Pink and Blue~do they go together?

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Ah, yes pink and blue.....

 The question of pink and blue going together isn't really a question for me.

An old hooked rug I picked up at auction has coral pink and aqua blues in it.

I'm planning to paint my bathroom vanity in duck egg blue 

so I dragged the rug up to the bathroom

and threw it on the floor.

This bathroom makeover kind of stalled 

and I am ready to set about finishing the task.

I wondered about introducing the pink Antoinette color into the bathroom color

palette along with the the duck egg blue~

and as I was thinking about this pink and blue idea an 

old childhood memory popped into my head while  I showered.

When I was in second grade I was invited to color at 

my grandmother's neighbor's house, Lucy.

I loved to color~and I colored a page with a puppy dog 

and used powder blue and baby pink.

It was so pretty and when I finished it off I proudly showed 

it off to Lucy and her friend who remarked,

"Oh! Pink and Blue don't go together!!" and laughed knowingly.

 I was perplexed....what did she mean that pink and blue don't go together? 

I was trying to understand why she said that, when my picture was so pretty.  

 Well I couldn't understand it, and I was too embarrassed to ask why. 

 When she laughed at me, I didn't feel very good about my coloring~like it was a failure.

I don't have many crystal clear memories, but this one is clear. 
And it  popped into my head while I pondered adding Antoinette pink to the blue~
funny how that happens, isn't it? A vintage memory just comes to the surface and
 you can remember exactly how it felt that day.

 I thought to myself this morning that I was so 

glad that woman's comments didn't crush my creative spirit.

 I was glad I survived it even though it was a sting so strong I didn't forget it.

 And now my house is decorated with lots of pink and blue~

and that woman has probably been dead and buried for a while now.

Wonder if you get to read blogs that apply to you up in heaven orwherever you go.

 And then something strange happened.

 I checked my email this morning 

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw what was there.

My sister Susan's (almost) 2 year old twins had just colored

 their first pages out of a coloring book!

And it was a puppy!! 

And look at how much fun my god-daughter,

 Audris, had with her crayons!

 Seeing the puppy coloring book pages was a jolt~

Its so strange and wonderful when the universe sends you a message~

 "That was awful about the negative comment on your artwork

 when you were little~and pink and blue DO go together"

Yes they do.