current observations

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Light Blue

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    I seem to have chosen quite a few variations on the colour today. I’m not really a blue person, I seem to always go for green. But I do like my choice for today. They are: TOP: John W Golden’s Pal Roundbot Print. I’m a bit of a fan of John’s quirky prints and I…

  • A Head Full of Jane Austen

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    There, he had learnt to distinguish between the steadiness of principle and the obstinacy of self-will, between the darings of heedlessness and the resolution of a collected mind. There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness…

  • Flickr three :: chocolate

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    {images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

  • Design Dilemma – Help Please

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    I’m appealing to you for help with my next assignment… again. We have to design a small brochure for a restaurant opening and this is just the front cover. The assignment is quite prescriptive in terms of text content but the style of food that the restaurant serves is really up to us. I’m going…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Chocolate

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    I think the word comfort comes to mind when choosing my top three today. This is very fitting as it’s cold and raining outside and the little one and I have braved the cold to visit the markets, eat blueberry muffins, drink hot chocolate (him) and buy ‘secret chocolate’ (aka Green & Blacks Maya Gold)…

  • Flickr three :: red

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    {images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

  • My fabric designs on Spoonflower

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    I was waiting until I received the swatches before I shared this with you. Here they are – fabric of my design direct from Spooflower. I’m really please with how they turned out, it was a giant learning curve for me to create a repeating pattern but it seems to have worked. Also trying to…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Red

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    The richness that is red. The Etsy colour search tools weren’t really my friends today so I relied on the keyword search which yeilded 8456 results!! So much talent to choose from but here are three that took my eye. TOP: Jewish Pop Art’s Tree of Life. I just love the colours, they harp back…

  • Flickr three :: dark grey

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    {images via flickr – click image to go to source page}

  • Meet My New Favourite Toy… I Mean Tool

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    I have a new toy.. it’s a free iPad app called Adobe Ideas. It’s become a nice little tool when researching colour which is what I’m doing at the moment for my next Uni assignment. We have to design a brochure for a new restaurant that serves North American West Coast cuisine… oh and by…