:: when I was a girl, my bedroom was painted pink and carpeted with a matching hue. my bike "Fair Lady" with the banana seat? pink
:: in high school, I think it was cream I loved. sure I owned the requisite '80s aqua shirt, a royal purple coat--I recall we used to pair purple & green which made my mother shudder a bit. but cream just seemed so soft and rich, complementary, but not overstated...I think I do still love cream.
:: it was during my college years that I floated into a Victorian phase. I subscribed to the dreamy Victoria magazine (the old, original one) and dreamt of picture perfect picnics, ornate Christmases, fine china, antique everything and three story houses full of mahogany. somehow I associated all of that elegance with the color hunter green and it became the color that I loved. we planned our wedding and registered for household gifts while I was under the spell of Victoria and received hunter green bedding, towels, shower curtain and even a hunter green garbage can, if you must know. i imagined giving birth to a son whom we would name Prescott, but that is a subject for a different list.
:: and now? now I find I just love color and lots of it. saturated, bold, earthy, understated, sharp contrast and monochromatic. i have lots of moods. but, generally, I gravitate toward the bold colors and strong combinations. it feels like they give me energy...red, orange, turqoise/brown, a dark earthy green...
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Isn't interesting how we go through phases of color in our lives?
Yet I also know people who get stuck.
I knew a girl in college who only wore blue. All shades of blue, including underwear, and that was it.
I currently know a woman who only likes white, black and beige. That is all she wears. Her entire house is only these three colors, along with their cars and their dog. Strange, but very true.
Though I appreciate almost all colors, I do not necessarily surround myself by all of them. I have my favorites that tend to come into my house over and over, and so I embrace them. I love my sage green, chocolate brown and dusty blue. Yet I also have found in our bedroom that I enjoy grey and black and cream. It is really warmer than it sounds!
I am loving where we live now and watching the colors emerge for fall. Spring was glorious here as well, seeing every every imaginable shade of color emerging in some new and intriguing wildflower or bulb.
I have lived in the dessert which is more of monochromatic theme, but here, God used some of his best colors!
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