When people tell me that they associate me with blue, I tell them I have never met a colour that I don't like!
I am crazy about all colours really. My home sports a lot of blue and white so that is why it is natural to assume I am a blue freak {and I am!} But I really groove on all colours, be they pastel, bright or dull and somewhere inbetween. It makes it hard for me to have a cohesively decorated house that flows because I have blues and then greens and then browns and blues and then red, black and white. Oh well. I love it all so that's what counts, right?
Recently, when contemplating redecorating what we call "the hall bathroom", I bought a shower curtain. This is something I have not done in the past. I have always sewn all the drapes, valances, comforters and duvet covers, cushions, and certainly something as easy as a shower curtain. I just happened to see one that I really, really liked and it was sort of an impulse buy. The colours sucked me in - that marvelous lime green, and also the leaves. I haven't told you yet how much I love leaves! Leaves are a recurring theme throughout my house and even my wardrobe with scarves I've made. Yes, funny I'd love leaves this much because {in my new life} keeping up with them in the Fall, they have become the bane of my existence and one of the {many} reasons I don't get to craft or sew.
Back to the hall bathroom, I have just recently done a wee bit of updating with taking out a boxed-in fluorescent light and adding a new fixture, and then replacing the medicine cabinet with mirror-backed glass shelves - this was Susannah's brilliant idea and I'm doing it in my bathroom as well. I replaced the mirror with a framed one that a friend found for a song, and then other things like taking down the wallpaper with Waverly ivy-violet border {what made me love that in 1998?}, new knobs on the cabinet and painting the walls {actually a neutral color, although I did contemplate lime green. OK I made a mistake - I did have lime green mixed, brought it home and chickened out...it was going to be too insanely green :) }
I needed something on the wall where a wicker shelf had been, and then I spied 4 unfinished mirrors that I'd bought from Ikea a few years ago and done nothing with. I have no idea what I planned to do with those mirrors when I bought them, but I suddenly thought: aha they'll be perfect! I haven't painted anything with my craft paints in a long time, so I fished around. I came up with some paint Shannon and I mixed for a garden bench years ago - green, but the wrong shade and then I did find some lime AND....I found some crackle glaze from who knows what year that I had never used. My brain started into overdrive as I contemplated how to proceed. I wanted the lime on the outside but whatever you paint underneath shows through the crackle, but the mixed green from the bench would be fine for the under color. I don't have enough experience with this, and I obviously didn't paint on a thick enough coat of the crackle glaze, but I love how they look - even the spot where I put my finger {by accident} and there's a blotch. Yep, that spot of lime green is just what that blank wall needed. {oh, and I painted an old basket from the Goodwill pile for hand towels, and the ivy leaves on the laundry hamper...I'll unabashedly admit that I went a bit wild with the lime green!}
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That's an awesome hall bathroom!
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