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Entries from September 1, 2007 - September 30, 2007

Monday
Sep172007

Yellow

Welcome to Color Week. I love color and for the next seven days I will explore color and how it exists in my life and my design.

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Bright and sunny, yellow for me is exciting. It's not a color I like to wear, but it is a color I love to see and use. Yellow brings feelings of excitement and happiness.

Like my cheery candlesticks that lit up the night for a late dinner on the deck:

Candlesticks

In nature, its used for attraction. Bold bright flowers tell the bees and hummingbirds, "Come over here! Get the good stuff."

Canna lilly

I love to plant yellow flowers in the garden because one placed strategically can draw the eye to a new point all the way across the yard. Using the principles of basic color theory, analogous or contrasting colors provide the most impact. I planted a bed with seven sets of three plants. 18 of the 21 plants have purple flowers, but three are yellow. Without fail, the yellow Kangaroo paw are the first plants guests talk about when the see the garden.

Contrasting colors

One of my favorite pieces of art uses the same concepts. The bright yellow moon brings Starry Night to life showing the viewer the village below.

Starry Night

Monday
Sep172007

...but Autumn is coming

I've been checking out these yummy new lotions and bubble baths by Lollia from NobleKnits. If they feel as good as they look, I can't wait until mine arrives!


I love their packaging, simple and beautiful!

Sunday
Sep162007

It's still summer in SoCal

Saturday we decided to go to the local Harbor Days festival. It's an aptly named gathering with lots of carnival food like funnel cakes and fresh squeezed lemonade. Just as we crossed the street from the parking lot we ran into our friends Nick and Amy. So we spent the day with them. We climbed around on a Marine hover-craft that was brought on shore for the crowds to see. We looked at all the weird stuff that was for sale, and just hung around and enjoyed the beautiful weather and harbor.

Traps

After a while we drifted back to their boat to get out of the sun and have a drink. We kicked back and had a great time chatting and just generally relaxing. We struck up conversations with the local flare that also has boats in the harbor including a seal and some pelicans that came by to say hello.

Pelicans

The water was calm so Nick suggested we take the boat out for a spin. No complaints here!

What an afternoon

We came up on some seals soaking up the sun. They remind me of Henry and Lola, "Excuse me, but we're napping. Please move on."

Henry & Lola of the sea

The next buoy was the place to be though. I don't think there's anymore room for you buddy...

Room for one more?

It was a great day, all spur of the moment and lots of fun. Thanks guys!

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Coming up this week: Color

Friday
Sep142007

iPhone! Check it out.

Apple does such a nice job right from the start, nice white bags and black boxes.

iPhones

Then you get to enjoy the ever exciting "Apple out of box experience." Apple really cares about the details you see when you get a new product. When you open the box hey present the pièce de résistance:

iPhone in box

All of the iPhone's little friends are neatly hidden below the surface. It's just nice and tidy.

iPhone out of box

But then getting it to work was another story. We don't have At&t so we had to do a little modification...

iPhone working!

T-Mobile up and running!

iPhone - T-Mobile

What a nice husband I have to give me a surprise like this!

Thursday
Sep132007

Apparently I've lost my mind

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