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70's Crafting for the Kitchen

Over the sink in my kitchen is a tile mural that I inherited with this house. 

 I'm not a fan.

I've always had it covered up with a picture so with the 70's theme redecorating that I am doing, new artwork seemed in order.

I put my best 70's crafting skills to work and pulled out the Mod Podge, the Gesso, the string, some buttons and appliques , my craft paints and went to work.

My inspiration came from this fabulous 70's crewel work.

 

I started with a stretched canvas and slathered it with gesso, then I built up my letters using card stock.

After embellishments, more gesso, paint and then of course antiquing, we have some 70's love for the kitchen.

70's Wallpaper Love

Redecorating projects are moving along in my kitchen.  In addition to a bit of renovation I am redecorating the room in a 70's theme.  I'm feeling very nostalgic these days for my childhood apparently.

We relocated the fridge so that we could open up between rooms and my modern and huge fridge needed the cabinetry to continue over it so that it would have more of that built in appearance.  But accessing the cabinets above the fridge is not an everyday reality so I left them open to use as display space.

I intended to find some groovy wallpaper to put in the back of the cabinet and I found the most divine paper ever.  True 70's, flocked and mylar. 

It's like fuzzy plaid on top of stainless steel.

I love this wallpaper so much I added it to the island as well.

I found this incredible wallpaper over at Kitschy Koo Collage on Etsy.  She has the most complete collection of out of this world 70's wallpapers that I have ever seen.

Check this one out, pink flocking on top of silver.  Swoon :->

This one is a perfect example of what's old is new again.  Orange damask on grasscloth.  Double swoon.

No question what era this is from. 

The 70's were all about the geometrics.

Wouldn't any of these papers make a great focal wall?  Wallpapering is SO easy too.        

Butcher Block Love

Part of my kitchen reno is to replace the current and very ugly blue laminate countertops.

I've picked out a gorgeous recycled glass product for most of the kitchen but I opted to go with a butcher block top for my existing island.

Here is the before, cluttered and messy too.  I've changed the kitchen color and moved that killer cabinet to an upper floor.

You can see my new hickory floors here too.  Love my new floors.  The butcher block was so reasonable in cost and I purchased it on Amazon!  I'm smitten with it.  Just a few more projects left to complete and the kitchen will be transformed. 

Where Bloggers Create Blog Party

I was invited by Karen over at My Desert Cottage to join in the

Where Bloggers Create blog party. 

Go over to Karen's place and you can find links to many, many wonderful bloggers special creating spaces.

I actually have two crafting/sewing spaces in my home.  One is my sewing studio and the other is an area in my media room where I do all my christmas crafting.

I have bragged many times about my new sewing studio.  I went into nauseating detail last year about moving it from the third floor windowless room down the the second floor of my house to a room filled with natural light.  A quick search of "sewing studio" in the search bar will yield many, many posts about it.

But it's been a year now and the room has continued to evolve or I should more correctly state, fill up with more stuff :->

So I snapped a bunch of new pictures to share here.  You can pop over to Karen's place to hook up with lots of bloggers and see their creative spaces too.

Enjoy the tour. 

This is the sewing corner. 

I have special creations in this cabinet and on these walls.

Every sewing room needs a toy sewing machine collection.

If you want to know how I created this fabric storage/cutting table, read about it here.

My christmas crafting has become such a big part of what I enjoy doing that I have had to appropriate a corner of my media room for full time storage and crafting space for my wreaths.      

As you can see, I really have to spread out when I am creating wreaths.

Each wreath takes 80-100 ornaments to complete so it takes a lot of inventory to be able to make just a few of them.  I am constantly shopping for vintage christmas treasures to include in them.

Thanks for stopping by and sharing my favorite spaces in my home.