Coffee Sign

For those of you who know me quite well you know that I love coffee.  I worked in a coffee shop for 5 years and loved it, but I also grew up around it.  My parents and grandparents were always drinking coffee, I think it has become more of a comfort item then a necessity.  When I was pregnant with Elijah I couldn't drink coffee for the first 3 months because it made me nauseous, and then all the sudden one day I craved it, and yeah I was able to drink it again.

Any way, now that my kitchen is done I am going to keep the coffee theme going in there.  Since I changed the colors though I need some new decorations.  Since I would prefer to make something cool, then go buy something really expensive I came up with this idea!

What you will need:
Canvas
Old Floor Tiles(mine were peel n stick vinyl so they were not too heavy)
coffee filters
Hot glue gun/glue

First, on my canvas I laid out all the scraps of tile that I had left from putting the flooring in.  I didn't really want any of them to go to waste, and they made a nice background and obviously matched the kitchen.

Next, I went to town scrunching up all the coffee filters, so they looked pretty.  I found for this project it worked better if I cut them in half since I was going to be writting out of them.  The full coffee filters were a bit too big.

Then, I set to work spelling out coffee on the tile with the hot glue gun(I only did one letter or half a letter at a time so it wouldn't dry), then I placed the coffee filters on it.

On the bottom underneath the word coffee I put a coffee cup.  I centered it under the "f" so that it looked like the fs were more of the steam coming out of the cup of coffee.


Now since I already had the tile(as it was scraps), I already had the canvas(it came in a two pack and I had already used the other one for a different project), the only thing I needed to buy were coffee filters(since my coffee pot has a reusable one).  Which means I made this project for a total of 1.50-can't beat that in my book and I really like the way it turned out.  This will look wonderful above my arch in the kitchen!

Ktichen-Flooring installation

We are at a pausing point with the trim until we get a table saw, and you know me always in a hurry and antsy as all get out.  So I begged Greg to please let us lay the flooring before we finished putting up all the trim.  He finally said yes! I can't even begin to explain how happy I was about this!

Here is what the floor looked like before:

Pretty old and nasty huh??

Here is the flooring getting installed:

Here is a picture of behind the fridge all finished:

I love the way it looks with the wall colors.  I'm very happy with the way it looks, with how easy it was to install, and that it is done!

By the way this floor was peel n stick tile, so it was super easy to put in, and it was cheap (we bought it on sale)!

We are getting closer to this room finally being done.  I started it around Thanksgiving time I believe and I would like it done by Valentines Day, then I can cook a nice meal it my finished kitchen!