A Very Slow Kitchen Transformation

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to plop down $25K and transform a kitchen at once?  For most of us, it the changes happen in small increments.  Like new kitchen chairs, which I scored at Good Juju this weekend for just $97.50 for all four.  Yes, that's right!  There were some stains, most of which I was able to remove with my little green machine.  But overall, they're great and what I've been dreaming of.  Besides, we'll add stains to them ourselves!

before

after

I love the change!

One of the next projects - a new chandelier!



A Gnome Memorial

While sweeping the porch one day, I knocked over my precious gnome.  He was older, even though I had only purchased him a couple of years ago at a yard sale for nearly nothing.  I loved him, but he has cracks on the front.  So, I decided to give him a proper burial beside the butterfly bush.

In his place popped up 3 new old gnomes.  Well, actually, I bought them at Good Juju last Friday and they are a different style - shorter, less childish-looking, and more expensive.  Now I have them until I sweep the porch one day or knock one over with a rake.   And I'll give them a proper burial.