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Justin posted the 1956 house he and his wife bought in Jasper, Indiana. It is a complete time capsule. Absolutely NOTHING has been updated or touched.  

Everything is still here- look at the appliances. All original. This is not like the classy expensive updated mid century homes we’ve seen before. 

The furniture has to be the original pieces and sets the previous owners bought. 

The wall hangings are aged.

This is an interesting piece, this bar. 

Look at the bathroom- pink fixtures.

Those lamps!

The master bath has a yellow tub and fixtures.

A 2nd bdm. Even the bedding is vintage.

And, this bath has blue Fixtures. Wow, I would definitely keep them.

More cool lamps and original furniture in the knotty pine family room. 

Wow, look at the built-ins in the office.

The lower floor.

The basement is cool- look at that floor! And, the TV. The bar is classic. I wonder if they were leaving any of this.

Off the rec room is a 2nd kitchen. A pink fridge!

And, there’s this room, too. Look at the stone wall.

for the love of old houses

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you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

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25 years of ads peeled away

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My fandom-themed Etsy store is officially open!

I am so excited to share these pieces with everyone. There are 50 designs to choose from in the opening-day collection -- 49 that I have designed, based on (but legally not claiming to be) popular characters from fandoms like Marvel, DC, Star Wars, American Girl, Scooby-Doo, and others... and the 50th is whatever you want me to design, as a custom piece of your OC, blorbo, The Character(TM), or other fave!

These are not enamel pins... they're bigger and bolder! These are handmade acrylic mosaic brooches, bag charms, keychains, or magnets. Each one is laser-cut from my hand-drawn designs and then painted and pieced together by hand, by me. I am very proud of them, and I hope you love them, too!

Here's a video of me putting together a brooch of my own blorbo, Steve Rogers, as an example!

Even if you aren't in a place to buy a piece, please Follow the shop on Etsy and add all of the pieces you like to your Favorites -- it's all helpful! :)

https://aimhighbroochdesigns.etsy.com

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i think if i was a biillionare i simply wouldnt be a billionare. like id buy myself everything i could ever need and give the rest away. idk why someone would need to sit on so much money like girl. use it. youre not gonna be alive forever.

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Happy Labor Daybor!

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And now I'm sick.

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hey. HEY. artists. writers.

take your TIME

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🍳🥪😋

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This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune

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Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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My dog is such a good girl.

I'm going to miss her.

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so embarrassing that that man reduces me to a giggling blushing teenager by just being an image on my screen. I might as well just die

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10 Rules of Writing by Margaret Atwood

Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.

If both pencils break, you can do a rough sharpening job with a nail file of the metal or glass type.

Take something to write on. Paper is good. In a pinch, pieces of wood or your arm will do.

If you’re using a computer, always safeguard new text with a ­memory stick.

Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.

Hold the reader’s attention. (This is likely to work better if you can hold your own.) But you don’t know who the reader is, so it’s like shooting fish with a slingshot in the dark. What ­fascinates A will bore the pants off B.

You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there’s no free lunch. Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you’re on your own. ­Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.

You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You’ve been backstage. You’ve seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a ­romantic relationship, unless you want to break up.

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

Prayer might work. Or reading ­something else. Or a constant visual­ization of the holy grail that is the finished, published version of your resplendent book.

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Lil nas x getting charged with 3 counts of battery against a police officer and resisting arrest as a black man going through a mental health crisis where the police approached aggressively and tackled him to the ground is depressingly par for the course for police and specifically the lapd and it should piss people off and instead people are making jokes about it in instagram comments :/