The pain of my fibromyalgia has walloped me hard today but funny enough it hasn't stopped me thinking about changing the cushions on my sofa! I'm weird, there's no doubt about it.
(I'm being quite matter of fact here and, as I've said before, I'm incredibly lucky that I don't have it like today all the time. I really am not sure what I would do if it was like it. I had a bad night, and today at my parents house I just couldn't contain it any longer and just cried. I am mortified that happened as I really don't want them to worry but I couldn't help it. I hurt so much I felt sick. Anyway, I've had a sleep this afternoon and the painkillers have taken the edge off the hurt, so I can write a little bit.)
I think I need to have a look at what I have been doing to give me this flare up. It certainly can't be the 'textspeak' I wrote about yesterday! I'm just glad it's happened on my day off. Anyway this wasn't what I was going to write about today. My blog was going to be all about cushions. Yep, an important subject of course. Should you have cushions on a sofa or not? If you do have them how should you arrange them? To put a 'V' in a cushion or not? Questions, questions?
I've said before that I like buying magazines and also that, since Neil hasn't been working, I've pretty much stopped purchasing them. But there is one magazine I have still treat myself to because it's really cheap (£1.99) and full of home ideas. I love seeing on how to decorate, or pretty up a room, cheaply almost as much as I like baking cakes! I like seeing what's in fashion (grey and mustard colours) and what the cost of completely overhauling a kitchen is (anything from £1500 to £10000). I like seeing how people decorate their rooms and what they use. It gives me ideas that I can copy on a shoe string, and change around our house. I'm always doing that sort of thing. Change a couple of cushions on a sofa and you have changed the look of a room. You can brighten it up using vivid colours, or make it cottage like with florals, or even calm the look using pastels. While we're on the subject, what about using throws? Oh and what about putting this all on your bed? I once went mad and copied the 'boutique hotel look' by piling high our bed with cushions to 'dress' it. We soon got fed up with having to take them off every night and then replacing them the next morning! I do still have two additional cushions along with the pillows but they still end up on the floor next to the bed at night.
I am pretty sure my sons...and Neil....think I am mad. I look at cushion covers when we go shopping and even think about how I can change our sitting room. It's because I get bored. I get an idea in my head and then have to go with it. Currently I've gone with 'naturals'. I'm a bit of a scaredy cat where colour is concerned. I have been awfully brave and bought a mustard coloured cushion from Ikea for our bed though. Little steps. Does that mean I am a 'beige person'? I don't think so, but it doesn't come natural to me to have a pop of colour. I do like lime green, and I do like mustard at the moment, and actually I tend to have an idea about colour a year or two before it becomes fashionable so maybe I need to become a trend setter? As if! Maybe I just like being safe?
It's taken me years to get our house in the colours I like. Our bedroom has been so many colours, sometimes lasting less that a week, that I dread to think how many layers there are on the wall. Our hallway has been stripy rusty colours before the complete contrast of the putty grey and white it is now. My current phase of pale grey theme has lasted a couple of years now so I expect I will want to change it soon! I wonder if other people are like this, or do they keep the same colours for ever? My parents used to change their wallpaper every few years so maybe that's where I've got it from? I am pretty sure Neil groans every time I look at a magazine featuring decorating or wander off in a shop to look at some cushion. In fact come to think of it he has got rather good at steering me away to look at garden stuff recently. Spring is in the air so he probably wants to clear the shed. I wonder if I can change the shed into a sun house with a chair......and cushions? Hmmmm.
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