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Officially, as of this week, I am now a member of the Color Marketing Group!  The CMG is an international Association whose members, forecast Color Directions® 19 months or more in advance for all manufactured products and services. I will be attending their Spring conference in Seattle and I’m looking for someone (specifically a female…

When my sweet blogger friends post about my blog, it seems to happen in bunches (lucky me). Brooke Giannetti from Velvet & Linen included me in yesterday’s post on her wonderful blog – check it out here. Brooke is an extremely talented interior designer (whose style I just love) who recently showed us photos of…

Imogen Lamport at Inside out Style wrote a post about my blog yesterday – Thanks so much!  She is an Image Consultant and author,  based out of Melbourne with a blog that explains colour contrasts  [regarding complexion and hair] so well that I had to read it a few times to try and understand what…

I am always drawn to whimsical little faces like the one on this card I found yesterday, so I took a picture just for you!  Hope your Valentines Day is filled with love and happiness! While you’re here, subscribe to this feed so you don’t miss out!

My blog has been mentioned twice in the same week, hooray! Julie Hoylen, one of the ‘color mavens’ from Sensational Colour / live in full color wrote a post on my “What Everyone Should know about Beige” post this week. She also wrote about other designers and the colour palettes they use on their websites,…

Things that Inspire did a wonderful post this week called Blue and Green should not be seen without a Color in Between and she mentioned 2 posts from my blog! Barbara Barry’s Philosophy and Colour me Kelly Green. The images below are 2 of my favourite images from her post (besides mine of course :)….

Wow, I just found this website The Color Career Counselor, powered by The Dewey Color System–the world’s only validated, non-language color-based career testing instrument– uses color preferences to determine successful career paths! Just by picking your favourite colours you can find out what kind of career you should be in! This was me in the…

I thought it was so fitting that Michelle Obama chose to wear the colour of optimism, confidence and hope  (my favourite as you might know by now 🙂 today at the inauguration! Her dress was designed by Isabel Toledo. Getty Images  Optimism:  the propensity to look at the bright side of any situation and expect…

Michelle Morelan from A Schematic Life, Nancy DeVries and I started our trip to Seattle with a little shopping at the outlets until we got downtown and checked into the Hotel Max.  A great, artistic little hotel with a W feel. It’s rare to see the analogous colour combination of red and orange together in…

This has been the most social season ever! I have some amazing new friends–two I’ve met in the last month through blogging [Patricia Gray and Michelle Morelan]! One of my wonderful new friends, Jennifer Rudolph [Blue Garnet Design], hosted a holiday cocktail party on the weekend. They live in a great character apartment on south…

I was in the Robert Allen showroom today, sourcing some fabrics for my clients as the sun was setting at 4:30 pm. One of their very talented and helpful staff, Leena, mentioned that whenever she sends images of Vancouver home [to Finland, which is where my parents are from coincidentally] they always say, “You should…