Wine Vs. Chickens

I need your help, dear readers.

As you know, I'm doing some light redecorating around the parsonage. And now, I think the kitchen and the adjacent dining room are due for some assistance as well. The problem is, my kitchen is orange. Orange can be cool, but it mostly clashes with everything.

So, I narrowed the choices for theme down to 2: Chickens and Wine. My personal preference is chickens, but I have been told that wine is a much better choice. I will concede that wine makes more sense, seeing as how I live on the Chautauqua Wine Trail. But, I've really liked the idea of a chicken kitchen for a few years now.

What do you think? Chickens? Wine? Something different entirely?

2009: A Style (Journal) Odyssey

So, I had problems getting to sleep last night. And I am not really sure why. I didn't get to some semblance of sleep until around 5:30 in the morning. So, during my time awake, I tired everything I could think of to get some sleep. Finally, I got up and read, then played on the Internet for a bit. I was also half-heartedly searching thru some papers, and came across a spare notebook.

So, I decided to start a style journal. That's right a style journal. I've been doing some basic home improvements around the parsonage. Nothing major, just some repainting, some minor redecorating. So I decided to write down stuff I like, design ideas, stuff like that. But it also will contain things like books I want to read or that get recommended to me, new music to check out, and a host of other things.

Another purpose of the journal is to eliminate the constant problem of trying to remember where I saw something when I want to purchase it at a later date, or simple refer back to it. This will certainly help.

Besides, I would like to own my own home at some point in my life. With the style journal, I will have a whole garden of ideas from which to draw.