Saturday TastyLinks™ and Watching Paint Dry!

We are finally getting around to painting the rest of our house. We've been kinda busy since we moved in. People think that I must have this fabulous home, which would be incorrect. The home is fabulous in a quirky 127 year old former school house with 6 foot windows and 10 foot ceilings and really half baked renovation by the former owners way...but it's not really been decorated yet. Many of our walls have nothing on them except for the unfortunate colors selected by the former owners and a lot of cobwebs and chipped paint.

The kitchen is dismal...the hall and stairway depressing...we managed to get the upstairs mostly painted the first year all in soft shades of blue and periwinkle, for a dreamy, sleepy, cozy, magical feeling. The downstairs has been a work in progress. I love bold colors and so it's the tricky part of getting just the right shade of yellow or orange or green or red. I want saturated, warm, inviting, vibrant colors downstairs. The green we chose for the living room is gorgeous, love the earthy cinnamony red in the Zen TV room and the punched up Carribean blue in the bathroom is divine. Now it's the kitchen and the hallway...we're deciding how we feel about the yellow we selected for the hall and stairway. It's called 'soft duckling' and it looked very soft and buttery and ducklingish on the chip but on the wall it looks...really, really yellow...like a loud, quacking, intrusive duckling. We're going to live with it this week and see if we feel it's happy and bright or just obnoxious. We did two paint runs for the green we're using on the kitchen cabinets...my first selection of parsley sprig was a little too yellow, then we took home two slightly more saturated granny smith apple greens that were both called asparagus. Do we like asparagus...or asparagus? I think it's asparagus.

The orange is now being dubbed rorange because it packs a real punch! I'm thinking about stamping or stenciling pop art flowers on the faces of the cabinets over the green base, it's going to be a pop art meets Shaker kitchen.

Beneath my weekly links are some photos of the colors...in case you're actually intrigued!

Fascinating stuff isn't it?!

So now that I've bored you senseless with my blathering on about paint colors...here is your weekly sampling of TastyLinks™ from my pals The Crafty Bloggers! Open wide and say, "Ah!

Craftside- A behind-the-scenes peek at a crafty world The week at Craftside you can learn a bit of Photoshop work with a cool Technique from Essential Fashion Illustration, three ways to hem from Singer New Sewing Essentials and a floating ATC frame in an altered book with a free tattoo graphic download.

Crafty Princess Diaries Every thought of starting your own craft blogging group? Here are some questions and answers about the process.

Cathie Filian Check out this video on how to infuse vodka with berries for holiday martinis. Bottled and bowed, the infusions also make great gifts!

Aileen's Musings As promised Aileen's posted another EZ Christmas project #2. Come find out why dominos aren't just for playing anymore!

About Family Crafts If you do any traveling with kids during this holiday season, you will definitely want to check out all of these creative travel activities.

Cross Stitch at About.com Connie's been counting patterns instead of stitches this week and realized that there are over 500 free patterns posted at About.com Cross Stitch now. Check them out today!

Stefanie Girard's Sweater Surgery Check out how I cut things up as a child with a vintage paper plate turkey Thanksgiving Day decoration.

Layers Upon Layers Carol Wiebe is a mixed media artist who will inspire you to let go of the inner judge!

The Impatient Crafter™ Don't toss those tags on your next fashion purchase, turn them into "ornapendants!"
Rorange Kitchen Walls
Not so soft duckling entry hall

parsley sprig, asparagus and asparagus...

zen tv room cinnamon red orange

living room green into bathroom blue