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I’ve been picking paint colors. The most interesting thing about paint? The inventive names, kind of like crayon colours, with things like purple rain<\/em>, apple lime cocktail<\/em>, cocoa sand<\/em>. I wonder what my critique partners would have to say if I used these color descriptors in my writing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0They were saved from the worst of it. Dry and safe under the awning while purple rain poured down around them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because obviously they’re caught in some kind of chemical downpour. Ha. I can picture the circles of red ink. But cocoa colored sand has possibilities, although I’m not sure it exists in nature. I also found pink polka dot<\/em> and butterfly wing<\/em> which I thought were cute. And newborn baby<\/em> which I thought was downright creepy. And guess what!?! There really are fifty shades of grey.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is currently our kitchen area. Anyway, I decided to start with the kitchen and chose Natural Linen. Okay, Jordan, who’s in charge of the renos, picked it for me. So, fingers crossed. From there I went on to ignore the whole goes-best-with list. Because that’s the way I roll and why make things easier. I came up with meditation, spa, and lapland – all variations on an earthy-type greenish color. Safe to say my career as a namer of paint is stalled in it’s tracks. Also safe to say, I feel the need to relax within the bounds of a monochromatic color scheme.<\/p>\n

But what do you do with the freshly painted walls? Soon I’m going to have to hang up some artwork. And isn’t that a terrifying notion? As in how many nail holes does it take to hang a picture properly? What size? How to space them out? How far up the wall? I’ve got a couple of huge walls.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As in match the artwork to the wall size. Don’t hang a dinky little picture on a huge wall. And likewise, don’t cram some huge monstrosity into an itty bitty space, that sort of thing.\u00a0\u00a0I found a blog that had some crazy notion I should multiply something by some crazy number to come up with the perfect sized artwork for the wall. Not going to happen. Most reasonable advice: 12 inches above the couch; a palm’s width spacing between paintings, or trace out the size of the canvases on butcher paper and tape to wall as a test drive visual. Those ideas I can manage with my feeble decorator’s brain.<\/p>\n

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However, I did come across this idea for cheap artwork and I’m going to give it a try. You take painting canvases and cover them with fabric. Brilliant. At least, I thought so. Maybe you’ve already heard of this idea. Here’s\u00a0another example<\/a>. If it’s works and I’m successful (aka I’ll ask my Mom to help) I’ll post pictures.<\/p>\n

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If you have ideas for cheap and wonderful art I’d love to hear them! Seriously, I’m begging you. I need help. And ideas. Just keep them simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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