fifi’s grafitti

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green card

3 August, 2008 (11:42) | home improvement, collage

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I’m inspired by how many people can do a project every day. I hadn’t planned on doing a card-a-day project yet, but since the heat has me mostly hibernating indoors, and since the smell of the paint on the outside of the house deters me from painting on the inside, I’ve started doing a few little projects. I may not be consistent, but am going to try to keep it up.

We had to quickly choose a color for the outside of the house. I had a green swatch I got at the paint store several months ago, but had never really looked at it outside in the sunlight. It was so shockingly bright in the sun I had to immediately procure some more swatches and try to choose a better one. I have a hard time imagining what a swatch will look like once it’s a big mass of color; I usually go through at least three different colors when I’m looking for an interior color. That’s hard to do with an entire exterior. Now the first coat of primer is on the house, and it seems “dirty”. I hope it’s not going to be too dark.

« stop at the door, podner.

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