I Ain't Skeerd

I don't know if any of you guys have noticed from previous photographs, but I ain't scared of color! The bolder, the better. The brighter, the happier I am! I blame all of this on my friend, Donna. She has managed to get me into many of the things I'm now obsessed with. While my color choices may not be the colors she would choose, she did remind me that it's just paint. If you don't like it, paint over it. I have done just that on more than one occasion! To see some of Donna's many talents, visit her website to see what her shop, Sticks and More in Snow Hill, North Carolina looks like. She makes lots of the stuff she sells. Can you say TALENTED?! My favorite thing that Donna makes are her angels. Here's the one she made for me...

She sits on top of the cabinets in my kitchen! I'm sure she has kept the house from burning down on more than one occassion!

These are made from old tobacco sticks that came out of her Daddy's tobacco barns. Other things are made of tin and wood from the actual barn. Donna has made angels for me with particular phrases painted on them. My cousin has a beach cottage named Cheers Y'all. Donna made a cute angel with this painted on the wings. One of the renters liked it so much, they took it home with them. Donna's going to make another one for me when she has some free time. (Don't worry if you're reading, I'm not rushing you!)

So, with all of this said, I love color and it's all Donna's fault!

Last night, I laid out some of the quilt flowers I've been hand sewing (this project started over the summer when I got addicted to a stupid game on the computer and needed a distraction to refocus my addiction ). The pattern is called Grandma's Garden. Usually, this was done from old flour sack fabric. Some of the colors were bright while others were more pastel. Since I like my garden to slap you in the face with color, I decided to bring that theme inside and put it on a quilt. With about 60 of the flowers pieced together, I wanted to take a break from sewing individual flowers and start attaching them together.

The lay out

I decided to use a black background so the colors really pop!!! Here's the lay out and how the flowers will look on black...

On a black background

It's funny! While I revel in color, I have friends who keep their walls white, their wood stained...never painted, their bedspreads neutral. Where do you fall in the scheme of things? Do you stay plain or do you threaten folks with bright-color-induced seizures?