East Village Amy has taken over our new Flickr pool! Here's one of her inspiration pics: "I love all the white with just bits of serene colors."• Cure Clock: 59 days Remaining
• Assignment: Sign Up and Read to p. 69
• Flickr Pool: East Fall Cure Pool
SHOW US YOUR BEFORE PICS! As of this morning, 256 people have stepped forward and said they are going to improve their home in the next eight weeks. This is more than double of our last Spring Cure. In response, we're going to improve our Cure in the next few weeks by following a number of your suggestions. The goal will be to create a fixed page where you can always find the latest Cure posts.
Everyone signed up for the eastern cure so far is right here. If you want to jump in there's still time, and the signup is below.
Eastern Cure Class - Fall 2008 (90 folks):
Virginia
MarcyRene
Melewen
Sarah G
alex_luunchbox
judybrown76
hlj
KatharineN
Roxana
elaineknits
hendrickb11
psfranchi...
Tennesee
jendavid99
South Carolina
jumplittle
Pennsylvania
hyschube
orrismb
polkadot
midu
North Carolina
haplochant
Jen
New York
brittness
Rorosto
TinyShiny
imwalken
Whitney
michelledvm (*michelle on flickr)
Taneisha
LisaB
megtrinidad
crazy_betty
mwhite2264
beyd
maxwell
cherrybomb
~Gardenias~
Larchgirl
ScorpioEL
dena
LIMOM
CambriaATNY
laurenwinslow
BPD
astoriachick
sciencegeek
EastVillageAmy
AT
Robin T.
Phyllis A
Radiant360
New Jersey
lastwachter
LifesaKick247
lumott
muffin
wpolanco
highlysung
jac_
Sppacegrrl
Nudik
Massachusetts
Trilobyte
closertotheocean
michpc
sarenia
Linnealoves
dearsweetbriar
Maryland
dearsweetbriar
khill
audra
rachelmoon
Betsy
Maine
lindy
Georgia
GAgirl
linwell
Gladecia
Florida
milkersen
Whalewhistle
bonnievanv
Brad DeWhat
linzy383
mistabelle
amalgamax
Tiff1310
DC & Delaware
lntyrrell
michellem
Sara
gswiszcza
mgh
Pixie
my umi says...
Connecticut
mdeathstar
Joan A.
No State!
Laren
DK
ssssasha
gllib5
larakatz
babezero
Sign Up First: Again, we're introducing an official sign up which you will find at the bottom of this post. It is meant to improve the experience and support you as you take on your own challenge in the next eight weeks. After you read through, head down there and sign up.
This Week's Assignment: Get your hands on a copy of the book and read through page 69. This gives you all the ground work and gets you started with the interview and short quiz on the health of your home.
The Cure posts will go up twice a week on Mondays and Fridays, allowing for plenty of comment space. We will be pulling comments and pics to the front page post on each of these days and everyone is urged to take pics and post them here:
BEFORE PICS FIRST!!
>> New Eastern Flickr pool
You can also visit our old unofficial (but awesome) Flickr pool here or simply tag your pics with "apartmenttherapycure." See even older pics here too.
REMEMBER: The goal is to use the group to support, inspire and answer questions as you go. The more you participate, the more you will get out of it. But you may also lurk if you are shy ;-).
EAST CURE POST INDEX ---------------------------------------------
• Getting Oriented - Weekend
• Getting Oriented - Week 0
• Fall Cure - Join us next week!
GENERAL INFO ---------------------------------------------
The Fall Cure is live again in all four of our Home city sites:
• Chicago (hosted by Sarahrae and covering the midwest)
• San Francisco (hosted by Danielle and covering the northwest)
• Los Angeles (Hosted by Abby and Laure and covering the southwest)
• New York (Hosted by Maxwell and covering the east)
Please choose the site nearest your home to join in, but feel free to browse and comment on all!
>> Buy Your Copy (with autograph) from our Store
>> Buy a Copy from Amazon
>> Buy a Copy from Powell's
>> Buy a Copy from Barnes & Noble
>> The Cure Archive
>> About The Book
>> Excerpt from Chapter I
DC &...Delaware? That's a state I haven't been stuck with before.
view gswiszcza's profile
Oops -- I'm in NYC.
view Laren's profile
Oops2--I'm in NC. Thanks!
view kittykatz's profile
And, apparently I was REALLY having a blonde moment when I signed up, because my username is kittykatz, not larakatz. Sorry!
view kittykatz's profile
My No State status is still true but I do have a province of Ontario! :)
view DK's profile
ok, looking at the flickr pool prompted me to sign up- so many of you are starting so far ahead of me! i just moved in with my boyfriend a few months ago and have a long way to go to make this place (1300 sf house in raleigh nc) feel like my home. i had just finished renovating my old house, and now i'm basically starting over. but i'm excited!
warning: my flickr uploads are horrible. i didn't clean up or anything- and looking at them makes me realize i've got a lot of work to do! off to rip up the carpet....
view salley's profile
It's great to see how many people signed up! I was getting worried that there was so little activity, but I guess it's just cause we're only getting started.
Just a reminder that it really helps if you put your flickr link in your profile it makes it much easier to find your pictures for people that are trying to help each other out. Sometimes it can be really hard to translate from here over to Flickr with the different screen names and all.
salley, don't worry that you didn't clean before, it will just make the afters that much more impressive! :)
view *michelle*'s profile
hey salley, don't worry! i too live in a 1300 sq ft house in Raleigh and my "before" pictures are definitely going to be pretty atrocious as well!
view melodie-nelson's profile
Apparently my brain was also fried when I signed up-- my username is melodie-nelson, not haplochant!
view melodie-nelson's profile
GSWISZCZA:
You do realize that:
A. I'm from Delaware- please no nasty comments.
and
B. A good chunk of the DC population travels to Delaware to enjoy our beach life, night life, shopping, etc. to escape the city.
Our little state is bad ass and ALSO home of the future Vice President Joe Biden.
Not too shabby...
view my umi says...'s profile
I am michellem and mouchoux. Sorry for the dupe entries. I am mouchoux on Flickr, so let's just leave it at that.
view mouchoux's profile
I associate Delaware more with PA than with DC. I have fond memories of visiting my grandparents in New Castle as a kid.
I group Maryland, VA and DC together in my mind.
view sciencegeek's profile