I love Switzerland!

And the Swiss flag is SO AMAZING!!!

Did you know it's square, rather than the traditional rectangle flag shape? A red rectangle with a white plus-sign {not to be confused with the white background and red plus-sign for the red-cross....}.....

Sooooo, I decided I needed to involve the Swiss flag in my kitchen decor......

Because I want one.....

Happy memories.....

I sanded and painted and VOILA,
Two "brand-new" stools for the kitchen.





Now as to why I have such a passion for Switzerland?
One of my very favorite childhood memories took place in Zollikofen Switzerland:

My parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when I was just a wee-little-one...  And we got to go to the Swiss temple together as a family to be sealed for time and all eternity when I was four years old.....!!!  we rented a Volkswagen bus and drove through the night from our little home in Utrecht, the Netherlands....  I slept on the floor, and when I woke up:  we were in Switzerland!!!!  It was like a fairy tale for a little girl like me....

I remember it well.... and I remember especially how I felt.....  Wow, I thought those ladies in the temple were angels, directly form heaven.  They probably were....!!!!

In the picture I am the little girl in the middle. The bear and my brother are on my left, my father on my right. 
My sisters and mother must have been close by....  We weren't much into taking family photographs growing up, so this is as good as it gets.......   I LOVE IT!!!!!!   Brings back all those good and happy feelings....!!!

So now I get to look at the Swiss Flag all the time in my kitchen, and remember those warm fuzzy feelings.....Ahhhhhh.....

I'm a lucky girl!!!!!


They are not the right height for our bar {too short}, but we use them all the time anyway....
As it turns out it is super-handy wonderful to have a portable flat surface around the kitchen.  {Makes for great climbing too.....}







P.S.  I     In the pictures below {click on them and they will gt bigger} you can see how the stools match the vintage red oven we have {came with the house!!!!}.  Yee-Hah!!!!
P.S. II     Note how we use the oven as a dry-erase board for everything form  'art' to chores to positive quotes.....

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