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  • Flickr three :: blue

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  • A Colour Guide to a Career

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    Have you seen this? This is the Color Career Counsellor! Apparently I’m a  {drum roll please}… Creator… which is a relief. I’m also: Nonconforming, Impulsive, Expressive, Romantic, Intuitive, Sensitive, and EmotionalThese original types place a high value on aesthetic qualities and have a great need for self-expression. They enjoy working independently, being creative, using their…

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Blue

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    Blue is not a colour that registers with either colour search engines… by the way. I should really have posted some of the results just to prove the point. So here’s what I found by searching for ‘blue’ which returned 14653 results.TOP: Winter Lights Set of 3 prints from T R Mack Studio just made…

  • Flickr three :: lavender

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  • Change of Season and the End of Birthday Month

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    This is the flash of red at the bottom of my garden. These blossoms herald the end of summer and the start of autumn and coincide with shortening days and chilly mornings. Today marks the last day of summer and the end of birthday month. When the boys were little we would take our annual…

  • Drawing a Nice Pear… Give Away!

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    So this is what I’ve been doing this week… drawing pears. Actually I love pears and not just the taste of them. I’m even trying to incorporate the word pear into a business name because I think a pear on a business card would look lovely. Now, back to the reason I am drawing pears……

  • Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Lavender

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      You’ll be pleased to know that the Etsy colour search tools did not let me down this week, here’s what I found:TOP: Photoglassworks tree and bird glass pendant. I know it was the background that matched my colour but when this appeared I just couldn’t let it go. Isn’t it gorgeous?MIDDLE: Sick on Sin’s…

  • Flickr three :: indigo

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  • Dear Lynette, The Romance is Over

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      Our challenge this week is to write about falling out of love with a technique, fabric or pattern. For me the answer is easy… Thimbleberries. I used to adore the country stylings of Lynette Jensen’s fabric and now I’m really not a fan at all. My first real foray into quilting was in Atlanta…

  • Give me the child until seven…

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    and I will give you the man. This Jesuit motto has been running through my head leading up to my Jolly Monkey’s 7th birthday. Could it be that the person he will become has already been hardwired? Sometimes I find myself watching him and wondering what life has in store for him. This gives me…