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Pink Saturday

August 7, 2009 at 9:51 pm by Claudia

Hello to everyone on this August Pink Saturday! Please stop by How Sweet the Sound, Beverly’s blog, to see a list of everyone participating. Beverly, thank you for all the time you put in to make this event so successful.

How about a little pink and green this week? A trip to the Berkshires, it must be over 11 years ago, led to this little treasure. In a tiny little shop, I came across a hat that I loved and I needed something in which to carry it home on the plane. In another little shop I found this:

A vintage hat box. I fell in love with it. It is covered in the sweetest pink and green pattern. Aren’t those pink flowers beautiful?

This is the lid – the handle is made out of wood and painted green. This hat box sits on a bookshelf by my bed….I wonder what’s inside?

I cannot tell a lie – I forgot these were in the box! I started crocheting some squares with some beautiful Debbie Bliss yarn and promptly forgot about them. Hmmm…I see a little project that needs to be re-started.

Finally, a close-up of my spirea. I am enthralled by intricacy of this bloom. Truly beautiful.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Pink Saturday

August 1, 2009 at 12:00 am by Claudia

Hello everyone and thank you, as always, to Beverly for this wonderful celebration of pink! Please visit her blog and stop in to say hello to everyone participating.

I have a china cabinet I bought back when I first lived in San Diego. I was single then and in a tiny apartment, so I wanted something on a smaller scale in which I could display my Fiesta – that is what I collected in those days. I found this in Ocean Beach and fell in love with it. Fast forward to our move out East. I no longer had the Fiesta and we decided to put our Christmas village in the cabinet and there it stayed for much too long. (I cropped this from an old photo of the den.)

I was sick of the village, but my husband liked it. A lot. I figured if it made him happy, so be it. However, the combination of the browns of the village and the wood inside the cabinet made for a depressingly dark tableau. Imagine my surprise when I came home from my recent stint in San Diego and a casual conversation led to my husband agreeing that we should pack up the village! Yes!

I didn’t want to paint the cabinet because it has a beautiful inlaid wood pattern on it and is made of at least 3 different woods.

But I could paint the inside, couldn’t I? So I did – Pink Breeze by Valspar. Look what a difference some paint made.

Why didn’t I think of this sooner? Now for some McCoy…

Ooooh! Pretty, don’t you think? I love it.

Some pink McCoy! Sorry for the glare, I had to use the light inside the cabinet.

Now the corner is much brighter and lighter. We both love it and I love seeing some of my McCoy in the den.

Ah, some flowers. These are my purple coneflowers, but they are more of a pinkish purple. They look so pretty in the garden.

Have a great weekend!

The Black Hole

July 27, 2009 at 10:17 am by Claudia

If you need me, I have disappeared into the black hole that is our office/spare bedroom/husband’s recording studio. I am taking advantage of said husband being away for part of the day so that I might begin to sort through all the stuff that is in there. It is currently a holding pen for boxes of books I used in San Diego, mail that needs to be saved, 4 guitars, a mandolin, speaker, mike stand, microphone, a bed, baskets of stuff, a desk, the other computer, my printer from San Diego, a chair, winter coats….we sound like hoarders, don’t we? We’re really not. I just have to find some way to organize everything that makes sense and makes the room more functional. Any ideas?

If I don’t show up by dinner time, send someone in there for me.

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