Blue Paint

Be not afraid of growing slowly,

be afraid only of standing still.

--- Chinese proverb

Below are a couple of the before pictures of the blue patchwork bedroom. It all began in August after I saw the movie "Mamma Mia". The location and sets were just so absolutely gorgeous I just could hardly stand it! (I saw the movie 5 times!) Please let me move there right now! I am usually a pink, green and lavender kind of girl, but I was so inspired to paint our bedroom blue! The blue that was in the movie! Of course, it turned out the bedrooms in the movie were 2 different blues. One had more green in it and the other was almost periwinkle. (at least to me it looked that way) My friend and I immediately went to the paint store after we saw the movie the first time and started getting paint chips. (she was also going to paint her bedroom too) What a mistake that was....to make a long story short (I promise) 5 quarts and 2 gallons later I still hadn't picked the blue! And to make matters almost worse, I had purchased 2 lovely comforters in September that had blues in them and I was trying to match both so I could switch them back and forth! I'll post a pic of the comforters over the weekend. And as you can see in the one photo the curtains are Martha Stewart and I am afraid to say back from 1989! I have the comforter too and I have always love it, but time for a change. I never really decorated the bedroom when we moved here 3 years ago so again, it was really time for a change. We also took off the moldings and got just plain pine wood that I planned to paint another blue (who knows what color they will turn out to be, first things first) so it will have a kinda casual beach cottage feel, although I was also thinking of going towards romantic bohemian!
Well, I better wrap this up because it is becoming too long. I had to prime the walls to cover the blues and have pretty much completed that the past couple of days.......yippee! Now, if I can get to the actual painting, which I am hoping to start this weekend, I will really feel like I am getting somewhere.....slowly, but surely. :o)

A DAY WELL SPENT

A Prayer Poem

by Frank B. Whitney

O LORD, I pray Thee when tonight

I see the last of western light, that I

may have this sweet content: "Today

has been a day well spent"; that I

may feel I've lessened pain and grief

and want and mental strain of some

lone trav'ler, as I ought, by sharing

with him strength'ning thought; that

life to him has been more bright, and

that I come to greet the night with the

assurance that my aid has made an-

other less afraid, has helped him well

with courage strong throughout the

day, though seeming long; that by my

thought and help and word some one

has found the force that stirred him

to endeavor and to gain the prize he

cherished, without pain. If but to

one my strength was lent, I'll think

today's a day well spent. Amen.

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HAVE A VIVACIOUS DAY!