I fear I may be losing my mind.
Okay, not my whole mind. Just bits and pieces. A day here. A week there. A month over yonder.
I chalk it up to age. And beer. And wine. And perhaps that regretful summer of gin and tonics …
I most definitely try to not freak out that dementia does indeed run in our family. And if that is my fate, I can only hope and pray I don’t remember.
But the point of this this little story started with me thinking about the time we purchased our first home. Which, as it turns out, is this very home where we currently reside. The one we’ve been living in for 19+ years. The one that, somewhere along the line, turned into our forever home. Well, forever for 19+ years and counting home. The home where we raised our children home. The home where we’ll spend the next eight or more years as we marshal our children out into the world and into their own homes home …
and, hopefully, the home we sell for a nice little profit that will put us in our next home. Our dream home. Somewhere warm. With a beach …
and I digress once again.
I remember the broad strokes story of how we found this house – probably burnished in memory from so many retellings over the years – but it’s the fine details that get fuzzy. With the exception of a few moments from that first tour that stand out in mind as if it happened yesterday. One of those details was the large abstract canvas art the previous homeowners hung in the master bedroom. On a long, tall wall above the closet and reaching up the very tippy top of the vaulted ceiling.
And then and there – at that exact moment – I knew that I wanted to create a large, abstract art canvas for that exact same spot. Heck, the hook was still there when we moved in.
That was more than 19 years ago. And for more than 19 years, that space has remained blank. The hook standing alone like the cheese …
until now.
When Ace Hardware asked me to create a project using the OPI Color Palette by Clark+Kensington – the first partnership of its kind pairing a beloved nail lacquer brand with Ace’s trusted Clark+Kensington paint – I knew the time had finally come to create that original art piece I’ve been dreaming of for 19_ years …
There were so many fashion-forward colors to choose from three distinct collections: The Romantic, The Wild Heart, and The Artist. In the end I picked sample sizes of Keeping Suzi at Bay and Let’s Have A Party from the The Artist Collection and OPI Red and Over The Taupe from The Romantic Collection …
oh, and don’t you just love those paint color names?!
Using a 40% off coupon at Michaels, I picked up a 48” x 36” canvas for a steal. And then it was time to get my Jackson Pollock on …
I just stuck a paint brush in the sample can and started dripping and splattering …
I layers in colors and just walked around the canvas dripping and splattering and globbing on the paint …
I should have probably just stopped here. But this was just too much fun …
I just kept going back over and over again with the colors; overlapping layers. And making a giant mess …
And now I have to wait to hang my masterpiece until the proverbial paint dries. Which I fear may take awhile.
Let’s just hope it doesn’t take 19 years.
To celebrate the OPI Color Palette by Clark+Kensington – which launched at the end of June and are available exclusively at The Paint Studio, which is currently in over 3,200 Ace stores nationwide, Ace Hardware wants to give you a $100 gift card. You can enter here …
And, I’m excited to share even more opportunities to win some hard cold Ace Hardware cash! They’ve just launched an OPI Instagram contest where first prize will win a $500 gift card, and four runners up will get $100 each. Click here for the details …
Good luck!
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This post was written as part of my partnership with Ace Hardware as a member of the Ace Blogger Panel. However, any and all opinions are my own.
I would buy paint for our family room.
I’d put it towards a lawn mower
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I would install some shelves in our garage.
I would try out the opi paint. I love there polish.
I’d use it towards what I need to finish our basement
I would like paint for painting some wood furniture!
What a FREEING feeling that must be….to paint without rules…and outside the lines!!
I would love to continue my painting project with more ACE in my pocket!
I need to re-do my master bathroom — it’s this horrible peach color
I would buy some paint
I would buy paint for rooms in our house.
I would get a new sink.
I’m painting my walls and floor of the garage this fall.
On paint, of course!
I’ll get paint for the garage door.
I’d buy a paint sprayer
I want to try to build an above ground fish pond for my backyard.
Hmm, think I’d have to use it to fix a tempermental toilet, as unglamorous as that sounds! If there’s any left over, for sure it would go to paint! Thanks for hosting, Linda — love the Jackson Pollack project!
xo heidi
I would surprise my hubby and give the gift card to him
My intent would be to get paint, but you know how it is… hardware stores to me are like candy stores to a kid and it’s easy to get distracted!
I would buy things for the patio.
I would love to win this gift card!! We could accomplish so many of our planned projects!! Thank you!!
We are coming up on more kitchen work so I would buy some of the things we need to keep us moving forward! Thanks, gal!
I would use it for paint for our bathroom
Paint for the master bedroom!
I would buy a new lawnmower:)
I would get new lighting for our front walkway.
Oh there are so many things I would like to do…paint, outdoor lighting, and items to install a garden!
I would buy paint for the kitchen..a job I’very put off long enough!
Supplies to finish our front porch
Spray paint for starters!
First would be paint then a new smaller drill and then well to many things to look at.
Paint for our living room! This is lovely!
I would get paint for our house, every room is currently white 🙁
Would definitely buy paint, then wood, then I would need more paint. 😉
Paint for my bathroom! 🙂
I am buying a house that needs some work. I would use the gift card for any of the paints or whatever that I need.
Everything and anything
Paint, paint, paint! I think it’s time for all my rooms to be redone!
I’m with pretty much everyone else who’s commented. Paint. Sad to say my bedroom hasn’t been painted in about 20 years and my son’s and daughters….who have had theirs painted numerous times by mom, are going to have to help!
PAINT!!! Every wall in my house needs some new color!!
I bought an old picture frame and I would like to turn it into a chalk board for my kitchen. It has been sitting in my closet, because I’ve not had the money to buy the paint and work on that project.
clean **white** paint to replace the yellowed off-white looking grimy all over this house. And a saw, because I’m a little afraid of power tools and it’d be a good challenge!
I would buy paint to re-paint my bathroom.
I would use it towards a new shower.
Tools!
We’re putting in a fence!
I would buy paint, plants, hardware you name it. I always shop at Ace and have for over 25 yrs, love thier quality 🙂
Paint for our upstairs bathroom. I’m working on the nasty wallpaper now. I can’t wait for it to be fresh!
this is awesome! I love your painting! I have 4 rooms in my house that really need painting badly!
I would get some tools.
Paint! definitely.
I love how this turned out! Is it dry yet? I’ve been wearing OPI Black polish on my toes all summer. I LOVE IT!
I would buy paint for our den and kitchen.
I would buy paint for my daughter’s room – she just finally got a room of her own (at 12) and its important to her to put her own stamp on it. This would make her so happy!
I would definitelly have some cash to do my first project on my first house!!! We are trying to buy our first home… Have been stuck in an apartment where i cant do projects… But finally my mind will lead my hands into decorating and fixing up stuff.. God bless!