Oct. 12, 2009 - Demented Nesting
Bought a six foot circle rug at Target for the front computer room. This carries my circle motif from the front living room across the house (living room has a rectangular rug with circle pattern on it and round candle holders on the walls). It also brings burgundy into the room from the hall rug color and back living room rocking chair cushion color. Ordered a 6' octagon rug for the back living room and am contemplating whether I need to change out my larege, square metal wall art there for a huge round clock on the wall or if I can consider the square part of a broader "geometric" theme--square pattern on front living room chair, four framed square prints above that room's couch.
Downstairs half bath was too "cool" in color in it's new grayed blue form to go with the rest of the house. I decided that the white hand towels were not helping the cause with the white pedestal sink and white wall cabinet. Ditched the white hand towels for dark brown, which matches a frame in that bathroom anyway. MUCH better as it carries the sand/taupes/browns/burgundy warmth from the rest of the house into that room and counters the coolness of the walls, the cabinet and sink. Am pleased that the large oval mirror is already a play on the circle theme, but will look for some circle decoration in deep brown for the wall. Am also going to get two small display shelves in the same deep brown and put two pieces of my white pottery collection (sure, I've bought all the pottery at various Goodwills, but it still looks nice) in that half bath on the shelf. Those will be my white pottery birds; one duck and one quail. That will leave all my white pottery with looped handles in one massed collection on top of the front living room's tall, dark brown furniture piece. Which now that I think about it, carries that dark brown and white theme across the house too.
We did pick up, but haven't put together, the crib. No diapers yet other than three that came in a mailed sample pack. Haven't brought up the baby bath or the portacrib or the infant seat from the basement workroom. Haven't broken the new infant car seat out of it's packaging. So, I *am* nesting, but crazy, patterned OCD type nesting rather than making actual progress toward what a baby needs and uses nesting.
Blessings,
Holly
