pink and gold

Just few days left until the next PR season begins!
Gorgeous gown by Amanda Perna.

(photo by Lifetime)

Which reminded me at once of the gold-khaki/pink association in these pink truffles by Charbonnel et Walker. A toned up Laduréeish palette.


Simply eye candy!!!

state of colour union

Here is my working palette for the new house.
Walls will be white but they may be some grey, very light sage/mint green or egg shell where darker shade are needed.

Anyone who has ever tried using the colours between fuschia and blue will agree.
Just like when you shop for Alliums. They always end up having a tint quite different from the picture.
Screens and cameras just never seem to be able to tame them. So we'll pretend the first two are raspberry/burgundy and dark fuschia....(second swatch looks like the 2011 Pantone Honeysuckle but they is not what I was going for, so imagine something darker, a tad pinker than raspberry.)
Am not sure about the two last ones. Maybe a very dark purple rather than this odd indigo.

By the way, you know the easy colours math:
Colour+ white = fader shade of the colour
Colour+ water (to lessen total amount of pigment) = desaturate version of that colour (less concentrated)
Colour + its complementary colour = darker i.e. intensified shade of the colour
Colour+black = 'dirty' version of the same colour.

Read more here. (in French)

Persistence of vision

Few weeks ago, I found myself in total awe with the colour palette for a Chloé clutch similar to this, minus the purple flap.
You know when colours stay in my mind floating around, bugging you.
I mean look at the combination of unbleached linen, bright pink, almost fuschia, lilac and acid yellow. make you wanna spend the rest of your life in summer clothes....hey, don't we have one day left before fall?....
And the contrast between the raw-natural fabric and the modern sequins.
By the way, if anybody knows of a good place to by nice trimmings
(I mean beyond the electric blue, Xmas red or nice but expected black sequins, but more subtle colours) we're looking forward to receiving any suggestions.
Anyway, later that day I bought this JCrew t-shirt...without purposely looking for the clutch colours...
and of course, few days later somebody had to linger in the FIMO aisle...
Now that lilac stubbornly refused to be photographed and kept turning either too blue or too pink (same story with the T-shirt).
So picture something exactly like the paint swatch/on the picture of the FIMO before varnish. svp :-)

piouf~

No no, I'm not trying to sound that this little bird on sale this summer at Adolfo Dominguez.
Am only sighing after trying to take pictures (without luck) of the earring swinging on my ear...hmm Ubung macht den Meister, I guess. I will have to practice and show you many more...
It goes without saying the matching bracelet is home made, with Martha Stewarts Craft pastel ribbon and black glass beads from an old Bijenkorf bracelet.
Nice combination of a light pastel colour and a very classical black, don't you think?

Funny how...

Five years ago, as I was still in the Netherlands I got a huge crush on BLIJ. ('happy' in dutch, pronounce 'blay').
And the rest of the delicious VTwonen collection from Flexa. My addiction was so severe it drove me to buy sample tubes of EVERY shade to paint small objects.

Not long ago, totally by chance, I bumped into this dress and have adopted it at once:

With a t-shirt underneath or not, with jeans, easy to dress down or up.
I instantly fell in love with the red and the slighly pink grey.
As you can see on the picture, I had the perfect necklace to wear it with and was quite 'BLIJ' showing off for several days in a row (hence the much needed ironing). Everything was perfect.

Until, I found back this:

a simple bracelet homemade back in the NL and directly inspired by Blij and Oester from Vtwonen, completely forgotten about and not worn since.
Pinkish grey and orangy red: the picture makes it hard to see but it's the exact same colours as my dress....
Destiny had pulled it back from under piles of things in my closet as I was rummaging there yesterday, looking for something else. I am compelled to wear it.

I know I tend to be talkative but this time, I'm still speechless.
Call it chance, good timing or retinal persistence in my brain if you want... I call it LOVE.