My Place & Yours - Kitchen Love

Who has been reading whose mind?????
This weeks My Place, hosted by Punky & Me has a new meme, courtesy of yardagegirl and thriftnestsew about what you love in your kitchen. A subject so dear to my heart that I had only posted theres a tea towel on the wall on Thursday.
In fact there is a series of kitchen posts from it  disappearing to reappearing in my life. You would think I have posted so much about this kitchen that I wouldn't have anything else to say - wrong, wrong and wrong! (and I won't mention the biggish island bench again)
I have been wanting to show these...

 -  'blue willow' glass chopping board found in a $2 shop, rainbow coffee set with the stand from another, slightly more upmarket, but still a $2 shop. They go so well with the tiles. The red teapot came in a packaged up Christmas hamper with tea and shortbread - both of which have long gone - but the cute little teapot remains.
...and this,

the cupboard built especially for the 'blue & white'. There's a bit of willow and corning squeezed in there.
The newest addition is the round guzzini ice bucket perched on top - quite deliciously retro. Kitchen Love indeed!


Oh thank you Punky for forcing me to have to do this post!!


Take a trip over here and add your little bit of Kitchen Love to McLinky.


Thanks for taking a peek over the fence...


PS oopsey on the overdose of linking. I wonder what the blogetiquette is on the number of hot links in a post?

There's a tea towel on the wall.

I have a kitchen in need of painting - a new colour as befits a new kitchen.

I think I have found the perfect colour...

...that's why there is a tea towel on the wall.
I'm thinking it's just the colour I'm looking for.
The paint splotch next to it is the first go at getting the colour right.
Almost but not quite.

Back to the drawing board and wee paint pots...


Of course I have a bit more blue inspiration around here...

Practice crochet - I know I'll get there one day.

Fabrics for a wallet for a very nice niece.



















...some just that little bit harder than others to hang on a wall!


Thanks for taking a peek over the fence...

The Kitchen is taking shape

Here is a quick update on the kitchen renovation.
The dividing wall has gone, the other walls are re surfaced, the floor boards polished *wolf whistle* and the pile of cabinets have arrived. Even the new white ceiling fan is in.

That big slab leaning up against the wall is the large quilting table island bench top. The doorway to the right gives you the perspective of how big it is! Not long to go now.

Kitchen

This is what my kitchen looked like last Friday (On Thursday it did have cupboard doors!)...

This is what my kitchen looked like on Monday...

...this is the wall that is coming down.

I have to cook on the BBQ or in a microwave. Usual kitchen stuff is stored in the dining room and food preparation, kettle, toaster etc lives here too. The fridge and freezer are outside the back door with the BBQ and a small table. Dishwasher is in the laundry. I can manage, you know I can, can't I? It will be an adventure, just like (longterm) camping *desperation creeping into voice*

Don't have any sympathy for me...it's all self-inflicted and I think I will be just a tiny bit EXCITED to have a new not-lime-green-kitchen after 17 years!!!!