We just got back from the "Home Tour", a tour of some of the most beautiful homes in Farmington. My friend, Mary had her house on the tour, a simple, ranch style home completely decorated by her and her thrift store, antiques and yard sale finds. Her house is amazing, but what is most amazing is the fact that she has done it all for a fraction of the cost of the other people's homes. But that doesn't even matter so much as the fact that it can inspire each of us to do the same. My sister, Beth talked to a woman who was at the house while we toured it and Beth said she kept saying, "I can do this! She did this with thrift store and yard sale items. I can do it then!" And that was the real reason we wanted her house on the tour, to encourage the regular, everyday sort of woman who doesn't have a ton of money and to show her that, "yes, you can do it too." From her house we went to three other places, one of which was a huge, beautiful home (also for sale). It was unique and did I say, huge, and beautiful, but the guide told us that the couple got a divorce and that spoiled it for all of us. Another sad thing was that on the beautiful walls (that the husband had done himself), was etched the husband's name (ex, I should say) and the wife's name....etched on the wall, still there after the marriage is over... I can't help but wonder what the new owners will think when they see names and pictures etched on the walls....so sad that the etchings have outlived the marriage. All that money, all that work....did the couple work on their marriage as hard as they did on the house? One has to wonder...
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