Surprise by Design!

I'm going to confess to you that today I woke up and one of the first things I did was turn on the television. And I dont mind sharing that because it literally never happens. I mean I hardly watch any tv to begin with, but even then its usually in the evenings and for maybe like a half hour. Actually to be quite honest I've found myself completely incapable of making it through an entire half hour program. Ever since Lost went off the air I have had almost zero interest in the tube (I hate myself for just calling it the tube).

But I think today was different probably because my parents are gone and usually by the time I wake up my dad has been up for hours and the news is always on. The very first thing I hear in the morning is CNN. And when I wake up and dont hear that, its weird and I know something is off. So today after asking the lord what I should do with this day that I had originally had something scheduled for but now was a completely blank slate, I flipped on HGTV and watched about six minutes of designed to sell. And in that six minutes my brain said "aha! We shall paint the living room!" And I turned off the tv, jumped in the shower, cleared the room, moved the furniture, dumped out my jar of paint samples, picked some colors and then headed into town for supplies.

The walls in our house have always been just this mental hospital white. No joke. The walls are white. The trim is white, the doors are white, the ceiling is white, the windows are white. My house. Is white.

Which is probably why I'm such a freak about color. But my poor mother. She's always wanted color on the walls. But it scares my dad for some reason. He likes white. And a couple weeks before they left my mom said to me "you know if you wanted to maybe paint one of these walls while we're gone, I would be ok with that". Thanks mom. Thats all I needed to hear. Anyway, long story short as an anniversary present to them both, bust mostly my mom I decided it was time for some color.

Before

After

Very warm and cottagey. Not exactly my personal style, but I think it will be right down their alley. And just in time for fall.

Now we wait and see what they say :)