Making it Homey with box full of Empowerment

"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

I have a lot of stuff. I love painted walls, no builder white for me, although I do like muted cream walls with a hint of an undertone that picks up color from the fabrics in the room. There are so many ways to make a room your own.  

 

Art of course makes a room and is absolutely essential in my décor. I am not talking high brow like you would find at the Musée du Louvre 
in Paris, France. I like pop art you may find on Etsy or old inexpensive portraits you pick up at the flea market or garage sale. Watercolors are a favorite too. 

http://www.bromstad.com/

I am not past getting an ugly canvas at the goodwill and knocking off a copy of something modern a la David Bromstad style with his squirt bottle in one hand and paint brush in the other.

You need tools to hang the art which will make things look homey. I impatiently want to put a new piece up right away as soon as I get home with something. 

The first time I had an apartment of my own I had no tools and the art was stacked in neat piles in all three of the tiny rooms for weeks maybe even a few months before I found the most amazing pink box of DO IT HERSELF tools. 

 I wasn’t looking for a box tools when I found it but it spoke volumes to me. The hammer and needle nose pliers had cute pink rubber grips and the tape measure I needed to get columns and rows just right was so pink too! This premier box of goodies was neatly packed in a self contained pink plastic case of goodness for $20. What really went into the cart was a box full of pink empowerment. You see this loaded tool box in all its pink regalia said you can do anything you want. It was telling me that I did not need help and that I could achieve and reign supreme! And achieve I did. Specifically, I gained a deeper sense of self worth when I bought myself and used tools with the color that celebrates femininity. I know! who would think such a little thing would mean so much.

I have a confession………I covet my pink tools. I delight that they are mine and we have a history.

Pretty tools anyone for the holidays?!!!!!!!!!