Welcome, Captain Wonderpaws! This is our 3-month-old kitten, and no, I didn’t name him. (That would be my comic-loving, crimefighting kids.)
But I did make him some new digs! My husband jigsawed a piece out of a wine crate, and I painted the inside orange and sewed a little cushion (with fab fabric from Jessica Jone’s Outside Oslo collection). Despite his superhero name, Wonderpaw’s a shy guy, so this photo was the best I could do.
A red zipper! And a side view of the crate.
Last year I went to the NY Book Expo, ostensibly to find out more about English Language text books, but in practice I scoured the floors for art and craft book flyers and freebies. I picked up a flyer for Eve Ashcraft’s book The Right Color thinking it might come in handy. Eve Ashcraft is a color consultant–which is a fantastic job title, plus her name sounds a little like a DIY superhero–for interior design. Her book is based on a selection of twenty-eight colors–the only ones you’ll ever need–for interior paint, anyway. You can see the colors on the wall of her studio, courtesy of Paulette Pascarella. As much as I love color, faced with a fan deck of paint chips, I’m pretty pleased to have some help whittling it way down.
We are getting ready to have our beige walls painted–yay!–and I am thinking I might stick to Ms. Ashcraft’s palette. Wondering if I should paint the kitchen persimmon?
These hues are not for the faint of heart. While Brigit just painted her side table an elegant pale blue, I’ve been dipping my brush into Ben Moore’s Orange Juice, Tequila Lime, Pink Raspberry, and Summer Blue for a set of unfinished Adirondack chairs for my parent’s lake cottage. The Ben Moore online color gallery describes Orange Juice as a “deeply energizing” color that “captures the essence of early morning vitality and vigor.” How could I resist? And how can I get a job writing color descriptions for Mr. Moore?
Hmmm. Coffee and fish egg bait. Also known to be deeply energizing.
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