Is COMFY COUNTRY. And that is according to this quiz. Though I am afraid that our current nest is not as pretty as I wanted it to be. But it is comfy, I must say.
COMFY COUNTRY
Classic country style is almost universally appealing, especially when it’s pulled off with the panache that you bring to interior design. Your family home is warm and welcoming and lovingly lived in. Whether consciously or instinctively, you pull together rooms around key pieces, matching or complementing pattern and colour so as not to overwhelm the viewer.
Living Room
Your living room brings the best of outdoors inside. The living room is usually the hub of the home, and the country look is perennially popular: it’s warm and inviting and unpretentious. In its most classic incarnation, the focal point is the fireplace, and this is certainly a style that’s all about comfort, hospitality and connecting with nature, the soul and the seasons. Modern accessories can work well in a country-style living room. The look can handle the right sort of clutter so try grouping objects together for maximum impact. Neutral wall colours provide a calm, easy background, while glamorous prints and patterns are fun and stylish. Make comfort the priority in your living room: it’s where you naturally go to watch TV, relax and de-stress.
Bedroom
Yours is a ‘modern master’ bedroom. Sleep is fundamentally important to our well being. In busy towns and cities, noise can often hamper a good night’s sleep. Soft furnishings really do absorb sound, and touch is such an important sense in the bedroom, from crisp, linen sheets to wool or even sheepskin underfoot. You make quite a statement with clean, strong lines in your bedroom, using vibrant colours to make a bold statement.
Dining Room
You’re a maestro of minimalism using carefully chosen ingredients. At home, ‘less-is-more’ simplicity appears effortlessly stylish. With so little on show, every single item comes under scrutiny, so it’s important that you give time and thought to your choice of china, glass and cutlery. Try to avoid the ‘designer cliche’ trap, whereby every single piece has impeccable provenance: at best this looks like showing off, at worst it’s sadly predictable. When it comes to entertaining, children usually take centre-stage.
Home Office
You have a place for everything and everything has its place. Working from home is an increasingly popular solution to the challenge of bringing up a young family and making ends meet. A dedicated home office - even if it’s just the corner of a room - will help keep you focused and separate work from hectic family life. The modernist adage that form should follow function is nowhere better demonstrated than in the home office: keep things simple and add your own sense of style by using a splash of colour or a single, well-chosen decorative piece.
Kids’ Room
Let a child’s room reflect his or her personality — not yours! If you have the space for a designated playroom, great. If not, then giving your kids the biggest bedroom can be a smart move, certainly once they’re past the toddler stage: it gives them a designated space to play, enabling you to keep the rest of your home more, rather than less, how it used to be. Cheap and cheerful is ideal when it comes to most things in children’s rooms: not only do kids grow fast, they also grow out of fads and phases at an amazing rate.
Conclusion
Snug without being overbearing, home is where the hearth is.
I came across this quiz from A Matter of Memories blog and gave it a try. Visit Colorstrology, watch and read the introduction, then choose you month of birth, then day. Then answer the questions below.
My Results:
1. What is your birth month and day? December 19.
2. What is the name of your color? Lagoon.
3. What three words are given to describe you? Regal, expressive, determined.
4. Do you like you color? Why or why not? Not really.
5. What one sentence in the description MOST sounds like you? “Once you make up your mind to do something, you have the necessary stamina to accomplish your aims.”
6. What one sentence in the description brings your eyebrows together (either you do not think sounds like you or you are questioning somewhat)? “You may end up being in the public eye.”
7. According to Colorstrology, what will wearing, meditating or surrounding yourself with your color do? “Live life in a balanced and wondrous way.”
8. Does this make you want to incorporate this color more into your life? Why or why not? Lagoon is close to green right? If so, I am actually. We are bringing in plants inside the house.
Thanks Jeanny!
The object is to complete each of the following snippets. I have included the blank ones at the end of this post so they can easily be copied and pasted
I am: Alpha, and it’s not a screen name. {A few online pals thought it was just a screen name.}
I think: I’ll be sleeping early tonight. Headache!
I know: The Man up there has wonderful plans for me and my family.
I have: So many blessings to be thankful for.
I wish: My asthma will go away.
I hate: This certain commercial on TV kasi pa-cute masyado.
I miss: My big bro, my parents and my friends.
I fear: So many things so I pray.
I hear: The sound of the television from the living room.
I smell: Nothing.
I crave: For oatmeal pancakes from Breakfast At Antonio’s.
I search: For inner peace.
I wonder: About a lot of things.
I regret: Nothing. Anymore.
I love: The smell of my little boy.
I ache: When I don’t get enough sleep and rest.
I am not: Thin.
I believe: In God.
I dance: So very bad.
I sing: Out of tune. I enjoy it anyway.
I cry: When I am sad, frustrated, depressed and mad.
I fight: When I need to.
I win: So rarely.
I lose: Weight. Yeah, right!
I never: Leave home without my lip balm.
I always: Go online.
I confuse: Other people.
I listen: To this song that reminds me of old times.
I can usually be found: At home. Or at the little boy’s school. Or online.
I am scared: Of lizards.
I need: Some me time.
I am happy about: The blessings we are receiving.
I imagine: Living in my dream house.
I tag: Joy, Aggie, Litzie, Mai and Yen.
Oh, and here are the blanks:
I am:
I think:
I know:
I have:
I wish:
I hate:
I miss:
I fear:
I hear:
I smell:
I crave:
I search:
I wonder:
I regret:
I love:
I ache:
I am not:
I believe:
I dance:
I sing:
I cry:
I fight:
I win:
I lose:
I never:
I always:
I confuse:
I listen:
I can usually be found:
I am scared:
I need:
I am happy about:
I imagine:
I tag:
This was given to me by Aggie. I already posted this in my scrap blog {na walang scrap}, so I just thought of posting it here. I appreciate this Aggie, especially the effort of adding a little something about those you tag and not just the names. I love what you said about me, hehehe. Naku I really wanted to join the EB, kaso introvert talaga ako. Saka di ako mahilig sa kape. Bwahahahaha!!! Sonya’s might change my mind.
This meme idea started out of the blue while I was staring blankly at the 2 weeks worth of washed clothes that I have to fold. I instantly want to resign on my household duties and just laze around. I miss my mom and yaya chona so bad!
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This meme is pretty simple.
Here are the rules:
1.) List down the household chores you hate and why. Do you think you can survive without helpers and nannies?
2.) Copy the image.
3.) Tag as many girlfriends you want, the daddies and hubbies can also join.
4.) Add your blog’s link in the domesticated divas linky love. You can add all your blogs.
5.) Leave ME a comment and I’ll add you up in the masterlist.
My List:
I don’t like ironing clothes. And I don’t like cleaning the bathroom. I do enjoy cooking, including the preparation, the chopping, etc. But I don’t like the cleaning up part. We have been “help”-less for a few months now, but we are surviving. So I guess we can survive without helpers. And I don’t want to be so dependent on helpers anyway. There are times though that I wish we have helpers, like when I am sick or we have lots of stuff to attend to.
I planned on going to bed early last night {early as in 11pm}. I would usually watch a little tv before actually sleeping. While I was surfing the channels, I saw A Walk To Remember being shown at Studio23. I have been trying to avoid the movie since I saw it as I know I will feel awful again. Yeah, movies affect me that’s why I prefer watching those with happy endings. But last night, I decided to watch it. As I expected, I cried and felt bad again. But then again, I just love seeing young and pure love. Hay.
Anyway, I didn’t finish the movie anymore as I badly need to take a rest. I might watch it on DVD or just read the book.
If not for Jody, I wouldn’t have known that there is a song with the same title as my blog’s. I googled it and found the lyrics and saw a few videos of the song in youtube. This belongs to the soundtrack of Dawson’s Creek pala? Anyway, since I love Gilmore Girls, I am posting the one featuring Lorelai and Luke.
Feels Like Home (Chantal Kreviazuk)
There’s something in your eyes
Makes me wanna lose my self,
Makes me wanna lose myself in your heart,
There’s something in your voice
That makes my heart beat fast
Hope this feeling lasts
For the rest of my life
If you knew how lonely
My life has been
And how long I’ve been so alone
And if you knew how I wanted someone to come along
And change my life the way you’ve done
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I’m all the way back where I come from
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I’m all the way back where I belong
A window breaks down on a long dark street
And a siren wails in the night
But I’m all right ’cause I have you here with me,
And I can almost see through the dark there is light
If you knew how much this moment means to me
And how long I’ve waited for your touch
And if you knew how happy you are making me
I never thought that I’d love anyone so much
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I’m all the way back where I come from
It feels like home to me
It feels like home to me
It feels like I’m all the way back where I belong
Rule:
1. Post the button in your blog.
2. Please link back the person that gave the button to you.
3. If you have more than one blog, please post this to all of your blogs so your other blogs can be listed to the master list too.
4. You need to pass the button to at least 4 people that you think are also divas in any way.
5. Come back here and leave your post url so you can be added to the master list and help increase our rankings.
6. Please add to the list below a reason why you love being online all the time.
Reasons why I am an Online Diva:
1. Litzie - It helps me pass time when I’m at work and don’t have any patient to attend to.
2. Kathycot - Because it serves as my past time plus it gives me moolah for my kapricho’s
3. Yen- It helps me do what I like and love after a long day.
4. Jacq - It connects me to friends all over the world. It gives me work and lets me shop to all my favorite stores without leaving my home.
5. Alpha - I need to go online or else my day will not be complete. It’s my outlet and I get to reconnect with old friends, meet new friends, shop a little and I get to earn, too.
6. You
Found this good read from The Inspired Room and I got inspired to do some, if not all, from the list. Been busy and stressed lately. I do need some break.
Make the time for solitude and let some things fall through the cracks.
Try doing one less blog post per week or read a few less blogs in busy seasons. Blog world will still spin without our constant communication and participation. Your true friends will be there when you return.
Save up your emails and deal with them all in one sitting to avoid the constant interruptions.
Get up one half hour earlier to enjoy the quiet of the morning.
Turn off your phone and computer earlier in the evening. The world can wait until tomorrow.
If you have children at home, shut the door to your bedroom or bathroom for a short time each day or evening (if your husband is home or your kids are old enough to be alone!) and tell the children mommy is in quiet time.
Set appointments with yourself to do something different each week with some quiet time. Wander through an art museum, read a book at a new coffee shop, walk through a botanical garden, listen to music and daydream.
Create a special place for solitude. A clean and inviting bedroom can be a private sanctuary. Put on fresh sheets, pull open a window and a set a bouquet by your bedside.
Create rituals for your private time and look forward to those experiences. Light candles, journal your thoughts in pretty notebooks, meditate on gratitude, pray.
Learn to say no without excuses.
Be selective in how you spend your day, making sure to guard your private time.
Give yourself permission to live life at a different pace than others around you.
Make ordinary moments more special. A morning cup of coffee can be a memorable daily ritual if we slow down enough to savor it it solitude.
Be yourself and live authentically. Trying to impress is a sure fire way to be unbalanced in life.
Let go of the guilt for things you can’t get to and things you cannot control.
