Killam-ity Family: December 2011

Wow, I am terrible at this blogging thing. I guess that I just never feel that the trivial things that are going on in my life are worth sitting down at our computer to share with the one or two people that might actually read it. Well maybe that number is 0 now that I have have been an absentee writer for 6 months. Oh well, on with it. Instead of yada yada yada about what has happened in the last few months ( you know the drill anyway... school, stress, work, meetings, school, children etc.) I will just pick up as if I had been dutifully writing all along. We are gearing up for the Christmas season. Our house is looking festive. I absolutely love the holiday season for so many reasons, but putting up the decorations makes our pretty home that much warmer. We don't have enough furniture yet to fill up all of the corners of our house and the front room (that used to be formal dining room/ sitting room) is just sad and empty. My mom came for Thanksgiving and we bought the cutest accent table in a completely irrational color that I love. She also helped me break out of my creative stalemate and move our limited furniture in a way that breaks up the room a little better. Don't you love how moms do that? Now we have a cute little sitting area by the fire that is separate from the TV area along with the Christmas tree and it almost feels like an actual room. We also spruced up the upstairs bathroom which is another irrational move because that bathroom gets used about twice a year when we have enough guests that the guest bath is in use and we have to set up another bed in the empty rooms upstairs.... However, the bath turned out so cute that I want to force my guests to use that one instead of the guest bath downstairs :o) I am in love with gray and thought that this out-of-the-way bathroom would be a good place to experiment and now I am wanting to paint all of my walls in this cool, soothing color. We collected shells while in Provincetown on Cape Cod this summer. I had THE most amazing time on the Cape with my best friends and I decided I wanted to capture the feeling of perpetual peace and freedom by creating a beach bathroom. Now, if you have ever been to New England, their beaches are not the aqua blues and bright sunny yellows of California. New England beaches are misty and grey, lighthouses and lobster traps. I tried to capture some of that melancholic coloring but then accented it with a fresh lime green. I am very happy with how it turned out. So even though this blog is about furniture and paint it is my "just jump back in and type" moment so bear with me and I work off the rust.