Paint Samples, Falling Pie Plates, and Soup

Heeeeeeeey girl. It's been a long time.

Again.

I'm sorry. I'll try to do better, pinky swear.

I've got lots of random stuff going on so I'll break it down with little subtitles. That's me trying to be organized. Or maybe me just being annoying.

Paint Samples

Yesterday I stopped by the paint store (finally!) to look for samples of blue-gray to paint the walls of our living room, dining room, sunroom. It turns out that I'm leaning more toward the grays than the blues. Everyone I show the colours to thinks they look drab and gloomy, but I looooove them. They're just such a change from the yellow that is suddenly driving me mental.

So I bought two sample pots and tested them out. They look hideous against the yellow but I know you can use your imagination. (Keep in mind that I want the colour on the main floor to go with the colour that's in most of the upstairs rooms: Old Prairie by Benjamin Moore. It's a light greyish green that's really pretty.)

Colour upstairs:




Old Prairie- Benjamin Moore

Possible colour downstairs:

Gray Owl - Benjamin Moore

The above paint chips look really good side by side but on the wall, Gray Owl looks a little too dark. So I think I might ask the paint ladies to lighten it by 2x. (You can see how it looks in the picture below.)

Top Sample: Gray Owl, Bottom Sample: Horizon



Top Sample: Gray Owl, Bottom Sample: Horizon



I think I might get a quart of Gray Owl (lightened a bit) to test it out in the sunroom this weekend. Plus, Alex is gone for the weekend and I won't have to listen to him complain about all the money I'm "wasting" by repainting. Boys. They just don't get it, do they? 

Falling Pie Plates

'Member my lovely pie plates all hung up and pretty-like? Here's a picture in case you forgot (the post is here):

I had used some adhesive stuff from Home Depot to display them which I found out was a big mistake. Almost every single night a pie plate fell off the wall while we were sleeping and freaked out the dogs (and us).

The last one that fell got stuck. At least it didn't crash to the floor like the rest of them.

I went to Canadian Tire and found  some velcro-type stuff by a brand called Command which has worked really well so far. Since I had to take all the pie plates down anyway, I put them all back up a smidgen closer together since they seemed a bit too far apart for my OCD.

The Yummiest Soup That Ever Did Live

Image: Food and Whine

On the weekend I whipped up a pot of the yummiest soup ever. You have to be a mushroom lover to appreciate it though. It smelled too dang good to stop and take a picture of it (get in my belly, soup!) but let me tell you it was delicioso and so easy. I'll be making this recipe again and again and again! Check it out you won't regret it. Unless you don't like mushrooms. In that case I'll just call you a crazy person.

Recipe: Cream of Mushroom Soup

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Well, that's it for me today. Hello!!! (insert grin here) to my newest followers and buh bye to the peeps who unfollowed because apparently I haven't been posting enough lately. :S.

If you stuck around, thanks. I'm glad you're still here. :)