kiss the cook

I'm in love with the kitchen designs below and hope to do a diy update on my own sometime soon. Now I just have to decide what style I'm going for...

craig's list chic

Things are looking good on the house front, so I've officially started combing craig's list postings and craning my neck out the car window to look for garage sale treasures. Our home isn't much bigger than our apartment, so luckily we'll really only need a few pieces of furniture. Today I hit Craig's list gold, when I stumbled across these babies...Eames-style metal and orange plastic chairs. I'm in love and at $20 for the whole set I'm feeling like a very lucky girl! The lister does say they're scratched and need of a little TLC, but I'm feeling confident I can fix them up pretty easily. The only other things I would love to get, but don't necessarily need, are a danish modern style sideboard (to use as an entertainment center), another work desk for the art room/office, and a vanity table (I always liked the idea of this, though I'm not great with makeup). Otherwise I'll be saving my pennies for plants and paint.

Walls of Many Colors

The house hunt continues and the decorating possibilities continue to occupy the corners of my mind even as I grade the last few student projects of the year. Here are a few I found on Domino's website--they listed the wall color used in each photo, which is ever so handy, so I'll include it as well just in case any of you are in the mood to paint too.

Colors (left to right)
Waterfall-Benjamin Moore, Saint Paddy's Day--also B.M.
Blue Green--Farrow Ball, Rivera Azul--B.M
Pear Green--B.M, Direct Green--Sherwin Williams

Quinn and Pierre

I altered my sumo cat pattern a bit and created a new little creature, with more of an owl like appearance and a few jingle bells inside for added fun sound effects. Two people have commented he looks very French; could it be the mustache like curl of the lips? Hmmm... He has been dubbed Pierre and his little owner, Quinn, seemed to enjoy him, so I'm happy.

Four more days of school, yes!