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Friday, May 25, 2012

Design and Friendships

This mix of soft and industrial blending with nature and a wild side makes me smile.
My design style is very eclectic and so are my friendships. I love a great mix of cultures and styles and the way they enhance and offset each others colors and best features. Give me the hard industrial and soft traditional, mix in some wild ones, a touch of simple beauty with a bit of retro and antique and I am feeling right at home. I like what each does for the other and how they lean on one another and stand together as one grand scheme. I like the ease of adding to a grouping that is not so particular, and if I love it... then it can freely join the coterie of amazing friends and pieces that I have already collected. 


I will admit, it is the same, whether adding to my home or adding to my group of friends...I've made some mistakes. I have added to both in order to ameliorate a space I thought needed improvement and dang...the effect just wasn't what I was hoping for. Thinking at the time of purchase (or meeting) that this would  put the finishing touch on, but when set in the current commixture, it just doesn't rectify or enhance my current accommodations. You try to justify it and say to yourself  "it's working, isn't it?", but after a while you just know that it will never settle in and be just what you hoped for. 


Here comes the hard part, what do you do with it now? I usually put it away for awhile, not looking at it nor pay any attention to it until I have forgotten about it. I'll find it at a later date, after things have changed a bit and take it out and see if I found a brand new treasure or if it just didn't hold up during the incubation period. If it still offends and doesn't blend, it's got to go. Beautiful as it may have seemed at first, ya got to part ways with it. It hurts sometimes knowing the investment that went into it, but if you can't live with it, well don't keep pushing the issue. Keep the ones that make you smile each day. Ya know, the ones that seem to immerse right in with the things you lovingly collected, restored and were given to you from the heart with love and respect. I have found that this makes a most peaceful home and life. When these two things blend seamlessly, and I can smile at each and all with no prodding, I don't think things could be better if I won the lotto.


Jo Ann


And PS: I would certainly be remiss if I didn't add another part to all this. And that is the pieces and persons that you love, and will always love no matter what, that you no longer have due to age, accidents, simple changes or that you just didn't fit in their mix.