COLOR THEORY WINS AGAIN

My roommate, Bethany, hates white walls with a passion. Therefore we spent all of Martin Luther King Jr. weekend painting. We painted our entryway, our living room, the hallway between our bedrooms, and then, as a last-minute decision, we painted our kitchen. It was Monday and at about noon we thought, "Why not?" and so the deed was done. The transformation is pretty incredible...a little color can go a long way in making a home feel warm and comfortable.

As a color theorist, I knew that we had a color scheme going, but I couldn't quite decide what it was since we were only use two colors on the walls--orange and deep purple. But then a trip to Starbucks gave me all of the answers! My roommate and I were sitting in Starbucks with another friend when I realized the wall I faced was the same purple in hour house. At that same moment Bethany realized that the orange on the all she was facing was similar to our orange. I looked around and saw that green was the other main color in the coffee shop. Well, for those of you unfamiliar with color schemes, orange, green, and purple are the colors in a Secondary Triad. While we don't have green on a wall, we do have green in our pillows and slip covers. I was so relieved to figure out our color scheme. I'm also very happy with out everything has turned out.

Artwork is not on the walls yet, but it will be soon. Happy viewing!

New Year's in Minnesota

The end of my two weeks of vacation brought me to snowy, but "warm," Minneapolis, MN. I was able to hang out with my Goddaughter...plus her uncle and parents. I was so excited to see six inches of snow my first evening there! I haven't seen that much snow in years! We played lots of games and rang in the new year with family and friends.

I pray 2006 is full of many blessings for all of you!

Wall of Smoke

My friend Crystal and I drove back to San Antonio on December 27th...we thought we'd get in at a nice time of 10:30 p.m. But no. We got in at 1 am due to wild fires in Oklahoma. We crawled along 35 (looking at the back of an RV) for about an hour before the police made us exit. At this point Crystal had to use the restroom and we needed gas and thankfully the exit could provide for both of those needs. We then found an alternate route to get ourselves back onto 35. All in all it took us two hours to drive twenty miles. Ahhh...roadtrips...

Christmas in the Midwest

I have come to the conclusion that I like to cram as much as possible into my time away from school. This year I was able to go to St. Louis for an entire week before Christmas. It was a very relaxing week wrapping presents and helping mom with anything she needed.

We went to Iowa on Christmas Eve day and spent the day with the Sass side of the family. Christmas day found us with the Waterman side of the family. It is always a blessing to celebrate Christ's birth with both sides of my family.

Mom asked my sister, Kelly, and me if we felt like we had ever missed out on anything since we travel every year to Iowa. We were quite silent for a minute, and then we explained that, while we never participated in Christmas celebrations at our own church, we were more than blessed to know our Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins as well as we do. I can't imagine a Christmas outside of Iowa and I really don't ever want to, although I'm sure it will happen sometime.