists of great dog names, free stuff for your dog, recipes for home made dog food, articles about dogs and dog training and many other great dog related categories. Heck you can even shop for supplies for your dog too.

If you are a dog owner you should take a moment to visit the I-Love-Dogs.com website. I’m sure you’ll find something there of interest and you’ll probably learn something new too.

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