and paint tape green. I liked yellow as a kid and red as clothing.

We had when I was very young a yellow kitchen. I loved that.

Red is fun in clothing.

•Teal
•Very Pale Teal
•Very Pale Apple Green
•Peach
•Olive

And isn't very pale teal aqua?

I love teal and put together teal, aqua, blue, white, gray.
Splashes of red, peach, pink for fun.

I had gotten originally to 10 colors while thinking the thread out( which was my original limit), then I realized I really had a few more favorites - added those last five.
Also a way to visualize and keep track; 5, 10, 15!

But I had done a couple of drawings with a lot of sky; inspired by a card either I bought or my sister gave me it - a lot of gradation sky of 🤔 very pale apple green, very pale teal, up to ?lightish teal.

Some kind of somewhat pale landscape in the very front. Then mid way a semi pale grayish big rock formation on wich a semi-pale gigantic tree sat, with the sky behind it. Magical!

Do you paint, draw, yarn craft or something?

Aqua, maaay be pale teal. 👍

If you are working with it in a grouping.

You can do most of the blues with it, but then the aqua and turquoise of course.
The grays, creams, beiges work with it as well.
Gold and silver look great with it too.
I will have to think about the apple green with it.
That would add a fresh spring feel to the palette.

And you can do any style with it, modern, industrial, bo-ho.

I used to crochet, etc.

But I love to do decorate my house with interesting things.
I love to bargain shop and pull together different looks.
Interesting colors, shapes, groupings.

People complement me all the time and ask me who my stylist/decorator is.
Same with my clothing. Ha I am just a bargain basement type person.
You just have to have an eye for color, shape, design.

I am not an artist at all in any way.
When I was a young child I liked putting colors and objects together in a pretty way.
It is so much fun. I help friends and family stage their house or pull outfits together.

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"But I love to do decorate my house with interesting things.
I love to bargain shop and pull together different looks.
Interesting colors, shapes, groupings.

Oh, I so get this!😄

I've done this. While I don't have much extra money for stuff now, luckily when I moved to the ALP I took some of my favorite things when I had had some money to buy cool, beautiful items, a gift or two from my sister (excellent design sense), a few things I kept from my mom after she passed. (My sis and I picked stuff out that either she bought, or we gifted her).
Our windows sill is wide; so that's where I display a bunch of the items I have. 🩷
In little groupings. 👍

How nice, a compliment that family, and friends ask you for advice!

Not the biggest fan of beige or cream. Though cream, and gold go nice together..
Grays; I like deep charcoal Grey, andcoslt grays

But her tastes are very traditional, so not my style, but her color and design eye are perfect.
I call her Martha Stewart and ask for her advice from time to time.
She and I argue who is better at it.

I just staged an entire house for another friend of mine who was selling it.
Her realtor had a stager come into the house and the stager asked who had already staged it, was lovely.
Stager had no other suggestions to make, left right away.
She said there was nothing left for her to do.

I was thrilled, not bad for a retired mental health professional!
Stager said I had the design eye. OK I am done bragging.

I like to stick to a neutral palette, then I can add pops of color.
I also love interesting textures.
I love a modern clean line. But because I stick to a more neutral palette
I can mix a variety of styles. Modern, Boho, Industrial, modern farmhouse.

I do the same thing with clothing. I like capsule wardrobes.
A few basics that all go together.

One friend of mine is well to do. She has a lot of cash on her back in terms of clothing.
But she never looks good or pulled together.
Another friend is a Walmart clearance rack type gal and always looks
wonderful. Pulled together and stylish.

Once she bought some flower seeds on sale at Walmart.
Used them and some rocks from the field next door to her house.
And made a lovely little garden and path in her back yard.
So it is all about the design eye.

... and ccomplements from the professional stager.
That's something to do a little bragging about! 🙂👍

Yep, money doesn't guarantee stylishness. When I had more clothes, and some money - I had a few pretty patterned blouses, a cool pair of patterned pants with a matching belt ( too heavy for the pants, but I have the belt!) A few nice jackets.

Then later w less money plain solid T's, cool solid colored draw-string pants (all gone) for years from Kmart. I tend to colors, but for semi neutrals- ocher, olive, dark purple.
I'd fun up, or dress them up with a few gifted jewelry pieces, a few bought pieces then special wire jewelry that mostly does not look anyone else's I started making about 35 years ago; pendents, rings, bangles, bracelets, ear cuffs. Slowly adding little crocheted necklace shapes, eventually skinny scarves. I'm slowish with knitting & crocheting. A sash or two.

Nice of friend to create a little garden for herself. Love gardens. I've even drawn partial gardens in some drawings over the years.

Young women are starting to knit, crochet, etc.

Some of the young adults in my family are crocheting little figurines, and I was astounded.
They refuse to learn how to sew on a damn button or mend a dog toy!

Yes if you get some nice basic clothing, you can sex it up with jewelry, scarves, etc.
I think these might be in too this coming year.

When money is tight, women go back to hand crafts for fun and practical use.
I keep wanting to hand crochet one of those big blankets.

around the same time, so I heard about that. Maybe it took a dip again by the late '10's, and now is re-returning.

My mom could knit, and maybe crochet some. Her mom really could crochet. Made me a bedspread, and my sister, and I afghans.
They both were excellent at embroidery!

I found a good book to teach me knitting. Crocheting intimidated me, so I started with knitting. Then I found good online instructions for crochet a few years later.

Since I draw, I didn't push to crochet, or knit fast bc I thought it might affect my drawing abilities by straining my hands. I don't think I'd have the patience for an afghan bc it'd take me months. I made a full winter scarf with all kinds of patterns early on bc I was so happy to learn; since I actually tried 2xs at 17, and early '30s and didn't work out then.

If I ever make the vest I'd like to make, that'd be enough of an accomplishment! 😄

Did you know there are threads with real thin metal that are used to add little lights to a yarn crafted piece!

Knitting seemed too hard or complicated for me.
No one in my family did these crafts, I had to teach myself.

I mean doing the HUGE yarn.
You could make an afghan in a couple of hours, tops.

I could never make a vest. I hope you achieve your goal!

Wow, lights in crochet and knitting.
I will have to go look online and see it.

green, blue, brown, orange, red and yellow.

Next are, cobalt blue, royal purple, emerald green and a really dark amber described as 'black glass'. These are the more sought after colors of glass telephone, telegraph and power insulators I began collecting about the age of fourteen. There's also a carnival glass color of insulator mostly used in power applications. It's basically an orange based color with iridescence varying with the amount of metallic salts used to coat an otherwise clear glass. you've probably seen other types of glassware treated with this same process.

Saw the pictures, colors and types.

I'm going to be back in one of my last neighborhoods (The Bronx) this week. Unusually for me being from Manhattan for much of my life till then we had telephone poles for a few blocks. I wonder if they had those. As an artistic type they might have caught my eye. Idk. Although without the right light hitting them to show up, maybe not. If they're there I'll let you know.
Hopefully I'll remember to look since I can use my phone photo app to zoom in.

...on what to call some of the colors in the beautiful rugs he sells. I was a customer initially, and when I was in his shop for the first time, I admired a pair of matching rugs that he was creating a description for. He said he was trying to decide what to call one of the red shades. I commented that it looked like pomegranate seeds. He agreed with delight, and said that pomegranate juice was one of the natural dyes used to color the yarns.

To help with choosing color names, I got myself the biggest box of Crayola crayons, and the biggest box of their colored pencils, and I take those with me when the rug merchant calls on me for a color consultation.

This gentleman is an engineer by profession, and took over his father's rug business when his dad wanted to retire. I'm a retired nurse practitioner, so neither of us has any formal background in the arts in any way. Collaborating with him is fun and interesting, I've learned a lot, and I feel very honored that he values my opinion. I've also purchased several rugs from him.

Here's an odd thing - when I was around 10 years old, I noticed that one of my eyes perceives warm colors more brightly, and the other eyes sees cool colors more intensely when I'm out in bright sunlight (can't remember which one does which at the moment, and it's night so I can't test it.)

Anyway, my favorite colors:
- many shades of pink, usually the more subtle ones
- teal
- turquoise
- dark green
- deep chocolate brown
- maroon
- aubergine
- many shades of purple and lavender

I do like red but didn't wear any red during the first TACO Don administration because I didn't want anyone thinking I was a MAGAt. Not wearing any now either, except for one soccer hoodie sweatshirt in support of a Welsh soccer team. I won't buy a red car, either.

For decorating purposes, I am a very basic plain vanilla person.

idid a lot of purples + yellow-greens. but deep aqua,yellow, orange vermillion keep being used.

I'm not colored blind but I have trouble seeing certain colors and their various shades. When I enlisted in the AF, I took a color vision test. I had to look at a book of circles with colored circles and tell them what number(s) I see. I only made past the first page. One guy I know read off numbers the tester didn't know was there and sent the guy's answers somewhere to verify them. It turned out he could see more colors than the ordinary person could so they made in a photographer, which he continued as an occupation after he left the service.

Oh, I've seen those circles with dots, and dot numbers on line through the decades.

I remember the first time seeing the color in the Snow White movie. Hooked immediately. I like fuchsia, hot pink, burnt orange, olive green and burnt sienna.

Sandy bottom Caribbean blue

Sleeping Beauty Turquoise

Emerald Green

Amethyst Purple

Reminds me of my trip to Puerto Rico '07 and the beauty of the Carribean ocean colors, which I loved since my teens.

And I once stopped in a store that was having an estate sale of jewelry which included very high quality Amethysts! They were gorgeous!

We painted our bedroom that Caribbean blue ...

Red-violet, eggplant, etc.

Be fun to pair let's say a eggplant skirt, with a brighter red-violet top. 👍 Pretty!