Blog Vacation

Obviously I've taken a pretty long and leisurely vacation from the blog. I could make a thousand excuses but I'll just chalk it up to being a toddler mom. Oh, and settling into Nashville.

Between July and now I've painted the kitchen a lovely red! It's called "Red Delicious" by Glidden! It turned out pretty well. (I'm definitely not a professional painter!) I also put up some pictures above the cabinets to draw the eye upwards and use some of that blank space. I got the idea off of a blog I found via Pinterest. Here's their link. I found some frames at various thrift stores and spray painted them black and then filled the frames with black and white pictures of places around the world that our family has been!

This is what the color of the kitchen was before.

This is when I painted the kitchen red.

These are the pictures I put above the cabinets. The pictures include Notre Dame, Cotopaxi, Macchu Picchu, Daniel's family's house, My family's house, the Great Wall of China, Wrigley Field (of course!), the Basilica in Quito, and the post office in Madrid.

I was having some issues with the light fixtures in our kitchen and dining room--issues as in I didn't care for their configurations. So…one time when Daniel's Grandaddy was in town (yes, I asked Daniel's 85 year old grandfather--who happens to be one of the best handymen around to do hardware tasks around my house) I asked him to switch up the light fixtures for me. I spray painted the chandelier in the kitchen black and added the cutest little chandelier shades (you can see the update in the photos above)! Then we moved the ceiling fan from the dining room into the kitchen…I'm a firm believer that kitchens in the South need a ceiling fan! And then we left the dining room bare until I found an old chandelier at a local thrift store and upcycled it! I spray painted it a brushed nickel and found lots of glass shades that were all the same! Daddy put it up for me when he was in town.

This is what the chandelier looked like when I found it.

This is what the chandelier looks like now! (Except that it's in the dining room and not on my kitchen counter!)

So, I've taken a break from the blog, but not from doing some projects around the house! I think we're going to paint the dining room navy above the chair rail and a creamy white below the chair rail. Daniel read that it's better for resale value if it's a neutral color, but we do plan to live here for awhile--I could always repaint when the time comes to move--or maybe in the next decade another color lover like me will come along to buy our house!

Coming up soon I'll do some more blogs about what we've done since July! Look for some blogs about our trip to Washington D.C., NYC, the Pumpkin Patch, Ecuador, and Emma's Outdoor Tea Party that was a photo shoot for our Christmas cards! Thanks for reading!

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