On Color and Thrifting - Memorial Day Weekend 2012

Good grief!  Could have sworn I had posted this right after Memorial Day!  Oopsies!

Here goes.  A few weeks ago, I went to my nearby Bed Bath & Beyond for some Yankee candles in Fresh Cut Roses (love, love, love).  They were just setting up a towel display with a new line of towels and the colors, the colors were just so juicy, I have not been able to get them out of my mind.  Tangerine, fuchsia, lime green, lemon yellow!  Happy, sunny, cheery color!  For some reason, I have been craving color lately.  Particularly deep orange, hot pink and lime green.  I have two favorite purses, one is orange and the other one is a delicious shade called raspberry.  A few days ago while grocery shopping, I saw hangers (in sets of 10) in those same shades, I came home with one set of each.  It took me a while, but I changed out my (new) plain white hangers for the colorful ones. Then I decided they needed ribbons, I went to sleep at 3 in the morning, got up four hours later to go to work, woke up to this amazingly colorful, happy closet.  Liked it so much, the closet doors have remained open ever since:

 



              
Days passed, but those towels kept calling my name.  Loudly.  Memorial Day weekend, I had an early breakfast with my Most Magical Fabulous Fleaing Fairy GodMother ("MMFFFGM").  Any time spent with her is a Silver Lining.  Over coffee, orange juice and blueberry pancakes, we got caught up with each other and then off we went thrifting. Second Silver Lining.  Oh, I do love that blog! The Silver Pen, by Hollye Jacobs, love, love, love!  Took us forever and a day to find the thrift store we had visited once before, but at loooong last, arrival and success!  Scored half a dozen plain white salad plates and four plain white dinner plates, ha!  Plus three brand-new taupe suede decorative pillows and one delicious deep garnet velvet one (which Smokey Noelle promptly claimed when I returned home), matching perfectly to the pleated silk one I got for my birthday last month, Silver Lining, Silver Lining, Silver Lining! For some reason, I was drawn to the costume jewelry case where I spied the most faboo pair of pale yellow silk printed with butterflies and flowers pumps with sky-high stiletto heels.  In pristine condition, I don't think they have ever been worn.  Well!  I had to snag those for my closet, not that I will ever wear them (way too large, size 6 1/2 and I no longer do stilettos), but they are oh-so-girly, how could I resist and at $10???  And don't they look just perfect in my newly-colorful closet?  I think Mother Nature would wear these shoes to a Spring Dance and dance the night away in them, possibly doing the rhumba, or the cha-cha-cha ... or both!

I do love white, ivory, taupe, lovely neutrals all, they are liberally used throughout my home, but I also need, I crave, color, lots of juicy, wild, bright color, it makes my heart sing.  After our thrifting expedition, my MMFFFGM and I parted ways, she headed to her nest, I to mine.  Driving home, however, took me past my Bed, Bath and Beyond store.  I swear to you, no lie, I distinctly heard those towels calling, no, yelling my name.  I went in and claimed my prize, came home with the most delicious raspberry, lime and tangerine towels ever ... and a matching little bathroom rug!  As my dear friend, K., in Talley says "Woo to the hoo!"  Got home and played house.  Here are my juicy raspberry and tangerine beauties:

 

And here is my wee bathroom sink all decked out in juicy lime and tangerine.  Be honest, don't you wish you could find a pair of shoes like my little purple-haired beauty is wearing?  Now I am ready for summer!  Until next time, be safe, be happy, be colorful and keep the faith!