Wednesday 7 January 2015

Cheering up


Freda asks what we are doing to brighten up January.


May I submit my origami wreath
in colours to co-ordinate with a jam pot?



Also a possible kitchen floor colour change.
The blue linoleum of twenty years service
was mysteriously and irrevocably damaged
around the time that the new windows went in.
Yellow is being considered.
It is even more blazingly sunny than this photo suggests.



The cyclamen are doing their best to cheer up the view from the window.

20 comments:

  1. I love, love, love your jam pot, who's the maker please.

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    1. The pattern is Meadowland by Burleigh Ware.

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  2. Avoid yellow in kitchens. Insects love it! Reds are better.

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    1. I seem to remember my son being mobbed by thunderflies while wearing a yellow T-shirt so you are probably right. What a pity. I really like the yellow.

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  3. We had both at work and I liked them both . The blue worked well in the book corner ... perhaps because it was less distracting . The yellow was nicely jolly in the play areas ... but got weird skid and scuff marks from any rubber-soled shoes .

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    1. My mother had a Nursery School and the floor was white lino! We had to scrub the little black shoe marks off in the holidays.

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  4. Tall Cat contrasts much better against the blue.................... just saying.

    HAPPY NEW YEAR! (Grandbaby due on Friday.......... much sighing, tapping of fingers and waiting, waiting.................waiting). :O}

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    1. You will let me know won't you? Hope all goes well.

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  5. We must have very similar tastes Lucille. I sent for the blue sample for the bathroom, and the yellow for the kitchen (will risk the insects...) Thanks for the link and the cheerful images.

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  6. That wreath is amazing - so is the jam pot.

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    1. Thank you. It was easier than it looks, made with 16 interlocking basic shapes, and very therapeutic.

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  7. Lucille, your variety of January color infusions are each very welcome.

    I would like to make one of those origami wreaths myself. I've got an origami book around here somewhere, along with loads of unused special paper squares. Could you please show us a photo of one of the 16 shapes? I do like the looks of that jam pot very much.

    I've never heard about insects and yellow, so once again this site is very educational! Keep us posted on your floor covering choice.

    The cyclamen is a gem.

    It's 11 degrees F here today...with constant wind adding to the joy. I am staying indoors and very grateful to have today off from work.

    xo

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  8. I have lots of yellow walls and no insects. My kitchen floor is mid-blue and plainish and my mum warned me that it would show every crumb. I should have listened to her. It shows every crumb.

    Lovely colour infusion!

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    1. Yes mine shows every crumb but not the dirt as much as the yellow will.

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    2. I'd rather have the dirt. At least you know you have to remove dirt, but you only have to walk through our kitchen to drop bits of whatever on the floor. Crumbs or just... I don't know. Particles of life. Atoms. They all show up. I keep hoping that someone will drop something fatally damaging on it so that I can justify replacing it. Acid. Plutonium.

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    3. Funnily enough, acid is what looks to have been the culprit on our floor.

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  9. Yellow only if you are sure you will never enter the kitchen with a hangover on a sunny morning......

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  10. A yellow floor sounds divine, enjoy it.

    I love your origami wreath, how clever of you to match it with your jampot.

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  11. Lovely wreath and cyclamen. I received a pink flowered one as a gift recently. I am proud of the fact that it is still alive and blooming minimally. My January is disappearing under the graveyard scenes fog of The Addams Family production. I live in the dark of the backstage area these days as the days here look more and more springlike.

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