The Yellow Spoon

I've had a lot of quick phases in my life, I wanted to be a teacher, a vet, an ice cream scooper, and a chef... but one of them recently was my desire to start a family... I'm 20, good thing that idea ended fast. For sure it would be nice one day, just not today. One thing that I did realize from all of this though was that the only real reason that I wanted to do anything was because I wanted to decorate my surrounding, whether it be a kitchen or a classroom or an ice cream display. The only real reason I wanted a baby was because I wanted to decorate a babies room!

I remember the crazy things my mom did to create a room that I would like, a jungle mural, a pollack-ish design with a colorful disco ball, a seventies inspired orange mess.... (how I wish I could forget that). But the truth is my moms decorating bug, got to me!

What could be better than surrounding your child with polka dots and animals. I think getting color into a childs life at a young age is important. It help with the whole creativity thing... (I'm guessing). I've always had this intense fascination with silhouettes(although I can't spell that word right to save my life) . 

I like the color grey, actually I love the color grey. I change my mind about decorations so much that having a neutral color on my walls makes it easy to re accessorize and give my space a whole makeover without ever once touching a paint brush to a wall. The contrast that you can create with grey, black and white make me smile. When you throw the bold pops of color with pillows, vases or random objects it opens up that room to unmeasurable opportuinities. This is my dilema. I have a kitchen, in an older house, horrible cabinets (that a hard headed ex took a drill gun to, without taking a tap measure to them first, so they resemble swiss cheese now.) It needs a make over. I live in the kitchen, I love food how could I not. A boy needs something to keep him sane, and food is my prozac.

I'll keep you posted as I redo my kitchen and as soon as I make a major change I'll post it, but until then think swiss cheese and grey industrial carpeting. ( the only room in the whole house with carpet and its the kitchen... I guess having it in the bathroom might be worse.)