I’m a wordsmith

Honestly, purple is my least favorite color. I hardly ever use it in decorating. I don’t’ know why, it just always has been. It’s just sooo…. purple. I know, I know, I’m a wordsmith. However, I have found out some things that make me like purple a whole lot more. Purple is a color often associated with royalty. There is a very famous poem about purple that goes like this:

When I am Old
I will wear Purple!

When I am an old woman,
I shall wear purple – -
With a red hat which doesn’t go,
and doesn’t suit me.
And I shall spend my pension
on brandy and summer gloves and satin sandles,
And say we’ve no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired
and gobble up samples in shops
and press alarm bells
and run with my stick along public railings,
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick flowers in other people’s gardens
and learn to spit!
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at ago,
or only bread and pickles for a week,
and hoard pens and pencils
and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry,
and pay our rent
and not swear in the street,
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner
and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me
are not too shocked and surprised
when suddenly I am old,
And start to wear purple!

–Jenny Joseph

Purple is across the color wheel from yellow, which means these colors will compliment each other nicely. I especially love the idea of using purple for a little girl’s room instead of pink. I think one of the most beautiful bouquets of flowers I have ever seen was made up entirely of deep purple irises. Even purple has it’s beauty. How do you use purple in decorating?

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