Falling in Love With Yellow Again

When I was ten years old, I wanted a yellow bedroom.  I selected a yellow

and white stripe wallpaper that was scattered with little pink flowers and

soft green stems.  I loved that paper.  I had the cutest little upholstered

boudoir chair, as my Mom called it.  It rocked and was covered in a 

yellow and white fabric.  Precious, as I recall.  My canopy bed had a

white eyelet comforter and my matching curtains had the same eyelet with

little yellow ribbons threaded through the edges.  

I loved that room.

But somewhere along the way, I fell out of love with yellow.  I am not sure why, but

I think it is because the color blue became a new favorite.  Blue and white.  Everything

had to be blue and white.  Yellow just seemed to disappear from the palatte.

It was a shame really, because blue and white can be cold and icy.  Add a touch

of yellow to the scheme and suddenly blue becomes friendlier.

Of course, you know my fondness for pink, and pink and yellow

is about as sweet and innocent a combination that one can find.

It's dainty and charming.

This a a Laura Ashley vase I picked up a few years ago at a

consignment shop.  I was totally smitten with Laura Ashley back

in the 80's.  

This little vintage doll's comforter hangs from the top drawer of that

child's cupboard on the top of my desk in my studio.  I found the

comforter in one of my favorite little antique shops back in Idaho.  

I knew I just had to have it when I saw it, although I had no idea 

how I was going to use it.  I am that way.  I often pick up things just

because I have fallen in love with them.  No rhyme or reason, just

love.  Somehow that love always ends up incorporating itself into a

design that sings to me

Sunshine on a Stem ~ yes indeed!

Happy fabrics of a quilt that hangs over my desk.  Always makes me

smile!

A pretty vase of flowers on these vintage playing cards.  My parents 

and grandparents were big time card players.   Both my Mom and 

grandmother had the prettiest decks of cards for their bridge and 

canasta groups. 

Here I am ~ I have come full circle and have fallen in love with

yellow once again.

Big Texas Hugs,

Susan and Bentley