Don’t you just love a happy accident?? You know, like “hey, you got peanut butter on my chocolate!” or when Bob Ross accidentally dabbed a little black paint onto an otherwise green forest bed and turned it into a stream – “we don’t make mistakes – we have happy accidents.”

Or in this case, when I wanted to team my camel cardigan with a wine trapeze dress but actually thought it looked a little meh…then while looking through a drawer for some hand cream, I came across this scarf my daughter gave me for Christmas a few years ago and BAM realized it would tie the two solid colors of wine and camel together and make a nice outfit. A happy accident.

Interesting when you think how many significant things in our lives are really the cause of “accidents,” or “events unplanned.” My ex and I (before we were even engaged or officially living together) bought our first house together not based on a plan, but because my (then) best friend’s sister had just gotten her real estate license and was eager to make a sale, so she begged to show us a house because it had a 4-stall barn in the back. We were certainly not in the market for a house and I didn’t even have a horse right then, but she associated the property with me because of that. Well, the house was mad cheap and I fell in love with the charm (even though I think I’m the only one who saw that – my mother literally CRIED the first time she saw it cuz it was so run down and filthy) and we bought it. And THEN because I was buying a house with a barn, my boss offered me the horse love-of-my-life, Robbie Stop, because he couldn’t stay sound enough to do the high level show jumping he was capable of doing, plus, he was a little high maintenance and could be tough to handle. So because someone’s sister had a new job, I ended up with a house and a horse 🙂

Think of the people in your life and how you met –  waiting for an elevator, on the dance floor at an out-of-state wedding, making them coffee every day at the local coffee shop or maybe you literally “bumped into them” in a minor fender-bender. Or maybe a job you ended up getting because of a casual conversation with a stranger in line at the market. The point is, you never know who or what is right around the next corner, good or bad. And how interesting it is that some of the biggest things in our lives – partners, relationships, jobs, homes – can materialize seemingly out of thin air just based on a coincidence or chance encounter.

We never know what a new day will bring. What might today bring?? Maybe a Happy Accident.

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I’m linking up today with:
Jodie at Jodie’s Touch of Style 
Emma from Style Splash – it’s her 100th link-up!!!
Shelbee from Shelbee on the Edge – and it’s HER 100th link-up, too!

 

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