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We are renovating our home and as we get closer to painting the walls and decorating, I have been working on some mood boards to help us pull each room together.
I have in mind an outdoor space for each room. The living room is the glade. We will have a floral rug and plants in the windows. I am hoping for a leather couch (for wear-and-tear) and a large map table type coffee table to store our collection of posters. The walls will be stone colored and the ceiling a lighter stone color.
The stone colored walls will continue into the dining room. This room will be like a fairy house found in a pine forest.
Our kitchen will be a light and bright meadow. There will be more plants in here. The cabinets and the backsplash tile will be white. The counters will be dark; we had considered wood but I think we’ll go with a dark stone instead. Instead of a table, we’ll have a workstation with stools.
The bedroom will be our secret cave. The walls will be dark stone and the trim even darker. The ceiling will be a soft muslin color and the rug and the linens will be exotic and colorful like a stash of treasure.
There are a lot of amazing people on the web posting sewing ideas and craft ideas and it’s hard for me to keep track of them all. When I was looking for recipe software to help keep track of my cooking recipes, I realized that I could also use the recipe software as a database for keeping track of craft project ideas. I use Connoisseur for craft recipes and a separate program for food recipes. I like Connoisseur a lot and would have used it for food recipes except that the recipe import feature doesn’t work the way I need it to. However, it’s excellent for keeping track of all the projects I’m interested in.
Instead of cuisine types like “Italian” or “Mexican” I went in and changed those categories to include “Sewing” and “Painting”. Instead of course types like “Entree” and “Dessert”, I changed those categories to include “Clay” and “Mixed Media”. I can copy and paste the ingredients and instructions into the recipe software which lets me display the project onscreen or print it out. Or, if the project is involved and includes many steps, I save a PDF version of the file (using the “Print” window in OS X) then note the PDF name in the recipe so I can find it later. Above all, I always save source attribution so I know where I’ve found a project.
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