Unmellow Yellow

My favorite color is not a concrete thing. In the last few years, it's hovered around gold, pink, and purple. But recently my eye is drawn to YELLOW. Not the mellow variety. It's bold, and I'm into that. 

I've noted that yellow items in my clothing shop(s) have been selling well. I think yellow is a loud announcement that winter is over, and we're all so ready for that! I even want to paint stuff yellow right now, but I do wonder whether it would just seem ludicrous in the winter months and winter light? 

Here are some images that have jumped out at me recently. 

Fashion by Emilio Pucci, 1960s 

From Martha Stewart Magazine, photographed by Johnny Miller

Charles Martin illustration for 1934 Harpers Bazaar

Delpozo Pre-Fall 2018 Fashion Show Collection

Book by Blair Imani

Guo Pei Spring 2016 Couture (same designer that made that 

hugeeee yellow cape for Rihanna at the Met Gala a few years ago)

WANT. Passionfruit drink. I really like the Chinese newspaper underneath. 

Vintage Pierre Cardin

Envelope decorated by Henri Matisse

Paint Swatch: Turnip The Beet

Lately I have been gaga for this pink-red-purple color. I have jeans this color, I have a shirt this color, I have pillows this color, I even have a kitchen table in this color. I think of it as "beet," though the paint color at Home Depot was called "sangria" and I can imagine a host of other names, as it's a nice blend of several colors. Here's a little color moodboard I made (image credits here) for inspiration, followed by a little sneak peak of my kitchen.

Jonas's brother and sister-in-law gave us their old craft table, which we've found very useful as a dining room table since we've been married. But I recently got the bug to repaint all my dingy second-hand furniture - like ya do - and I couldn't get the idea of a pink dining table out of my head.

It still needs some coats on the legs and a sealing coat, but I like it better already. I found some beautiful dahlias at the farmer's market this afternoon which match perfectly, and I am all the more excited for them because they were the focal-point flowers in my wedding bouquet.

Would you ever paint your kitchen table a color? Which color would you choose?

Paint Swatch: Icicle & Neon Coral

My friend Jessa, who knows a thing or two about design trends, thinks that pastels will come back into style in home decorating after the jewel tones (which I whole-heartedly love) have worn themselves out. When we have to move some day (which I utterly dread), I think this pale grey-blue may be destined for some walls in my home. I call it "icicle" because it's not robin's egg, it's not grey, it's... like ice! I first started admiring it on the hallway walls in the show 666 Park Avenue. As for neon coral, I think the neon craze will be over by moving time, but I have been loving my pinks lately, and I can't imagine a day where I don't feel the urge to punch up any sophisticated corners of our abode with some wacky color accents. I'm trying to convince Jonas to let me spray-paint our one wooden dining chair this color. I made these two color story boards on Polyvore a while back (see here and here for product info), then realized I'd pinned this bedroom twice, and suddenly it seemed that I should share them together, rather than separately as I had previously planned. Also, I want those blue earrings and those pink shoes. Would you ever pair pastels and neon?

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By Jonas Tucker, January 2011. Ink. PLEASE GIVE CREDIT TO THE ARTIST IF YOU REPOST THIS PHOTO. Click for full size view.
 / I love the blue panel in the skirt. I wish I could have a wedding dress made from that fabric. 

Rainbow Rabbits

By Jonas Tucker, January 2011. Watercolor & Pencil. PLEASE GIVE CREDIT TO THE ARTIST IF YOU REPOST THIS PHOTO. Click for full size view. 

Of Rainbows

As a kid, I was obsessed with monochromatic color schemes. I could not bare to color in my Famous Play Ballets coloring book in normal colors. Each picture was as much red-orange as I could make it or completely blue-black. I still love a well constructed outfit, painting or room that accentuates only one color, but if that's all I appreciated, it would be like focusing on a dandelion (not to rip on them; they are awesome) in a field filled with wild flowers. I love colors so much I think working for Pantone would be a dream job and I wish I could hop over to India for the Holi festival each year.  In honor of the full spectrum, take a look at these good things for the love of color.

• Multicolr Search Lab (Flickr)
• Etsy Colors 
• Color Scheme Designer
• Style Me Pretty's Style Circle - Color search feature (I entered a color already; go to the lower right hand corner to pick your own colors).
• Creature Comforts search posts by color feature. 

and of course...

• goddess Pantone herself (though to be honest, I have not explored this website yet).  

Last but not least, this incredible video will brighten your day. I watched it and thought to myself, "this is what I want to do with my life."

The Birthday Zebra & Hippie Living

Today Jonas turns TWENTY! Happy Birthday, my love! //I don't blog a lot about our relationship because I do not wish to share the most precious things with any and everyone so you may not hear a lot about him or us and what we laugh about and what we love and the places we are going to see and the things we'll spend our lives adventuring, but he is always the one to hold my hand in times of both trouble and triumph. When there is joy in your life, you see the beauty in each nook and cranny and those diamonds in the rough is what this blog is for. // Babe, you are the best thing. Sweet like candy to my soul, sweet you rock and sweet you roll. [I will try and get a nice new picture of him soon].我爱你, je t'aime. // Here is a drawing I did on a package for him. :D

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I am in the market for a room to live in in the Fullerton (Orange County, CA) area, hopefully around June 1st. Know anyone who wants to share? Wanna join me? // If I had a million bucks (or maybe just a hatchet) I would build or buy one or some of the following. {1. Elding Oscarson, 2. - 4. Emerson Merrick, 5. - 6. For Stars Will Rise Again, 7. The Dream Walking Society}

Vogue Jan 2010 & Purple Wedding

Wowie! So much going on, pretty much no time to write about it. I started back at Hardy the day after school ended, working 8 to 5 so I've been a tired girl. Today I went down to LA with the fam for church with my great grandma Peggy and then back to TO for Christmas dinner with extended family. // I bought Jan '10's (!!) Vogue and my Wired issue came too. Vogue was so worth the whopping 4 bucks for so few pages. It's an excellently styled issue. Is not Rachel McAdams about THE cutest lady you ever laid eyeballs upon? That's what I thought.

I have oodles of good things to share, just as soon as I have a bit of spare time. For now, here is my second published wedding inspiration board, as promised. I love plum purple and the drama of such a rich and moody color. I also love novelty wedding gowns. {click image to view full size}

{Images: 1. Julia 2. Igor and Andre 3. & 4. Style Me Pretty 5. the Satorialist 6. Web Dahlias 7. & 8. Style Me Pretty 9. Nordljus}
Merry Christmas to you all, if I don't squeeze another post in before then!

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I went to Starbucks last night with Jonas and not long after we'd gotten there, Alex, Alyssa and Tori came in too. The boys got into a no-blink staring contest which ended in a truce after neither had blinked for an hour (!!!), there were stinging tears running down their faces and the girls wanted to go home. I'm not quite sure what to say about it. // Tonight I am babysitting in place of my sister. I can't even remember the last time I babysat, so it should be interesting. // I had been working on a wedding inspiration board (collecting photos, that is) but when I went to try and put it together finally, I realized it would work better as two separate boards. So here is my debut blogged wedding inspiration board. Check back for the second installment later. :: The theme is breakfast in January & the colors are white, grey & robin's egg blue.

{Image credits - Top row: 1. Shauna Faust 2. via Creature Comforts 3. via Crafty My Bride / Middle row: 4. Misty Bliss Flikr 5. Anna Kuperberg / Bottom row: 6. Julia 7. via Bedlam of Beefy 8. Arte Bebe 9. unknown} // Hope you are staying warm. :) {Cedric Bihr}

{link to MM}

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Tada! Here is my fool-proof guide to buying your sister/girlfriend/girl-friend a Christmas gift for $35 or less (with a few exceptions that are just pretty). I really am not so confident about buying gifts for guys so I'm afraid that is not part of the package until I am illuminated by inspirational lightning. In general, Urban Outfitters, Forever 21 & Anthropologie (shop the sales) are your best friends. I'm also a fan of Pier 1. Style staples: hair accessories, tights, cardigans & pencil skirts. Having said that, here are some of my favorite picks from "shopping" around. L2R: 1. Pale Blue Cardigan (Forever 21, $24.90) 2. "[] I Met and Liked" Journal Series - something for everyone, seriously (Archie Grand, ~ $16) 3. Sparkly Hair Pins (Forever 21, $7.80) 4. "Kimono and the Colors of Japan" by Katsumi Yumioka (Amazon, ~ $30) 5. Mint Candy Apple Nail Polish (Essie, $8) 6. Elephant Tea Pot (Pier 1, $15.95).

And some more... L2R: 1. Rabbit Ring (Urban Outfitters, ~ $34) 2. Doll Chair Jewelry-Holding-Sculpture (Urban Outfitters, ~$80?) 3. Retro Phone (Urban Outfitters, ~$90?) 4. Vintage French Notebooks (Urban Outfitters, $16).

Ok, and 3 more that didn't cooperate with my collage making. 1. Woodstock Harmonica Necklace - it really works! (Les Jumelles Boutique, 22EU) 2. Indian Spices Set - Small (Purpose Design, $15) 3. Original Art Work! - this drawing was done by my friend Kelee. Isn't it great?! I love it.



I just finished watching Up with my fam. It's so sad in places. :( But also nice. And also cute. And also funny. It made me think that cities would be completely shiny without those charming old houses in the middle of no where if it weren't for grumpy hard-headed people.

I shall attempt to go to school tomorrow. Wish me luck! [FBers, click for blog]

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[Not including this post,] I've written 111 posts. ^^ 11 and 3 are my favorite numbers. // Headed down to Thousand Oaks for the first time in a while this weekend. My dad's birthday is on the 26th and he wants a longboard. Cool, huh? I bet no one else's dad rides a longboard. // I pretty much don't like my tutoring job either. I can't wait for a job I love. // Last night at Starbucks some people from my group were talking to a girl in another group who was trying to figure out how to tell the guy she is arranged to be married to that she'd rather not marry him. Intense. It didn't really occur to me that arranged marriages might still happen in the U.S. // Guess what?! Donald Miller just came out with a new book. Shizzam! I can't wait to get it. It's called "A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" and here's a press shot of Mr. Miller, the single coolest contemporary Christian author (possibly the only? Forgive my cynicism, they are few and far between in my book). I hope Penny from Blue Like Jazz will come around one of these days and marry him.

I'm now down in T.O. after a long drive in a positively frigid car. My youngest brother Jonathan is fund raising for a school trip to D.C. and we had to make our car into a refrigerator for delivering strawberries. Brrr. // Tomorrow I may or may not bake my Dad a Black Forrest Cake for his birthday, go to my favorite thrift store & "stop by" the Norton Simon art museum. We'll see how it all pans out. // My collection of pics today happens to look very spring-y to me. Tea oragami for my tea-loving friends, Jonas, Brook & Genna, to name a few (from monoscope.com).

Can you believe we are almost upon the year 2010? And can you believe that people consider mid-october to be near the end of the year? Christmas comes earlier every year, it seems. Oh well! I love Christmas time. Here's a calendar I saw on Mika78's blog. I never use calendars, but it's still pretty. Actually, I take that back. I save pictures from calendars that my mom uses. I think the yellow (July?) one in the bottom left corner is my favorite.

In mixed media we're exploring book alteration. I feel like I've already told you this. Oh yes, I have. But anyway, here are some more lovely ideas. By Su Blackwell and Peter Callesen, respectively.


And finally, two lovely photos from one of my favorite photography blogs, Steep Street. What bliss. I'm starting to realize that people are still kids when they get married.


I love her dress and the color of the photos and her hair and the setting of the photos and the poses. Everything, basically. Obviously.
(Yeah! Way to go me with almost a completely feel&color-coherent post! ^^)
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Woohoo! Geology field trip in 3 days. It's gonna be great & I will post tons of pictures on FB when I'm back. I'm taking last month's issues of Wired and Vogue along. Hopefully I will get a chance to finally look through them! // There are 7 kids downstairs, 5 on instruments. :) // You wouldn't believe the amount of homework I have even if I explained and I'll actually waste time by whining about it because I should be doing said homework & you probably have homework too & I say this all the time. // Bought $50+ worth of goodness at Forever 21 this morning. Ouch/Yum. // Congrats to all my friends who are engaged. I have a feeling this is only the beginning. ^^ Amy & Leighton, photo by Mandi Bower. Amy is my pal here in SM, and I'm so happy for her. <3>
Nick & Arwen at Wheaton, photo by Yeesum Lo. Nick and I had long, long conversations about spirituality back in my freshman year of high school. Feels like ages ago! These two are both mks who speak Russian. How fun!!

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So, Mr. Irving Penn died at age 92 this week. It made me sad. Look at some of his exquisite work.

We just finished our second project in mixed media. I'm swooning over Gabriel's work. I wish it was mine! I can't even think of adjectives. My project will be on FB just as soon as the uploader cooperates. // Also found this awesome image of sculpted lip sticks in one of Mr. Hood's books.


Hopefully I'll get semi-caught up with all the photos I have to share with you one of these days... Have a restful weekend, all.

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Dude... week one of work is DONE!
I'm feeling like this:
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Yea... :)
This afternoon I discovered how to make working in a cubicle for 40-some hours a week into an art project and I'm about to delight in the sheer misery of it. When the summer is over, I shall unveil the art in it. Be excited.

I love these wedding photos because you can tell the bride and groom are best friends. Happiness.



Also, my sister Annelise is an amazing artist. Check out the texture in these pieces of hers (mostly chalk pastel).


So far, I'm dissapointed with the Peas' new album, "the E.N.D." Way to conform guys. :/
Can't end on a bad note though. Check out the last song on my featured playlist - hilariously Japanese (?) and so awesome.