08-04-2006, 11:55 AM
Well chickens are safe with me (except for the ones I buy and I only like the breasts anyway LOL!!)
Well today my Mom had lunch with her friend who is Sicilian and she said they did the St. Joseph statue and it worked for them...these people are very Catholic...rosary EVERY afternoon. They have it in their living room. She said that once your house sells you need to dig up the statue and plant flowers to thank St. Joseph. They said you really have to believe it will work.
So -- I'm gonna get my neighbor Michelle to send us the St. Joseph statue after the house sells and send it to Hawaii!
As far as what they do to the house after we leave -- well, I'm glad we'll be gone is all. This was going to be a dream house for us and we actually did not do a lot of the things we would have done - if we had continued to live here. But I think I just have to bless it - and let it go. We'll be busy working on our new house...adding a large slab in the back and making our lanai wonderful, Tony needs a workshop, etc.
I understand why realtors don't like to show the house with anyone there...it's a killer to hear what people have to say about your home...I couldn't listen to them discuss what they would change or how they would paint it. We did everything in very light colors: linen and soft white with bright white molding...that way they can see it as an empty canvas. However, my kitchen is a beautiful faux paintjob I did myself. But that's the only room in the house with any color...and we would have laid saltillo tiles to make it "hacienda" like...but we went with a cream/bisque ceramic tile to appeal to the masses per our realtor.
Carrie
"The opportunities to reach into the lives of others in an inspiring way arise in countless ways every single day..." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
http://www.hellophoenix.com/art
Well today my Mom had lunch with her friend who is Sicilian and she said they did the St. Joseph statue and it worked for them...these people are very Catholic...rosary EVERY afternoon. They have it in their living room. She said that once your house sells you need to dig up the statue and plant flowers to thank St. Joseph. They said you really have to believe it will work.
So -- I'm gonna get my neighbor Michelle to send us the St. Joseph statue after the house sells and send it to Hawaii!
As far as what they do to the house after we leave -- well, I'm glad we'll be gone is all. This was going to be a dream house for us and we actually did not do a lot of the things we would have done - if we had continued to live here. But I think I just have to bless it - and let it go. We'll be busy working on our new house...adding a large slab in the back and making our lanai wonderful, Tony needs a workshop, etc.
I understand why realtors don't like to show the house with anyone there...it's a killer to hear what people have to say about your home...I couldn't listen to them discuss what they would change or how they would paint it. We did everything in very light colors: linen and soft white with bright white molding...that way they can see it as an empty canvas. However, my kitchen is a beautiful faux paintjob I did myself. But that's the only room in the house with any color...and we would have laid saltillo tiles to make it "hacienda" like...but we went with a cream/bisque ceramic tile to appeal to the masses per our realtor.
Carrie
"The opportunities to reach into the lives of others in an inspiring way arise in countless ways every single day..." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
http://www.hellophoenix.com/art
Carrie
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http://www.vintageandvelvet.blogspot.com
"Freedom has a scent like the top of a newborn baby's head..." U2