Creativity, Colour & Carnaval!!

It's cold....really cold and that's all we seem to every talk about, think about, experience, complain to others about...it's time to snap out of it and dream of more colour and warmer climes!  Here's what I have done to add some colour to the house, while the outside stays white and cold...

Vase with a little bling!

Spiced up my poor lonely guitar, I figure if I put a bracelet on it, I will be more inclined to pick it up more often!

I was flipping through a few magazines last week and came across some articles in Food & Wine (my fav) and Oprah (second indulgence).  Food & Wine talked about a woman who sees art in everything even her fridge!  She uses her "perfectly lit and cold frame" to do art installations in.  Instead of tupperware pieces, she uses beautiful old tea cups, pitchers and pots to keep her food in and then displays them as an art project in her fridge.  I thought this was an amazing idea...then in Oprah they talked of using different spaces around your house to show off clothing, jewelry, accessories etc.  And I thought, what another great idea.  Now I will get to the point and to the pics of what I came up with during my afternoon full of creativity...

You all have probably heard me talk about the Beadtree before...www.beadtree.net One of my favourite artists is Carrie Hamilton as she makes the most amazing glass beads you will ever see.  Her Mom, Judy Hamilton who is also a painter (and it's her B-day today! Happy B-day Judy), makes the jewelry from Carrie's glass beads.  These two make up the most beautiful pieces a woman could have.  I decided that they were too beautiful to sit in my jewelry box.  So I have dressed up the house and with the ones that I didn't spread throughout the house, I draped lovingly over some bottles I had hanging around and put them on my dresser.  Now I can see them every morning when I wake up!  Got lots of scarves?  Drape them from curtain rods or use them as tie backs!  The possibilities are endless!

My bathroom towel gets to wear my beautiful necklace this week

Now speaking of art, colour, warmth and just plan beauty...I will take you to my second favourite place on earth.  

Brasillllllll!!!!

This week is Carnaval and if you are a reader of my blog in the past you will have seen some video from the Sambadrome in Rio where the main festivities take place.  For the next week I will be putting up some beautiful pics and videos of Brasil, so that we can all focus some attentions on a warmer place...

Enjoy!

Beijos, Tricia