The Silver Lining In Losing The Gold

Okay, you have to give it up for Canada.  They won the Gold Medal in Men’s Hockey fair and square. The Olympic host team playing a national past time…winning in an “edge of your seat sudden death” overtime…well, it has all of the making of a feel good movie.

Exciting, inspiring, warm and fuzzy and- oh… who am I kidding?  I was screaming at my screen like a banshee– jacked up that the good old USA would squash our Northern Neighbors like an icy grape. But, alas.  No such luck.

But truly there is no shame in being 2nd.  In some ways, Silver is sort of hipper than Gold anyway. Last week when April, Kim and my favorite little Black Eyed Peas fan went to see the band perform live at Madison Square Gardens (thanks again April!)- the band was awash in Silver throughout the entire show.

In person- Fergie is just about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen

When you factor in the fact that the Gold medal is actually a Silver medal covered with about 6 grams of 24 karat gold- well basically if you scratched off the surface, we’d be equals anyway.

The NY Times featured an interesting article about the history of the Olympic Medal tradition back in 2008.  Seems that ancient jocks were awarded Olive Branch wreaths in the winning circle, hum…probably wouldn’t play out so well today.

But in honor of the closing ceremonies of my own personal Olympic Fever the idea of Olive Green and Silver together, seems oh-so-quite inspiring!

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Abso-love it for a kitchen!  Good enough for Traditional Home magazine like in the one above or completely “home sweet home” as a color combo in my own kitchen, as shown below!

My own little Budda Bar

Every morning I worship my Rohl faucet, like working sculpture I always say (now if only I could actually teach it to do the dinner dishes!)

Tres chic, oui?

Peace branch out.

Olympic image from Getty, Fergie Pix by Ms. April Clark and collage images from House Beautiful and Elle