carrie girl

cocoon

i literally stood in front of the martha stewart paint samples for 20 minutes on the verge of tears because i couldn't decide on a color.  i'm an indecisive libra who had a horrible day at work, so doing a simple thing like picking a paint color became pretty overwhelming.  silly, i know.  anyway i teetered on the verge of a super dark navy called "umbrella" but ended up on the safe side with "cocoon." 
martha's colors are pretty amazing, but the names of some of them are kinda weird, like, "scented notepaper." what does that even look like?  she did have a ton with crafty names like, "sewing basket" "spool" "vintage rickrack"  and my favorite, "tag sale yellow."
hopefully i'll tackle this paint job friday after work and be finished by sunday.  or at least, move the thing out of the middle of the living room...

here's hoping tomorrow is better day!

if only...

have you seen this? 

this is like the crafter's version of the wardrobe that lead to narnia, only this one leads to an amazing land of organization and color coordination.

it's in the newest martha stewart living, and if i were handy i would make one of these this summer. however,  i don't own a drill nor do i really have the patience to do it properly.  i'm kind of one of those people who get really motivated to do a huge project, and then halfway through i decide i just really want to finish it and sort of half-ass my way to the finish line. 

i'm having flashbacks to the summer of '06 when ted and i thought it would be a great idea to tear down a wall in our apartment and plaster the whole thing ourselves.

never again...at least until we own the place.