After School Snack place

After school, this is where I hang out with the kids and have a snack. We chat about their day away from books, backpacks, chores and distractions.

Touch of Teal

The old house I've been working on for nearly a year is almost done. It is a small bungalow but the livingroom and kitchen are in this open concept style so there is a large continuous space I have been trying to figure out how to tie together to stage for sale. I just needed a pop of teal in the kitchen so I printed the little Mary Poppins quote from my computer and the rest is materials from a scrap book making kit.

To update the kitchen, we did many very simple little things. We added a sticker tile metal back splash from Home Depot. One cupboard door was in really bad shape, so I just took it off and hung wine glass holders in the top shelf.  There was a funny looking gap between the corner cupboard and the window, so I put in two corner shelves in to round out the space.

The range hood exhaust pipe was quite ugly above the cupboards. So I got some tin from Home Depot, bent it to shape, spray-painted it with white appliance enamel paint to match the appliances and it is just sitting up there looking like its attached to the range hood through the cupboard.  A little hard to see in the picture because I placed some silver metal tins up there for decoration.

Then I painted the kitchen cupboards grey and the pots are hanging from a bathroom shelf I found at Ikea. Very simple little changes, but it all came together well for a clean aesthetic and functional look.

Place of Peace

I always try to find a little place of peace in my life. With 3 kids, I struggled with finding a spot of my own- NO PLACE is sacred to little kids! This spot is an area where I demolished a rotten old shed. I made a chalkboard using chalk board paint from Home Depot.

By the way, that beehive under Buddha only seems to work on hornets/wasps. A regular hive of bumblebees took up immediate residence in the pavers.