Good afternoon and Happy Sunday to you all, sweet cottage friends,
I have had a pleasant morning here at our cottage. I got up and turned on our heat as it was a bit chilly here this morning, had my coffee and toast and watched Doctor Charles Stanley on television. I have been reading some of your blogs also. I love to visit and see what is new at your pretty cottage homes and with your families, too. I love that we all have such interesting and different ways of interpreting the cottage style of living and decorating our homes.
Lately I am noticing a real trend in doing most everything in white and beige with only subtle pops of color here and there. It is a very clean look and one that I admire in other homes, but not one that I will be trying here. As for myself and my family, we love color. Don't get me wrong, I have had walls painted white during my lifetime though I have never had white furnishings. Too many children, grandchildren and pets for that I am afraid~lol!!! I have thought about it albeit the thought was short-lived. I have simply always just loved color!
It all began with my first box of Crayola Crayons back when I was a year old. My mother would always tell me of how I loved to color in my little coloring books and that I knew my colors by the tender age of 18 months. Not only my primary hues, but she said that I knew the difference between the tertiary tones, also. She said that I would pick out orange-red from red-orange or blue-green from green-blue when asked. She would have them all laying out and have me point to the color as she called it out to me. A God-given talent, no doubt...hahaha! Anyway, so began my romance with the world of hues, tints and shades.
My next clear memory of color was my little book The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown. It is a Little Golden Book and the tale of two kitten brothers and their search for the formula for making Green. It is an excellent first tool for teaching basic Color Theory to children. I would look at it over and over again and have my mom read it to me for story-time. By the time I was four years old I had it completely memorized. I still have that little book and have read it to all of my kids and grands, too.
Finally is the childhood memory of watching Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color every Sunday evening at our home. Now, up until 1972 we only had a black and white television set, so lots of imagination went into mentally interpreting those images into any kind of color~hahaha! We did have neighbors who had color sets in their homes and sometimes, usually in the summer months, we would have the treat of watching shows there. Let me tell you, the THRILL of seeing Tinkerbell waving her wand and transforming the black and white into a full color spectrum for the first time was almost too much for my little heart to handle~WOW!!!
I believe this was all God's way of whispering in my little ears that His plan for my life was to involve my being used by Him in the world of design and decoration for His Glory. In His beautiful creation of this garden planet called earth He used LOTS of color! Every hue, value, tint and shade was made by His hands and for His Glory and our enjoyment. I praise Him for them all and loved to incorporate them into my designs, drawings and in our own home. I try to emulate our Creator with the use of color, texture, pattern, light, scale and harmony as I select the decor for my little cottage.
So you see, dear reader, although I do love the clean and orderly look of white, it is just not something that I am ready to commit to for myself. I will just be content in admiring your lovely homes, for now anyway. Hope that you are all having a beautiful and blessed day!!! Heaps of love.
Stay Cozy,
Charlotte
I have had a pleasant morning here at our cottage. I got up and turned on our heat as it was a bit chilly here this morning, had my coffee and toast and watched Doctor Charles Stanley on television. I have been reading some of your blogs also. I love to visit and see what is new at your pretty cottage homes and with your families, too. I love that we all have such interesting and different ways of interpreting the cottage style of living and decorating our homes.
Lately I am noticing a real trend in doing most everything in white and beige with only subtle pops of color here and there. It is a very clean look and one that I admire in other homes, but not one that I will be trying here. As for myself and my family, we love color. Don't get me wrong, I have had walls painted white during my lifetime though I have never had white furnishings. Too many children, grandchildren and pets for that I am afraid~lol!!! I have thought about it albeit the thought was short-lived. I have simply always just loved color!
It all began with my first box of Crayola Crayons back when I was a year old. My mother would always tell me of how I loved to color in my little coloring books and that I knew my colors by the tender age of 18 months. Not only my primary hues, but she said that I knew the difference between the tertiary tones, also. She said that I would pick out orange-red from red-orange or blue-green from green-blue when asked. She would have them all laying out and have me point to the color as she called it out to me. A God-given talent, no doubt...hahaha! Anyway, so began my romance with the world of hues, tints and shades.
My next clear memory of color was my little book The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown. It is a Little Golden Book and the tale of two kitten brothers and their search for the formula for making Green. It is an excellent first tool for teaching basic Color Theory to children. I would look at it over and over again and have my mom read it to me for story-time. By the time I was four years old I had it completely memorized. I still have that little book and have read it to all of my kids and grands, too.
Finally is the childhood memory of watching Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color every Sunday evening at our home. Now, up until 1972 we only had a black and white television set, so lots of imagination went into mentally interpreting those images into any kind of color~hahaha! We did have neighbors who had color sets in their homes and sometimes, usually in the summer months, we would have the treat of watching shows there. Let me tell you, the THRILL of seeing Tinkerbell waving her wand and transforming the black and white into a full color spectrum for the first time was almost too much for my little heart to handle~WOW!!!
I believe this was all God's way of whispering in my little ears that His plan for my life was to involve my being used by Him in the world of design and decoration for His Glory. In His beautiful creation of this garden planet called earth He used LOTS of color! Every hue, value, tint and shade was made by His hands and for His Glory and our enjoyment. I praise Him for them all and loved to incorporate them into my designs, drawings and in our own home. I try to emulate our Creator with the use of color, texture, pattern, light, scale and harmony as I select the decor for my little cottage.
So you see, dear reader, although I do love the clean and orderly look of white, it is just not something that I am ready to commit to for myself. I will just be content in admiring your lovely homes, for now anyway. Hope that you are all having a beautiful and blessed day!!! Heaps of love.
Stay Cozy,
Charlotte
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