S'More Hodgepodge Please

Welcome to the last Wednesday Hodgepodge of the month. If you've answered today's questions add your link at the end of my post, and don't forget to leave a comment for your neighbor there before you run off. Here we go-

1. What is one cliche you think is nonsense? What's one you think holds truth? 

The first part of this question was hard. I think cliches are cliche for a reason, in that there's an element of truth to them. Which one is nonsense? I'm going with 'no use crying over spilled milk'. 

Sometimes a good cry over something that has already happened and cannot be changed is actually very useful. It's a release of emotion that when spilled often leaves us feeling better about whatever it was that upset us. 

Which one holds truth?  'Time flies when you're having fun' certainly feels true in my life. 

2. What's the last thing you broke and how did it happen? 

I can't think of anything small I've accidentally broken or something here at home that's been broken due to clumsiness. It's been almost two years now, but I'm going to have to say my elbow, which was definitely accidental and only partially due to clumsiness. 

We were on vacation in California, driving up the coast from San Diego to Half Moon Bay for a wedding. Fortunately we were nearing the end of our trip because besides my elbow I also broke my glasses and that was a problem too. I wrote about the whole thing here-Going Coastal

3. Are you a fan of s'mores? Have you had a s'more this summer? Last thing you ate that you wanted to ask for 's'more of'? 

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say I'm a fan, but I like them okay. We invited some neighbors over one night back in early summer, it might have even still been spring, and had s'mores around the firepit. We don't do a lot of fires here in the summer months because it's too hot. 

4. A mode of transportation you've never tried? Will you someday? 

A hot air balloon. I'm not planning on it, but never say never. 

5. Believe it or not, next week's Hodgepodge lands in a brand new month. What's your happiest memory from the month we're bidding adieu? 

It's been a pretty nice month here, busy with all the projects happening, but lots of nice moments too. I don't know if this one is my happiest, but it's definitely a favorite. I finally got the painters here and had one of the guest suite bathrooms painted and the water closet wallpapered. First up a couple of before shots...

It's not an easy room to photograph because it's an L-shape, with a doorway from the guest bedroom on one end, and a door to the hall on the other.  

All the walls in my house are this color, a very livable neutral from Sherwin Williams called Canvas Tan. Because of the lake we have a lot of windows, so there's a lot going on without adding anything too busy to the walls.

While I'll stick with mostly neutrals, a pop of color here and there feels right, and the new wall color is a pretty blue, which looks a little gray in the photos but is definitely blue in person-

We brightened up the trim too, as a test to see if we might want to repaint all the trim a brighter white. My upstairs trim is stained but the lower level is paint. 

This is the water closet and we added wallpaper in there-

The wallpaper is from Wayfair, and it's a nautical map mostly vague in location, in shades of sand and blue. 

We reframed an Audubon print we've had for many years and I love the softer wood tones. We still have one more print to reframe and I need something for the wall behind the toilet, but overall I love the new color, the wallpaper, and how clean it all looks. 

Thus concludes the little tour of my guest bath. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

That was more enough random for one day I think. 
I'm sure you do too. 

Happy Wednesday! 

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