The Kitchen

Is coming along nicely.  Thank goodness – I’m getting tired of working on it.  I still have all of my bottom cabinets to go through and organize and clean out.  I made good progress though this morning before I quit for the day to run into town and go get some other kind of exercise – i.e. treadmill, stair stepper ect

I didn't have any good before photos but this is what it looks like now in the kitchen. The paint still doesn't show up quite in the right color - it is more of a medium beige than the white it appears. I use to have a lot of small appliances on the counter top and I rearranged that so that I have lot's of space for cooking. It was just too crowded with the appliances on it. I like having this space available now.

the other side of the room. I have a wide galley kitchen I guess you could say - it is very long but only about 8 feet wide, with cabinets and appliances on both walls so that leaves about 50 inches of space for a walkway. The items on this wall - the wood rack holding the spoons ect was made by my father for their house years ago and I inherited it. He also carved and painted the plaque above it.

this is on the far end of the kitchen and is a pantry/laundry room with stack-able washer/dryer. I have never gotten around to staining the bottom cabinet to match - and totally forgot about it until I saw this picture - I guess that is one more thing I should fix!

I don’t know if it is my camera or the lightening in the kitchen that makes it so the paint job doesn’t show up to the true color – but that is ok – the main thing is that it is clean!!  I still might sometime in the future paint at least one wall a darker color – but not before the holidays for sure.  I will put another photo of our dining area on when it arrives.  They did say it might be two weeks.

"Insanity Revisited" block 7 row 8 this quilt is starting to show some progress once again.

More triangles on "Insanity" almost done! just a few more to do and then the corner.

My plaid fabric arrived today that I had ordered for my “Baltimore Bliss” quilt – I must say it was totally different than the photo was on the site I ordered it from!  That has not happened to me before for ordering fabric on line.  Even though it is different than what I wanted I am still pleased with it.  It is very nice fabric and a nice color.  I had already been thinking of making two quilts with the 12 blocks that go with the BOM and that is what I will do.  I have enough of the old plaid to do the first 6 blocks and then I will use the new plaid in the other 6 blocks.  This will give me two good size little girl quilts as I plan to put the blocks on point with plain blocks in between for some good areas for hand quilting.  I believe it was the last Baltimore Bliss block I am not pleased with.  After laying the blocks all out it just really stands out as different – not different good – I am going to pick out a little of the applique and see if I have enough of the old plaid or other colors to stick in it and still have some plaid left for one more block.  I used a lighter blue green in it and I’m not pleased with that color.  Live and learn!