Fall Out of the Ordinary

When the warm weather leaves, warm colors arrive. Oranges roll into yellows and a tint of red is added to almost anything this time of year. Dressing up your home in these colors often screams “Fall!” and it doesn’t have to.

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You may have fall colors year-round without feeling like Halloween or Thanksgiving is right around the corner all the time.

Here in “Colorful Colorado”, we are blessed with blues, purples, and whites this time of year. It may just be a colorful segue into winter, but it gives us a small handful of softer hues to play with.

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Inspiration isn’t hidden here. It explodes out of the earth in beautiful snow-capped mountains. As the air gets more crisp these next few months, all the colors of the landscape surrounding the mountains are defined by the white and sky-blue backgrounds.

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Pearce, the Elephant Coming Soon to Fabric!

NEW! Fabric on Spoonflower! Pearce the Elephant now available for all your quilting and pajama-making needs!

Fabric should be available the first week of February. Meanwhile, check out my other Spoonflower fabric!

Blue & Red

I am really loving this shade of blue lately. It’s showing up in random places and complimenting colors I wouldn’t readily pair with it. Bright, but sultry, a cool blue that warms up a room? What would you call this?

This image is from Apartment Therapy’s Color Contest 2009, Kristen’s Castleberry Hill Loft entry.

Speaking of color, check out this ladybug I just found on my back porch. The red looks awesome against the slate gray of our crappy porch slats. :)

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I Need This Scarf

I saw this post on Katy Elliot’s blog earlier today and I’ve been thinking about it all day. I love this scarf by Anne Willi. (And it’s only about $40USD)

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OH that blue! And I’m really not much of a fashionista, so if something you have to wear caught my eye this strongly, it must really be something. I was plotting tonight to take up knitting just so I could make one. Then I realized that would involve sitting still so I abandoned the idea immediately.