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"color index" by Jim Krause. picked up at B&N after perusing it over several trips. Just couldn't resist it any longer. Excellent, simple breakdown of color, combinations, saturations, separations, cmyk, rgb...well you get the idea from the sample pages included here. tremendous reference if color is part of your job - or all of your job!
Author: http://www.jimkrausedesign.com/
$21.59 - 23.99 at Barnes & Noble
Well, holy cow, we've been infinitesimally brushed by fame! Our porch's 'spot' in the commercial I mentioned last month is sooooooooo eensy-weensy & fast that it took me 3 playbacks to get a printscreen of it to share here. It's the very first second of the very first frame - and then - whoosh, it's gone! Made me think of when a snotty kid says, "Take a picture lady - it'll last longer!"
The entire 30-second spot can be seen here.
To think how many people this snippet employed is just craziness! I can't wrap my brain around for even the nanosecond our porch is on the screen! Seriously, these people are living their lives & sending kids to college on the income they earn from jobs like this! Whoa.
These swatches are from skirts that I no longer wear. A year ago, they were stuffed in a drawer at my desk for 'inspiration.' Just re-discovered them - lotta good they did me in the drawer! I enjoy the patterns and color combos so I scanned them and stuck the printouts in an inspiration binder. Now I can take the skirts to Good Will.
How do you keep track of inspiration clips? I have way too much to keep on a board, and I actually don't enjoy looking at it all this stuff all time b/c I need a clean slate and no overt predispositions when I start creating a design. The binder idea is space-efficient, but then I forget to look at it entirely! Need a happy medium...
M O R E . . .
Wishing very hard on every star, padittle, dandelion fluffer, bridge, railroad track and strangers' birthday candles for more peeks of sun and fewer drops of rain. Just for a little balance - I'm teetering on the edge of my own nerves...
What are you wishing upon and for these days?
L E S S . . .
Peanutman brought this pastel artwork home last week, and I was transfixed by his color choices, blending, details - oh, I swooned. It's really big - makes an impact! Certainly a bright spot amidst all the cloudy, cold, rainy freaking days we've had. (Looks like a dahlia to me, but I'm not sure.)
Last day of school was last Tuesday - hard to believe it's been a week already. We had some family events/obligations this past weekend, and our weight-loss competition our gym wrapped-up* on Sat, too. With all of that jazz out of the way, I feel like I can finally be free to forge into summer with my personal and work-related agendas. It's always interesting to me how these things take on a stress-life of their own, even when you're not the principal player. Sometimes I operate at such a steady, low-level of anxiety - and I'm so used to it - that I don't even notice until I'm free...and the knots and stiffness in my neck suddenly dissipate. I really look forward to working when I don't have to segment my brain - I am so NOT a multi-tasker. So, summer, look out - my schedule's cleared a bit and here I come - I have big plans for you little lady!
How about you? Is summer officially here for you? Plans?
*We won the competition 165 lbs to the other team's measly 89 lbs. We did the work, making sacrifices and commitments along the way - but I have to give a lot of credit to my husband, who was our team captain. We started a group blog on livestrong.com, and he would post every morning with something factual or inspirational for us to ponder and discuss. Worked like a charm. One of my friends & readers was the MVP on our team - and she kicked a$$! Way to go Melissa!!
Here's to 15 years (+8 extra) of the very best love & laughter a girl could ask for! Wondrous and unexpected - the kind life's all about!
Remember my mini, mini kitchen art makeover? Ha - of course you don't! Nonetheless, two of the cheerful, fun prints are from Aimee Dolich of artsyville. Aaaaand, she's offering 3 of them in a givaway on Scoutie Girl! Thanks Aimee!!
Why dontcha go over and enter - ends 6.13.09.
[image from chaval brasil's flickr photostream]
The context of the phrase from yesterday's t-shirt is coffee!
I don't drink fancy blends or fully caffeinated versions, but I absolutely must have a grounds-to-coffee ratio that is greater than what is recommended on the packaging. I don't like coffee that is thin and looks like tea - spare me. I like coffee to be opaque and rich with body - like I'm biting into it rather than drinking it. Sugar & milk are added just so, too.
My mom claims my coffee is so strong it comes to me when I whistle for it. I wish! And I'll whistle for the teeth whitener whilst I'm at it! (DH uses straight baking soda to brush after his morning cuppa - his teeth are gleaming!)
Are you persnickety about your coffee? What's your preference?
I think Nichole from threebysea mentioned cream+sugar in her comment on that post. Others included PB&J, salt & vinegar chips, boobs & hips, butts, and baking. Good chuckles!
Phrases and words and scenarios out of context make my day! In college, I was relentless with imaginative stories that started with the intro, "What if.....?" And you know how it is when you hear a quote or part of a sentence, and you crack up at the idea of it standing by itself and taking on a whole new meaning?! Love that! It's quite common in our house for someone to bellow, "T-shirt!" from another room - and it throws me into fits of laughter.
Any ideas what this out of context phrase is about?
Or, better yet, name something in YOUR life that this phrase would fit to a tee (ha, get it - fit to a tee....) OK, for real. Just curious what you come up with. I'll tell you what benign thing it actually applies to tomorrow.....
Man oh man oh man, do I love these images (and that man)! The dramatic contrast of hues and his silhouette against that magnificent blue sky feels so "paul bunyan" to me - or sort of like a caricature of a titan of industry from the 20s/30s art deco style. I know it's a stretch, but that's what first struck me when I saw him up there. Love it.
The answer to your question: "he's painting the tin roof over our front porch." Desperately needed it.
We scraped, chipped and sanded until we were numb from head-to-toe. Sitting on a slope like this for hours at a time and scooting around on your backside from one section to the next gives new meaning to the word wedgie!! Oy!
The rust was pretty, but not so much that keeping it would have added shabby-chic value to the house. Glad it's done. Now onto the next project: painting garage doors.
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| Jan DiCintio Thanks for visiting my blog! I am the owner, designer and chief bottlewasher of Daisy Janie. I have been a one-woman show for 12 years – in one artsy business or another. Five years ago, I made my way to fabric & surface design, and eventually to self-production of my own organic fabric collections. It is here I plan to stay! I'll be writing about the fabric adventures as I go (but not giving away the farm of course) as well as other life-ly, happy things. I'm a 41-yr-old mom to a 13-yr-old Peanutman, wife to the man of my dreams, doggie-owner of Scout and George. I like to design fabrics, run, workout, hike, sew, google (is that a hobby?), cook, eat, drink beer, and laugh (a lot). email me, why dontcha? info[at]daisyjanie[dot]com |
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