Shakin' Things Up
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Article by: Carolina Fernandez "Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we own to the play of the imagination is incalculable." Carl Jung It started a couple months ago. I spotted a chandelier from a dozen feet away at one of my favorite shops downtown. Charmed immediately, my mind raced on how I could possibly talk my husband, Ernie, into buying it for me"”or even worse, how I could sneak it home , Restaurant And Bar Decor and surprise (no"¦shock) him with it later. Made of black rod-iron"”with a primitive brass rooster suspended between a couple of curlicued edges, it "spoke to me" and I knew I had to find a place , Everything Old is New Again for it in my home. , Wallpaper - Love it or Loathe it! Trouble was: it was non-electrified. Candles only. While this certainly added to its innate charm"”for me anyway"”I knew that it'd be a hard sell for my husband. That it'd be the deal-breaker. Too impractical. Too unnecessary. Too French. I kept my eye on it, visiting the shop every week or so to be sure no one had bought "my" chandelier. When it went on "clearance" ten days before my birthday, I practically jumped out of my skin. I knew a New York dealer would snatch it up and re-sell it in the city for more than double, with the lucky buyer still feeling like she found the deal of the century. When I not-so-subtlety informed Ernie that night"”at his own birthday celebration"”that I found what I wanted for my birthday, he retorted, with some annoyance, that it was highly inappropriate for me to talk about my materialistic desires while we were celebrating his big day. As (almost) always, he was right. I blew it. Unbeknownst to me, our oldest son, Nick, and Ernie strategized and that week, Nick went to the shop, bought the chandelier, had it wrapped, and hid it in our house , Plantation Shutters Bring Antebellum Elegance To Modern Homes until we celebrated my birthday the next week. Needless to say, I couldn't have been more delighted that this charming new addition was about to be a part of our home. , Finding the Basics of Rustic Design The chandelier sat on the floor , Furniture Slipcovers - The Cheap and Easy Way to Give Your Furniture a Makeover of my dining room , You Know Your Home Dcor is Frumpy and Stale when. for the next four weeks. What with a seminar I had enrolled in taking up my Saturdays, with back-to-back business trips for Ernie, and with taxes due, blah blah blah"¦.we didn't have a spare minute to get around to hanging it (not to mention the fact that we had no idea where to put it.) So I started walking around the house, , How To Stay Focused On Your Bedroom Decorating Project trying to figure out where I would put my way-too-charming, way-too-impractical, way-too-French chandelier in my home. , What You Need to Know About Kitchen Colors And when I did so, I realized that I needed to shake things up. That we needed to re-arrange furniture, , Plantation Shutters Bring Antebellum Elegance To Modern Homes re-distribute decorative accessories, , 7 Ways to Use Concentrated Fragrance Air Fresheners and re-hang our artwork. The arrival of spring , What You Need to Know About Kitchen Colors generally has this effect on me. Fresh starts. Puppies. Bursting bulbs. , The Benefits of Vertical Wood Blinds Injections of sunshine and color. , Skylight Shades So it seemed perfectly reasonable to make sunrise on Easter morning our deadline. Getting my whole family on board, we mentally got psyched up to spend the weekend getting the house , War Rugs all shook up. We went into attack mode. We sorted and sifted, re-shelved and re-shifted, re-hung and re-made. With drill in one hand and hammer in the other, we walked room , Commercial Furniture for Any Property Owner to room, , Kitchen Cabinet Finishes And Design with eyes roaming for new arrangements, new furniture , How to Create the Perfect Bedroom with NASCAR Bedding! and art placements, and new uses for old things. It took us awhile to figure out where to put the rooster chandelier. Purchased with strong magnetic attraction yet with no idea of where to hang it, we found one only by hoisting it up in several different rooms , All About Closet Organizers of the house. , Cottage Style Home Decorating: 7 Ways to Add Rosy Cottage Curb Appeal to Your Home With trial and error, by re-doing and un-doing, we not only found a spot that, once hung, made it appear as if the house , Unique Childrens Furniture for the One Of A Kind Kid was practically built for this chandelier; we finished the bulk of the "shakin' up job" at the same time that our bodies begged for beds. , 7 Ways to Use Concentrated Fragrance Air Fresheners And when the sun rose , Unique Childrens Furniture for the One Of A Kind Kid on Easter morning, we woke up convinced that the shakin' up was all worth it. Life is all about shakin' things up. If we don't shake 'em up voluntarily"”finding something for the house , Kitchen Cabinet Finishes And Design or the body or the kids or the spouse; or taking the vacation; or bringing home , Fireplace Screens - A Practical and Beautiful Addition To Your the new pet"”that requires re-arranging the status quo"”it seems that life shakes things up for us. Whether we're ready for the shakin' up or not. Husbands change , A Guide to Memory Foam Companies jobs. Kids go off to college. Toddlers discover the joy of running. Houses , White and neutral tone colors blend well with other decorating schemes burn down. Best friends move. Loved ones get sick. All of these shake things up. Sometimes this leaves you thinking: "I was perfectly happy unshaken, thank you very much!" And yet sometimes shakin' things up is exactly what's needed. Shakin' up forces you out of your rut. It gets your creative juices flowing. It stretches your imagination and requires you to "get out of your brain" (as I kept repeating to Ernie as we scratched our heads over the chandelier thing). As spring , Cottage Style Home Decorating: 7 Ways to Add Rosy Cottage Curb Appeal to Your Home fever starts grabbing you by the throat, try getting mentally"”and physically"”prepared for the shakin' up that life will undoubtedly be bringing your way. Keep your eyes wide open for the infinite creative possibilities that living a "shakin' up life" affords. Despite the way that life has shakin' up our world"”what with it turning it upside down and standing on its head"”it's keeping us on our toes. Alert and ever ready. With expectant optimism for God's best. Each day. All the way.  |
  
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