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UH SO, surprise I have a new bathroom now!

Hallo! Happy New Year! Salud! I hope all is well! So, we've had an eventful fall! In the summer we noticed water dripping out of the front of our house where our bathroom overhangs our driveway/garage. We checked our bathroom and everything was off except the shower/tub switch thingy wasn't totally disengaged we popped it back down and thought it was weird but maybe it was due to the rain we had been getting. We thought our gutters were maybe just clogged? So we hired someone to come clean our gutters, since we would almost certainly die if we attempted to ourselves. Coordination was not a gift my husband or myself were born with.. We were in dire need of a gutter cleanse(please don't do a 7 day challenge for this it's not what it sounds like) but we did keep noticing the problem every now and then. Allow me to preface this by saying that until around October I had been working a high stress phone job with long hours so the last thing I wanted to do whe

Inktober 2017

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Hey hi. I am not a good blogger. But I am drawing stuff again. Trying to figure out how to consolidate my super random creative output at the moment. In the meantime Instagram is the best place to see the most recent stuff. I'm also doing a digital drawing for every day in October as part of the Inktober drawing challenge. <3 https://www.instagram.com/maegaggles/ Maeghan

A sweet little wildflower

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This is one of my most favoritest native flowers. ~.Pasque Flower.~ ( Anemone patens var. wolfgangiana) Very well suited to the soil in Northern Illinois, can be planted in full sun and dry soil.   This site sells them and has more information as well. happy spring!

I over-seeded my lawn with white clover.

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Waits patiently until spring. °_°

The last rammed earth home in Illinois.

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Did you know there is a rammed earth home in Illinois? !  What is rammed earth? Read more here: http://purebuildhomes.com/what-we-do/rammed-earth-walls/ And more about the Joseph Steffens House here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Steffens_House http://landmarkhunter.com/159645-joseph-steffens-house/ I love the earthen grounded look of the building material! I want to be #2 in Illinois!! :) I drew my design already! https://www.instagram.com/p/BLpik7wAUdg/ Dreaming, Maeghan

Just in case you needed someone to give you permission.

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I've been ruminating over times in my life where I have felt the need to hide my excitement about things due to a fear of an outside party not sharing that excitement.  In time I've come to a place where I decided every interest, hobby, or craft is equally valid and what you are drawn to depends on what you have been exposed to so far. Sharing things that excite you gives other people a chance to  relate to you or learn about something that could also bring them happiness.  Granted you shouldn't talk someone's ear off if they are clearly not interested in the topic but you can still throw it out there and see if it blossoms into a new collaborator or friend. :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :)   :) #happiness #youdoyou

A new mailbox/house for small creatures.

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Hello friends! Happy Earth Day!! Your suggested reading music to pair with this post: A little over a month ago I noticed our mailbox must have jumped off the curb and hit a snow plow over the winter. Mmmm... rusty nails...  So, I put it on a mental list of " things I should consider addressing when I'm feeling up to it, eventually ". And then a couple weeks later we had a day where we had 60 mph winds ( #Illinois ) and I came home and the situation had grown decidedly more urgent. womp womp. Luckily I had set the gears in motion earlier that week to " start to obtain required objects to replace the broken thing, eventually ". I found a mailbox on Amazon with the model name "Villager" which sold me because I already thought it looked like a house from Animal Crossing. The box it came in was human sized but not heavy like a human of the same size. <_<   >_>   O_O The reviews

Every time I get nervous. By: Black Eyed Maeghans

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