'once upon a time'...

i like the color green a whole lot,

always have.

i like grolly green

all the way through

to pretty pastel minty greens.

i like green with hints of blue

and i like green with hints of yellow.

in fact i think it quite true to say,

if i were only allowed one colour in my life

it would have to be green.

if i spy an article of clothing in a store

and it happens to be green,

all sense of what suits me or not,

goes out the window...

i only have eyes for the green.

finding vintage fabrics in green

and indeed clothing

can be a little tricky at times,

hence when i stumble upon them

i can get a little emotional

about the stumbling moment.

however i do not do luminous green,

no sirree,

no way,

no how,

having lived through the 80's

i cannot bring myself to dabble

with such wrongness again.

yesterday i decided to buy a small pot of paint,

a brilliantly cunning plan to distract me

from another of my flock getting ready to fly.

it did not take me long to spy my green,

it was called 'once upon a time'.

well surely upon surely,

if ever there was a green paint

suited to our shed,

it had to be this one.

upon arriving home at the shed

i noted i have a couple of hours

before high school graduation.

ignoring the piles of laundry,

the dried crusted breakfast dishes

and the dog hair courtesy of Used Dog

i only had eyes for a thrifty find

and my can of green paint

my thrifty find

was a wall sconce in brown metal,

upon discovering its charms on the shelf of despair

it told me it liked the colour green,

obviously i was left with no choice...

after two coats of 'once upon a time'

and a couple of vintage decals,

i was smitten,

completely and utterly

smitten with my new paint.

whilst driving home from Graduation,

i noted all the Freeway road signs in Seattle

are painted the same colour

as 'once upon a time'

she is thinking upon her return from across the pond, a certain cupboard in her laundry room would look peachy dressed in 'once upon a time' ~ Tif

footynote: if by chance you wish to paint a find in your life the same colour as Freeway road signs in Seattle, here's the nitty gritty

Benjamin Moore, Aura ~ semi gloss

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