Kitchen Inspiration

So our kitchen needs some love. When we moved into our home 3 years ago we painted the kitchen white for the 'meantime' until I could pick an appropriate colour etc etc....and now, well it's been 3 years. Now that my munchkins are big enough (and I have most of my braincells back) I can't WAIT to get my paint on. I have been surfing the web for inspiration for our upstairs for months now and this room is my inspiration for our upstairs. I found this awesome room on one of my favorite blogs jones design company.

Inspiration Room from jones design company

I love this color palette

mmmm green

So then I was on a mission to find some fabric that I could use as a jumping off point. I thought I'd try order some samples from Fabric.com

 I ordered a pile of samples with success and decided on these

Swatches from Fabric.com

So The blue zigzag will be for drapes in the living room. 

The black and white damask will be for romans or valences in the kitchen.

The green geometric will be the jumping off point for accents in both rooms.

So my plan is to paint the kitchen the blue from the drapes for the living room. Once I get the fabric I can color match the blue for the kitchen. But the fabric is back ordered so I won't order until mid March. But I'm so excited! 

I could also do different accent colors if I get tired of the green...here are some I played with

 

 

Mystery Project Revealed

Ok so waaay back in the fall when I ordered some fabric I didn't reveal what I was going to make with that beautiful fabric. The mystery project I was working on was aprons for christmas gifts for my 3 lovely sisters :) and I ended up having enough fabric to make an adorable apron for my little nephew J. The aprons all did arrive just in time for my sisters for christmas YAY!

For my middle sis N the stylista

for my oldest sis D who plays guitar and banjo

For my nephew J who is sister D's little boy.

 I love how little one I made turned out. I got the idea from a friend 

who was also making aprons for her sisters for Christmas 

to make the neck strap adjustable by running it through the armpits to attach to the waist band. (does that make sense?) Ingenious!