New things, part 1

Thought I would write a post about the new/ old things I have recently acquired! You know, old things ( when found in the right places), can be fairly inexpensive!!

Ta da, new kitchen things!

 

Oooooooo!

Ahhhh!!!

Ooohhhhhhhh!!!

Big thanks to Ma and Pa Hanna for the spice jars and microwave! They are very matchy, matchy in the new kitchen!!

 

The new light! Love!

Only a retro/contempo light was going to work for me, so, here it is!!

Ok. That's part one of my new things post. Sorry about all of the exclamation points. I'M EXCITED! Ok. I'm done yelling.

 

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Call me Mother or Mudder

Ill try to be upbeat here but I'm upon the most hated part of any remodel................ Mud and tape. I keep telling myself that I need to just keep doing this in order to get good at it but I secretly want to hire someone and pretend I did the job myself!!

I'm going on two weeks of every day sanding and mudding here in the kitchen. I can only work on it when Sally is napping so I expect it to last at least another week. This is what the house looks like every day. Then I clean and scrub for the rest of the day in order to avoid little white footprints everywhere. It's exhausting.

What a downer post! Never fear, I will finish! This, for me, is just like child birth. While I'm in it, I feel like I might not make it through and I have doubts and fears. Then, it is miraculously over and everything is beautiful and right again with your life!

 

And you're left tired and in need of a shower!

Are you giving birth to a kitchen?! Hahahahaaa!

 

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Pretty in Pink

I'm stepping outside of my comfort zone again to put color in the kitchen. Well, putting color in there is in my comfort zone but the color pink is definitely not what I had planned. It was just an idea that sort of evolved from my having 6 yards of fabric in storage that was pink and gray.

Cafe curtains just seemed like the right fit for the kitchen. They also keep me from feeling like a stalker with the neighbors across the street!

The rod is a little saggy so that will probably change later.

And who could forget the harvest gold beauties from the dining set?!

They look so much better now!

Tip for families with itty bitty's running around. Put a layer of plastic over your fabric! If I didn't do this one important step, the girls would have destroyed my chairs the first night!!

Does anyone else have a problem taking pics of chairs without kids in them? As soon as I pull out my camera they run for the chair!

 

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