Tonight while making Flipside Shopping Trip #2 at Walmart, I randomly purchased a small project notebook with no solid idea of what I would use it for. Until I got home and pulled out the stack of paint samples I'd collected from there and from yesterday's Home Depot run. Even though it doesn't have pockets to put things in, it'll be a great physical way to make notes and keep track of progress and ideas. And the paint samples.
Oh, the paint samples. I can't help it. I've always been fascinated by the myriad options of pinks and blues and reds and browns, all lined up in rows, cards ready to mix and match to find that perfect color scheme. And the names! Not just pink, but Bunny's Nose, Soft Muslin, Odessa, Tutu, Reverie Pink, Peony, Sugar Egg, Rose Sorbet, Musical Mist. This is what happens when you let creative people pick names. Engineers would pick things like Light Pink, Lighter Pink, Lightest Pink.
Most of the paint colors that I'm considering are greens. Pale green, grass green, pear. There are a few pinks, some lavender, and one or two blues I'm also contemplating, but for now, the greens have it. Not too girly, not too overwhelming, something relaxing for our home-where-we-are.*
* For both of us, the concept of home is not nessecarily a specific location or the burner community's sense of "the location where we can be ourselves outside of society norms," but with each other. We could be camping in the woods or visiting another state; as long as we're together, we're home.
Oh, the paint samples. I can't help it. I've always been fascinated by the myriad options of pinks and blues and reds and browns, all lined up in rows, cards ready to mix and match to find that perfect color scheme. And the names! Not just pink, but Bunny's Nose, Soft Muslin, Odessa, Tutu, Reverie Pink, Peony, Sugar Egg, Rose Sorbet, Musical Mist. This is what happens when you let creative people pick names. Engineers would pick things like Light Pink, Lighter Pink, Lightest Pink.
Most of the paint colors that I'm considering are greens. Pale green, grass green, pear. There are a few pinks, some lavender, and one or two blues I'm also contemplating, but for now, the greens have it. Not too girly, not too overwhelming, something relaxing for our home-where-we-are.*
* For both of us, the concept of home is not nessecarily a specific location or the burner community's sense of "the location where we can be ourselves outside of society norms," but with each other. We could be camping in the woods or visiting another state; as long as we're together, we're home.
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