Let me take a time out to explain a simple fact about the fashion, for those that need to be enlightened (as my sweet, yet clueless fiancé needed to be). When a color is said to be “the new black” it means it is the “it” color, the color that just has to be had for the season. It’s the color with which every other color goes, and every basic line of clothing will surely include that color. In recent years, brown has been the new black. Chocolate and espresso could be seen in every store and on every catalog page. Before that it was gray—everything from stone to charcoal invaded stylish American closets.
As a big fan of brown and one who owns quite a lot of it (my new sweater in fact—no wonder it was on sale) I’ve been a bit nervous about the time that brown would cease to be the new black and be replaced with something else. I’ll have to go naked from now on, I guess, because it’s official—black is the new black.
While I’ve decided to revive the blog, don’t expect any thoughtful prose or witty comments on life. Just anticipate some random updates and photos of my latest craft projects. In an efforts to post something—anything—about what’s going on, I’m mostly sticking to “just the facts.” I’m saving my witty prose for the blog posts for work (see blog here.)
Speaking of work…I love my job. Well, if I were going to choose between going to the mall and going to work, of course I would choose the mall, but if I have to spend 40 hours of week somewhere, at least I get to surround my self with really sweet and creative people and look at scrapbook pages all day. The new job is a vacation compared to my old one, especially considering that reading home decorating and craft magazines is considered professional development. Plus, I get free scrapbook supplies. In fact, yesterday we were cleaning out the collection of rubber stamps and each of us got to take a few home. I took five, which if purchased in the store would have been about $50. Plus I often get paper and stickers and copy ideas out of our books. I’ve learned that scrapbooking is an expensive hobby, but I can do all my shopping for free at work. Such a sweet deal!
You’ve all received your wedding invitations by now (and if not, then I guess you’re not invited…sorry) so you can guess where I’m at about now. I’m so ready to be married! First of all, driving home from Paul’s every night (or vice versa) it rather tiresome. Plus, I’m tired of spending my free time working on wedding tasks or, if I’m relaxing, wondering what wedding tasks I should be working on.
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Adding to busyness and stress of life, Paul and I are trying to get the house ready for me to move in. We’re pretty much sticking to the essentials at this point. But things like redoing the hard wood floors and painting are so much easier to do without furniture so we’re trying to complete them now. A while back Paul sanded and sealed the wood floors in the living and dining room; last week he did the two bedrooms. He did a fantastic job!! I’m so proud (and thankful I didn’t have to help) and the floors look awesome, like brand new. Here’s the living room:
We also finished painting the office bedroom a vibrant, organic green. My vision for the room is to make it the “garden room”; furniture and textiles will be mostly black and white with colored botanical prints. I want it to be my crafting sanctuary and a place for Paul to harvest all his plant seeds during the winter. Here’s a picture of the before and after:
