Stop Me Before I Clean Again....

I am really only joking. But I do find myself constantly taking a moment to Swiffer something or knock down cobwebs or straighten out a table top or empty the dishwasher or wipe a kitchen or bathroom counter at the moment. Once everything isn't an absolutely chaotic, overwhelming mass of clutter that needs sorted out, the maintenance factor seems to be pretty easy, and if I am constantly taking about 15 minutes a day to dust and tidy, then I'm not spending my whole day off clearing away the accumulated clutter of a whole week. Why didn't I figure this out sooner????

I've even felt optomistic enough to add a mum to my decor. It's this really pretty kind that starts out with flowers that are a sunny yellow, and as they age, they turn a gorgeous burnt orange which just matches the pot I put the mum in. I find myself really drawn to burnished orange tones right now. I've never been all that crazy about orange, my current fascination with the No. 20 Home Depot car aside, but rich burnt orange shades really catch my eye. I looked up the meaning of orange as a color, being curious and figuring that my attraction to the color had to mean something. It turns out that orange is a power color, that is also a healing color. It's the passion of red combined with the joy of sunny yellow. Symbolic of stimulation and change. If you want to recharge or spark up something, add a dash of something orange. Which actually made perfect sense to me, with the way I'm feeling at the moment. Renewed and re-energized. It's a good feeling!