Thursday, 10 December 2009

Bad day?


Some months ago, my friend Lorrie linked this video in a handmade forum we were chatting in. It has since become my fail-safe pick up for a bad day. Float away uplifted by Israel Kamakawiwo'Ole - 'IZ'...

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Sunday, 6 December 2009

Spring 2010 colours


According to sources on the internet, these are the colours that we can expect to see for Spring 2010... 
Well hurrah from me because I love this palette and I have been rifling through my bead stash to see what I have to compliment it. I find these colours so fresh and cheerful - though I don't necessarily subscribe to colour therapy as a complimentary medicine, I do think colour has a similar effect on our state of mind much the same as light does on dark days [SAD sufferers will empathise]. Some mornings you just want to dress pink, whilst on other days you instinctively reach for something black, or sombre. Well I for one can't wait to see in 2010 after what has been a pretty rotten 2009 - I shall quote like the Queen and declare it my annus horribilis! Roll in 2010 and a fresh, pretty palette of warm, uplifting colours...

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