Monday Moodboard: Dulux Colour of the Year

1. Tut-topshop by Eleonore Bridge (via Design Crush Blog)

2. Silver Studded Blue Butterfly by Unknown (via Pinterest)

3. Through My Window by no-soap-was-harmed (via Pinterest)

4. Blueberry Pancakes by Chang Pick Yin (via A Blog With A View)

5. Still Life by Anna Williams Photography (via Pinterest)

Much like Pantone, Dulux creates a colour of the year for the paint range, this year it's Indigo Night, a blue which looks like the dusty matt skin of a blueberry or the colour of a good bruise...I don't know if that make the colour sound appealing or not, but it's the colours it brings to mind.

It's not quite the jewel tone that Pantone's Emerald eludes too, but it's a rich, dark and comforting colour, which could very easily translate into home furnishing and clothes. A colour which could be a bit scary in my little room, especially after I switched from dark magenta too a pale buttery yellow, but in the right space would be really imposing. That said I keep seeing people pinning a picture of a small black bathroom and it looks incredibly luxurious with the white roll top bath and thick herringbone flooring. I'd happily cocoon myself for a couple of hours reading in a bathroom like that.

Anyway as with the Pantone Moodboard, the colour doesn't match precisely but there's a definite tone...a bit of a Bowie tone me things...

"Blue blue electric blue, is the colour of my room, where I will live...blue..."
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Listening: Sound & Vision - David Bowie

Pantone Colour of the Year: Emerald

So for the Monday Moodboard last week - which returned after a long absence -  not only do you get some lovely shade related photos but this week you get thirteen emerald(ish) coloured treats for 2013's colour.

Again, I don't think Pantone could have picked a nicer colour and everything on this, I genuinely like and would like in my life...at least the few I could afford.

1) Ciate Creme Nail Polish in Ditch The Heels | Link
2) Faceted Wooden Earrings in Turquoise by Anthe-Stolz from DaWanda | Link
3) Andy Spectacles from Selima Optique | Link
4) Zoya Nail Polish in Ivanka | Link
5) Gosh Velvet Touch Eyeliner in Woody Green - this is one of my favourite eyeliners, they're really soft and easy to apply, they're also packed with pigment and last ages! Only downside is they slide a bit, so use a primer! | Image | Link
6) Emerald Christian Louboutin Pumps via Pinterest | Link
7) Vintage Clock London Emerald Green via Design Atelier Article (Etsy) | Link
8) Moleskin Notebook in Oxide Green - Pantone do do a specifically Emerald notepad, but I'm sorry, a moleskin just can't be beat! | Link
9) Alexander McQueen Flower Lace Strapless in Green (Emerald) via Lyst | Link
10) Green Polka Dot Scarf from Wanelo | Link
11) Barry M Dazzle Dust in 73 Emerald - this was the first eyeshadow I bought when I left school and broke away from my 'safe Emily' makeup. The blue mascara years may have been a mistake but the pink hair never will be. Barry M Dazzle Dusts have been a staple of my makeup bag since then, they're very highly pigmented and worth the money...unless they explode in your bag and go over your brand new bright yellow sneakers! Grrr... | Image | Link
12) Jasper Conran  for Wedgwood Chinoiserie Green Teacup from John Lewis | Image | Link
13) Vintage Emerald Earrings (14kt Yellow Gold and White Gold) from Cynthia Findlay Antiques | Image | Link


I could so easily go full out green from that list and I just hope that the fashion world picks up on Pantone's prediction, as Emerald really is a beautiful jewel tone and I'm bored of muted colours and neons. Plus I'd really quite like a pair of crystal green glasses. My glasses at the moment are crystal grey and the pair I'm looking at at work are crystal purple. I always seem to be drawn to the crystal frames (i.e. translucent plastic) and I have no idea why!

Anyway, hope you enjoy the list and I will type up my window posts now that my latest window is in and I've taken some photos. For now, on my day off, I have some work work to do and a cardigan to search for because I don't know where you are, but it's cold, windy and trying to snow here at the moment. So a nice day all round.

Link | Pantone Colour of the Year
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Watching: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Monday Moodboard: Pantone Colour of the Year

Green Sales (aka: Reserve Sonderburg) by Unknown (via Pinterest)

Western Emerald by Unknown (via Pinterest)

2.10 ct Emerald  and 1.35 ct Diamond, 18ct White Gold Vintage Dress Ring (1975) from AC Silver

Going Away Outfit (Philippa & James) by Caught By The Light (via A Cup of Jo)

Pantone's colour of the year is one I love for a change! The reason is three fold: one, I love green, two, I'm technically - though not actively - a jewellery and thirdly, I was born in May, and May's birthstone is Emerald. So it was a given that I was going to love the deep and vibrant hue of Emerald 17-5641. 

That said, and I don't know if you'll agree, I don't think of this shade as being true emerald, at least on my screen it looks more like a teal/jade...but never mind, it's lovely none the less and I can only hope that's there is lots of this colour around this year.

Link | Pantone Colour of the Year

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Listening: Green Eyes - Coldplay

Colour Shot: Somewhere it's Sunny

Untitled by Nen August

What a difference a couple of days make! Last week we were all enjoying a lovely mid-May heat wave, next thing you know we've sunk back into cosy jumper and warm sock weather. Just in time for my birthday too. Just my luck.

Tomorrow is my 27th birthday and it looks like we have cold and rain to look forward too. Fortunately, I suppose, over the past couple of weeks I managed to finally get all the veggies out into the garden and out of my bedroom, so they'll just have to fair with this cold snap as well as the rest of us.

And we'll just cross our fingers that the weather people will have miraculously gotten it wrong and we'll have a bizarrely lovely day tomorrow.
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Listening: Summertime Sadness- Lana Del Rey

Colour Shots: Purple Greens

{Untitled} by Diana Miller

(added colour swatches by all credit to the above artist, source: Pinterest}

I'm back, or at least hopefully I am back and Blogger's all changed since I was last here! It's all slick and clean looking, which is very odd.

So, where have I been? Nowhere exciting, just the usual place, doing the usual things, though there have been a few revelations. I got a proper job, as an office assistant and potential website runner at my fathers optician, which I admit I used to do for free but I am now paid, plus it means I am still getting up early. I have been in touch with my friends and explained my absence and given them my phone number. And I have decided that I definitely want to keep trying to be a jeweller, even if it's difficult and will take time and I am going to look into further education in the form of PhDs. Which is terrifying, but if I ever want to teach, I have to look into it.

My non-resolutions for 2012 were mostly to try and be happier, which I am feeling, I'm not there yet, but I am feeling better and thus I going to try and start blogging again, especially as I've made dozens of these Colour Shots and haven't posted any yet! So here is my first, since Monday Mood Boards always seemed to be forgotten we now I've Colour Shots, so there's no defined posting schedule I can fail to meet.

Today we have one based around the beautiful photography of Diana Miller, and this of purple beans because I feel the colour scheme matches the weather today, all greys and lush greens where occasional bout of sunshine we're getting is hitting the trees.

All I need now is for the sunshine to stick around, for Scotland to finally realise it's May and it should be warm and let my poor seedlings be planted before any more die on the windowsills! I currently have actual French beans on my plants in the spare room.
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Listening: Is There A Ghost - Band of Horses