January 23

So, according to John's phone report, pretty much everything that was on Grandma's plate rack flew off and onto the floor during the earthquake a couple weeks ago. I had to go over to Flickr to remember exactly what I'd had on it. I mean, I knew I had those fabulous 'here for a minute, gone the next' Chelsea Park Home dishes from Target whose flowered plates were almost even better than Cath Kidston's. I assumed all was lost and had spent the last several days at mom's house searching for them online to no avail. I was  SOOO happy to come home and find I still had three plates and a couple of bowls. (and ONE spotted coffee cup, which is now safely housed in the regular coffee cups cupboard). Anyway, I remembered Jenny had posted a pic of my kitchenette area at Flickr so I searched Jen Duncans Kitchen  to get an idea of how I'd had it set up. 

Found all sorts of groovy red and aqua collages there that included my original photo. I ended up getting the inspiration to do the little pennants shelf edging from someone's mosaic. Then I did some shopping of my favorite artist's pieces out in my studio. 

 

Oh. And the set of three measuring cups as well as the set of three mixing bowls are currently for sale at Pier 1. Perhaps I should've started with a fresh plant but I figure that poor ol' spider plant deserves a second chance so I found that sweet milkglass planter on ebay and replanted it today ;-)
And that was ALL I did today. Thanks be to God that Madison has another grandmother in town, who picks her up every Saturday by 5 to spend the night and the whole next day.  Maybe tomorrow I'll get those listings done!  

Comments

[Sue McGettigan]

So glad some of your pretties survived Jen, I hate to think what we'd lose in a quake, lots of glass and china unsecured on shelves, but I refuse to play the 'tie everything down' game, or worse still keep them all in cupboards where they can't be seen. Carpe diem!

[jenny holiday]

Hey sweet friend!! It has been so so long since I left you a lil note. 2009 was just nutso for us. We are looking forward to a fresh new way of living, working, breathing this year!

Your kitchen looks incredible my dear!!! Your photo on flickr is one of my all time favorited pics!!! People looove it! I'm actually thinking you have outdone yourself here....might just be even cuter!! :)

I'll be sure to visit wayyy more often!!

Thinking of you and your family!!!
xoxo Jenny

[Mary Ann]

Oh my goodness! I am in the throes of painting my sewing room aqua...now I'll be off searching for such cuteness for the walls.

[nanette]

Oh I want all that. The whole thing. I want to have it in my house! I searched for them, too. Nope.

[elizabeth]

Wow. What perfection in cuteness!

[KathiD]

Although, I must say that I'm pretty disappointed that's all you did today. On a normal day, you would have painted a few rooms, made a couple of quilts, and designed a few new fripperies for Moda Bake Shop.

What's up?

[KathiD]

OMG it is as cute as can be! Maybe it wasn't so bad to have a new start. (Since it was so ugly before. Yeah, right!)

I really need to stop reading your blogs as well as pamkittymorning, latebloomerquilts and happyzombie. You guys are all dangerous in your extreme cuteness!

[pam]

Gosh that's the cutest. I might have to go to pier 1 now for those cups. Dang it JenDuncan and your cute ways.

[Tracy Nuskey-Dodson]

I'm so happy you were able to save a few of your treasures. I must say that I'm most pleased to have my little painting among the other fabulousness!! I love that color combo.
Enjoy your week:)
Tracy

[georgiapeachez]

You must be please as punch with tne results. Your dining area looks so inviting, I'll just stay and pour myself another cup of tea :->
xo, suzy