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!
