i art a day.

A couple of months ago I was down the street at the local thrift store, not looking for anything in particular but generally browsing through everything. After walking past the dressers and desks in various grades of disrepair I came across the mustard office chair. It was pretty stained on the arm rests and lower seat, but her wide bucket seat looked wide enough to curl up in, my rickety old wooden desk chair needed replacing, and the sticker on her said $5. After a little bit of work with the oxy-clean and some dusting up she looks just like new vintage, and thus my love affair with yellow this spring was born.

It’s everywhere in daffodils and lemons, mustards and neon, yellow-oranges and yellow-greens. I can’t help but associate yellow a little with bees & honey which I’m sure you’ll be able to deduce from this edition of Chroma Files.

1. Honeycomb Tea Set by Victorian Trading Co. 2. another fruit tartlet madness… by joyce_l 3. Amelie’s yellow bathroom 4. Hand Knit Wool iPod Cozy by Rainydaye 5. cake by www.pinkcakebox.com 6. Living Room from Country Living 7. Expres-s0 Yellow Insta-Dri Nail Polish by Sally Hansen 8. Packet of Sunshine Limited Edition Memo Books by Field Notes 9. Taste of Summer by AlexWijnen 10. White and Yellow Bedroom from xJavierx 11. yellow bathroom, rivington hotel by m.clark 12. stained glass visionaries by vaeda 13. Yellow Warblers by GollyBard 14. Cardboard Lemon Tartlet by artonthemenu 15. Soft Yellow Room from Country Living 16. Bumble Bees in a Honecomb Purse by EmenGeeDesigns

Last month I celebrated Pantone’s 2010 color selection of turquoise with a little color board that I really enjoyed putting together. After searching the far reaches of the internet for images and objects in the many hues and tones relating to turquoise I thought maybe these color boards could be something I could put together every now and then in addition to whatever it is I’m doing with this blog these days. Since I’m surprisingly in the mood for Valentine’s Day this year I thought I’d look for the world through rose tinted eyes. I’ve found that pink isn’t always girly or for children, and it’s not always overstated and gauche. I set out looking for rose, vintage, powder and victorian and found joy and elegance. Hooray pink!

1. No. 350 by _cassia_ 2. Vintage Linens 3. Salmon Pink Melamine Mugs on Etsy 4. KitchenAid Pink Kitchen Mixer 5. Enchanted Cottage by Country Living 6. Pink Typewriter by _cassia_ 7. Pink Amour by Betty Jo 8. Day 173 by bugsandfishes by lupin’s 9. Morning – Print on Etsy 10. Pink Bedroom by Virgin Media 11. Pink Bath by coco+kelley 12. Town Call White Wall Wheel by Sparks68 13. Cutest Peep Toes in Dusty Pink on Etsy 14. Pink Interiors by Pink is a Religion

It’s almost impossible to narrow it down to 14/15 images. It’s a thrillingly painstaking process, any suggestions of some color boards you’d like to see? =D

title image: I’ll Give You All I Can… by Brandon Christopher Warren