Kiki’s post about yellow on our Color for Your Home got me thinking about Mimosa, the yellow color that Pantone named 2009 Color of the Year.
We are over two thirds of the way through the year and I was wondering if this color of the year embodies the year now that we know what 2009 [...]

An email from Borders Books caught my eye this morning.  I usually open the emails only when

“The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.”

Marian McPartland

“If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.”
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

“My favorite color to glaze with is yellow. It always glows just like stained glass lit up by the sun.”
Jane Jones

Yesterday I was speaking to Kathy and we had a lively conversation about the yellow, pink and mossy green decorating scheme she was considering for her cottage-style home in Northern California.
It was fun and I thought I might look for something inspiring in that scheme for today’s post but I didn’t really have to seek [...]

Yesterday Julie was ahead of most when she posted that Micheal S. Smith would be the official White House decorator in her post “The Official Obama Decorator”.  But what about the exterior.  Will it remain white for yet another administration?

I’m sure it will but it is still fun to envision a change. 

The wonderful thing about working with smart, creative people is that they are a great source of inspiration.  As usual Julie finds the best products and I’m stealing this one for my own color inspiration for today.
It come from a post Julie wrote today on creating a December fete where the mood is festive- yet [...]

PANTONE® announced that they have chosen 14-0848 Mimosa as their color of the year for 2009.  In the announcement the color is described as “a warm, engaging yellow.”
“The color yellow exemplifies the warmth and nurturing quality of the sun, properties we as humans are naturally drawn to for reassurance,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of [...]

“What a horrible thing yellow is.”
Edgar Degas