HUEsday...daring orange

Orange to Red gradient with lots of bright icy Turquoise and cool dark Blues for contrast.
Beautiful Kyoto Landscape
found on Far and Far away

For people who know me it's no secret that I've got a little feud with the color orange. . . I can't explain why, but it kinda repels me most of the time.
But helping out Mom with renovation lately, I had to face a lot of orange. . . There's lots of reds, oranges and especially aged, orangy shaded wood furniture to find in her apartment. All that is supposed to stay, because of budget, so had to come up with ideas how to combine these tones with other materials and hues so it would look . . .well, more bearable. ;b

Here's some combinations I could actually start liking. . .;)

Cooler light salmon-colored hue with brighter orange combined with shiny Lime Green and bits of Rosé.
 Bright Kimono worn in Shinto Ceremony
(img could not be tracked down to origin - anyone who recognizes it, please leave me a note so I can give proper credits)

Nature's creativity: Orange hues divided by bright pinky Violet plus greenish Yellow highlights!
<3 Bark of Madrone Evergreen Tree.
Found via Buzzfeed's World's Most Beautiful Tree Bark

Indian-style palette with lots of Violet, Purple and Yellow - the brighter, the better.
Photo via zesti's Flickr

Peachy orange with sublte Pinks and cool Blues.
Photo via Creature Comforts

Another contrasty palette with cool Aqua, Turquoise, blueish Violet and Yellow accompanying some bright Oranges.
Found on Completely Coastal

rainy HUEsday ...need Coloooor!

. . .Bwah! . . .

That was not so nice of Mrs.Weather today. >.<''
Some mean windy fizzy raindrops falling and flying around. . . Not even the biggest Leaf Umbrella could keep you dry.
That kind of climate calls for some cheering up!!

And what could help better than a biiiig worshipping shout out to all the
GREEEEEENS of the world!? =D

via Flickr

via ellabellafloral.blogspot.com

via HawaiiPictures.com

via Love & Olive Oil

via itKuPiLLi

via Ideas To Steal

Bistro chair of the CALYPSO Series by Butlers.de

neon Brio tote by FreePeople.com

mondayMAKINGS #3 ~Tinkering with Paper~

Because of the tight schedule I had during the last week (4 family birthdays, college tasks, job and other organizational stuff) I'm still not able to show you some NEW "makings" here today. Sorry for that!!
But since no one knows my "old" stuff either,. . . (therefore wouldn't notice anyways) I suppose you won't mind when I post some crafty output from the last few years. ;b

Last week I showed a drawing, and the week before that there were also sketches and paintings. So I thought, why not go one dimension further and post 3D objects I (re-)designed. . .

I mentioned  my handmade goods shop on DaWanda.com before. . . And that I plan to build up on it in the near future . . .

SOOOooo looking forward to jump into that adventure!! =D

So, to let you get a hint of what it could - maybe . . . somehow - look like, what I'm going to offer there I'm posting some of the crafty designs I've made as presents for friends before. 

I don't like giving loved ones something unpersonalized,. . .simply bought in a shop kinda stuff. All of my friends have more money than I do anyways, so they can better buy things they want for themselves. But what they're not so likely to do is create or design things for themselves.
So I take a chance whenever I can. ;b

Here are some more or less kitschy examples.

I know, things like that are maybe not necessarily suitable for the masses... 
But for a handemade-business-to-be it's at least worth to work out...

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decoupaged calendar diary book

customized Ikea wall clock design

Hawaiian surfer style customized Ikea mirror with keys hooks

fancy key holder board

So... what do you think?!

Would YOU have liked these as a present?

Do you see yourself falling in love with a tinker thingy like that enough to purchase it?!

Today's Palette / CaipiStraws +PatternSeries

After long time without any post (I'm really busy with college tasks, work and family issues lately...=/) here's at least a quick new Colour Inspiration for you. ^^ This time the trigger was cleaning up after a nice TV-night at home to which we treated ourselves with a glass of self-made Caipirinha. ;) When I threw the rests of lime bits and colorful straws out of the glass into the sink the other day, it looked so nice, I had to do some Copaso ;).

view Palette / CaipiStraws on COLORlovers

 

Vector Patterns by COLOURlovers

Vector Patterns by COLOURlovers

Vector Patterns by COLOURlovers

Vector Patterns by COLOURlovers

Vector Patterns by COLOURlovers

Today's Palette - NeonMonday

view Palette / NeonMonday on COLORlovers

Vector Patterns by COLOURlovers

Todays Palette - IndianBloom

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via dinosaurdesigns.com.au

Todays Palette - FlowerPool

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from Pinterest via forgetmeknotweddingsblog.com

Color-Quest or: how blogger Holly Becker's book made my day brighter without even opening it

german

english

Today I got back from college, where I scavenged our uniquely well sorted library again and took a bite on the sunny balcony with my newest prey: the German version of Holly Becker's Interior Design book DECORATE! ^-^ Some of you might know Holly as the writer of decor8 - one of the most popular lifestyle & interior decoration blogs out there.



Since it's a library book, they removed the book wrapper and I was totally in love with the color of the naked hard-cover already when I saw it standing in the shelf.
Because the german edition's cover looks like this:

WHAAAAHH - OMG FUCHSIA!! =D ;P

Oh, and here's just a little sneak peek of the inside;)

BUT! Now to the clue!

What happend was this: I layed the book on our kitchen table while I was making some green tea and then just en passant I turned around and there it was!
 

A DREAM of Color-Combination!!!

Maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm crazy, but THIS must have been one of those "happy accidents" Bob Ross  (r.i.p. <3) used to talk about!

I had used a small mirror with a green frame before, that was still lying on the also green covered table, next to the package of my green tea bags, and one of these kitchen clips in pink as well as my only retro-rosé knife were also (fortunately) not put away yet.
All this together gave me an instant Kick of Joy!!! I just HAD to get my camera!

C'mon isn't it splendid?!!? =D

After being so unexpectedly and extremely inspired I decided to go on a COLOR-QUEST through our apartment! =) 
(that's just so much better to spend an afternoon than working on exam preparations.. ehem...*whistling innocently*)

Here's what I found....
(And pleeeease please excuse the bad photo quality on some pics...My camera's not of the newest technique and already has some errors and focus problems... If anyone has a DSLR camera for sale??...MAIL ME! ;)

my proudly presented ICONS book collection from beloved TASCHEN Verlag publishing ;)

Neon wool!