I can't deny it. I'm a glutton for color. I crave color.
I tried once to join the white/off white elegant crowd, but it was no good.
I soon found myself in color withdrawal. Brightly colored - that's how I like my little world.
As you can well see on this latest painting in progress. Quite colorful! And it's not even done yet...
Same with my sewing yesterday. My studio upstairs has dropped below sauna temperatures (let's hear a big cheer for Fall!) and it's possible again to sit at my sewing machine without sweating profusely onto my projects in progress. That's a good thing!
I'm making placemats in fabrics that just make me want to jump up and down with happiness!
And just in time for Dia de los Muertos! I'm not the huge fan of Halloween that most others seem to be, but I LOVE anything to do with Dia de los Muertos.
Give me a smiling skull anytime over a scary pumpkin.
I have four more to finish and all with different fabrics! Just you wait and see - it's going to be a color explosion!!
I'm sure they will make our food taste even better than it already does! How could they not?!
Sending you brightly-colored wishes for a happy day and lots lot love!
❧ Silke
P.S. One thing I found out while sewing these (not that it's really a big surprise to me) is that I cannot sew a a perfectly straight line for the life of me. Another thing I found out: it doesn't really matter! Isn't that nice to know?
P.P.S. Perfect is highly overrated!
I love color too, Silke! That was one decision I made while recovering last year: to add more color to my life. Lately, I've been drawn to turquoise, orange, and pink. I love these placemats that you're making, and even more so now that I see they are not matching. Years ago my dad taught me that things look better when they don't match. I'm all about mixing things up and having fun with them -- just like you're doing with your latest sewing project.
ReplyDeleteI AM LOVING your newest painting! Great colors and so bright.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, Silke. Color brightens up everything, where you live, where you go, what you eat and on and on. I am a blue and green person for the most part, but a big splatch of yellow or red in the middle of it all makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteI know why I enjoy you so muich. We are very much alike in some important ways as ... I don't do perfect. My FH is a perfectionist and I have been telling him that for years. I used to worry that imperfect wasn't good enough, but hey ... it is good enough and it is so much less stressful. So Cheers to you today, Silke. You have hit a home run :)
Andrea @ From The Sol
-chuckle- Perfect is a pain-in-the-butt!!!
ReplyDeleteSezzzzzzzz me!
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Tessa~
"Here there be musing" blog
We each need to know, what our individual preferences are. In colors... In all things, which surround us... In everything!!!
ReplyDeleteWe have a right to do so. And when we do, we can help smooth our way. Any any smoothing of our way, is a plus. ,-)
Tessa~
"Here there be musing" blog
Oooops! 2 "any's" up there. :-)))))
ReplyDeleteTessa~
"Here there be musing" blog
Love those placemats! And yes, colour is what it's all about -- there's enough about life that is dull and grey, we don't need to add more to it.
ReplyDeleteLiebe Silke,
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Sonnige Grüße
Elisabeth
Yay..gorgeous, fun..beautiful post! your art calls out my soul with those rich autumnal colors( love that "eye" in the backdrop)s! and love the placemats..how magical!
ReplyDeleteI think I favour tone over colour, but I do like bright cheery colours only I tire of them quicly and have to change them. I love your placemats, great fabric choice.
ReplyDeleteJill
It makes me smile to hear you can't sew in a straight line. :) I can't draw a straight line and I've tried so hard in the past to make my drawings look neat and tidy but it just won't happen. I've recently embraced this and I now love that my lines are wobbly and a bit messy because that makes them mine! I love the beginnings of your new painting, colour is so imporatant to me too as I'm sure you might have noticed. ;)
ReplyDeleteJess xx
...Oh and I meant to say I lOVe your new placemats! xx
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