The Glory of Grey

There are many people, myself included, who love the look of grey painted furniture, especially when it has a distressed effect and the newness is knocked off the piece with a few dings and scratches...nothing is more pleasing to the eye than a surface with grey chippy paint that speaks of age and longevity, memories and experience....

So what do we do to a brand new peice of furniture like this?

We reach for the paint and get it to look like this.

From this.....

....to this....

so why....when THIS happens......

do we react like this....

or this........

or this.......

or this.......

or this......?

Maybe because it conjures up images like this......

or this........

or this......

so we reach for this......

because we desperately want to look like this.......

and this.....

and this......

Sunddenly words like character and distress take on a negative connotation, antique becomes ancient and yes, we've had some scratches and the paint is chipping off but how is that a good thing???

Maybe if we reframe our mental image of grey hair to something more like this...

or this......

or this......

or this......

we will be more relaxed about the visible signs of aging and remember that ....

"Gray hair is a crown of splendour; it is attained by a righteous life" Psalm 16:31

On a different note..I wanted to mention a blog that I have been really enjoying and was particularly taken with her August posts. Can I recommend that you pop over and take a look at Stella and Pearl if you haven't already visited.

FYI , I have a modicum of grey hair that I am debating whether or not to cover up so not actually sure where I stand in relation to this issue ;o)