The Snow Globe Proxy

This fall I decided to paint my dining room, which as many of you understand, then led to the grave inadequacy of my existing dining room chairs. And now I'm well on my way to a whole new dining room look complete with new dining room chairs and new window treatments and new ceramic wall art (by Josh Blanc) which I found in a wonderful art studio in downtown Minneapolis.

And while the dining room is still incomplete, it occurred to me that if I move the living room furniture to the soon-to-be-finished basement, I can have a whole new main floor look.

I blame this partly on my 2011 discovery of Anna, my interior designer, who has endured my wish list of the "look" that's me and has been my partner in crime, so to speak. She entertains pix texts from me, like these, She's gone shopping with me for the perfect "chair" for the living room. Furniture store after furniture store, she's spent hours finding choices for me.

My new "look" is homey, sleek, and curated. My colors are shades of grey with punches of color in strategic places. Anna's husband and our mutual friend, Bill, moved the sectional to the basement and Anna's husband is welding my new coffee table which will be topped with repurposed, old, and so-ugly-it's-beautiful wood table top. Gotta love Anna!!

This decorating journey brings me to December 19 with no Christmas decorations anywhere in the house. Until tonight, that is, when Izzy excitedly jumped (note: this is her normal behavior - Miss Happy, Excited, in-Love-with-the-World Izzy) in the car after piano lessons and showed me her gift from Miss Catherine, her teacher. A Snow Globe! Izzy's first snow globe is our proxy for all Christmas decorations. Here it is proudly placed on the fireplace mantle where the stockings usually hang.

Happier Holidays!







Quote of the Day:
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius