I'm painting today. The living room. Yesterday I prepped and primed. Today I'm starting with the ceiling - the palest blue, then painting the walls Repose Grey. Currently they are a golden yellow and while I do love the color, it goes extremely sallow at certain times of day. So I'm taking my own advice and going for neural. I guess I want a better background for the little art I have.
You can see the yellow peeking out around the window. This swatch has been on the wall for over a year. Time to paint!
Corgi nap
The boys were trying to take a nap on the couch in the office. Mingus's head is on one of my socks that Coltrane snagged from the laundry basket and carried around. The chic floral sheet is protection against the latest corgi molt.
Helen Mirren as QE2 from cleveland.com
I know she gets help with the grooming. My neighbors have suggested the FURminator and I'm going to give it a test drive.
The cell phone rang when I was on my way to the grocery store around 7:30 yesterday evening. I was desperately hungry and looking for something fast to make. I had planned to make pasta with a red lentil sauce, but it takes almost an hour to cook and there was no way I was going to last that long. Hungry and in a hurry, I plugged in my little hands-free earbud. It was a prerecorded message from my boss telling me that I had just one more week of vacation left...a 7:30 AM meeting...check my school e-mail for a detailed attachment. Buzzkill is the expression that comes to mind. Not that I haven't already been to school for a meeting (two of my six person department are brand spanking new teachers this year so we are being proactive in our support) and spent countless hours thinking about what I want to do the first weeks of school (I have a new course load this year - six classes of Spanish 2 - ¡yeah, one prep! But how do I keep it fresh all day).
Color inventory 2: Running hot & cold
In honor of that phone call, my subconscious woke me at school day time: 5 AM. Boy, the little dogs were surprised that they didn't need to whine to get me up this morning. While waiting for the coffee to brew, I walked around the house and took pics for my color & pattern inspiration of the day. Actually, I'm not trying to inspire myself so much as understand how to put together colors. I'm a little all over the place - I like brights, hots, cools, earthtones, just about everything. I look around at many sites and see so many great combos in beads and stringing, but my difficulty results in something like excitement, then frustration, then disappointment when I start rifling through the bead stash. So I'm working on this. Either that or I have discovered and justified a fantastic new procrastination tool. One of my friends calls this method the paralysis of analysis. I am greatly inspired by La Bella Joya's exploration of Margie Deeb's The Beader's Color Palette. But I'm not ready (in my mind) to put the beads together yet. I guess I'm taking a color inventory.
One of the things that got me started thinking about this was a quick glance through my Etsy favorites. I noticed that there were little clusters of colors within all those fab pieces I was hearting. Then I looked at the sacred bead stash. It didn't really match. Just as I have been battling with clothing and making outfits, I need to learn how to use neutrals (and what defines a neutral seems to be situation dependent) to show off splashes of color.
Russian leaf color inspiration
Yesterday I posted this Russian leaf earring. I had in my mind a more reddish brown - this one goes green (sort of baby poop green) and I actually have a much better brown in Delicas, but I was on a kick to see what the pattern would look like with round 11/0 and didn't follow what I knew I should be doing. I wonder what better pairings there might be for color. I'm going to use my color inspiration from a few days ago to get to the bottom of this.
Dog shot of the day. From a FLA corgi party. Not my photo.
