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Take care / Marie
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Minty scent / 159
Hej friends,
I’ve been browsing the web for fun while waiting for my darling to meet up. Thought it looked like mint is in favour, at least on a lot of websites & blogs. At the beginning of my professional life, I lived in a small town for a year where I rented a small apartment which I furnished in white, pine & mint green. I would never think of that colour as a choice today, for sure. But like most things, it’s always nice to relive stuff & things at a distance. Been there, done that…feels good sometimes. Especially when one wouldn’t like to do it again. It’s one of the advantages of getting older:)
Mint can be a bit too cute sometimes, for my taste. It needs to be mixed up with one or two other colours & materials to become more appealing. Concrete or stripes gives an interesting look. There’s so many possibilities for whatever style or look. In addition, there are infinite shades of mint. The sky is the limit, as always.
Stylish collarless jacket / Prettystuff
Styling with some mint objects / Sockertoyforogat
Kitchen cabinet doors in this pretty mint colour / Beatricehernandez via Pinterest
Black-grey wall is a nice contrast to mint / Monicafury via Pinterest
White with mint details / Mokkasin
Cute wall houses to use for small items / Micasaesuscasa
Cool floor lamp / Lamaisond’annag
Bathroom for lovers of mint green /dkshopgilr
Looks almost like an installation / Designtraveller
A mixed sweet style / Mokkasin
Backsplash that ends with the fridge / Skeppsholmen
Candle light, always beautiful / Pappa-bear
Different green tones / Lamaisond’annag
Haute couture in mint / Monsieurwintour
Take care / Marie
Creme / 158
Hej dear friends,
Creme, or if you prefer, beige is as colour that I do return to periodically. I know some find this colour boring & predictable. That’s ok really, it’s the beauty of life with different views, opinions, taste etc. To be open & curious is a way to broaden the horizons & learn a thing or two. Which in many cases is easier said than done since many of us are creatures of habit. This applies to most things in this wonderful but sometimes complicated world.
I think that beige is an excellent color that blends in nicely in almost everything or everywhere. It’s a pleasant colour & combined with white, so very fresh & appealing, whether it’s clothing, architecture, home furnishing or…you name it. Let’s have a look together…
Paris an early morning / Aprilfools
A bathroom as close to a dream as you can get / Inspiringinteriors
Wild & beautiful / Lum-inescent
A beauty on my wrist / Andwhiteflowers
Beautiful everyday objects / Maisonblanches
So neat & serene / Livethemma
A still-life with ceramics, works everywhere / Emballes
Wonderful coat as well as umbrella / Twentythreefour
Simple & appealing / Desiretoinspire
Favourite shoes in our family / Youbroketheinternet
Neat, nice & beautiful still-life / Thelittlecorner
Atmospheric set, of loved things / Pinterest.com
One of Prada’s best looking clutches / Rocknrolldoll
Subdued & pleasant tones / Sallyconran via Pinterest
White painted wooden walls & flooring combined with soft creme tones / Designedforlife
Take care / Marie
Lightblue / 162
Hej friends,
Lightblue, a color I think of as rather unusual, these days. Not on kids maybe but generally on adults, in fashion, buildings or whatever. Some colours seems to just disappear for a long time. It’s like they’re not relevant anymore, for some reasons. It’s the same thing with, you know, actors, cities, music, food. I guess it has to do with what trendsetters, ad’s agencies, magazines etc. communicates. We are what we are presented, one might almost say. Too much around us are influenced by others.
Don’t know what you think about light blue, but I liked what I saw, anyway.
A truly magnificent piece of work / Lambert
Light, fresh, white & baby blue / Room269
Fun bracelets with measurements / Home & garden
Light blue floral wallpaper / Interiordrops
A bit more muted wall colour, highlighting the bedclothes / Atelierrueverte
Fresh combination / Skonahem
Sweet for sure / Casadecorada
Different blue shades / Decor8blog
Sweet old style furniture, nice with two mirrors in blue & white / Vintage via Tumbler
A beautiful sight somewhere in France / wearetheones
Light, bright & very appealing – in a white environment / Skonahem
Adorable colour / Housetohome
Patterns in various large & small squares / Lexington
Light blue fits with almost everything / Skonahem
Take care / Marie
Grass green / 152
Hej dear friends,
The most recent entries have been pretty colorless, so I’m going with a green theme today. Especially when the summer is around the corner back home in Sweden. It suits as well over here in Australia despite the autumn, the weather is just so nice, most of the time. So this morning we headed out to a nice restaurant where we met up with a group of friends for early breakfast, – as always, a pleasure to spend time with people I love. It struck me that we now have lived in Sydney nearly five years & that we’ve known those particular friends as long. A rather cool feeling considering that they have been with us from the start, in our new homeland.Very nice feeling, actually. What would life be without friends, huh? One of life’s greatest pleasures, for sure.
Back to the theme, green is not a primary colour, it’s created of a mixture of blue & yellow. It’s considered as one of the additions to primary colours. The complement of green is magenta, at least according to RGB colour wheel. That’s a purple colour corresponding to an equal mix of red & blue light. On the other hand, based on traditional colour theory, the complementary colour to green is considered to be red. The word green is closely related to the old english verb growan which means to grow. It’s used to describe plants or the ocean. It can also describe someone who is inexperienced, jealous or sick.
In USA, green is a slang word for money, among other things. Several everyday expressions have been developed from these meanings, such as “green around the gills”, a phrase used to describe a person who looks ill. In some cultures, this colour symbolizes hope & growth, while in others, it’s associated with death, sickness, envy & even the devil. Green is also associated with regeneration, fertility & rebirth for its connections to nature. Recent political groups in Europe & the West have taken on the color as a symbol of environmental protection & social justice…& consider themselves part of the Green movement. This has led to similar campaigns in advertising, as companies have sold green or environmentally friendly products. (look up the word green in Wikipidea, where you can read more about colours).
Fashion from 1952, nearly 60 years ago / Glamourmagazine
Graphic patterns on the washing line / LikainenPerketti
Green wonders, from some part of the world / Girlfoistanbul
Green from the wonders of nature / Bohotea
Make-up skills / Rain-boho
Splash of green / Hus&hem
From the amazing world of animals / In-social
Blankets in lovely green tones / Thelittlecorner
Spring salad with orange vinaigrette – healthy food for body & soul / Gastrogirl
Well, candy tongue perhaps / Vogue
Fine solitaires in an otherwise neutral kitchen / Vintagelux
Simply nice & easy to let stand on a table / Bohotea
Colour powder without any additives / Vibran-t
Green-painted wooden furniture which enhance the impression in the kitchen / Alltihemmet
Take care / Marie
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