The Mini Kitchen project and more!

What a full week its been! Where to begin? Hmm probably where I last left off.

Last Saturday was a great day. I had the day all to myself. So how did I start and plan my grand day? By getting up at 3:30 in the morning. I drove to kansas city and arrived at 4:30 a.m to the location of the HUGE Nell Hill sale. I claimed my spot in line with a lawn chair and magazine. So really why all the fuss to get up so early??? I am telling you guys, this is an

awesome sale!!! My type of style decor and furniture for garage sale prices. Thats why I got there so early. To get a good spot! I ended up making friends with 2 lovely ladies in front of me and we chatted for hours waiting for the big tent to open up and for us to run like mad woman to grab what we wanted before it was gone.

It was a crazy hour of shopping and creating a "stock pile" on the quilt I set on the parking lot. I managed to get a lot of good stuff. Each year never disappoints. :) Now I am having fun finding places in the home for all my treasures.

Part of my stock pile. half way through shopping!

I spent a lovely afternoon on Saturday doing photography for a beautiful backyard wedding. Magical! And had a few hours afterwords to hit the mall and shop at some stores I had been wanting to go too. It was so nice to bop in and out and browse without anyone waiting on me. :) I found some great deals too!

Sunday was a great day of fellowship at church. An very encouraging sermon. We had a lovely sunday afternoon which included naps (i was pretty exhausted!) 

Now to the exciting part! Daniel (my wonderful daniel!) got online and ordered me some super cool lights for my kitchen. So sunday he installed them! 

Here is what they look like. They are led strip lights that are super lite and sticky on one side. Daniel wired in a dimmer switch and put them in my glass dish cabinet in the kitchen and below the cabinet to light my counter top. 



Here is the result!.....

I absolutely LOVE them! I can dim it and night and it gives the kitchen a soft glow. Or can have them bright when we are makin and bakin! :) My hubby is the best!

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Monday I was excited! The kids and I had an open free day. So I thought we could all work on something fun! We decided on fixing up Adonia a play kitchen. I had been wanting to work on the project for a  while. We had to rearrange their room in order to fit the kitchen/former dresser in. So we got creative with their space and found the perfect spot for their beds. 

It was fun! Creed has a fun new star night light right above his bed (garage sale $1)

Once finished with the rearranging, we went on a spontaneous thrift store shopping spree

to pick out mini kitchen items for the project. I spent less than $10 and we loaded up on little silverware, cups, bowls, wisks, wash clothes, pitchers, plates, coffee pot and more. 

Here is the finished result!

Their little dining room area

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 Now with the kitchen put together I wanted her to have fun food to play with. So I thought I could make some felt food. Its the cutest thing I have ever seen and there are so many ideas on pintrest. And it so happened that my sister Chloe was wanting to do the same
thing. So she came up and we spent the day together making all we could!

We hand stitched all of them and they came together well. Super fun and easy project. All you need is several colors of felt, thread, needle, and an old pillow to get stuffing from. Since the felt sticks nicely together you can easily cut out and stick on items. Like the tossed salad I made or the pizza, they can pull off the toppings and stick which ones they like on. 

Here is what I got finished.

 Bacon and Eggs

 Pancakes topped with Bananas

 Tea Bags

 Fish and Salad

 Pizza

 Chicken drumstick, peas and carrot

 Spagetti and Meatballs

A bag of tortilla chips

In the midst of our busy week Creed has been doing awesome taking himself potty! So we got him his first pair of underwear. He was so excited!

My adorable and growing up Adonia went to the dentist this week and had a glowing report. She has been doing great keeping her teeth clean and making sure little brother does the same!

I just have to share another cool thrift store find this week. I am just so excited about it. I mean who wouldn't? Its a vintage yellow chair! The seat cover was torn, so I just covered it up. Couldn't resist buying it... especially with it only being $3!

My diet has been going relatively well. I have been doing a good job keeping up with staying away from things I shouldn't be eating (though that doesn't mean that the cravings are not there!) The only thing bothering me is that I have still been getting the inflamed joints which can sometimes be pretty discouraging. So I am praying that God would continue to heal me and that the inflammation would cease...pretty soon!. My natural doctor decided that I could go ahead and start eating fresh salads and raw veggies. This was SUPER exciting for me. A cold fresh salad was something I had regularly been craving. So thats been nice! I just keep looking towards the goal. Being fully healed and well. And I have full confindence God is going to provide that for me. All in His timing!

Blessings,

Hannah Winter

Funny quote this week:


So the previous night I had gone out to celebrate my sisters birthday with several friends and the kids were home with Daniel) So I was driving in the car the next morning....

Me: Adonia, How was your time with Daddy last night?
Adonia: Good! we had a lot of fun!
Me: Thats great! Mommy had a good time out too!
Adonia: You went on time out? Did you get in trouble again?

A decorator's spring touch!

Everytime a spring arrives I get a tingling of excitement fly through me as I anticipate the revival of lots of green! God decorates the outdoors with beautiful spring colors and carpets his created place with the beautiful color green! While I am busy on the inside recreating His beauty with lovely spring vibe. And for me that means lots of greens! And I LOVE IT! and along with that comes my weakness for stripes. :)

So here is a peak into the beginning of my spring decorating. Since I have only been able to hit the thrift stores this winter and haven't started my garage sale bargains, I am sure I will attain some more decorating finds as spring rolls on to add to the array.

                                     The wreath from one of my favorite stores: Nell Hill

                          I love the black and white and green theme in my dining room

I had some extra fabric from the camper redo, So I decided it would hurt to have some extra fun in the library. So I put some of the fabric in the window seat and sewed a few pillows to tie it all in.

The spring project for this month was a fun and unexpected surprise my wonderful husband gave me.
Upon my arrival home from a weekend trip Daniel told me that I immediately needed to close my eyes. I was thinking it was to avoid the mess that had accumulated while I had been gone. But really was purposed to to keep me from seeing saws and power tools. :) He led me up stairs to our room to have me open my eyes to a whole new floor! Daniel and Phillip had spent the weekend watching kids PLUS clearing out our entire room and putting in new flooring! I was SOOOO excited! I have been wanting a new floor for sometime now! The hardwood is going to feel and look so nice. And I am super excited for a fresh start to the room and the opportunity add a few new touches. A couple more steps till its done. Pictures soon on the finished room.

 With our room empty, everything got transferred to the kids room. We are going to be having several slumber parties as a family till the room gets done!

 Have a great weekend!  And if you want to check out a few highlights of my weekend in Vegas click below

                               Las Vegas Baby!    

Blessings!

Hannah Grace

 p.s I will be happy when our spring weather is more consistent. The kids and I hit the perfect day when it was still beautiful warm weather to go play at the cousins house.