Be Inspired by the Changing of the Leaves!

I wanted to share this treasury...  

one of my photographs is featured!

'Changing of the leaves' by kristinasmiley

SOS Team Crewchallenge13Wednesday, October 17

Yellow Flowers original mini... PreciousBeast $12.00	Fall Autumn Nature Photograp... DesignByJV $25.00	Autumn Garden Ribbons Lace P... foundforyousup... $6.00	Leaves of Change- Leaf Penda... sariswhimsy $32.00
Fall Leaves Soaps - Set of 3... WizardAtWork $12.00	Autumn Leaves Brown, Orange ... PerfectImp $6.80	Autumn Amber Water Color Pai... AuburnCreate $45.00	Brown kraft paper envelopes ... TodoPapel $5.00
Leather clutch bag purse pin... altliae $75.00	1x1 Inch Squares / Fall Leav... carielewyn $2.25	Tootsies Full of Posies, bab... LittleThreadWa... $30.00	Changing Leaves 8x8 Artistic... soulenergy $17.00
Handpainted gourd birdhouse:... artsbyssc $12.00	Cloth doll softie,stuffed do... HappyDollsByLe... $32.00	Changing leaves ... red and ... lennonsleading... $14.00	Baby hat Rainbow, knitted ba... MiaPiccina $27.00

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Skywatch: BB&T Financial and Wells Fargo Centers, Downtown Winston-Salem, NC

I love this shot I got of the BB&T Financial and Wells Fargo Centers in Downtown Winston-Salem. After a morning of heavy rains, the skies were fabulously Carolina blue with huge billowing white clouds.

This image captures the BB&T Financial center on the left, and 

100 North Main Street (formerly the Wachovia center, now also known as the Wells Fargo Center). Both BB&T and Wachovia banks were founded in Winston-Salem, NC and their roots run strong.

Justice

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

This photograph was captured at Mt. Gur Cemetary in Kernersville, NC.  You can read more about my visit  here. 

Saturday with soulenergy

A Fresh Bouquet from our "Garden"

The birds are chirping, 

the girls are next door planting watermelon with the neighbors, 

and I'm inside clearing the cobwebs, 

both literally and figuratively.

What better way to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon with a 50/50 chance of rain in the forecast? 

This day last year, my girls and I were beginning our search for a house.  This is them in front of the first house we looked at.  A year has brought us far from there, I wonder what this year brings?

My girls today, playing in our new backyard.  The days go long, the years go short.

 Enjoy your weekend!

New Design by soulenergy >> 18ga galvanized wire wrapped pendant necklace NEW!

First peek at my new pendant, a one-of-a-kind hand wrapped steel pendant, hip and artsy.

  A fun necklace with swirls and steel, a perfect way to show your individuality.  

Made with 18ga galavanized steel and glass beads. 

Click on the photo to purchase at soulenergy.etsy.com

I love how this came together.

 It reminds me of the curves of a french horn.

Speaking of french horns, I played mine yesterday for the first time in a great many years.  It was an instrument I played for a long time, but has been sitting dormant for far too long.  Perhaps I was inspired by the flow of the music I made when I brought my instrument of the closet. 

This is a pendant that cannot be duplicated. 

I've got a couple more pendants to introduce... check back soon!

Welcoming Front Door? Or Way Off Base?

Sherwin-Williams has a very cool color visualizer!  You can upload your own photo, and try on different paint colors right away.  As you saw in the previous article, I'm thinking about the front door.  No, I don't think these are the "perfect" colors (although there is potential).

Now.  Mint Green.  Gotta Go.

I likey.  I like the door color and the surround.  Not so much the interior trim I selected.  I see possibilities here.

Oh yes, I really like this too.  Very different.  But just about right.  And my older daughter would very much like this pink front door!

The man of the house may have just over ruled the pink door.  We may agree on this.  Or maybe not. 

On the right track?  Or completely off base?  What do you think?

Help Me Decorate!

We moved into our first home a little over a month ago, and I'd like your help making it my own!  I am a little "design challenged" and hope that you can give me some ideas and encouragement.

Our house was built in 1977, and is very yellow.  The outside is yellow (except for the trim and shutters, which is a horrid florescent mint green.)

Let's start with the front door.

Color suggestions?  The yellow is fine, but the green has got to go.  Green is my "favorite color", but this shade, is... just not right.  I'd really like to go with a blue, much like the bottom left blue in this color swatch from Wikipedia.

Maybe a white with blue trim?  I'm open to ideas?  Remember, the rest of the house will be yellow!  

And maybe some glass etching or stained glass on the little windows?

It's a good thing I like yellow, 

because the whole house is yellow.  

Inside and out, our house is very bright.  Cheerful, happy, sunshine yellow.  Upstairs, downstairs (brighter, much brighter downstairs).  Some of it will stay, some of it will go. 

Other than the front door, this stairwell will be the first area that needs to be changed.  

I pass through this stairwell (seemingly) hundreds of times a day.   Every time I ascend the stairs, I think about this space, and how I'd like to design and decorate it. 

I like the triangular aspect to it, and would like to accentuate it in some way.  Definitely have a contrasting border there at the floorboard and additional trim.  

This is the "bigger picture" around the stairway. I'm very open to suggestions for this space, too. The family room is to the left, with more rooms and the entryway to the right. Ideas?

The yellow downstairs will probably stay.  The trim... maybe not.  I'd like to find a way to keep the yellow as an exciting accent that doesn't scream, "Hi, I'm a bright yellow room!"

The next part of the house we'll work on will be the entryway you see to the right... stay tuned, and be sure to follow the progress here and on Facebook.