I’m in major need of a new kitchen table. I told myself that I can’t buy anything until my kitchen is actually completed, (see previous post about my kitchen remodeling project) but I can’t help looking. I really like this kitchen set I found on KSL.com. I love the idea of a bench and the color of the wood. And I love the clean lines of this table. However, the chairs do look a little hard and the blocky table legs aren’t my favorite. Maybe it’s ok that I’m not officially in the market yet.

$300 smackers and the table could be yours. Found here on KSL.com.

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I love the idea of having silhouettes of my family above a fireplace or a series of them going up the stairs. Design Sponge posted a great tutorial on how to make your own silhouette.

There really aren’t too many steps. And, as you can see, the results are darling! Seth and I got some silhouettes done at Disneyland. It was actually pretty cool to see the lady just look at your profile and snip, snip, snip–one minute later your silhouette is done. The little shop is on Disneyland’s main street and opened just a few months after the park opened. The lady who cut our silhouettes out told us it was a lingerie shop for those first few months! I guess it didn’t go over too well.

Picture from Design Sponge

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I stopped by Pier 1 yesterday and promptly fell in love with this desk. Unfortunately it is $300. I’m thinking I can make something similar for much less, I just need to find the right components.

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Last Saturday I went and saw Paula at The Square Nest in Salt Lake City. (I posted about it before.) I took in a cabinet door and a sample of my counter top so she could help me pick out a paint color. (She agreed that yellow, the color I had tried to use in my kitchen, is a really hard color to use correctly.) Well, I am so excited to announce the color we will be painting the walls in our kitchen…Smokey Slate.

Isn’t it beautiful!?! Paula has the one of the rooms in her store painted this color, and it is gorgeous. Behr.com has a cool tool called Color Smart where you can pick a color and it will choose coordinating colors for you. Unfortunately, I don’t like any of the colors it picked for me.

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Now that you’ve heard about etsy, I want to tell you about Hiccup Inc. They are a success story in the making, and I have been so interested in the story behind the local company since I read a Deseret News article about them on Saturday. They have some very cute things, mainly building blocks for baby and picture frames, that they started selling on etsy at the beginning of March. After just a couple of weeks, BAM!, Martha Stewart–yes, the Martha–called and wanted Hiccup on her show. Things have been taking off ever since, in fact she says it is hard to fill all the orders. Isn’t that a great story? It just makes me wonder what I can create that will get people talking like that. It also makes me want really cute puzzle picture frames.

Picture from Hiccup Inc.’s etsy store.

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Look at this awesome dresser transformation from Sunset magazine. They found an old dresser on Craigslist for $25 and made it into something that is freakin’ awesome. They spent $100 on the transformation goods, and I think if you are a little bit more budget conscience, you can spend less than that and get the same look.By the way, here is the before:

I am imagining the possibilities for this dresser in Orem.

Thanks for the great article Suzette!

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The Women’s Expo I went to this weekend was awesome. Not only did we get the word out there for Lavender Days, but I also saw a lot of very cool Utah vendors that are doing very cool things! (Shout out to my booth neighbors HugaMonkey!)

One of my favorite booths to walk through was Raymond Designs. I love them because they have LDS art that is different than all the usual stuff out there. (If you’re not LDS, you might not know that just about every member of the LDS Church has some type of religious themed art in their house. So, after going to a few LDS people’s houses it may seem like they all have the exact same pictures on their walls. You might actually start thinking that they pass pictures out at church for people to hang on the walls. But they don’t. Everyone just happens to have the exact same pictures as everyone else. It is one of those quarky things about those Mormons.)

I especially love the temple pictures from Raymond Designs. The designer, John Raymond, just knows how to make the pictures beautiful. The thing is, Deseret Book is now carrying his stuff, so this might become too mainstream for me. We’ll see.

What I really want is a picture of my family in front of the temple with this sepia toned, washed out look. If a photographer out there is willing to give it a try, let me know!

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I love reading good blogs from fellow Utahns. Nicole Hill writes a blog called A Little Sussy. She is a photographer and is “in the know” on a bunch of cool things, so I like to keep up with what she is blogging about. Yesterday she wrote about a blog she just set up to sell some of the props she has bought for past photo shoots. Some of the things for sale are really unique.

Photo from Rubberball Sells.

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When I moved into my townhouse last fall I was so excited to fix it up. We were able to save a little money from the sell of our condo in Salt Lake City so that we could do fun projects right away. The project we decided to tackle first is the kitchen. And I knew it would be stressful, and I knew it would be hard, and I knew it would take a long time. But it seems like it is taking FOREVER! Right now we are in the waiting mode.

Our cabinets are in, our flooring is down, our counter tops are on…so why can’t we use our kitchen? No kitchen sink. It seems that running water is an essential part of any kitchen activity, so we are still using our wet bar on the third floor as our mini kitchen until a new kitchen sink–one that actually fits–arrives. (However, we are using our refrigerator on the first floor. We’re getting our exercise!)

One of the biggest mistakes we have made so far is our choice of wall color. We were in a pinch because we still hadn’t picked out a paint color the day before our cabinets were to be put in, so I hurriedly made a decision. I really, really wish I had an interior design friend who could have helped me pick out the color. So now that we have decided the yellow clashes too much with our off-white cabinets, I am searching for someone who actually knows what they are doing. I don’t want to pay for another can of paint just to hate it as much as I hate the yellow.

My kitchen, bad wall color and all. As you can tell it isn’t moved into yet.

On Saturday I was wandering around the 9th and 9th area in Salt Lake City and wandered into The Square Nest where I met owner/interior designer Paula Daly. If her store says anything about her, it is that she has great taste. After telling her my color dilemma, she kindly offered to help me pick out a color for my kitchen! I just e-mailed her some photos of my kitchen and I’ll let you know what the verdict is. I’m thinking a beautiful teal color would be nice, but we’ll see if Paula agrees. If you are ever near downtown Salt Lake stop by The Square Nest to meet Paula. I just loved all the unique decor items she had in her store, and I found some things that would be great Mother’s Days gifts. Her store is at 931 E. 900 S and is open from 10-6.

P.S. The only reason we were able to do our kitchen is because my great little brother, Jacob, works at the KraftMaid warehouse in West Jordan. They give sweet deals to family members. If you need new cabinets, I suggest forcing a family member to get a job there.

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I was searching the blogosphere today (using Google’s blog search–way fun) and came across a blog called Sparrow Originals by an interior design student at Utah State University. She posted a great little tutorial on making fun paper globes.

I think this idea can be used by so, so many women in Utah because I know they have a ton of paper scraps lying around because of all the scrapbookin’ going on in the house! I don’t even scrapbook and I have a ton of gorgeous paper scraps lying around. (Ok, here’s the truth. I don’t scrapbook, but I do make homemade cards. They are too fun to resist.)

Can you imagine a bunch of these hung from the light above your table on a special day, or strung on a string to make a garland?

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