Finally a green — Pantone’s color of the year for 2010 is turquoise. They claim it “transports us to an exciting, tropical paradise while offering a sense of protection and healing in stressful times.” A little over the top, don’t you think? But it is the first green tone that Pantone has selected — the swatches from the past 10 years are below (the color from 2005, first on the left in the second row is “Blue Turquoise”…). Read the entire press release here.
Here are a few more of my favorite perpetual calendars. From left, MoGuion’s Perpetual Calendar Magnets — perfect for the ‘fridge and I’d be more likely to rearrange it than the one I found for yesterday’s post. Next up: Krank Press’ Perpetual Gardening Calendar — they have three, one for Los Angeles, another for San Francisco, and the last for the amorphous “Northwest”. While I’m not much of a gardener, I like the idea of knowing what veggies and fruits are in season at the store. And finally Etcetrix’s one-of-a-kind Vintage Mechanical Calendar charm bracelet.
Late last year I wrote a post about my bad luck keeping a day-to-day calendar. For 2009, I bought a small (3″ x 6″) day planner covered in pretty marbled paper. And to my continued surprise, I’ve used it faithfully all year. It fits in my purse and with the bright paper cover I can find it quickly in the clutter of my desk. So for 2010 I’ve bought another small day planner, this one with an important added feature: a built-in rubber band to keep it closed.
While looking for day planners online, I noticed a preponderance of perpetual calendars. I especially like this one — both art and calendar. It’s from Evan and Nichole Robertson’s shop Little Brown Pen.
 Winter for me: cocoa, a quilt, a good book.The winner of my snowflake coasters, chosen by random.org, is Patty with “Sledding, Snowball Fight, Happy Smiling Children.” You can read how other people described winter in exactly 6 words here.
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 I thought I’d celebrate the beginning of winter with a giveaway of a set of my snowflake coastes. To enter, describe what you like about winter in exactly 6 words (short, like a haiku!) in the comments below. Contest ends Wednesday Dec 9th at 7am (PT), when I’ll select a commenter at random. |
This morning I woke up thinking about Christmas cookies — probably because yesterday I heard Nutcracker music on the radio. My friend Cathy makes chocolate ones that I hope to score this year — sometimes I help her bake them, but I prefer the eating to the actual cooking. These letter-shaped cookie cutters showed up on decor8 the other day, but originated here (the text is in Swedish and unfortunately there’s no indication of whether one can buy them!) I quite like that the counters are missing from the g and e.