February 24, 2005

• Hooray! I found House Insurance!! That is one big load off of my chest. It was more difficult than I had anticipated and I was getting a bit worried now that my closing date has been moved forward.

  
  

  The excitement is building as the cogs slowly start turning and everything is in motion. I have found new places to intrigue me and have been seen prowling the aisles at Rona Hardware and Home Depot. Colour Your World has also provided me with lots of ideas, colour paint chips and (dare I say it...) wallpaper swatches.

  
  

  My ambition is growing. I envision myself installing flooring, changing light fixtures and becoming a poster girl for Better Homes.  Crown mouldings and ceiling medallions beckon. Unfinished wood cabinets beg to be stained. I have to rein in temptation and wait until I actually get in the house and see it empty before I begin this new life project. I feel a new and welcome surge of creativity as I look at the rainbow of colours and possibilities.

  
  

   As I mentioned in a previous entry, the old hound and I are going to see Julia Cameron on Saturday. I picked up her book and began leafing through it again. She has very interesting views on creativity and how to capture or recapture that process. She also uses something I like, lots of quotes! As I was turning the pages this one caught my eye as pertaining to my present experience:

  
  

  "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."  Colette

  
  

  also:

  
  

  "Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."  Eugene Delacroix

  
  

  The first one is, I imagine, self explanatory for anyone who knows me!  A part of me worries that I have never done anything like this before. Of course, that is also part of the appeal - doing something completely different. This house can be a blank canvas and I can express myself anyway I like. Sometimes I think we put off trying things because of the fear that we won't be any "good" at it. We stress about what other people might think.We won't do something if we can't do it perfectly, and that is a shame. At least I will have the pleasure and pride of knowing that I did it myself, even if it isn't absolutely perfect. It will have that certain element that makes it wonderful anyway - the element of love.

  
  

   Of course me being missoops as well as misslill you know there are bound to be various mishaps and assorted catastrophes. Some things are going to turn out somewhat less than perfect, some things will probably look quite "unique". Hopefully it will all have an element of fun and an undercurrent of creativity that will help me get over the bumps and around the roadblocks.

  
  

  If we could just get over that initial fear and take the leap, most things aren't all that bad. If I pick the wrong shade of paint......I can paint it over again. Nothing is set in stone. I would really like to get away from the beiges and whites that have coloured my environment all my life and dive right in to that pool of daring, bright colours! I want to experiment with expressing myself in this new and exciting way.

  
  

  I also plan to acheive this on a rather tight budget. The kitchen cabinets will have to stay. The tiles will have to stay. The plumbing fixtures will have to stay. They will just have to be transformed into something wonderful using imagination rather than dollars. I have always had a knack for delving into the second hand shops and finding treasures, now I plan to seek out the architectual salvage yards and of course come the spring.....garage sales!

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