about my new blog and my new kitchen

I have been so busy the last two weeks cleaning like a mad woman just getting ready to paint my kitchen cabinets, while trying to stay focused on my day job and keeping up my Etsy shops, that I had to throw a new art blog in just for fun! LOL!
My new blog is specifically about my journey as an artist. It is where I can focus my thoughts more clearly on my creative side than here, which is where I like to talk about house and home and everything else under the sun.

The new blog is at http://www.dianecostanza.blogspot.com/ 

if you are interested in checking it out.

As I said, I have been cleaning out my kitchen cabinets, one at a time. I empty them, wipe the interior down with a Mr. Clean sponge (love those!) and then re-organize. I have moved quite a bit from one cabinet to another cabinet as I realize what I had originally set up in my early bridal days, when I didn't have a clue, wasn't really working anymore.

No, this is not my house, but it is an example of the look I am after!

Need I say that I have sent off as much to the Goodwill this week as I have bought there in the last year of thrifting??

Do you know how much accumulates after 20 years of marriage? Whew! I found things I didn't remember receiving and/or buying! All this in just the dark recesses of my kitchen. Well, it felt good to drop those three big boxes off at Goodwill today with Ignazio. I have three more boxes waiting for another drop-off.

"Do you really need an animal shaped jello mold?" I asked myself. "And where in the world did it come from anyway? It must have been my mother..."

Thank goodness I did all the decluttering in the rest of the house when we were renovating two years ago or I would be faced with an even larger up-hill climb!

Another example of the old world style I adore!

 Well, the cabinets are all cleaned and functional again and I am ready to begin painting. Mind you, Andrew had started to the paint the base cabinet a few weeks ago without even cleaning it first, men! Now I have to re-do what he did.

I am going with an old world, tuscan, distressed look, black on the bottom, cream on top. I will be sure to post pix as soon as It is complete.