KITCHEN REDO - PART ONE

YAY! The kitchen is coming together finally!



The toile and checked fabric from fabric.com ended up being perfect, and I'm kind of proud of how the valances turned out. And there was just enough of the checked fabric left over for the lower cabinet's curtain (to hide the bread maker and KitchenAid...and also paint and grout at the moment!).

The tile backsplash will hopefully be coming soon, and we're still making decisions about artwork for either side of the window and something for over the stove. Would a red shelf be pretty there? It'd be a handy spot to stow S&P shakers, and it would be good to introduce more red into that side of the kitchen.



YAY!

FANCY GANTZ RANCH

YAY! The most fun project I've worked on in a long time!



The idea was "hatched" when your chickens started laying eggs! What started as a little egg recipe book morphed into a full-fledged tribute album to your little farm =*)
Hope you don't mind me calling it "Fancy Gantz Ranch." Seemed like an eggs-cellent choice to me.



Heaven on Earth for chickens.



Recipes in the recipe section have all been tasted and approved by the fam!







Jokes have been laugh tested by the kids...projects have not been tried, so good luck with those!



The cute papers, ribbons, buttons and chipboard stickers are from a barnyard set I found at Michael's. (Have you noticed the lack of chicken and egg embellishments out there?)





The covers were wood plaques that came with pitiful little markers for coloring, from the clearance bin at Michael's. 49 cents each! I used paints instead of the markers. Had to draw my own back cover since the backs were blank and the odd shape wasn't conducive to turning the back cover around.



Hope you have as much fun looking through it as I did making it!

BLAST FROM THE PAST

This was hiding in a box in the attic! I remember seeing these cute little Santas and friends with pinpoint eyes in a crafty magazine while babysitting waaaay back in 1991. The lady I was babysitting for had the cutest little house- it looked like The Country Shop. Remember that place? Anyway, later on at home, I painted my version of Cute Santa and his pal Merry Moose on this wooden plaque. What a neat find =)