When we bought our house I was so excited to have all Granite countertops. They are Super functional easy to clean and keep clean and on and on… BUT  I Live in a track home area where all the houses have the same  upgraded Granite on the inside… So when we go to our neighbors for blocks on end the kitchens are THE SAME… except of course for the decorations. I wanted something different yet needed something affordable to change the look. And then came Butcher Block counter tops (I guess it was really more like they made a come back- like 80′s fashion) I was immedietly in awww or like SUPER like mode. So the mission started- luckily one day while dropping into a friends house (in a different neighborhood)- she had them- the butcher block counters- so it made my search so much easier. The project was now set in motion and Hubby was in Total agreement.

The kitchen Before… Granite with Rounded end fro seating for 2

Butcher Block must be oiled. This was the first coat of 3 which needed 1 day each to settle in. We used the “wax on- Wax off” technique.  

After day 1 we Now can seat 4 here. We added 1 foot to the end of the counter and 1 inch on all other sides. 

Still a little oily

Awww….Happy happy

Butcher Block counter decorated. Love…

Hi Friends,

I was doing so good Posting ( If I do say so Myself Then I got the Stanky ol’ Flu bug for over a week! Errrr… But Im better now. Yay!

So, while cruising around my house I noticed I have lots of Bike things. I like Bikes.  I thought I would share some pics of my bike decor items.

My Bike with Billy Bob in the basket

Ikea photo with a red Bike on it. Cuteness. Though I wish I could paint the bike duck egg blue…

This is one of my favorites… I love the wooden seat and hand grips.

Take two…

A Giant Vintage Chalk Board frame. I ordered the bike decal and stuck it onto the chalk board

Tea towel from Anthropologie

Bike pillow…This sits in ” my Chair ” with a linen throw that Billy Bob uses more then me.

All Metal mini bike. This was one of the first bicycle things that I bought many years ago.

Happy Thursday!!!

Last Friday I held a little craft class – We made wreaths and magnet memo boards. It was so fun…

Here are some pics …

Spring Wreath- cuteness…

Yes, they did have some chocolate in them….Of course.

We used mod podge to make out fabric crunchy. So our wreaths have Stampin up fabric and paper.

For this project we used sheet metal squares 6×6- we sprayed the metal with spray adhesive-covered them with Stampin’ up tea for two paper- we used the big shot to cut recycled chipboard and again to cut the matching paper. added magnets to the back of our flowers- hole punched the top with the crop-a-dile and added ribbon… Cuteness

completed memo board…

If you need any Stampin’ Up products please stop by my SU website

www.Fiveblooms.stampinup.net

It’s Vintage Barn sale time again.  Last night a made some paper  butterflies to hang off of a branch at my set up. I need to get a better picture of the butterflies. You can’t see them so great in this picture but I can tell you they look so pretty flowing in the breeze. :O)

Happy Wednesday!

Barn set up…All ready for the flea market

Did I ever show the after of this chair? Here it is… Re-upholstered in Linen and I decided to have the back tufted. So happy with the fabric but now I think I might paint it…

Chair before makeover

New look for an old chair no more brads-  new look is, tufted and linen. 

Happy Tuesday.

Yesterday I decided to cook. I like to cook but I don’t very often. When there were 5 in the home I cooked ALL the time and now not so much.  I think I will try to cook more.

I made these yummy raspberry muffins. I just bought this pan and had to try it out. I love the the muffins look like little roses.

We all think they taste like a cross between a sugar cookie and a crepe. So Yummy…

For dinner I made a really yummy chicken recipe using Brianna’s salad dressing I used the balsamic vinaigrette.  Yummmm…. Super easy too just poured some dressing over 3 chicken breasts then marinated it for about 3 and half hours grilled it and put it over some lettuce and other veggies and done. This recipe was inspired but a salad I had this weekend at a cute little restaurant by the Vintage Flea market I went to this past weekend. I will share the treasures on that tomorrow.

Can you believe it’s March already and in a few days we will “spring Forward”

Hi Blog friends,

I am still here, What have I been doing and where have I been? Well, I can tell you I have been doing  a lot . Lot’s of crafting, family outings, business stuff, all kinds of stuff. And when It comes to blogging as much as I want to and have intentions to I just don’t.  I am a creative person and sometimes by the time I get to the writing it out part- I just get lazy ( just being Honest)

So, the walls are painted- a nice creamy beige + a hint of grey= Greige…  I love this color it changes throughout the day with the sunlight and it looks different in other rooms.

Happy Monday!!!

The new not so peachy beige it’s greige.

I am Trying to pick a new paint color for all the common area in our home. It has been so hard. I can help other people pick paint colors so easily but when it comes to my house it is challenging for me. Does this Home Decorator need a home decorator?  I know exactly the color I want. I can visualize it in m head. When it comes to finding it on a color swatch it’s just not happening. Ugh!!! I really like the color that is on this page in the chevron stripe. Maybe a bit more gray. So here are all the colors I have looked at, well maybe not all of them but the ones that I have liked enough to grab a swatch and the colors I have bought sample cans of and painted swatch colors on the wall. Oh, I also painted one entire wall with the lightest color to see just how light of paint color I was willing to go. That wall has now become the second swatch wall.  I still have 4 more sample colors to get. I should have my decision made up by this afternoon.

Onto the pictures…

I have painted the color samples on three different walls that reflect the light in different ways.

Paint in a brighter area

Many Many samples after 5 trips to the paint store…so far…

Favorites so far…

Have a Happy Weekend!

Happy New Year! I didn’t make any New Years resolutions, gasp. However I have decided to make a list of things I would like to get done this year. Some are silly some are personal and might not make the blog. But for me I think making a list and checking things off is a good thing. Weather you share your list or share your resolutions it’s not about anyone else but you.

• Checking this off my list today… I finally finished painting the new pantry door. Kinda funny that when I signed on I saw the post of  the last thing I blogged about ( this same door). so I guess it’s fitting to be the first thing to blog about this year.

One item completed. Check!

Moving forward I will do my best to complete a project before moving onto a new one. Yikes. i just wrote that… I can do it, I can do it…

•  So, here is what happens- I have an idea, I buy the supplies and then I am already burnt out on the idea by the time I get around to actually making it then I have lots of supplies and can’t remember what i was going to make with them. Ugh, really. Ok need to figure out how to finish projects. I don’t know where that fits in on my list but that’s another thing…
•  what I need to do…Finish Projects. I might just as well put it out there.
• stop buying so many Supplies, use what I have. This sounds doable but this is really a tough one. Have you seen all the cute stuff at craft stores.  Deep breathe.

What will I make next…  time to get crafty!

Our kitchen pantry is the size of a coat closet not too big not too small.. It’s nice but I really wanted to use it as a closet to house all my serving dishes.  I emptied it out and used another big cabinet  as the pantry and now I have a place to have ALL my  serving dishes in the same  place so I don’t have to have them in a bunch of different places.

The door was solid and we bought a new one with glass windows. It needed some work done to it to make it fit and to make the hinge spaces. My Hubby and Father in law were super handy at fixing it and hanging it. I added some paint. It’s not done yet but I wanted to share the progress.

I have had this Craft shelf for a couple of years now. I loved it at first. Then I decided it didn’t really match my decor. (even though I now think it still matched just not the way I wanted it to) It was out in the garage to go to the goodwill. Then I was looking at it and thought to myself- like I do with many things in the goodwill pile- ‘I still like it, it just needs paint’ my answer to many pieces of furniture.

I got my favorite paint out, Annie Sloan chalk paint in French Linen. I put one coat on and soon realized I needed to add a few more. But this is totally normal when painting over something that has gloss. The cool thing is with this paint I don’t have to prime or sand. So adding extra coats of paint is easy.

Here are the pictures with the steps for the makeover.