My Thanksgiving table...

I have seen some of you decorate lately for Thanksgiving.  I drool over your table decor ALL the time. I LOVE the brown and cream dishes so many of you have. 

One morning while waiting for my son to get on the bus I decided to pull out my sweet hubby's dishes.  We brought them here when we got married almost 3 years ago.  Considering we drove from Idaho to New York with 3 tweens in the car (and yeah it was our honeymoon) - loaded up his house in a trailer and drove his things ALL the way home - I sort of liken the experiance to carting these dishes out west on a handcart.  That I pulled -  by myself.  Might have been eaiser than trying to change a flat trailer tire on the side of the freeway while one of my kids kept repeating we were gonna die!!!  Oh and we did this not once but TWICE! 

Anyhow after tinkering for the morning - I called it good.  Im not having Thanksgiving at my house this year, and I dont have the kids this year for the Thanksgiving holiday.  Which at times I go back and forth between this being a good or a bad thing.  Bad because I will miss them a ton like I always do, and good that I have a chance to curl up with hot apple cider and a good book- if i dont just spend the weekend cleaning out the kids rooms waiting for them to come home (which is what usually happens)

These are the dishes.  They are a bit chipped. but Im just calling them antiqued.

I then tried to put together a center piece - Well, Its not fabulous by any means but it is something.

I then called it good and havent done much since then.  Soooo - (and this is really why I'm blogging!!) I was really surprised last night when my neighbor came over to tell me how wonderful (oh yeah, wonderful!) my table looks through the window.  It almost makes the whole table seem a bit prettier!  It was just so dang nice of her!

Color of my kitchen

Beth at The Stories of A to Z posted a picture of her kitchen that she wants to change the color.  Her kitchen is really cute and the colors she is picking are really great but I wanted to show her my kitchen color.  Not because I have the best kitchen in the world - i love it and for me thats ok.  But more that I think the concept would look really nice in her kitchen.  Its a faux finish.

Here is a close up showing the layers (and I mean layers - like 6 lol) of paint.  Actually the first layer was a bright burgundy and the several other layers were more of a putty/paste consistancy.  It was troweled on and scraped off over the course of a couple of days. 

And here is the other side of the room.

The paint was ordered before we decided to buy the home.  We would walk through while it was being built as we decided to buy.   Once we did then the kitchen was finished.  Everday my mom and I would come in and see the kitchen being finished.  One the first day we were like " Oh nice, the kitchen is going to be red" then we would come in the next day to find that a light cream was scraped over the top making the kitchen look very light but speckled with the burgundy color.  Then the next day there would be a glaze over it.  This went on for several days.  Aparantly the guy hired was an out of work artist - SOOO lol he took his work very seriously.  It wasnt until everything was done and a finishing glaze was put over the top did I really know he was "done".  At first I would get mixed reactions from women coming over - alot of them would touch my walls.  It is very textured but surprisingly not heavy looking.

I do think that it could be done by a homeowner by just masking off the cabinets and using the same type of thick paint. 
Whatever she picks im sure it will look great!  Good luck and happy painting!!

Annie