Monthly Archives: March 2010

Drumroll please….

Using the True Random Number Generator the first person to guess correctly was the lovely Eileen from bluebirdluxe. Congratulations Eileen a $25 gift voucher from your shop of choice is on the way to you. Thanks to all for your comments and Eileen was right, I’m studying Graphic Design!

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Eames Design and the Story of Two Blogs

Without giving away too much… remember there’s a give away being drawn on Saturday. I have been researching stamp designs for an upcoming assignment. I do like being set the task to search for things that I don’t usually consider. There are some really amazing stamps out there.  I stumbled across this series celebrating Eames [...]

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Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Navy

The colour pickers cannot understand these deep colours so once again I have resorted to just a keyword search. Isn’t it funny how a colour can have an instant association? Navy made me think nautical and France… I have also just returned from seeing the Masterpieces from Paris exhibition for the second time so I [...]

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Don’t You Just Love Telephone Companies?

We have had an interesting time with our telephone company this weekend. We lost phone and internet on Friday night, we had no phone (just mobiles) all Saturday and no internet. Our phone returned on Saturday evening but still no internet.. can you imagine? No *gasp* blogging. Do you remember what you did before the [...]

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Flickr three :: blue

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A Colour Guide to a Career

Have you seen this? This is the Color Career Counsellor! Apparently I’m a  {drum roll please}… Creator… which is a relief. I’m also: Nonconforming, Impulsive, Expressive, Romantic, Intuitive, Sensitive, and EmotionalThese original types place a high value on aesthetic qualities and have a great need for self-expression. They enjoy working independently, being creative, using their [...]

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Colour Me Happy Wednesday :: Blue

Blue is not a colour that registers with either colour search engines… by the way. I should really have posted some of the results just to prove the point. So here’s what I found by searching for ‘blue’ which returned 14653 results.TOP: Winter Lights Set of 3 prints from T R Mack Studio just made [...]

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Flickr three :: lavender

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