Archive for January, 2010
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Well, parenting is never easy and one hard thing to do is to nurture. Really. It doesn’t just mean being nice. When your child creates something, you can’t fix it to satisfy your own standards. You may as well be saying, “You are NOT good enough”. And you’d never say that. I know how you are. I say this so that I can explain why I have foam cat cutouts on the cats’ food dishes and lots of handwritten (and creatively spelled!) signs around my house. (Yes. They are taped. To the walls, doors, mirrors, windows…..) I prefer to think my child is developing her sense of style and contributing to the decor in our home. She is exploring the new written world and she has tools now, baby!
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Well, I’ve been thinking a lot about color in general and turquoise in particular, lately. As we all know by now, it’s the 2010 color of the year. I’m wondering how long it will take to see it on Target towels, Delia’s jeans, and in my favorite local fabric store, Williams and Sherrill. I’m also wondering how it will shape people’s memory.
I’m sorry to say that I grew up in the 70’s and somebody decided that burnt orange was the way to go. My mother actually covered our hard wood floors with wall-to-wall orange carpet. It didn’t last too long, thank goodness. This little research project will give me an excuse to watch more HGTV and see how many decorating shows incorporate turquoise into their design color palettes. Will Ace of Cakes start using turquoise fondant? Will Candace Olsen install turquoise cabinetry? PB Teen already has turqoise curtain panels and other room accessories. Let’s see what happens.
Tags: color trend, turquoise
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
Enter to win one of our 2010 Desk Calendars over at Urban Nest this week! They are giving away 3 calendars this Friday–just stop over and leave a comment about a project you’re hoping to accomplish this year. Good luck!
Tags: calendar, urban nest
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
I cannot say enough good things about writing your thank you notes! My children do, of course, grumble a bit about having to do it. But I believe I’ve achieved some goal when I overheard a conversation between two of my children. My oldest child advised the youngest, “You’re wasting time arguing. Mom always wins, so you may as well just get on with it.” That was a satisfying parental moment.
It doesn’t take more than about 15 minutes to write a decent thank you note. The impact it has is enormous. No e-mail, or text message can possibly compete with the power of the written word on paper and addressed and stamped and mailed.
So do the right thing and write those notes people! You’ll be glad you did and your mother will be proud.
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