Aqua blue, sky blue, ...

1. Untitled, 2. living room, 3. Blue, 4. butterflykiss, 5. Oh So Pretty!, 6. Edward Cucuel , 7. Camille Soulayrol, 8. Beatrice sitting, 9. B l u D r e a m, 10. ATC - outmoded cafe, 11. Minty's Bday Blouse - sleeve detail, 12. myphoto-083, 13. "Stab my heart" pincushion, 14. MermaidGloves2, 15. Log Cabin Socks, 16. Untitled
Go check this out: you can search Flickr by colour. It's fun!
And have you ever seen a cat as funny as in number 1?

Blue

Blue things in my bedroom...

A bit of blue

...despite the lack of sunlight to make proper pictures!

Dark blue

1. Pictures 293, 2. Mamluke Socks, 3. wallpaper, 4. and she closed her eyes, 5. Blue Berries, 6. really truly, 7. Needlebook and Old Buttons from Lori-FQS, 8. Zokni!, 9. serenity, 10. collecting, 11. Ladies Home Journal, 1910, 12. Blue Roses Teacup & Teapot, 13. Japanese Children's Books, 14. 6//52, 15. Spools of vintage thread: blues, 16. Toile
I absolutely love blue, so I will do a week of dark blues and next week I'll take a closer look at aqua blue, baby blue, sky blue, and so on, and so on...
(Click on the links to see more work on Flickr, an endless source of inspiration).

Purple wardrobe

A little bit of purple

Purple

Purple: a rich and mysterious colour. I have a love/hate relation with this colour, it's difficult to use, both in drawings and in crafts. But used well, it can be stunning.

1. plums, 2. camile's shedir top, 3. purple, 4. Evening Stockings, 5. The Purple Monogram, 6. ~maive~, 7. Ophelia Drowns, 8. Fog Veil, 9. Normandie46, 10. A Child's Garden of Verses, 11. granny square pile, 12. Untitled, 13. inspiration, 14. Pansies Pink-2, 15. hexagons, 16. Elissa's Baby doll beach set (blouse) Summer 2007

Pink in my garden

Autumn is not the best time to take flower pictures in my garden.
But I have a lot of sedum blooming right now, it gives very nice colour accents in my borders.

And lovely hydrangeas of course, you can't have enough of them.

And more pink

Ribbons, and powder puffs, and lipstick, pink is a very girlish colour to me.

In my wardrobe, you can't find a lot of pink, only very soft tones of it. I don't want to look like Paris Hilton or Barbie...


But this little cutie likes her ribbon...

And I did find quite some pink in my bathroom.

Pink

1. Princess Naomi, 2. healing echinachea, 3. Half Dresser, 4. pillows, 5. Japanese Lantern - estate sale find, 6. Sewing Kit Gift, 7. Cat among the cherry blossoms 2, 8. Spools of Pink, 9. pink tea house, 10. Cinderella Gown, 11. very showy, 12. bippity boppity boo, 13. Future quilt for my daughter, 14. Little birdie, 15. Echoes Of Paris, 16. a rose by any other name would 'taste' as sweet

Red

A few glances of red in my house & garden...

Red week

1. Illustration, 2. dress d-3 close up of fake tie, 3. Hearts, 4. you're just a click away..., 5. red arianie bag, 6. strawberries and mulberries, 7. Carl Larsson, 8. Junior Bazaar Cover 1954, 9. red, 10. silkie repaint- Bild Lilli imposter, 11. homegrown, 12. Yard sale - Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book, 13. red cottage, Oslo, Norway, 14. detail from the collar, 15. Strawberry, 16. Day dreaming.

How to make a mosaic:
1. Create a Flickr account.
2. Collect favorites (it's handy to choose from)
3. Go to Mosaic Maker.
First choose a layout, I always use square tiles, 4 columns x 4 rows.
4.Then I enter the URL's of the pictures I want to use: I open a picture in Flickr I like, then I copy its URL and paste it on the first line behind number 1. And I do this for 16 times, takes about half an hour.
I always do this with 2 windows open, one in Mosaic Maker and one in Flickr, and then I switch back and forth.
5.Then I click "create".
6.Now you see the result, sometimes it's necessary to move the pictures a bit. If you want to change something, click "Edit mosaic".
7. If you like the result, click on "Save".
8. Copy the HTML-code and post it on your blog (to give credit to all the photographers).
9. Upload the picture from your desktop (or wherever you have saved it).

This looks very complicated, but it's easy if you do it step-by-step.

Orange

Finally time for an update...
Loads of work, the end of the schoolyear, and an unexpected trip to Britain, I had my reasons to neglect my blog.
More about my little unexpected holiday later, but first: orange!

1. Fiery Beauty, 2. I'm a little teapot, 3. Birthday Cake., 4. Portrait, 5. Fresh Alabama Peaches, 6. e04d_1, 7. Benicio kissing Poppy, 8. my cat "HOOK" 's feet, 9. Untitled, 10. if this were pink it would be the world's most perfect dress, 11. age of empires sweardress over striped thrifted dress, 12. 十份-燈龍, 13. ginger cat, 14. Vintage Orange Shade, 15. clementine, 16. Bone China

A honey and bread breakfast this morning. And one of my favourite mugs.

A cute cup I bought on a flea market for 50 eurocents.

A notebook with all my Photoshop tips and tricks, I am no good at remembering computery things and this book is always lying next to my computer.

My Penguin pockets.

A cute teddy.
Sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, it has been raining for days, and there's almost no light inside our house.

And of course Spipsie, our sweet girl with the orange spots!

Yellow

1. vintage yellow MOP buttons, 2. "Tropelias de Lili", cover, 3. Not the ugly Duckling..., 4. threadbare ted, 5. cross stitch, 6. Frivol hat - close up, 7. Yellow Warbler, 8. Japanese05.jpg, 9. Untitled, 10. Chums, 11. Cooper's Shop (1847), Shaker Village, Pleasant Hill,
Kentucky, 12. Leaf Baby Quilt, 13. First Harvest, 14. Bob Staake - Yellow Umbrella Books, 15. perfect pear, 16. sweet dream...

While making this post, I realized I have almost no yellow flowers in my garden (at least no summer flowers), I have no yellow things in my wardrobe and very little yellow fabrics or yarn...
And it's not because I have a dislike for yellow, I just tend towards blues, greens and pinks, I guess. But more of that later, next week another difficult one: orange!

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