Okay, it’s Thursday {kitchen and life update}

So, I admit that my scheduled Tuesday and Thursday posting has become a little.. lax over the past few weeks.  With me posting a day late, or in this week’s case not even getting in my Tuesday post at all (despite the fact that I wrote it on Monday).  When I first made my blog schedule, I was still only working as Swiss Chalet, where my work schedule was mostly Thursday through Sunday nights.  Now, at Michaels, I tend to work more during the week, including day shifts.  This does make it more difficult to post on those days, since I only go on the computer when my partner is not home (we don’t get a lot of time together as it is, and so we agree to not be distracted by technology whenever possible). I think that allowing myself a two day period to get posts in should work fine, and allow for my constantly fluctuating work schedule. So, I won’t feel bad anymore if I post on Wednesday, instead of Tuesday, or on Friday instead of Thursday.

Another thing that I have been struggling with lately is the issue of my website: www.sweatereyes.com

(Depending on when you click that link, it may or may not work anymore)

So, my website’s paid for domain and hosting is going to expire *really* soon, as in, next Monday kind of soon.  I had been meaning to deal with it for a while now.. but I never managed to make time for it.  I have been debating whether or not to keep the domain, the possibility of the domain being purchased by someone else seems a little unlikely.  (Who else uses this name?  Based on google search results, no one).  But relying on that idea makes me feel uncomfortable, despite the fact that before I had the website the fear of someone taking it never even crossed my mind.  I know that I do not plan on staying with Yola for a paid domain regardless.  It is not that  I am unhappy with Yola, its just I simply don’t have the time to maintain a paid website as much as I want to, and I don’t intend on making time for it right now.  Since I have been focusing more on this blog, I have been considering wordpress.org, in order to have a blog focused website that allows better “website” features than wordpress.com blogs.  In short, I want my blog to be more integrated with my website (If I am to have a website at all).  For now, I intend on keeping up my Yola site as a free site, meaning that the URL is going to be different. I will probably be taking it down in the next few months though.

Any who, I have been pretty busy this week.  I painted a feature wall in my kitchen, I love how it brightens up the room.  I will be posting my second post later this afternoon, as I will be updating the post with a few more photographs, you will have to wait to see what it is about.

Everyone loves how mixed lighting can be a pain, le sigh. (The most accurate colour is seen in the top left hand corner)

 

Kitchen decorating {initial planning and before pictures}

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So, I am continuing to work on my kitchen (and break through my decorating fears and just go for it).  Since I plan on documenting this entire room’s make-over, I thought it was important to post some ugly before pictures. So, there are some things in this kitchen that I can’t change (no matter how [...]

Focused Decorating {starting in the kitchen}

The other day, my partner and I realized that our “move to Toronto” goal is now less than two years away!  It has already been half a year since we decided we were moving to Toronto (and when).  It really made me take a step back and look at what I have done around the house to prepare it for selling and for living in now.  I had been trying to somewhat organize the entire house, and I was focusing on decorating the living room.  Organizing and purging is slowly, but surely, getting done (despite a few set backs).. but plans for the living room have kind of come to a stand-still.  We decided that the next big change we need in there are simply bigger, taller bookcases.  In the Spring, we plan on making a trip to Ikea, and so the living room is officially being “put on hold”.  So, in order to encourage myself, I have decided to work in my tiny tiny kitchen.  I have the most “solid” ideas for that room, plus the projects I have in mind are both cost-effective and personally do-able.

In an attempt to keep myself on track, and have some clear ideas as I go, I made a board on Pinterest that will include lots of inspiration, ideas, and images of my own kitchen (so that I can see everything all together).  Check it out here.

I need to create a colour plan scheme, I have been playing around with a few online colour makers but none of them I enjoy using.. so if you know any palette makers, etc, let me know in the comments!

And, to give an idea of the space that I am working with, here is a floor plan I found online that is *almost* the exact same layout of my main level (the only big difference is that the stairs are on the other wall, right by the kitchen).

I plan on creating my own floor plan as I am decorating and updating this blog, but for now, this almost floor plan will have to do!  Thanks for reading.

xoxo