I hope that anyone, especially back in our old Commonwealth of Virginia, that was snowed in or without electricity last week has gotten back to normal. All the talk of "Winter Storm Iago" (when did we start naming winter storms, anyway?) had me thinking about the fact that it will probably be another fifteen years before I see any snow here in South Georgia. For some of my Christmas decorations, the boys and I cut out paper snowflakes. We put them up with fishing line in the foyer. We've never done this before, and we LOVED it. I'm saving the ones we made this year and will add more next year. When I took the Christmas decorations down (yesterday), I decided to leave up the snowflakes because I love them so much and it is still winter. They're probably the only snow we'll see this year.
Okay, so right now in our little rental house we don't have a mudroom. But, soon, very soon, we will have one. Here's what I just did with the boys' backbacks...
I found the iron initial hooks on sale for $7.50 at Hobby Lobby. I also have one for my husband and myself, but there's no room for them right now. The frames were $6 at Wal-mart. Right up the road from us are a James St. and Henry St. There is also one nearby with my maiden name, and there's a town not far from here called my husband's last name. I printed them out at home on card stock so they wouldn't be too shiny, which only cost me a few pennies each.
So, that's about $14.00 each for a cute (in my opinion) place to hang things in our soon-to-be mudroom.
I just finished shopping for kitchen cabinets. It was much easier this time than a few months ago. Why? Probably because I didn't have to do all the research again. But more likely, because I don't care that much anymore - I JUST WANT TO BUILD THE HOUSE!
I'm thinking of going with either a red, white and brown theme OR a red, white and black theme. The red would just be in the accents, and the white is more of a linen.
This is the finish for the cabinets along the walls:
This is the finish for the island cabinets: or
I was leaning toward the black. Maybe it's the Dawg in me... However, the fabrics I'm drawn to would look better with the chocolate. Here are a few that I'm thinking about for curtains, chandelier shades and cushions, etc.
I was planning to go with neutral colors in the dining room so that I can do more seasonal decorating in there than was able to do before. So, keeping the kitchen a little more neutral than in the past would also be a good idea, I think. In our last house, I had a different color on every wall, so this is a new concept to me.
How would this look over the breakfast table with some cute shades, Mom?
On another note, there is a great giveaway at How I Met Your Father that you should check out if you are at all interested in True Prep. The prize is an autographed copy of the book. Hurry, it ends this Thursday.
