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I was NOT born with a decorating gene. As a child, I cried terribly when my mother would rearrange my bedroom or buy a new bed spread set. In my first apartment, my roommate was my sister. I sewed a blue cabbage rose table cloth for our kitchen table we never ate at. Other than that, she decorated the entire place. As a newlywed, I moved into my husband’s home that he had been living in for 7 months. His mother had decorated a little bit after he first moved in, and it didn’t even occur to me until two years into our marriage that I could change anything. The only thing I brought with me when we married was a love of cows and a love of Elvis. So I put Elvis in the guest bedroom so his glamorous self would offend my husband and the cows went into the kitchen as dust collectors.
So while I don’t have any decorating gene, I admire those who do, and who have good taste. I enjoy a good home decorating magazine as much as the next person and watching HGTV dreaming of a day when a talent for designing will smack me in the face.
Besides television and magazines, the internet is full of people who effortlessly decorate. Some of them love it so much they keep “Design Blogs”. Blogs that are like a songwriters notebook stuffed with one liners that might make it onto the radio one day. Snippets of design elements they embrace.
To heck with it, I thought. Even I, as handicap as I am, could post a few “Design blog” posts! Pish Posh!
So here is my first one.
One dream is to live on the beach, so here are elements of my imaginary beach house.
Just as a thought…sometimes it seems like it would be easier to find art you really enjoy and then decorate the room around the color scheme presented there. Instead of trying to find art that blends with your color scheme. I happened to select this art last, but doing it the other way around makes sense too. I seem to recall designers mentioning designing around your favorite fabric too. Any thoughts? Chicken or egg scenerio?
Next element:
I like a bit of whimsy in my life. 
I think this bucket of shells lamp probably comes in blue too…
Pillows I found from an outdoor furniture place. This is as far as I got with my imaginary beach room, but I think it’s enough to see where I’m going. It was fun surfing the web for my beach theme (pun intended) and I look forward to trying to figure out another room. What do you think?
You know, those things you’ve been ignoring that you can keep ignoring b/c if it hasn’t been important enough to do immediately, then it’s not important enough to interrupt a weekend of relaxing. 
