For ten months now Ellen and I have pondered the large blank wall in our living room and discussed what would look best there. It's varied from a faux-window created from various World Market goodness, the Christmas creche for way longer than was appropriate, and recently a collage of beauty a friend made for us.
Sunday we decided to brave the aisles of Michael's Craft Store and find canvases, paint, and courage to create our own little masterpiece. We spent the afternoon laying in my room sketching, gathering inspiration from google, coloring, erasing, and delighting. This also may have been the longest concentrated period of time that Ellen and I have been in one room without talking.
We got around to painting, taking a deep breath with the first plunge of the paintbrush into thick acrylic I'm-not-sure-about-this-color paint. And this was the result! Ellen painted to two that say hope and I did the other two. Interestingly, when we asked our friends/family which two they thought each of us did almost no one got it right! Maybe in gaining the courage to paint something and hang it on our wall we also got the courage to defy the way our personalities define and shape us too and go a little outside the lines. Either way, we were please with our little masterpiece.
So come over for dinner and delight with us! :)
Speaking of dinner... we filled our house with over 70 people last night for the City Parish Cinco de Mayo party. We offered to host the party planning on using our enormous backyard, but the monsoon that has been sitting on C'ville lately prevented that. The people came, the ark that was our house got bigger magically, and the children laughed as we tackled a pinata in the rain.
... community at its best...
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