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I love the colour of your son's room. Nice with bold accents. Hopefully he can enjoy it soon.

Our house is very much on the neutral/earth tone side. Lots of medium browns and reds. I will take some pics and post them when I get a chance. We also live and die by HGTV. I also love those home selling shows like Buy Me, My First House, Property Virgins, etc. Since I'm living in Wisconsin now, I really like to see the Canadian shows :)

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I love decorating threads. I have been slowly redecorating our house. When I bought it a few years back, it was all done in pastels, even down the light blue carpet! Yuk! Most of the pictures are on my computer at work, but here is one that I uploaded previously. The bathroom walls were blue and pink pastel flowers. I replastered the wall to look like stone and then faux finished them. I will upload pics of the completed room. We also took out the old linoleum floors and put in ceramic tile.

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I love decorating threads. I have been slowly redecorating our house. When I bought it a few years back, it was all done in pastels, even down the light blue carpet! Yuk! Most of the pictures are on my computer at work, but here is one that I uploaded previously. The bathroom walls were blue and pink pastel flowers. I replastered the wall to look like stone and then faux finished them. I will upload pics of the completed room. We also took out the old linoleum floors and put in ceramic tile.

Love the finish on the walls tx! Look forward to seeing more pics :thumbs:

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I am fascinated by that molding in the corner. That's awesome. And the gold flower in the medallion. Wow. All that must have taken you forever. Good job! How old is your house, txladykat?

Well, yesterday we finally put the curtains up in the dining room so it's almost finished.... kinda. lol. There's still a few finishing touches I'd like to do, but that'll have to wait until we get back from Italy because I want to bring back some Murano glass from Venice. I have a bit of a glass fetish. :blush:

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Thanks! Here are pictures before I finished decorating everything. I will get those put up as well. The stone wall plaster is what took forever. Took three months (doing weekends only) to get the entire bathroom walls done! But it was worth it. Check out the before, then the afters. Oh, my house is only about 25 years old.

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Later I will send pics with the italian decor in place. Also did my kitchen (except the counters), I did that room in a french country look. All is done now except the counters, which I won't do myself....

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Thanks! Here are pictures before I finished decorating everything. I will get those put up as well. The stone wall plaster is what took forever. Took three months (doing weekends only) to get the entire bathroom walls done! But it was worth it. Check out the before, then the afters. Oh, my house is only about 25 years old.

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MasterBathBefore.jpg

After:

Mirrors.jpg

bathroomfloor.jpg

bathroomfloor2.jpg

BathroomCounter.jpg

bathroomdoor.jpg

Sinks.jpg

Later I will send pics with the italian decor in place. Also did my kitchen (except the counters), I did that room in a french country look. All is done now except the counters, which I won't do myself....

WOW!!! That is gorgeous!

08/25/06 - 08/08/07 - K1 timeframe from mailing the petition to the NSC to K1 approval at the Montréal Consulate

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I have to agree txladykat it is beautiful.

K-1 journey, AOS/EAD and ROC in my timeline

2011 March 31 - Sent off Naturalization pkg overnight to Texas

2011 April 1 - Arrived in Texas at 10:21 am

2011 April 1 - NOA (rec'd via snail mail April 8)

2011 April 7 - Cheque cashed

2011 May 5 - Biometrics (letter rec'd via snail mail April 15)

2011 May 9 - Placed in line for interview scheduling

2011 June 13 - Rec'd yellow letter (no change in status online)

2011 June 23 - Rec'd text that my case has been scheduled for interview

2011 August 1 - Interview (rec'd via snail mail June 27) PASSED

2011 August 3 - Rec'd email that my case has been scheduled for Oath

2011 September 1 - Oath ceremony (rec'd snail mail Aug 5)

2011 September 1 - All done, yeah.

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Krikit   1,164

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Later I will send pics with the italian decor in place. Also did my kitchen (except the counters), I did that room in a french country look. All is done now except the counters, which I won't do myself....

Wow. Absolutely fabulous, txladykat. I love the french doors. So.... I got the impression.... did you do all that tile work yourself, then?

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thanks everyone! Yes I did, that was the second time I had ever laid tile. Hard work, but such a great feeling of accomplishment doing it myself. I love doing renovation projects like this. Once we get married, I will be leaving my current job in legal and go into real estate flipping houses (woohoo!)

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thanks everyone! Yes I did, that was the second time I had ever laid tile. Hard work, but such a great feeling of accomplishment doing it myself. I love doing renovation projects like this. Once we get married, I will be leaving my current job in legal and go into real estate flipping houses (woohoo!)

Wow. Just wow. You deserve a gold star! :star:

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wow that tile work is gorgeous!

"...My hair's mostly wind,

My eyes filled with grit

My skin's white then brown

My lips chapped and split

I've lain on the prairie and heard grasses sigh

I've stared at the vast open bowl of the sky

I've seen all the castles and faces in clouds

My home is the prairie and for that I am proud…

If You're not from the Prairie, you can't know my soul

You don't know our blizzards; you've not fought our cold

You can't know my mind, nor ever my heart

Unless deep within you there's somehow a part…

A part of these things that I've said that I know,

The wind, sky and earth, the storms and the snow.

Best say that you have - and then we'll be one,

For we will have shared that same blazing sun." - David Bouchard

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I like the bookshelves Carla..

I LOVE the red wall :)

AOS:

2007-02-22: Sent AOS /EAD

2007-03-06 : NOA1 AOS /EAD

2007-03-28: Transferred to CSC

2007-05-17: EAD Card Production Ordered

2007-05-21: I485 Approved

2007-05-24: EAD Card Received

2007-06-01: Green Card Received!!

Removal of Conditions:

2009-02-27: Sent I-751

2009-03-07: NOA I-751

2009-03-31: Biometrics Appt. Hartford

2009-07-21: Touched (first time since biometrics) Perhaps address change?

2009-07-28: Approved at VSC

2009-08-25: Received card in the mail

Naturalization

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2013-01-18: Became Citizen

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