blue ceilings, happy tables, green cupboards and nonesense joy

Deep winter.  Grey skies and white snow.  Days inside longing for out.  That February homebound feeling that sets in.  


Tracy and Christine, this ones for you...pictures of what I've been up to.  

Color therapy.

The once white then black table...is now blue!  And I have to say, I love, love, love it.  It makes me smile each and every time I walk into or even by the kitchen.  Jim calls it my easter egg.  

It is happy, cheerful, sweet and uplifting.  Seriously, my table might need a name that color brings me such joy.

Painted in ten minute increments here and there.  And done in two days.  Still can't quite figure out how that happened.

I pulled the rug from the girls room into the kitchen to put under the table, and suddenly it feels like spring in there!

And in an effort to add more southern grace to my days...voila!  My blue ceiling!  

Ohhhhh I'm so in love.  

This project happened at 5am for a few mornings.  Me, my coffee, sweet Kristene Mueller singing away on my ipod and my blue paint roller.  

I ended up using regular paint {which, btw works beautifully on a ceiling and isn't so thin and runny, which equals less splattering} in a slight sheen.  

It is beautiful {to me}.  

Same exact paint from the same exact can as the table.  I'm all for using paint in multiple places.  And figuring out how to stretch the entire can.

Benjamin Moore's Wyeth Blue, in half the formula.

Be still my heart.  This is so shallow, and I still love that ceiling and table so much!  In case it wasn't already evident.

Okay. Up next.  Kitchen cabinets.  

Say it with me: Nantucket Gray.

Really, a soft green with beautiful gray undertones.  

Okay, not the most artful of photos.  With my camera you get what you get!  

This is dark, but you get a peek of how it all looks.

Oh!  Back to my happy place! :)

Emma and I spend a lot of time at that table doing school!  It is fun to look out the windows.  If you look closely you might even notice that the windows are partly primed.  Project #357b underway!

So there you have it.  Blue ceilings, happy tables, green cupboards and February!

Next up {tomorrow} are the photos of Anna's new pillows...that she sewed herself {with my help}.  They are a.d.o.r.a.b.l.e!  Ruffle and all.  And there's a few other projects I'll show you.

I'm not one to post house pictures, but this was sort of fun to take the pictures.  Now Tracy, where are those photos of your kitchen?! I really want to see the Virginia beauty.  Or at least a photo of spring springing all over your yard {small moan of envy escapes my lips}.

Happy Friday everyone!  

I hope you have a day blue skies, too.  You can always paint them in.  

Love,

Sara