after 21 years

 

21 years of sitting at the same kitchen table and chairs and I'm done! It is time for a new look!

I finally got my hands on the much talked about Annie Sloan Chalk Paint!!! There are exactly two places in the state of Pennsylvania that sell this paint, luckily I'm within a 45 minute drive to the cutest little shop that sells it! And,  I am lucky to have a husband that doesn't mind a little road trip in the pouring rain to buy a quart of paint!

  

 

Of course if you decide to paint your kitchen table you will have to get new chairs.

  

 (actually, it was the chair or I should say the slipcover that started this whole make-over!)

I wonder what will come next? I think I hear that ugly vinyl floor whispering "please replace me, please replace me". I sure hope my husband is getting that same message!

And of course now the window treatments in the breakfast nook need updating. We currently have a broken cellular shade, it either must stay all the way down or you rig it up like we have with rubber bands...classy!!

I'd like to try the woven wood shades this time if I can ever decide on a sample that I like! Have I told you before that I've become really bad at making decisions! Way too many choices make my brain completely shut down. Could someone just please pick one for me!

  

I just had to test out the paint as soon as I got home, here's a little peek. Hope to get this finished before 

 2012!

 

 Does one little project have the snowball effect at your house too?

Friday Night in the Cul-De-Sac Craft Room

 

Ahhhhh, Friday night and there is no place I'd rather be than my favorite seat in the house .

Tonight's project ............ gift tags

Using one of my favorite Christmas stamp sets and shipping tags from Staples.

   I love these tags, I use them all the time.

 

Now that I'm looking at these tags on my computer screen, I think I'm going to go and ink the edges of the tag to give it a more finished look.

 

I stared at this project for awhile, that's about as far as I got. There is a knack for designing bracelets and I don't have it. I just love pretty beads.

Major task for today was addressing the Christmas cards, happy to say mission accomplished and they are going in the mail on Monday!

Have a fabulous weekend everyone!