I enjoy scrapbooking! Sitting on the couch in my new living room, dividing gazes between the window and the soft blues and greens I had just painted the walls, I was smacked with a revelation. My rooms are beginning to look like scrapbook pages! I live in a scrapbook!
The walls are like the paper I use, the fabrics are the fibers, and accessories, well, every cropper knows about "embellishments". The more I thought about it, the more I realized that every room, much like a scrapbook page, has its own theme and story to tell. The living room is done in "L'le Davis" with its imagined seascape of placid blue and serene green echoing the comraderie of a seasoned sailing crew and high seas adventures. The Master bedroom is definately, K&Co. "Journeys" atmosphere in rich browns and brozned bordered on three sides with old world maps, sailing vessels, and nymph-like maidens gracefully poised between explorers in Cortez fineries. The Garden guest room must be done in Anna Griffith, swirling in antique colorand elaborate floral paper, lace and ribbons, amid measured pleats and draping folds.
And just as in a scrapbook, every room page includes journaling: a scripture, in a different language in every room! French for the Kitchen/ dining area, Italian in the master bathroom, Hebrew in the study, Latin in the Master bedroom, Kangi in our son's room, Dutch in the guest room, and Old English in the Living Room. (Now I'll have to figure out how to work a room in "pop-up" )
Just as my scrapbooks reflect and reveal what is heart and pulse of my soul and being, my gratitude for and joy of living, so does our home...well, it will when it's done.