What's on the Work Bench?

 My work table is covered in projects again.

I want the porch DONE!
I want the kitchen DONE!
Progress is moving like a slug in Levi's dish of captivity.

I do realize that with 3 kids

it may take a few more weeks than I'd like.

So I do little projects in between my opportunities to work on the big ones.

  I found these metal chickens

and think they'll be perfect in the kitchen.

It would be great if they were real chickens

but for now,

these will have to do.

I am still determining what color they'll become.

 I've printed up too many ideas for some of my accent pieces

like this one.

It will be used with these...

 Can you guess what these are for?

(A hint: these are for my attempt to be more organized.

Hey, now.

At least I am trying to be organized.

That's a start, isn't it?)

But this is my main priority right now.

 This is the new counter top for my kitchen cabinets.

I have been looking online and trying to decide.

Do I leave it in it's beautiful sleek perfection...

 or do I beat it with a chain,

dump coffee stains on it,

light little bits of it with fire to burn it,

and then put the finish on it.

I'm not one for a perfect counter.

It would never look perfect once I'm using it.

So a beat up/distressed counter top sounds best...

but what if I mess it up?

What if I burn the house down trying to make it look old?

It sounds like a risky undertaking.

And scary.

(I hope my husband doesn't read this post.
If you do, dear Farmer, I really do know what I am doing...
I'm just being funny.



Really.




Truly.)

Where was I?
Oh, yes, denting up the counter top...
sometimes scary is fun.

Who would have guessed that I'd see a day

where painting a counter could be

"fun" scary?

 On the other side of the porch,
the light is in.

Yay!!

It needs to be raised a little.

 And the cabinets are in their first coat of the color green.

 I painted this little chalk board project to practice.

I think I like it.

 But then this vintage blue pleads to me to belong in the kitchen.

Maybe I can satisfy my love for it with a few accents.

That's what is on my work benches this week.

Are you up to any fun projects?

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