Good Morning Humble Readers...
Just a few random thoughts and ramblings for you today. I'm also looking for a few opinions.
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I always love seeing different peoples' reactions when they first walk in my home. My mother would call it Ukrainian (like an Easter egg), I call it colourful. My boss and his wife just stopped by to drop off the freezer we are buying from them (yay, a freezer!). The look on their faces was awesome as they took in my school-bus-yellow living room with the cranberry red couch and the and dark dark brown tables and book cases. Add to that the sage green kitchen walls and white cabinets... well, I know it's not everyone's taste. (and at least they didn't see the crimson bedroom!)
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It's my Beloved's office Christmas party this evening. It's being held at a pub so jeans should be okay, right? If I wear something sparkly on top?
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Cycle Update: The way I figure it, I'm 9dpo. The extra ewcm combined with the recent cold snap that started this week that has messed with my temps just after O caused some confusion for Fertility Friend, so according to them I'm only 7dpo. Phantom symptoms are in high gear... incredibly sore b00bs, nausea, bionic nose is up and functioning, fatigue (although that is more than partially contributed to by a couple of very bad IBS flares the last couple of nights). Because of my lack of sleep, I'm not really trusting the jump my temps made this morning, but we'll see. I'm expecting AF on Sunday... the day we are supposed to go to my MIL's house for a Grey Cup party.
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The Grey Cup... the Canadian Football League's equivalent of Super Bowl Sunday. My Beloved's family are lifelong serious Saskatchewan Rough Riders fans. The Roughies are playing Montreal, a team they haven't beaten in the regular season for 3 or 4 years. For the party, should I do wings or ribs?
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I bought two new cookbooks yesterday that I'm very excited about. One is for artisan breads. the other is for slow cookers... Yay for new recipes!
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Speaking of recipes, I'm pondering setting up some sort of Bloggy Holiday recipe exchange. I'm thinking if I set it up like Show & Tell, Shout Out Sundays, or Perfect Moment Mondays, with a McLinky thing. Do you think it will work?
I love that you love your house and enjoy the reactions of your first-time guests. It's so important to feel at home wherever you live.
ReplyDeleteJeans and a sparkly top sounds PERFECT. Makes me want to run upstairs and find somethin sparkly to put on!
I had to giggle at "Saskatchewan Rough Riders." Yep, you're Canadian! :)
Artisan breads.......... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I think jeans is fine for the venue, as long as you think it's fine for your husband's company.
ReplyDeleteYour house sounds awesome! I can't wait to buy a house so I can paint the walls different colors.
I love baking artisan bread - the cookbook sounds awesome. I like the recipe exchange idea, I'm sure it would work.
Good luck on Sunday!
Your home sounds awesome! You should post photos some time. :)
ReplyDeleteI should think jeans & a sparkly top will be fine, & should look really cute. Enjoy the party!
Similar reaction at my house.. living room walls are blackberry (dark purple) and silverberry (silver lavender)with blackberry couch, chair, and table, the rest of the furniture is birch and accessories are silver. Retro kitchen in white and red with black and white check floor. Den is sage green walls and couch covered in StarWars. Bathroom is white and sea green. Guestroom is jamaica blue... master bath is chocolate.
ReplyDeletesounds like jeans and a sparkly top are the way to go!
I'm in total agreement...jeans with a cute sparkly top would be great! Post pics!
ReplyDeleteLove the recipe exchange...I've got a project similar to that in the works... :)
Your decor sounds fabulous! I'd love to see it if you have pics. My kitchen is bright yellow (picture a Lipton tea bag box...wait, do you all have Lipton tea up there???), with rooster accents, rust colored curtains. The office is sage green, the bedroom is slate blue, and the living room will soon be a rosy terra cotta color. I LOVE color...the more the merrier I say!!!
Keeping my fingers crossed for this cycle!!!
I think your house sounds great. My mom is always commenting on the colors in my house but she has never strayed from white walls. Her idea of color is white with a tint of yellow or blue.
ReplyDeleteI think the recipe exchange is a great idea.
I love people that aren't afraid of color. We have yellow living room, dark red couch, green hallway.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
ICLW
Sparkly and jeans are a sure fire hit, no matter what. and Crock pot cookin? my favorite!!! I could't live without mine!
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Your house does sound very colorful, although it sounds to me like everything goes together well. It looks like it in the picture I have in my head.
ReplyDeleteHere's to hopping your TWW ends with two pink lines!
I love color on the walls - I know from frequenting your blog that you're a fascinating person, and that is just one more reason for me.
ReplyDeleteCan't comment on the cooking stuff, as I am not even close to a cook, but I think jeans and a sparkly top would be perfect for the party.
Hoping that AF doesn't come because Fertility Friend worked this time! Will be following this!
I've been toying with the idea of an orange accent wall and now I think I've decided! Plain walls are just too boring! Thanks for letting me see the errors of my thinking :)
ReplyDeleteI love brightly colored rooms, especially in jewel tones! Your home sounds beautiful! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy ICLW!
A colorful house sounds warm and cheerful!
ReplyDeleteI would love your house. I like a house that is full of color. I'm partially color blind though so the colors I paint and see aren't exactly what others see but I think it makes me happy and that is what is most important. When people ask me what color my bathroom is I say "In my world it is the most beautiful lilac purple but my friends tell me it is cornflower blue."
ReplyDeleteI think you recipe exchange is a great idea.