List No.13: Favorite Colors and Why

 

Please excuse this week’s mini list. I’ve had a crazy busy week at work (we’re launching some big new projects soon which I’m deeply involved in) and in my personal life (selling a house is both stressful and time consuming!).

It’s actually a reader request list again: Favorite colors and why.

Don’t hold your breaths, I’m not going to spring any secret color crush on you like cobalt blue or deep burgundy.

 

ALL TIME FAVORITES:

WHITE

* It’s clean.

* It makes me happy.

* It’s a blank canvas to which other colors can be added.

 

GREEN

* To me it’s not a color, it’s a neutral, the color of nature.

* It works with all other colors and in all seasons.

* Again it makes me happy, in particular Kelly, apple and spring greens.

 

LONG TIME CRUSHES:

YELLOW & ORANGE

* Sunny, fun and go so well with white and green.

 

The End.

 

Ps. Happy weekend!

Pps. Were you fooled today?

Comments

[Yvonne]

Jag undrar om man får önska någonting du kunde skriva om? Jag är som bäst föräldraledig med vår son på snart ett år och jag undrar om du har några tips på hur man organiserar vardagen med barn? Nu har du en tonåring och jag märker ju själv hur fort man glömmer "hur det var" vartefter barnet växer, men om du minns någonting som underlättade din vardag då din son var yngre är jag tacksam - gällande allt ifrån daglig vård till fotografering till rutiner till mat... ja vad som helst. Gärna också någonting om inredning för barn - hur såg Willes rum ut då han var i lekåldern?

Grattis till den nya lägenheten, jag ser fram emot att följa med hur ni gör den till ert hem!

[Benita ~ Chez Larsson]

Jag har fått massor av frågor om det där och tyvärr är det så att det inte riktigt känns aktuellt för mig att skriva om småbarnstiden. Wille fyller ju 17 nästa vecka och det är ju precis som du säger att man glömmer och dessutom vill jag illustrera med egna bilder och det har jag inte så mycket av digitalt från den tiden.

Mitt bästa tips som jag fortfarande minns var dock ett jag fick från vår BVC barmmorska. Hon tipsade oss alla i mammagruppen att skaffa rejäla vuxensäng åt våra småbarn när spjälsängen var urvuxen. Således fick Wille en 120 cm säng och när det behövdes kunde vi krypa ner bekvämt med honom istället för att ligga ihopfällda som fickknivar i en juniorsäng :).

[Anne]

Ha ha - good one. April April. You nearly had me fooled about the yellow part. There is nothing to like about that colour, surely you know that? ;)

Maybe for easter. If you are allowed to have one "snaps"...
Ses i morrn.

[Anne]

Mitt bästa tips att skaffa en vän som Benita! Det hade jag. Fick mig att överleva mammaledigheten. Men guuuud vad länge sedan det var!

[Jo]

Well I haven't had my day yet.. it's still last night where I am.. so I can't answer that question yet.
I don't blame you for the short list.. I have no idea how you fit it all in any week let alone this one.
Have a great weekend Benita...
Have a lie in, and DON'T go working in that garden.. take a day off.. you've earned it.
Jo xx
Oh and can I ask, what's the name of the plant in the photo ?? It looks like dwarf hyacinths, but I've never seen them any colour other than blue.
Ta.

[Benita ~ Chez Larsson]

I don't know the name for them in English but they're Muscari armeniacum in latin. Normally theu come in blue but there are white varieties too.

[Jo]

Thank you.. I shll go and look them up ;o)
xx

[Jo]

Well there you go.. Muscari Armeniacum is evidently the Latin name for Dwarf Hyacinths. :o)

[Maddy]

I have heard these called grape hyacinths?

For me, it is blue all the way. The colour of the ocean and of the endless australian sky.
I have temporary favourites within the blues, turquoise is a fave at the moment.

[Yvonne]

Jag förstår precis, jag kan tänka mig att det känns som en evighet sedan och som du säjer finns ju den tiden inte dokumenterad digitalt.

Tack för tipset med sängen, sömn har jag ju insett är väldigt värdefull och allt som underlättar på den fronten är guld värt!

[Yvonne]

Jo, vänner som är mammalediga är nog det bästa tipset jag kunde dela ut också - vad skulle man göra utan dem?

[devil]

Thanks, Benita, for not playing a stupid April Fool's joke on your readers. When bloggers do that, I delete them from my reading list permanently and I would miss you!

Have a great weekend! I hope you get to relax at least a little bit. :)

[Michelle of Montreal]

It's just after 9am here and I've been fooled pretty bad already...but in my defense, it was before I'd had my morning coffee.

[Siri]

Hei Yvonne! Blog tips fra meg som er hjemme med en sønn på 13 månder:
http://toddlerlearningactivities.blogspot.com/2011/02/keeping-toddlers-busy.html

Benita: I totally agree on the colours. I think we need colours like that in our interior here in Scandinavia, since it is dark and cold for a loooong period through the year.

[jja]

I want't fooled but for the first time in my life I forgot to fool anybody, am I getting old???

Colors: white, green, grey for home and the same + black for my outfits.

[jja]

wan't = wasn't

[Montse]

Funny because I've been thinking to make a quilt for my bed in white, green and yellow...

[r8chel]

I think white and green are my favorite colors too -- and for the same reasons you mention. :)

[Yvonne]

Tack Siri! Det var snällt av dej!

[Rose Holman]

MY favourite colours:

Turquoise, because it is just such a perfect shade of green

White, for the same reasons as you, and one of the reasons I love your blog

Pink, not in a girly barbie pink way, but there are so many shades of this colour that work so well with white and turquoise. Perhaps I should call it light red rather than pink?

I love the combinations of white, turquoise and pink, when does it not work? :-)

[M.E.]

I love white, too. And I've tried without success to find out the name of the white paint on the walls of the Corcoran Museum here in DC. It's spectacular, and I'd like to paint my place the same white. I agree about green, too. One book I read suggested painting the walls of young children's rooms green (although maybe a whole room is too much green!) Something about the color green nurturing growth and vitality. My grandpa's downstairs--living room and office--was painted a lovely grey-green when I saw it. And I adore yellow and orange!

The colors in your blog are so appealing, but I realize it's due a lot to all the white.