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10.6.04

so M likes the bedroom. it's blue. it was funny painting it because i chose a color and then opened the paint-can and thought, that's a little more congratulations-newborn-boy than i was thinking. and then i put some on the walls and the color was fairly intense: it made the green that they had been look orange. i swear. only it was still baby-pastel. but it changed color like mad as it was drying. it dried a bit and turned a bit greenish itself, and i thought, hmmm. then it went back to bluish, hit robins-egg, looked for a bit like a boy's room who's really into racecars and baseball, which really made me nervous, but then went on past and got darker. and richer. and deeper. but then i had to put another coat on and started all over again. eventually (i.e., the next day) it's now, finally, exactly what i wanted: sort of mediterranean, islandy, spa-colored. water. sky. i think it's my favorite color.

the ceiling is that kind of white that if you put it next to white, would also be blue, but as it stands (next to the decidedly blue walls), it's white. have some big long crinkle-voile curtains, in big fat ivory and yellow stripes. have some nice silver-dollar silk flowers in a ... d-i-y vase. and our furniture looks stellar next to the rich blue. and silvery-nickel accents - the knobs on the furniture, and the curtain-rod, and a picture frame, and the sconces, and the clock. i couldn't stop looking at it when i finished. and the hungarian painting (this one, but this is another of his and it's HUGE and i WANT IT) and i framed a card from M's parents - a van gogh print (speaking of van gogh, i really like one of a farmhouse in a wheatfield with two figures, in auvers, just for my own reference, but i'm not really sure what i might do with it - looking for the name of it - jeez, he did enough with the wheatfields, didn't he? - i think i like the greeny ones - some of the olive trees, for instance - though really i'm not so much with all those identical irises - or any of the flowers really - ah, hell, they're not going to have it at barewalls and i'm not clicking through every separate painting at vangoghgallery.com, i'm not) only i had to spraypaint the frame silvery b/c it started a coppery gold and that just wasn't going to cut it.

so it's gorgeous. i couldn't stop looking at it. mmmm :)

the whole thing has an overall aesthetic very much like a Corona commercial. i realized this after i used an empty beer bottle as the d-i-y vase and it fit perfectly.

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