The last few weeks have been much like everyone else's hot, dry, yet, humid.. is that an oxymoron.. it is so dry the grass crackles and the ground is dusty.... but the air is so hot and humid... it is totally miserable for me... I am not a summer person for sure...
Even Hubs turns the a/c up a bit so the air conditioner doesn't have to work so hard..So I think.. how can I make the house feel cooler... I immediately think cooler colors...along with my decluttering that I have spoken of heretofore.
So I have been shopping the house, especially the storage room in the basement to bring out my favorite shade... of blue!!Well, I actually, got inspiration during my morning quiet time...
I just love my creative Bible where I doodle my thoughts and favorite verses in the margins... so colorful ad joyful...but the turquoise just got me in the mood to liven and lighten up the living room with blues!!! I got my confirmation of the blue when I saw the same shade in our older style Karastan carpet on the floors!
And it was cinched when I got my latest edition of Victoria Bliss English Cottage magazine.... See the turquoise.. I knew then and there it was time to go house shopping!
There do you see it??? ON the cover... then again on page 9.
That gorgeous arrangement of summer flowers all displayed in that dreamy turquoise vase... I immediately thought of the blue planter I bought last spring at Home Goods in Massachusetts that I never got around to planting anything in and it had ended up downstairs just ..waiting!
IN an effort to truly get my attention there it was again on page 11....
I was immediately taken by the mere scope of the thing... it was perfection to my critical eye... and the mix of garden flowers so appropriate for mid July. But the idea was clinched when there on the back cover it was again.. as if mocking me...
I knew I could pull it off... I just had to dig around in the storage room. No reason to go shopping...
I had ample blue hydrangeas and I could pluck a few Queen Anne's lace from another arrangement upstairs... a bit of elegance... a bit of humility..that is what the article had said and I had it all at my finger tips!
Perhaps I took the scope a bit too far.. heheheh but I love the trailing roadside flowers that give the arrangement form..
From a lower angle the lovely planter comes to view... a juxaposition of regal meets humble.. I love it!!!
The cloth is a tablecloth folded over several times.!
I shopped the sunroom for the blue glass tumblers
the bedrooms for the pillows
The dining room signaled to me that it was falling right in line..
Even the books seemed to whisper... We're doing our part!
From every angle....
A little blue will do it!
To liven and to lighten
to definitely brighten
my own little English Cottage of a room!
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