This Week's Inspiration: Weaving!

Handwoven fabrics are truly a wonder!  Some of the pieces below are my absolute faves and really showcase this lost art.  I personally love weaving items with different colors, prints and textures and displaying them in my home. I just started weaving about a year ago at a local studio and I'm now completely obsessed! The possibilities are endless and therefore totally inspiring!

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This Week's Inspiration: Watermelon!

Today's inspiration comes from that glorious summer treat...watermelon!  It's such an amazing colour, and brings to mind so many good summer memories.  What's not to love, really?

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This Week's Inspiration: Pattern Play

This week's inspiration is big, bold, beautiful pattern!  I can't get enough!  How do you feel about pattern?  Are you into the big, graphic styles, or is a finer design more your thing?

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Munsell Hue Test

Here's a fun test for all you colour addicts out there! Think your eyes are finely tuned to seeing subtle variances in colour? Then try the Munsell Hue Test and see how well you do when placing all these hues in consecutive order.

I'm a sucker for any kind of colour challenge. There was a time when i was trying to memorize pantone numbers... it was ridiculous but i can honestly call out a 4825, 292, 179, and 186 when i see them. As soon as i found this Munsell Hue Test I immediately got to work and well... yes... I got a perfect score! All hues neatly placed in the right order down the line. That's right... my peepers are 100% on point!

Canadian House and Home - Colour Issue

Just got my hands on the March issue of Canadian House and Home. This has got to be one of my favourite issues ever. Ok yes, it does happen to have my Paintchip Placemats featured in it. Yay! But it also has a huge lineup of ideas and products and features and recipes that are super saturated in COLOUR!

As I look outside the window it's grey and snowy but I am totally day dreaming springtime while flipping through this issue!  Only about a month away right?!

Blog Love : Compai Blog

This photo just made me scream out loud with pure joy! I totally starttled my cat from his peaceful kittie nap. This photo pretty much describes what my dream kitchen would look like. Lots of colour and lots of pattern and lots of shiny fun!

I was just enjoying my friday morning looking around for some new blogs to follow and bam!... Compai Blog you have just won my heart with this post and many more. So glad i found you :)!

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Tastiest Colour of 2009

So the word is that "Mimosa" is the colour of 2009 and really... it just couldn't get any better than this. Ok... free word association: Energy, Vibrancy, Buzz, Dandelion, Sweet, Alive, Excitement, Sunny, Beachy, Delicious, Great with Rapini, ooooooh or maybe an Aubergine, hot, really hot!