Hello friends!

Many of you are participating in or following along with the 52 Weeks – Focus on Life challenge.  Can you believe it’s the half-way point already?  I don’t know how that happened.  Although I haven’t participated every week, I’ve enjoyed jumping in as often as I can.  For Week 26, our challenge was a great big “?”.   We’re picking our own photo prompt this week & I can’t wait to see what others are choosing.   You can find links to the participant’s posts right here.

My prompt for the week is color crush. 🙂

You may have seen this pretty 3 Region Blend bag at your local Starbucks.  See that color combination?  It captures the palette that I have been crazy about all Spring and now Summer.  It’s that gray + ______  (fill in a color) that I like in particular.  Gray + teal, gray + coral, and gray with just about anything, especially pale colors.   Pink + gray was my favorite combination in the 80’s – any of you remember that one?  One year my locker had stickers and decorations entirely made of this color scheme.

Here is a picture I pinned a while back that perfectly captures my color crush:

Gallery wall plate collection, photo credit: 79 Ideas

With these colors in mind, I went on to make a necklace starting with a foundation of gray quartz beads and a mix of those great colors.

And here’s an impromptu snapshot of an outfit to wear with the new necklace  (love Garnet Hill dresses!) –

Now speaking of color crushes, I have a resource that I have to share with you in case you haven’t heard!  Did you see the color maven herself has a brand new book?   Brandi Hussey just launched her new book, Understanding Color:  Color Theory Made Easy.  Thanks to Brandi, we can all learn more about color in an approachable way.  I’ve been enjoying my digital copy and was excited to receive my hard copy in the mail today!

Til next time –

Cindy, xoxo