10 Random Things Friday...

1. You know I love Twinkie Chan and all her crochet goodness... I especially LOVE her Coffee-Cup-Cozy's, seriously so much better than cardboard!!

image found here

2. I'd like these UGG shoes, I wear a 5

You had me at "orchid"

3. Speaking of "orchid".  Favorite flowers ever!

I've owned several, I can never get them to bloom again.  Yet another reason I should move to Maui!

4. At Christmas I found these amazing chairs at TJ Maxx, they were light orchid and taupe (I know, that's gray, but my blogger has no "taupe" and it was a gray/brown).  I, of course, wanted to wait until after Christmas for them to be marked down.  Who else wants orchid and taupe chairs, right?  I re-decorated my WHOLE house around these chairs...in my  head. 2 weeks ago Friday I had this BAD feeling I better go to TJ Maxx ASAP... The Mister took me on Saturday, they were gone. Lesson learned: IF you see something you MUST have at TJ Maxx- do NOT wait for the markdown!!

If you have these chairs, I WANT them and it IS my birthday month...

I've obsessively done on-line searches...I can't find them.

5. The Super Bowl-I hear it's coming soon?!  I don't watch football, I don't like it.  I have NO idea what a "terrible towel" is (a terrible bowel, yes- but that is a whole other story).  A terrible towel to me is one of those cheap scratchy ones from Kmart.  No, I don't care about the commercials.  I DVR stuff to avoid the commercials... BUT,  I am up for the guacamole dip!

Yes, please!!

6. 

does this really even need a comment?

7

Yesterday I cut...

 and filled

 my "other" etsy shop: Paper Cuts Are Cute.

www.etsy.com/shop/papercutsarecute

8. I just bought this run for my laundry room.  

I got it at TARGET! It's flammable, don't smoke on it!

My laundry room is painted Chocolate Brown, I just need to paint my laundry room cabinets "Dragonfly" like we did in my kitchen.  Doesn't that sound fun? ugh!

9. I'm reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

i like it!  It was $3.99 at a local Bargain Book store!

10.  This one is sad... Do you know of Kayla Aimee?  She had a VERY VERY tiny (1lb 9oz) preemie daughter on Nov 7th. Please consider praying for this family and leaving a kind comment on her blog.  My heart hurts for her!  I hate to end on such a sad note, but make her heart feel better by letting her know we're all pulling for her precious, precious daughter: Scarlette.

Her blog is HERE

Ok, that's all but don't forget to go to YESTERDAYS post and sign up for my give-away!  I'm going to keep it open till MONDAY 'cause i want to get it to the winner before Valentines Day!  Good idea, hun?

Have a GREAT weekend.  Tonight is definitely a "DATE NIGHT", I haven't been out of the house in days...

RED RUM RED RUM

The Kitchen...it's getting closer!

6 years ago yesterday

 (well, it was already the 28th in China, but the 27th in the USA) 

was the BEST day of my life... this wonderful little baby was placed in my arms and made me a Mommy!

She looks thrilled doesn't she?

We had a little party last night complete with cake and presents!

We started this kitchen project months ago... 

 I knew I either wanted a $50,000 remodel or I wanted something a bit kitschy and unusual.  I immediately knew which remodel I'd actually be getting!

Whimsical and fun is more my style anyway...

We started with a kitchen that screams 1990

Oak cabinets, purple laminate counter tops (really, what WAS she thinking?) and no back splash!

A little bit of paint later we had

then this...

After that the Mister went to work on the counter tops

and then the back splash...

Closer...

So now we're just down to the grout, the edge for the counter tops (you know it's a good sign when you find corner and trim pieces with NO prices on them... I have a feeling the trim is going to be more than the entire project!), trim around the window and a new set of French doors...
New stainless appliances would be the cherry on top, but that won't happen this year.
I have this window in my kitchen that needs...something!

I'm going to do a re-do on this custom window piece that I got from a place I use to work.  The trim will have to come off...

We also are going to repaint the entire great room.  There isn't a break so I have to get 1 color for the whole room...  I am going to paint the end wall in the living room a different color, this is what I'm thinking:

The darker turquoise (dragonfly) is the cabinet color, the yellow is my front entry and the green is the color I'm thinking of for the great room, the lightest blue for the accent wall and that magenta?
The magenta is an accent color for the front entry... trust me!
Wheww, I guess we have more to do than I thought.  The mister just said yesterday once we get this all painted He'll re-tile the fireplace and then we'll get new carpet...
It's NEVER done, is it?
Happy Monday!

My New /Old Kitchen!!

This WAS my kitchen at 8:23 1/2 am on Saturday...

I'm not a big fan.  I don't like oak and how 'bout those purple counter tops?

It's soooooooooooo 1998!

Don't worry the Mister didn't pick it out, he bought it from the 1st owners who, obviously, were graduates of one of those interior design schools you find in the back of a magazine.

Ewwww, I hate this!

oak, purple tops, red plates, white appliances, light turquoise curtains, dark green walls.

I think they call this:

got it goin' ON!

This is the only picture I have of the Island.  Weird how I didn't take more pictures of it, hun? :)

So last summer, this "choosey Mom",  got a bug up her butt and painted the island BLACK:

Saturday I distressed it... I think it looks SO much better

This picture does NOT do it justice, trust me, it looks REALLY good!

So, being the fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kinda gal that I am I just wanted to crack open the paint and start slappin it on, but (lucky for me) the Mister is a real stickler for doing it the "right" way. He took all the pulls off, then removed all the doors and took them to the garage where he had saw horses set up (yee-hawww)

There he is giving me the look...

We painted the top cabinets a color by Behr called: Dragonfly.

Do I have a red and turquoise thing or what?

Red car-Turquoise cabinets!

It looks a little more light blue in these pictures, it's more turquoise actually.

(Red dishes-Turquoise cabinets!)

Obviously, I couldn't go with the clear glass cabinets... I did clean out a few things after seeing

all the crap I have stuffed in these!

10:07 am...

Looking BETTER!

almost 1:30 in the afternoon... we'd been at it all morning!

With the black bottom doors put on too!

The red kettle is from my Aunt Mable who lived to be 99 or 100- no one knew for sure!  She was the sweetest lady to walk the earth and I think everyone should have an Aunt Mable!! (and a giant bottle of Up and Up hand sanitizer!!)

By the time I took these pictures, it was getting later, so I really had to blow out the color so you could see them... my pic's were SO dark.

and of course when we got it all done we knew we HAD to do something with the counters!

We had talked about granite, but I didn't really want to make that kind of investment and put it on old cabinets and we weren't sure if we really wanted to take the leap and put in a BIG $$ kitchen.  After painting the cabinets I told the Mister that I loved them so much I'd just as soon spend some $ on stainless appliances and new counter tops, to which he replied "does it ever end?  You wanting something else?!" that would be a big ol "NOPE!!".  We went to Home Depot and looked at a granite look laminate which I wasn't THRILLED about but I found one I didn't mind.  We grabbed several samples and headed out.... As we were passing by the tile dept. the ol' lightbulb came on... why not install granite tile countertops?!!!  

The Mister is handy and I know everything, so how hard can it be?

This is the one we picked out:

Darling and I are going to order it today!  and.... of course, the Mister (being all reasonable and stuff) will be going to the tile class this Saturday, just to make sure!  Whatever!