Headed to a private dog water park. Rent $30 for the hour, bring as many dogs as you want -- just your gang, no other dogs. Fully fenced. Pool, fountains -- all fun things. Going with my new neighbor and my aunt and all our dogs. Today is overcast and cooler -- my kind of summer day.
"My" designer showed up yesterday -- came to the door randomly because she broke her phone. Very typical of her personality. Creative people have trouble existing in the logical/practical world - hah! She had some great suggestions and I used my Pottery Barn "money" and got some good stuff. (Pictures once it all arrives.)
As helpful as she was and as sweet as she is, after she left I felt deflated in my decorating ability. Things I LOVED, she HATED. Things that I was so proud to figure out, she changed immediately. When she left, I moved it all back. If I love it, then it stays. I am confident in that decision, but it still made me feel not-so-good.
Oh well. I'm happy with some of her suggestions and laughed at others (just cut off the arms of your chairs, fill in the wood, paint match and then they will be great). That's a decorator for you. That will NEVER happen in this house. I can barely craft anything. Plus, I like the chairs the way they are :)
She had suggested in the beginning that I add GREEN to the mix in the house in the form of plants. Yesterday, she told me to throw out a plant because it was too fake looking green. IT IS A LIVE PLANT. Made by Mother Nature. Beautiful green shades. When I told her it was real, she told me to put it outside and get a fake one in a sage green instead. Designers ... am I right?!?!
Lots to laugh about.
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