Hello again, First, Alison & Nancy, pls. excuse me, I seem to have accidentally deleted the paragraphs I'd written addressing your comments (yikes, but it was late, I was tired & I've been sick for a couple of days (home sick 1 day, an intense cold flew thru my body in a couple of days)). Oops, I digress. I had thanked you both for your comments on the trademarked issues, that you both confirmed my feelings that the prohibition was in propagating &/or profiting. I hadn't propped them & was just sharing (tho' I had wished to have them sold at the Plant Sales Table as usual). Brilliant the suggestion to simply not specify which Ag in particular, simple but just never occurred to me (duh). Hey Purple, I remember your mention of the lost X stitch files. Do you know that GW has a Quilting Forum? Might your Mom like to check that out? Dorky me forgot to suggest pls. to search for my work there. Same handle, just search Pirate_Girl, IâÂÂve got some Quilts posted there along w/ sometime comments abt othersâ works there. IâÂÂm a pretty serious Quilter, âÂÂrecovering textile designerâÂÂ, long story also explained in my Quilt Blog. Suppose its OK to digress my own thread, huh? Or have OT conversation should I say, w/ Purple. Hiya Toni, Thx for lovely words, I DO love my quilts, thereâÂÂs no denying ⦠donâÂÂtâ think we ever had this conversation, thoâ rings familiar you mentioning suggesting I market myself. Sure IâÂÂd love to, except I work full time & also do the Work, so got no time left for marketing. Thoâ these days w/ Etsy (not there yet, but I aspire to sometime). IâÂÂm aiming more for something called Spoonflower, a company which allows a person to pay to have custom designs printed on yardage of fabrics. IâÂÂve been holding onto a couple of dozens original designs IâÂÂve wanted to see on fabric for YEARS. So, thatâÂÂs what IâÂÂm closer to doing. IâÂÂm certainly open to ideas, suggestions, & sooooo very much appreciate you two's encouragement & acknowledgement! Meyer Mike, I need to backup & say special Thanks, lovely compliment you gave earlier, I flew right by, didnâÂÂt mean to. & I really see the white stem now. Maybe I should just share the trio amongst those here by swap, no issue whatsoever >)

Thank you everybody! Good points from all of you. I've decided to keep the corner pantry. I'm going to make sure I don't have wire shelves though. And I'm thinking on putting some frosted glass or the like in the door to lighten/soften up that corner a bit. I've never had anything bigger than a small reach-in pantry, and it wasn't IN my kitchen. There came a point where I needed to get rid of the wall oven and counter top stove OR the corner pantry to allow for more counter/cabinet space. I decided to keep the pantry then and looks like it wins again now! Plus it would have been tough on my cabinet designer, and myself to get it all redesigned so quickly. AND I would have went back to a wall oven/countertop stove, and that would have sucked considering our appliances are bought, paid for, and ready for delivery. I've put alot of though into the organization of the cabinets of this design, and don't want to start all over and make any un-thoughtout quick decisions anymore on this kitchen! Honestly...I had much bigger dreams for my kitchen in our new home. Seemed every houseplan I liked, DH didn't like. (he was more concerned about how the outside of the house looks). I finally told him to find a few that looked like he wanted, we'd pick once of those, tweak it, and I would deal with it. DH is the bread winner...so it really seemed only fair! This one really had everything I wanted, except the large spacious kitchen. I came to terms with that since the plan was nice and open. Plus most things can always be changed, renovated down the road sometime if I'm not happy with something...I am woman, I think that way! Men would rather just whine about it! I didn't want to go 5 years down the road and have him whining about this and that inside and outside the house. This way...if he whines, I'll just remind him that he picked the plan! ;-) Honestly...I'm going to love my new home. Lots of space for the family, and for company. Office space, laundry room, 3 stall heated garage, upstairs completely for the kids, big bonus room, out in the country, the list goes on and on...it's more and nicer than I've ever had in my life and I'm thankful for that...even if it isn't my dream kitchen!

I was driving home from college and had to pass under a railroad trestle that diagnolled the street. As I was coming up to the bridge, an 18 wheeler lost a tire and rim, that rolled across 3 lanes of traffic, hit the concrete pillar of the trestle, bounced back across 4 lanes of traffic, across a parking lot and landed in the back of a pickup truck parked in front of a car repair shop. Everyone in all 4 lanes of traffic, slowed down and watched it all happen, no one was hit. The guys in the shop came out and just stared. I don't think the driver even knew he had lost his wheel. Back in the late 70's when I-15 finally was finished and didn't go through Las Vegas, DH and I were heading for California. It was late afternoon and had been raining off and on. I looked over at the skyline of Vegas and there was a huge rainbow over the entire city. A Kodak moment and I didn't have a camers. Swear!!!

natesgram, thanks, I've actually seen that link before, and it's what really pushed me towards painting. It really has a lot of helpful info too. As much as I would love to get new doors (shaker is my favorite!), I'm going with paint for now. The wallpaper...yes, I don't see what's wrong with it either. I took a really close up shot just to show the blue specks, but it really just looks like textured cream colored walls. I would like to know if the suggestions to remove it are because it's ugly/dated or more for resale purposes where painted walls are the preference for most buyers??? alabamanicole, now that I look at it some more, I agree the track lighting needs to go. It should be easy and inexpensive ($100-150?) to change it out. I love the look of bronze, but would it work with my ss appliances and ss cabinet pulls? Or should I get bronze pulls and faucet...CAN you have a bronze faucet and a stainless steel sink? Confusing! Also, thanks for your kitchen idea. The rest of my house is decorated with warm creams, reds, greens. I love organic stuff like wicker, stone, metal, and I love shaker style, country style, and arts-n-crafts style. I really like cream cabinets, but I already have enough cream with the counter, the tile, and the wall. The breakfast bar opens into the dining room, which is has cream furniture and red and green as the accent colors. The kitchen doesn't have to be matchy-matchy with the adjoining rooms, but it should flow colorwise. I'm going for a sleek, simple, yet casual and warm look with bluish/green cabinets. Below are kitchen looks that I love. Some won't work with my sleek cabinets, but it's just to everyone an idea of the look and feel that I hope to achieve... I love the color on this wall...if I ever take down my wallpaper! lol I love the warmth and casualness of cream cabinets. My dream kitchen...if I could start from scratch! :) Here, I love how the bottom cabinets are darker than the top cabs. Cute chandelier, and the island color is gorgeous! Ok, since I also LOVE the idea of two cabinet colors, what if I paint my top cabs cream and my bottom cabs blue/green? I really can't decide between my two colors below, and painting all the cabs either color will be too much cream in the room, or too much blue/green in the the room...no? I'm also open to sage green. If I go with using two colors, what if I paint the storage wall like the storage wall below (where the top and sides would be the blue/green color)?