Oh, me! have you ever almost finished a really great post and you hit a keystroke and it all disappears.....! Very disheartening... I dont know that I can retrieve it from my memory much less this computer's !I know it started out with...
Good Morning!.. Well, it was morning, then!
here goes, again!
During the few weeks I've been unable to blog, I have spent some time processing and several revelations have come to me about myself. I guess they could be summed up to say, i truly am an old fogey, ..oops, I mean, an old-fashioned gal!
Now I do enjoy HGTV as much or more than many folks, but this idea that to sell a house, one must remove all personal marks of the home and neutralize it stuns me.... I mean, I become fairly paralyzed to think that someday I have to do that if I dare to think of selling ... and we do need to downsize, and move onto one level.... I actually have my eye on a sweetest patio home....and yes, I do need to get rid of a ton of stuff.... but how?
Ok, I do visit Zillow frequently! And there is the living proof that it is and can be done.... I am convinced people rent a storage unit to de-clutter their home for showing....
I mean, I am not a minimalist, and have no intention of becoming one...call me old-fashioned, but I love my stuff. it represents our lives together!
I mean, I think in layers....
layers of flavor in my food, and layers of dimension in my decorating!
The storyteller in me comes out when I put a vignette together...
Items that remind me of my family, times as a child on the farm, heirlooms that passed on to me, these all become such a part of my decorating schemes, I can't imagine disconnecting from treasures that have contributed to making our house a home, and that carry with them such living memories....
Yes, I love to layer,
but now to the problem at hand...
I didnt grow up in the Depression but my family did and somehow the genes to keep everything passed on to me!
Take this painting , for example, well, go ahead... take it!...
Because I dont know what to do with it... My mother loved it, and it hung over her sofa.... It is lovely , but it certainly doesnt go here... in the least... I really need to disconnect from pieces that dont speak anything except.... how my mother loved it....
Note that the tall flower arrangement will be going to Boston soon when the baby arrives.. That was used in Amanda's shower and will look great in the nursery! And the fairy items will be incorporated into a fairy village this fall outside.... so I will reclaim this space soon... YAYAYAYAYAY!
But let's turn to the dining table in the sun room...
Now the blue and white makes the room seem cool, and with the humidity returning, this tablescape is in no hurry to be changed...
But what I really love about it is the planter.
Not just the planter but my wonderful new philodendron...
An old-fashioned kind of indoor plant... so forgiving.... I dont think I could kill this plant if I tried... as I have all the other newer varieties I've used in this planter... I love it so much I think I should name him... he is so handsome and healthy.... perhaps Hugh, ( loved Les Mes) so much....
and oh, how Id love to see Hugh just take off and spiral his tendrils up the wall and over the sashes and consume the sun room.... just like philodendrons used to do back in the day!
Nothing minimal about that, I daresay!
Yes, IM just old-fashioned, and I say, so what.. it is who I am, and I have no desire to change....Will I try to do what Amanda tells me to do...."Mom, take a bag around the house everyday and put something in it to take to the Goodwill... I guarantee, Mom, after a while, you'll forget all about it!"
Yes, I do that about once every other month>.. And I know, I should try to do that at least once every other week..... because, after going through all of mom's clutter, I do not wish that on Amanda! Just writing this again has made me feel a bit motivated.... I think it is a God thing that I was made to recreate this post because the ending is rather different and much more appropriate....So let me go find a nice large sturdy bag and get to house shopping for my next delivery to the Good will! For someone may be truly needing something I just dont anymore!
The contrasting colors just brighten every tablescape...repeating colors are echoed in the kitchen...
