Sung to the tune of "Neverending story"

Never ending kitchen projeeeect, aaaaa, aaaaa, aaaaaaa!
It's true.  The never ending kitchen project is still in progress.

This weekend I cleaned the walls, removed the crummy plastic blinds, hammered off old hardware, filled the holes with putty, taped off edges, covered the kitchen with plastic (again) and started painting the walls and the ceilings in the laundry room and kitchen.

I'm going to sew some curtains for the two windows in the back room to replace the yellowed mini blinds that were there before.  The door is also going to be painted white.  Maybe at some point we will replace the plastic edging nearest to the floor and also the floor itself.  In the past these rooms have been painted yellow, pink, green, and off white.  Imagine those colours with faux wood laminate.  Gross.

I'm going to be looking for curtain fabric to coordinate with this red and mint green tile that's in the kitchen and laundry room.

A few that have caught my eye;

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Any favourites?  I like 1, 3, and 4 the best, today at least. (All fabric by Amy Butler)

The cabinets in the laundry room used to be the same colour as the drawers and cabinets in the bottom of the kitchen.  Those will be painted at some point too.

Weekend manicure

Yes/No: Milly and Thakoon

Both dresses on Gilt.com.  One is sold out, the other isn't.

I don't understand the floppy asymmetrical look. The bibbed blouse look, yes.

Gilt has good deals for fancy brands if you have a pile of money lying around but I don't like their restocking/return fee if you have to return something.  I bought my wedding dress from them, in two sizes so I could see which was a better fit, and had to pay a 15$ shipping and restocking fee if I wanted my money back or I could get a gilt.com credit and not have to pay the restocking fee.  That is a hefty fee for something that costs about 5$ to mail.