Summer Smooches & Kitchen Update

I have some more Summer Smooches to share with you!  Last Saturday – I hosted an area Demonstrator Shoebox Swap – we had a BLAST!!!  This is a gift bag that I decorated with the Summer Smooches DSP and one of the flowers from my card class last week – how cute is this???

What's inside that cute bag – you ask?  This DRY ERASE board and ART CANVAS with a little chapstick wrapped in DSP!  The Dry Erase board is simply a 5 x 7" plastic frame – embellished with paper and punched images.  The Dry Erase Pen should be fastened to the back with a dot of velcro (but I couldn't find mine).  These are so simple and fun.  Thanks to Doris Fryman for giving me one – I have it on my desk and love it for making little notes to myself!

And this art canvas is just adorned with cardstock and the flower – how simple!!!!

KITCHEN UPDATE:

I've been getting alot of inquiries about how my kitchen redo is going….OK – here's a bunch of BEFORE & AFTER photos.  I spent 40 hours removing the wallpaper – URGHHHHHHH!!!  

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions – I tried just about everything – I used DIFF wallpaper remover with a paper scorer – a rented steamer – and fabric softener with the paper scorer.  

Here's what I can tell you – the steamer ruined my walls!  I hated waiting 30 minutes for it to heat up and then 10 minutes to cool down before I could fill it with water again and then another 30 minutes to heat up, etc.  It pulled the paper right off the drywall – like the paper that comes with drywall.  Now I will have to paint with GARDZ, put a skim layer of joint compound over the mess, sand it and then prime it.  MORE WORK!  

The fabric softener didn't work any better than the DIFF – and it was sticky and very messy – hated it!  

So I went back to the DIFF…and here's another great little tip…you know I do not have much patience!  If I would have scored, sprayed and waited the 15 minutes it says to wait on the bottle – things would have gone much easier – I did this towards the end and I did get bigger pieces of wallpaper to come off at a time.  So there you go!

So now I have a lot more work to do.  I have to paint the walls with a product called GARDZ.  This will seal the walls – especially where the white paper came off the drywall.  Then I will evaluate where I need to add joint compound (drywall mud) and sand (oh how I HATE that part!).  Then I can prime and paint.  What color, you ask?  I want to paint the walls white and then add gray stripes.  Remember, I found this kitchen redo on the Nate Berkus show and fell in love with it.  So I'm going from SCREAMING country to a little more modern decorating theme.

I'll be sure to post some more photos as I go along – wish me luck!!!

Here's a little funny…I found flooring that I really really want…but I'm afraid it's too expensive.  It's a ceramic tile laminate.  So if you need any SU products and you'd like to help me buy this flooring – or if you just need some new stuff (like the Summer Smooches) and you don't give a HOOT about my flooring dilemna – you can place an order here – LOL!!!!

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