When My ADD Causes Fires in the Kitchen.

 Do you find as you are blogging,

or reading blogs,

that your opinion and tastes in things change?
Some days, I want to throw in the whole house
and start all over...
somebody back up a few semis and start shoveling this stuff out.
I want a new start, clean, uncluttered, no dirt.
Lovely!

I've noticed with blogs, that most blogs have a theme:

cooking,

decorating,

farming,

health,

fashion,

mothering,

photography,

couponing/saving money,

politics,

devotional type,

writing,

or how to blog itself.

I am sure I am probably missing a dozen or so other categories.

A while back, I won a consultation with a successful blogger

on how to better my blog.

One of the things she asked me was,

"What is the central theme of your blog?"

I felt like I was admitting that I had ADD.

I couldn't pin the one thing down that I wanted to commit myself to.

I love decorating and painting,

but I don't feel like I'm exceptional at it,

nor do I want to devote my blog just to it.

I love health and trying to eat right,

but I'm just too dumb unknowledgeable overall to commit to that.

Photography - Ha!

I groan when I see my pictures compared to really good pictures.

Cooking: I do it because I have to

and I do love sharing recipes that I find exceptional,

but...

Do you know how many flops I cook?

Let's just say that a blog with
"Now here's a recipe you don't want to make"

wouldn't be a favorite of mine either.

I can't.

I can't commit to one thing.

I love writing.

It is like singing in my soul.

But I'm not deep enough to fly on the wings of verbosity 

every day of the week,

to spout off intellectual extravaganza

as much as I'd like to.

The truth is

(I am so sorry for this)

I deal with too much poop in my life:

cow, kid, kid, dog, cat, kid, kid.

The other day, I just wanted to don a raincoat,

wrap a diaper around my head,

and go conquer my world.

The fact is:

I think that waxing eloquent needs a better breeding ground.

I'd love to write about God everyday

and what I'm learning and need to learn.

I admire and love reading these girls who speak so beautifully

and cheer me on to get my focus right.

Sometimes, oft times, I just would feel like too much of a hypocrite.

I can't write peace when I am chasing a tornado,

the weather in our house isn't always sunny.

Somedays, I just need to be silent

to hear God tell me what I need to hear.

Sometimes, as much as I sit down and write,

the words in my heart are mine alone.

And so, as with all these things,

I have also come to realize that

as beautiful as so many of the blogs I run into

(and I wish I could get around to so many of them more)

and as amazing as so many of the homes are that I see,

I am finally discovering what I love

in my home and life,

and I am going to embrace that.

Do you know what?

It is such a relief.

That baffling question of

who are you and what is your blog about

has been settled for me:

Welcome to my ADD blog.

And I can still admire you all for your incredible ability to stay focused

and love what you do.

Hopefully,

when you visit,

I'll be serving up a dish of your interest

when you open the windows to my life.

And hopefully,

it won't stink.

 And so I present you with my black cereal cupboard.

How is that for an ADD twist?

Stone houses don't have a lot of built in cupboards,

so it was a Craig's List buy a few years back.

 It is a neat old piece,

but it had some weird white stains on the black paint on top

and the darkness in the corner where it is

needed some life.

I love life.

 I created some stencils from images I found at

the Graphic Fairy...

Pinterest: Graphicsfairy

and using the method I explained

in a previous post,

I applied the stucco, pulled the stencil,

let it dry for two days,

and then painted the whole cupboard

with three coats of red.

RED.

It's called something "Fire" red,

I remember.

The paint dripped on the label,

but the "Fire" part should be enough.

Hope I didn't burn your eyes.

When it was dry,

 I painted some red mixed with green shading inside the roses,

 complimentary colors.

and then added colors to all the raised parts,

 as well as some stringy vines painted directly on the red background.

I then added some darker green accents.

I waited a day to let the colors dry well,

and then waxed the whole thing with Rugger Brown Fiddes and Sons Wax,

brushing it on in strokes.

I did a heavier coat on the inside panel,

doing circular strokes for a smudged look.

After it dried,

the wax was rubbed to give it a sheen.

 I wasn't sure when it was done

if I liked it:

It is so drastic.

But as the day went on and I looked at it where it is,

I liked it more and was uncertain less.

It is definitely better than the old black

and seems to call out to the other red accents in the kitchen.

And when I look in from the living room

with the walls I just painted,

I like it even better.

But I'm going to show you the living room another day.

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