~Kitchen Inspiration and An Award~

For those of you that have been following my blog for sometime now…know that we were redoing our kitchen. Well…I hate to admit it, but it never got finished. I did get  most of the upper cabinets painted white, but not the trim that goes above the cabinets. This is an older picture…I don’t have the welcome blocks on the range hood anymore…sold them in the garage sell this past summer.

Mr D. and I also got all of the back splash put up a long time ago, but we haven’t painted the lower cabinets yet. This is an older picture too…but there will be new ones soon.

Why didn’t we finish the kitchen? Because I couldn’t make up my mind if I wanted all the cabinets painted white…or did I want the lower ones a different color. At the time…I was thinking about painting them either red or black. Started painting one of them red and decided that was a no go…and then worried about the black being too dark as the kitchen is not very big.

Well…..   With all this time hanging out on the sofa while my back has been out of whack…I’ve done a lot of looking through my large stash of magazines and look at what I found in one of my Country Sampler magazines. A kitchen with white cabinets, the back splash the same as mine, and the same color of wood flooring.

One of the reasons that I was thinking about painting the lower cabinets black is because my living room, dining room, and kitchen are all fairly open to each other. I have a huge black wall unit and  black console table in the living room and a black china cupboard in the dining room…and I just feel like there needs to be some black in the kitchen area too. After finding this photo…I now know how to bring  the black touches into the kitchen. We are going to paint the upper trim black and get a black counter top and sink. We hope to get back to the kitchen project when the weather warms up, so that we can paint the lower doors and trim out in the garage.  Can’t wait to finally get it done.

Also wanted to share with you that Pea over at “Whimsical Endeavors” awarded me the Stylish Blogger Award. 

  By accepting this award I’m to tell you eight things about myself that you might not know. So here goes….

1) I’m married to my high school sweetheart.

2) I have 2 daughter that are 6 years apart in age, but are asked a lot if they are twins.

3) We moved 7 times in the first 6 years of being married. Happy to say that we have only moved 2 other time since then.

4) I used to have my own country shop in a quaint little town known for its antique shops.

5) I volunteered to teach 3rd grade art class one year when our school levy failed, so that the kids could still have that class. I will never forget how excited the kids were to see what they would be making each week.  And the hugs were the greatest blessings from teaching that year!!

6) I have been doing crafts shows for 27 years. Only doing 2 or 3 shows a year now, but used to do 10 to 15 a year. Yeap…it’s in my blood!!

7) One of my first jobs was selling make-up and I often did make-up for brides and her bridemaids. I loved helping them feel beautiful on their wedding day.

8) I’m still close to my best friend from when I was young…we became friends when we were 10 years old. Her husband’s job has moved them around to different states over the years…and I have gotten to visit her in every state that she has lived in but one.

Now you all know a little more about me. I’m suppose to past this on to 8 others…but I’m terrible at that because I can’t pick just eight. You all are stylish bloggers and deserve this award!!

Update on my back…the lumbars in my lower back are finally holding, but my right hip is still going out. The doctor is giving me another week on that and we’ll see where I go from there. I am happy to say that today my hip is still in place and I’m not in as much pain today either….so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it stays in place all week.  Until next time…..     blessings, Cindy

 

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