summer dreamin'

It's March and in Bama, it should be warm enough to go out in a light sweater at the most.  It is 43 degrees today!!  What the??!  Light sweater my booty!  I got on my snow boots and ski jacket, and I am still cold!  At this rate I will never get all my projects done... and that just leaves me to dream.  Right now I am soooo dreaming of this...

 and especially this, I mean is there aNyThIng better than a {homegrown tomato}?

When I am not elbow deep in paint, I love to garden.  Flowers & veggies.  Thanks Grandma, for making teaching me to work in your gardens. I finally totally 'got it' in my late 20's and have LOVED everything about it ever since!  And I always, always think of you and wish you were still here!

But lately her in Bama all we are getting is something similar to this...

Come on spring!!  Don't just tease us with two or three days, STAY for a long while!!  We really love you and have missed you!

In the DECOR area, I am also dreaming of a new kitchen.  Something effortless, practical but fashionable, hard working, yet quaint - something that's just me...
Something with perhaps some of these elements

(all kitchen pics came from a web image gallery, I didn't see any credits noted... flowers and tomatoes are mine, grown in my back yard, by me)

Well, I am inspired! How about you?

Now, who wants to 'gift' me about $80, 000 to just hire someone to carry out my plans??

Oh, yeah, that's a dream too, like winning the lottery. 

Where do you go to get inspired when considering a kitchen update, re-do, partial makeover or complete gut?  I'd love to know, well cause... uhhh, I just can't stop dreaming about doing something to or with my sad kitchen...

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I HAVE THIS!!!

I wish I knew where I got this pic!!  (I'll give you photo credit it's yours)  Anyhoo, back in October, I met up with some dealers who 'pick' and allow me to then 'pick' from their goods.  Well, I fell in love with a bunch of industrial whisks, of all things!  (I did fall in love with carved wooden wings, and a copper shade on a lovely lamp - so give me a little credit.)
But these whisks! My wheels were turning - get two small ones and make into lamps? or hanging pendants? or wall mounted lamps?  Get a big one and make it a ceiling light? Gather a few different sizes and just GO CRAZY?!
OK, OK, I settled on a big one and slowed the wheels in my brain - I will use this in my kitchen - over my table. Yes this is what I will do. Oh my goodness! look at those columns! and those turtle shells!  CaLm dOwN I will say the pickers got a kick out of my enthusiasm and loved all the cash I plopped down on many many great items!
I still do not have the light in place over my table - I want to re-do in my kitchen, but I misplaced that pocket change of about $120 thousand that it would cost me to do it exactly the way I need, dream, would like to.

Here is my whisk

And here is a sample of what it looks like in this kitchen...keep in mind, my kitchen doesn't resemble this pic, but I think one day I can pull off  'my' look and use the whisk...and maybe it will only cost $1,200 dollars. Right! the fridge alone (that I dream of) is way more than that! then there is the - ok, I'll stop dreaming in public...

whisk light

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