Pinspiration(s) 3-4/5

For Pinspirations 1-2, click here!

It's been a busy couple of weeks here at the Reissig camp. In late August we took a super fun vacation to San Francisco and Seattle and since then have been in catch-up mode, both at work and home. I'll definitely blog about our vacation, but that's going to be a much longer blog post, so I'll save it for another day. For now, a couple more of my completed pins.

Pin 3 - Painted Knife Block:

I've seen this one floating around for awhile. The only color in my kitchen is blue - several shades of it. I have a lot of lighter blue/teal in there right now and have been trying to bring in some darker shades as well, so I decided to go for it with the painted knife block.

I bought 2 colors of paint. I liked the metallic blue and wanted it for a little extra oomph since the block goes in a shadowy area, so I also bought a darker, sort of cadet blue, and decided to just mix the two.

Mixing my colors.

Before, and during (1st coat, still wet.)

I painted down about a half inch into the two larger slots since they are just for scissors and shears, but I kept the paint out of all of the other slots for food safety. Not pictured - after application and drying of two coats of paint, I also painted a clear gloss coat over the top to both protect the paint, and just to make it glossy and give it a little something extra with that shine. After another day of drying, I put the knives back in and put the block back in his home on the counter. (well, most of the knives - some were dirty, ha!)

The block in perspective, and close-up. Left with flash, right with no flash.

Pin 4 - Food Inspired Prints:

Like approximately 5597848395065948392 billion other people, my favorite corner of the internet is Young House Love. There was an awesome post awhile back about adding personal touches to the decor all around their house that I absolutely adored, because I am a total sap. (See here for the post.) They had a super cute idea of putting not just food-related photos in their kitchen, but food items from their wedding! I pinned the link to one of my boards right away and today Clinton and I decided to go to IKEA, so I picked up a frame while we were there to get it done.

The original photo from YHL.

Knowing I only had room to put my frame vertically, I went for 3 horizontal pictures instead of the vertical ones the original shows. I picked a table setting, the gelato bar, and our cake (with the little crab topper I made!)

The frame I picked up at IKEA for only $9.99. Our dining table is brown, so that determined the color of the frame.

Hung! Please excuse my overflow of Food Network magazines, ha!

A close up from Instagram.

I love having a little reminder of our wedding day at dinner now! Anything I'm eating will taste a little sweeter looking at that groomy crab's jaunty little top hat!

So that's it - both very simple but both things make me smile when I see them, and what more can you really ask for? I only have one more pin to meet my goal, and I've actually started one but need to finish up before I can post it. Until then, I hope you can find some inspiration too!