Becolorful

Motivated Monday May 14th

Better late than never right?

Sorry for the delayed Motivated Monday but Mother's Day took me out of town and away from my computer.

I tried to post via my iPad but Typepad and iPad aren't very friendly.

I'm thinking this is more of a Typepad Fail.

Errrrr...

 

Anyway, I hope your Mom's Day was spectacular.

Look what my three sweeties did for me yesterday -

This was posted on Liz's blog  which, of course, I subscribe to via email. I saw this before I had even rolled out of bed. Tears before coffee. It was going to be a great day. :D

 

from around the globe…

Liz in Des Moines, IA

 

James in Toyko, Japan

 

Adam in Cedar Rapids, IA

 

Happy Mothers Day, Mom, from your three. 

 

How lucky am I ?

Very.

Love you guys. Thank you so much. I am so glad I had that girl first because I know she is the one that orchestrated this project and leaned on her brothers to get their photos to her. She is a typical first born. :D but I am proud of those two boys also for listening to her and following through. Will miracles ever cease? :D

 

So on to Motivated Monday.

I'm so late in posting that I will keep my comments brief but I didn't want you to miss some of these incredible posts from last week like this 

                                           Pesto and Feta Turkey Burger

via

Renewed Upon a Dream

Yum!

Or how about this 

Penny Counter Top

over at

Domestic Imperfection.

Amazeballs!

 A classic design

that I will be adding to my Pinterest for sure.

 

Another surface treatment idea was this yardstick resurfaced table top from

Life on Walnut Street 

 

I don't know how you all think of this stuff but wow, am I ever happy that you do.

Incredible!

 

I also loved this stunning pink chair 

via

Bella's Crafty Mom

 

Can you believe she updated the fabric on this chair by spray painting it with a mixture of paint and fabric medium?

Seriously!

Love it with that ottoman too.

 

I noticed the whole peacock rage back around Christmas time and I thought this 

Peacock Vanity 

from

Make Me Pretty Again

was a great original take on that theme.

Here is a teaser shot. You will have to visit her blog to see the full piece.

Very fun.

 

 

Notice - Eliminating BeColorful's Google+

 

 

 

 

I still am trying to figure out an option to replace Google's Friend Connect but the Google+ Page is not it. I have found it clumsy and complicated and I do not see any benefit for me at this time. I'm not sure if it is trying to be another Facebook but Lord knows I don't need another account like that. I would never get anything done.

:D

Blogging, Pinterest, FB and Twitter are all I can handle.

Because I will not be using the Google+ or their photo editor I am also looking for something to replace my Picnik photo editing. Does anyone have any ideas?

I would love to hear what you use.

xoxo,

P

Party Thoughts

This past weekend we had a cocktail party here at the house for roughly fifty business clients and close friends.

A lot of you have asked for more party pics.

Apparently we had a good time because there are very few pictures except for these of the set up before the party started and when the first handful of guests began arriving.

We had two tents. One for food and one for the bar.

I bought my tabletop items the day before the party at Pier 1

Nothing like last minute.

Because the party was at night and I didn't want to use the flood lights I knew that it would be more important to have candles than flowers.

Lanterns seemed like a good solution and something we might be able to use again.

I couldn't get enough of any one thing this late in the season so I mixed and matched using blues and greens.

I think that worked.

On the bistro tables I used margarita glasses filled with white sand and a candle. It was a cocktail party after all. :0

Tiki torches and strings of lights helped give us the ambience we were looking for.

I wish I had taken more night pictures because it really looked prettier after dark.

I even did some of the tables with Christmas lights underneath so they had a great glow going after the sun went down.

Oh well, trust me, it was pretty.

Mike and I had fun stringing lights the night before and doing the whole lighscaping thing.

He is a fun guy to throw a party with once you get him involved. He is always a little reluctant at first but as ithe party gets closer he totally gets into it.

Usually Liz is on top of the photography but she became engrossed in conversation and the mojitos too so it wasn't until quite late and after a number of the guests had already left that we remembered to take photos.

This was also  after what was probably more than a couple cocktails.

A bit blurry.

:-0

Hehe. Actually, it IS hard to get pictures in this low of light without a tripod.

These were better.

 

 

The food was amazing.

Thank you Cibos.

It only sprinkled very briefly.

Thank you God.

The house is in the middle of a do over but even so I was proud of how we pulled it all together.

This week I will show you some of the new design items that made it in time for the party and the temporary solutions that we used for those that didn't or I couldn't afford yet.

When we threw our very first party here thirteen years ago we hadn't even moved in yet.

We took decorating suggestions from our guests, borrowed lawn furniture to sit on and drew pictures on the blank walls.

The house will never be done and even though we talk about selling it from time to time, everyone says we never will.

Why would we? This house was made for a party.

The next one?

It will be awhile. 

A fall party would be fun, we've never done that, but definitely not this year.

:)

xoxo,

P

BeColorful On Houzz

I must admit, I felt a little bit important today when I saw my home office on Houzz.

They were doing a feature on home offices for their Ideabook of the Week post.

My two photos are toward the end of the article but hey,

better late than never.

I am sure it was the wild watermelon color or maybe Sherri's pillow that got my space noticed.

:)

What can I say?

This girl loves color.

 

Cultural Differences

This weekend our son, who is going to school and working in Japan sent us this video.

I know, who has time to watch, but take a moment.

I promise it is prety amazing.

 

Then on an entirely different note,

I was working on my laptop the other day with the TV going in the background.

I looked up to see a commercial and I was intrigued.

What were they selling?

So officially I'm shocked.

Right?

In reality, it made me laugh and thank goodness for Tivo because I rewound it and played it again.

Maybe I'm a bit twisted.

 

 

Cultural differences?

xoxo,

P

Chic C'est La Vie? Je Dis Bull

Make it stop!

Have you seen this yet?

 

I saw it on  SGM one of my favorite naughty, bawdy and undeniably funny entertainment blogs.

(Thanks Lee for the heads up on that one).

 

The creepiness factor here? 

Well, there are no words.

She might as well hang a sign around her neck that says

"Hey look at me and tell me how fabulous I am".

She really can't sing for crap.

That was obvious with her first release - Money Can't Buy You Class.

Stupid a** song.

At least this time around the listener isn't subjected to the same torture.

This time she basically talks over the music track in her transgendered condescending smoker voice.

"Daaaaaaaaallllling"

I would puke if I wasn't laughing so incredulously.

Someone must have told her that if she throws in a few French words it will sound "classier".

I'm thinking that when you have to talk about how classy you are, well, you aren't.

It's as simple as that.

And those lyrics? Really?

Ridiculous.

Has she read a newspaper beyond Page Six?

It's just creepy.

Jill and Kelly who are also in the video are apparently there for gag effect and to make us laugh at their total lack of any decent dance moves.

The other housewives apparently turned The Countess down.

LuAnn was actually surprised by this.

Then again, she was a totally snarky manipulative beotch on steroids in Morocco.

Can't say that I blame them.

I do love the show though.

It makes me feel so smug about myself.

:)

This show and a few others, namely,

Million Dollar Decorators

Real Housewives of NJ

and 

Flipping Out 

are among my guilty pleasures.

Thank God for Tivo or I would never see them all.

Plus I can stop and rewind when I have those

"Oh no she din't" moments that I just have to see again

and then maybe one more time.

So, I just wanted to share a bit of my shallow side with you today.

Dissing on those crazies is always welcome here

:)

 

xoxo,

P