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Hello and welcome to our digital home on the web! Here you can see a portfolio of Kelsey's beaded jewelry and art pieces, as well as images from our lives in general. Enjoy!

Love, John and Kelsey

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K Paints a Ceiling : K helped out a building restorer friend of ours, Ron, on a huge contract job restoring the ceiling of the University Law Library. As you can see, her stint as Michaelangelo brought her career to amazing new heights...about 50 feet in the air, in fact. We're thinking of maybe doing a ceiling like this in our living room! Or maybe not....

K Paints a Ceiling

K helped out a building restorer friend of ours, Ron, on a huge contra ...

Updated: Jul 22, 2008 8:56pm PST

Dining Room Archaeology : One of the quaint unexpected (and undisclosed) features of our 150-year old home is the 10-foot deep, 7-foot wide cistern under our dining room floor. The cistern at one time collected rain water from the gutter system, and the water could then be pumped up into the kitchen. Our home's previous owner knew about it, and he even went to the trouble of walling off the crawl-space access that would have allowed our inspector to see it was there. We found the hatch in the dining room floor after we ripped the carpet out. We also later met former tenants, who told us they complained frequently that animals were somehow getting into the cistern and drowning. Lovely. For some reason, having a 10-foot deep deathtrap under your dining room floor isn't considered a selling point, so we're going to fill it in (capacity: 15 cubic yards). First, though, we wanted to be sure there weren't any interesting artifacts tossed in over the last 150 years.

Dining Room Archaeology

One of the quaint unexpected (and undisclosed) features of our 150-yea ...

Updated: Jul 22, 2008 5:11pm PST

Our Kitchen Must DIE! : Like many homes, ours has a kitchen. What sets our home apart from most others is that while most people's kitchens have sinks that drain to a septic system of some kind, our sinks drained to...nowhere. Well, actually, they did drain to somewhere. They drained to the space under our kitchen floor. We have many reasons to believe that the previous owner knew about this. There are a lot of words for what kind of person he is, but none of them are suitable for printing here. In any case, once we discovered the problem, it became clear that the only way to fix it would be to rip out the entire kitchen floor and start again from scratch, only this time with a drain that connects to the city sanitary sewer system. Obviously, this job is huge. Fortunately, we are indeed blessed to have Kacia and Willy, who generously used their precious vacation time to help us out. We love Willy and Kacia!

Our Kitchen Must DIE!

Like many homes, ours has a kitchen. What sets our home apart from mo ...

Updated: Jul 22, 2008 8:06pm PST

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The Beaded Iris

6 galleries with 134 photos

Updated: Feb 01, 2008 7:41pm PST

Life in General...

8 galleries with 131 photos

Updated: Mar 17, 2006 11:52am PST

Pets

2 galleries with 27 photos

Updated: Nov 09, 2005 1:41pm PST

New House!

5 galleries with 57 photos

Updated: Jun 06, 2007 2:26pm PST