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GentlewoodFarms
March 12, 2018

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Last November, I had new carpeting installed. We bought the house 18 years ago, put it on a 15 year note so that we could have it paid off while we were still relatively young and able to enjoy it. It's needed new carpeting since we bought it, but we sacrificed with a huge house payment, knowing that SOMEday, we'd be able to really create the home of our dreams.

So once we burned the note, I immediately remodeled the master bathroom, then did the kitchen and utility room, and by November, it was time to put new flooring down across the entire house. I was assured that the installers would do a good job and that the seams would not show.

Not only DID the seam in the great room show, it was nothing but glue all along the top of it. It took from November to February to get it fixed, and involved a home visit from five regional managers to look at the job and agree that "no, you're NOT being unreasonable... that's a terrible installation job!" Duh.

So, the company agreed to relay the great room - where the seam ran right down the middle of the room, between my sofas, and was obvious to anyone walking in the front door. Early February, that got done. And the installation was great - except....

Well, I guess nobody went back and looked at the original measurements specs because where the original installation met the new, that seam was now HIGHLY visible because the carpets were not cut the same direction and the naps didn't match. It was like the carpets were two entirely different colors. So, I made ANOTHER phone call to the company, and when I told the girl who was responsible for my account what had happened, she said, "oooohhhhhhh.... that's bad." Yeah, DUH.

So they fussed and discussed and finally decided that they would relay the MASTER BEDROOM. And finally, March 8, this job was DONE and done RIGHT. And it's absolutely beautiful and we totally love it.

But it was sure like Keystone Cops there for a while...

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Challenge Stack
1. Ugly Papers ~ mine came from Deanna this month. I've grouped them with this layout so you can see them and get an idea of what I had to work with. They weren't horrible, but they did give me a bit of a brain twist trying to figure out how to make them work together. I really wanted to feature the flower paper, but there just was no way that was going to work. Once I let the papers do what they WANTED to do, it wasn't all that hard to create. I'm not REALLY happy with the loopy leftover between the "good day" but the rest of the words there just didn't fit, and it's not all that big a deal, I don't think.

2. Journaling Challenge - I got my third one of these done with that cute little journaling card. It originally said, "weekly details" but that just wasn't going to work for this story, so I used my label maker and did a little editing on it.

3. Monthly Sketch Challenge - Sketch #2.

4. Artistic Ingredient - this is my second entry for that challenge.

5. AGC Daily #12 - use a flower


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