The sugar that is normally added to jams and jellies isn’t quite enough to make up for the lack of acidity and no conclusive testing has been done to really know what’s safe.

Right in the middle of my living room, you find my trusty Ikea Ektorp sofa, about 8 years old-ish.. It’s still comfy.Sometimes it doesn’t look half bad.

I’ve even had people ask me how I keep it so white..This is our second slipcover for this sofa.The first one was beige and lasted about 4 years.. We picked this one up basically because it was a $300 slipcover on sale for $40.

We weren’t really excited about it at the time, but the old one was done for.I’ve enjoyed having this white floral pattern though for the last 4 years.

It’s really grown on me..

But it is well past the stage where laundering helps it and flipping the cushions doesn’t help because there are spills on both sides of all of them..The walls were marked up, and half-patched, and the floor was pulled up a bit so we could see the hardwood underneath.

, I wasn’t really ready to paint the walls yet, but I wanted to paint a little, so I did these boxes of color, which kind of gave the feeling of molding on the walls.For a little while, then the icky feeling came back because there were still those marked up parts on the walls and the floor was still torn up a bit.

I  did a pretty good job of faking it for the pictures though didn’t I?.I had these (ridiculously easy to make!)