Once again the summer shadows shorten...
OK, enough of the poetic...um...garbage. Wanna see just a little of what I spent my summer vacation doing?
The summer began with the apartment management stripping the wallpaper off of my kitchen walls (there were FIVE LAYERS!!!!), texturing and painting the walls bright white...and when I say bright, I mean "wear sunglasses" BRIGHT! Of course, my floor is also white. White on white. What in the WORLD can you do with a white on white kitchen with brown cabinets?
Weeeeellll....you see, my darling sister sent me a talavera teapot for my birthday this year. When I looked at that teapot and then looked at that blindingly stark kitchen, I knew exactly what it needed! So I spent many (ok, more like scores) of hours painting plates to mount on the wall. I was even able to use a $50 gift card from this year's fifth grade class to buy a talavera clock! What a nice thing to remember them by! So here is what I painted....
Kate, did I do you proud?!? Below is the cute little chalk board that Melody painted for her new kitchen when she was visiting and the clock I bought. It was so much fun getting in touch with that artistic side that comes through my Momma from the Lord. It brought back so many wonderful memories of evenings spent in her studio painting and hanging out while she painted. What a joy it was to do these projects! And now my kitchen is absolutely beautiful with these brightly colored pieces displayed on the white backdrop of the walls. It looks so clean and crisp and totally different from what I had before!
Only 10 days of summer left for me. But I do have a brand new piano waiting for me at school...more on that later!
