Tag Archives: Perfectionism

A LITTLE CHRISTMAS

By Julie | Published: December 10, 2012
Well, I was going to take this space tonight to tell you how it only took us a week to finish decorating our Christmas tree. (record time.) Or how R-boy hung the star on the tippy top this year. (a first!) Or how it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here. (13″ snowstorm [...]
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UNFINISHED

By Julie | Published: November 10, 2012
The painting that hangs in our living room, above the mail and the keys, is an unfinished watercolor that I found rolled up and buried deep in the basement of an estate sale. It had no frame and no name. It cost me about 25 cents. There were other paintings and sketches in the pile [...]
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NO PRESSURE

By Julie | Published: November 9, 2011
It’s been a little busy around here lately. Nearing overload at times, for some of us at R-house. So this weekend I bought a little reminder of approximately where I’d like the needle to stay on the “pressure to be perfect” gauge. R-boy noted: But it’s at about a two. If we were perfectionists, that would [...]
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