Doors & Gates

this is a small sample of the many gorgeous gates and doorways to be seen in the areas of costa rica and panama we were in.

you know i have a thing for doors.

here and here

i even have a pair of tiny door earrings that i made from tiny miniature doorways i found over 20 years ago while treasure hunting in vancouver canada.  way back in the day. 

junker for life.  but that's beside the point.

doors, gates, doorways, gateways:

access, discovery, opportunity, opening, transition, transcendence, a veil between the worlds, mystery, the unknown, enlightenment, surprise.

i sense all that symbolically in doors.

do doors do anything for you?

there are more negative connotations as well but i choose the light-filled ones.

do you have a favorite symbol?

and what does it mean to you?

opening the double, arched, wood frame, french doors of my heart to let in some love, light and gratitude today.

if your heart had a door, what kind would it be?

seeking effervescence,

xoxox

jennette

Doors & Paint

if you've been around here a while,

you know i have a thing for doors.

last week jasper and i went to visit our dear loves in port townsend and they took us to visit fort worden state park...

where i discovered all these neat doors and cool old paint.

i am such a sucker for a good ol' vintage patina!

i wish every surface of my house looked like this:

aged, worn, old, historical, like it has a story of it's own to tell.

i've checked out all the paint technique books from our local library.  it doesn't seem like you could get it to look this good.

this old.

i'm fascinated with doorways.

always have been.

for me they have a myriad of meaning:

access, exploration, discovery,

opportunity, opening, transition,

transcendence, a veil between the worlds, mystery,

the unknown, surprise, enlightenment.

and colors!

oh how i love these random bits,

not meant to be art but to patch and spackle, here and there

again, i would adore having any of the walls in my house look like any of these old, rusty, random and patched up walls.

i like the touch of pink

could these curious spatters simply be there to cover up unwanted graffiti...

perhaps so, but thank goodness they used random colors, and every one under the rainbow, never any two cover up jobs looking twinish.

love the drab colors too.

does anyone else besides me want the outside of their house to look like this?!  look this good?!

yes, please.  i'll take a random wall niche.

some graffiti that hadn't been covered yet,

thankfully.

this is one of my favorite photos in this set:

doorways and stairways...

don't get me started!

i want hallway walls like this.

fort worden is only one of a million cool places in port townsend to visit.  there are the beaches, the farms, the shops, the food, the friends!  we hope to spend a lot more time exploring PT this summer

and if you ever find my current house deserted upon arrival, come search for me in PT, where you'll likely find me setting up home and splattering paint every which way!

in the spirit of adventure,

xoxoxox

jennette