retro kitchen redo

i am finally making some progress on my kitchen redo. in fact, i think i can see the end approaching quickly. i think i started it back in april…yikes! usually i like to get a project/room finished quickly, but i got stalled on this one when i ran out of white paint. yes, i painted with white paint, you can pick yourselves up off the floor now! i decided to go retro with the colors and painted the cupboards two shades of aqua, and decided the best foil for them was white.

aren’t those little salt and pepper shakers the perfect mid-century modern touch? (at least i think so, i’m typically more of a rustic/shabby chic girl.) the countertops on one side of the kitchen are white with the gold speckles, like this:

on the other side there is a long countertop that is formica that looks like butcher block. i thought it would be better if the two counters at least sort of matched, so i painted the long counter white. (kilz white with the primer already in it) so now i am using my zig metallic gold calligraphy marker to make the gold dots. here’s my progress so far:

what do you think? am i pretty close? it’s gonna take awhile, the counter is kind of long:

i even changed out the light switches and plug ins for white ones. i was a little nervous about that, but i consulted my trusty Readers’ Digest Do it Yourself book, and i only got one tiny little shock.

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quirky scrapbook in progress...

so i have this printer's drawer that i no longer put little stuffs in because i am not a frequent duster. and if you don't dust the little stuffs, they start to get icky. which means that my drawer has been empty for some time.

i wanted to make it into a scrapbook of sorts, but some of the spaces were just so tiny. i tried a few different ways of pounding gently removing some of the dividers, and ended up having good luck with a very sharp very thin saw.

initially i planned to paint it, but what i really wanted to do was collage old catalog pages all over it, not just the background. i have some catalogs from 1915 - one Sears and one Ward's - and they have the best photos and descriptions ever.

here's what i have come up with, so far:

lots of layers and lots of mod podge. now i just need to figure out how to put photos and embellishments on it without covering up the whole background. in the meantime, it's hanging on the wall, providing me with inspiration. and amazement at the prices way back when.

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a little note

i changed the music player so it doesn't start automatically; you have to click on the arrow. i have been wanting to do this forever, and finally figured out how...it took one click.

i have a cool new "scrapbook" to post tonight! :)