Wednesdays colors

: : katie, lovely patterns.

Tuesday is here!

that time of year again!

gray skies, black coats, dirty white snow... we need COLOR!

flower shooz

my friend carly at work was sporting these new shoes she got from her friend. matched with hot pink tights and a great, colorful zip up hoodie. I feel inspired.

blues

: : it is true that I wear colors almost everyday. it is not true that I take a picture of my colors everyday. that seems to be the tricky part. but here are two of my outfits from last week. i recently found these electric blue pants at target. I love them.

summer colors

I am fully aware that I am way behind Katie on the color blogging. I'll try to catch up.

friendship rug

this past week, the remaining residents of anna's and my former house ("the garden") are packing up their stuff and moving out...

while i normally don't get emotional over vacating rentals*, the house that this rug represents was (and hopefully will be again) really something special. it became home to our group of friends 5 years ago, and during those years, 5 at a time (sometimes more, depending on if someone was sleeping in the hallways or in the "guest closet"), nearly all of our extended family of friends called it home. anna and i overlapped there for 3 years!

the house is beautiful, on a dead-end street in leafy cambridge. it is creaky and strange, retrofitted and re-retrofitted, with green wooden floors in the kitchen, orange walls in the dining room, bedrooms scattered up and down two stories, appended by porches, overgrown in the flowerbeds, stocked to the gills with everyone's leftovers (food-wise and other-wise), and really loved by anyone who's been there. which actually includes hundreds of people, when you count party-goers and sub-letters. still, there is a core of about a dozen of us who spent some seriously formative time there, and none of us left that house unchanged.

while cleaning the last of my crap out of the basement a couple of days ago, i snagged this BEAUTY of a rug that we all made, together, several winters ago up at dillys' cabin in new hampshire. i love this rug - because it is made of recycled woolen blankets and coats, because it lived in the garden for so many years, because cute eloise already favors naps on it, and because so many of us spent that cold and cosy weekend braiding bits of it and stitching it together.

thanks, garden!!!

*also, normally i don't write much personal on this blog but i figure, hey, the 5 people out there reading it might not mind a bit of background!

shades of green (and peaches)

aaah, august at the farmers market. i found some super pretty (and tasty!) greens, a bunch of scallions, some wonderful peaches and the first apples of the season. i also found these crazy looking suckers with the spiky skin! apparently they are brazilian cucumbers. they taste just like... wait for it... cucumbers.

marianne & thompson's wedding!

congratulations to marianne and thompson! here are some photos of me and my oldest friends, all dressed in crazy prints and colors. love the summer!

wildflowers

summer weddings

wedding fever! it's catching...

back on the wagon

or is it off the wagon? either way, i'm determined to pick up this colorblog!

found the new jcrew catalog in the mail yesterday and love love loved the spread for the "crewcuts" - all the colorful and whimsical objects, bright clothes - whoever is doing art direction for jcrew needs a round of applause (or at least a good fat raise!)

balloons

: : biking to work has been lovely these past few weeks. and sometimes I see the strangest things on my way to and from work. this giant bouquet of balloons was too much to pass up, it had to go on the colorblogg. it appeared as if a group of people had tied a chair to the bottom of all the balloons almost as if it was an air balloon and were letting people take turns going up and down.

last week

: : i may not be posting everyday, but I still am wearing colors! these were last weeks outfits.

Musac Leon

Musac León is the modern museum in León, Spain. By architects Mansilla+Tuñón. Built using colorful glass panels. We want more buildings like this!(found via below the clouds)

Friday

: : I'm late with friday's post. but here we are. katie in lovely tones of green and blue. I'm showing off my new orange spring coat.

friday bonus

if these spring-time shots don't lift your mood (including the puppy literally stopping to smell the flowers!) - well, i don't know what else to do. how gorgeous are those tulips? i love whichever neighbor thought to plant so many in their front yard.

thursday

wednesday

tuesday