Island of Opportunity

 

On November 1st, it will be two years that we have lived in this house. We have painted every wall and added our personal touch all around the house. One of the things that we heard most often when people saw our house for the first time was, "Wow. You have a big kitchen! Have you thought of getting an island?"

Well, yes. Yes, we have. We have been looking for about a year for the right island to put in our kitchen. "Right" means "right looking" and "right price". So when we found this on craigslist today for just $75 (chairs too!) we decided to take some garage sale money and, sacrificing some gravel for landscaping, purchase it. SO worth it.

As you probably already know, Bailey and I do a lot of baking in our kitchen. And we have done it on the small corner counter, where we squish shoulder to shoulder with a dining room chair for Bailey's stool. The Bug gets too close to the stove for my taste, and there's just not any room to do anything. I wanted this island so we could bake sugar cookies and other goodies and use the island as our work station. I am envisioning a light flour dusting everywhere and colored frosting dripping from knives after a christmas cookie escapade. Oh, the bliss.

You may have also caught a facebook status update I wrote a few months about regarding carpet in our dining room. Who on God's green earth puts carpet in the dining room?!?!?!? Well, that's what we've got going on, so I am looking forward to eating breakfast AND lunch with the kiddos at the island and reserving the dining room table (and the awful carpet) for dinners only. Hopefully it will help us decrease the amount of stains on that blasted carpet...

Now, as if getting this island wasn't good enough, we also have a lighted hanging pot rack that Jeff is going to install this week. Another craigslist find from over 6 months ago, and the perfect way to show off our red Martha Stewart pots and pans we got from Jeff's mom for Christmas last year (as well as free up some more storage space to increase my couponing stockpile). Owning a home and finding the perfect stuff is great, isn't it?

The Tutu and the Trade

 

If you know me, you know that I am always up for a deal. So when my friend, Angie proposed a trade for this darling tutu I was all over it. I made her a set of birdie signs (www.selahcustomsigns.etsy.com) and Angie made two girlie tutus for Bailey.

Bailey loves her tutus and I love them too. Greatest part is that she has two of them...one for her and one for any girlie friend that comes over to play. No fighting over the tutu! Angie, you must have thought of this ahead of time when you agreed to make two, so thanks!