After walking around our neighborhood's home tour a few weeks ago, I started thinking about how much colors affect our state of mind. There was such a feeling of under stimulation after walking through so many houses with beige walls! Luckily there was one house at the end of the tour that was so brilliant in it's color choices, it had the kind of effect where my mood was instantly lifted. Which really sparked something within me, about the need to feel that same kind of intensity in my own home. It's time to match the outside with the inside.
For weeks now I've been eyeing different color schemes, in the hopes that I'd find the right colors to repaint the rooms in our house with. I was feeling pretty lost in finding a color that would match our newly acquired moss green couch, until this month's issue of Domino Magazine fell into my lap! Now that I've seen this aqua color in this living space, I'm noticing it everywhere...in my wardrobe, on my favorite cushions, in my artwork. A sure sign it's meant to be. So hopefully soon I'll be happily re-painting our living room up before the holidays.
Last week, I had found this funky vintage dress at a local shop called "Flashbacks"! It was so fun shopping there, it reminded me of the days far gone where we would convince my friends mom to drive us to Hollywood so we could shop at The Jet Rag on La Brea. I used to hunt for Chinese jackets, and funky vintage skirts (I was in a phase where I only wore skirts and tights with my big buckle Mary Janes). I didn't realize we had a shop comparable to that one here in my neighborhood, so I was pretty giddy at having my own "flashback". Of course the irony here is that I went there to find a Halloween costume... anyway, i found this great dress and it had to be mine. I was going to be a funky swashbuckler pirate, but once I tried on the dress at home I realized I looked more like a stepford wife. So that was going to be my costume, until our fun plans were foiled by my husband who slipped at work the day before my friends party, and came home looking like he had been in the world's worst street fight with a black eye and a large cut near his eye. He wasn't in much of a mood to play along and use it to his advantage as a costume.
On Halloween night, further spoils would of been had since we don't get any trick-or-treaters on our street for some reason... Luckily we have really great neighbors that live on the street just behind us. They get 100's of kids coming by for their treats, so they're always happy to have the company!
My favorite of all of the costumes that I saw while passing out candy there was: A father holding his baby that was dressed as a bumble bee, he had netting over his baseball cap and the back of his jacket said "The Bee Keeper", many jr. high Napoleon Dynamite's, and a really great adult Willy Wonka that looked like the real thing (man or woman though, I couldn't tell you)!
I've been working on some new necklaces, things have been all kinds of busy here... but I'll be sure to start adding these to the shop today.
Also, don't forget to come visit me at Tag Sale Tales too, every Friday... |
| posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 12:51 PM |
