It's not that I don't want to blog. It's just that I am rarely near a computer when I have an idea I am itching to write about. And by the time I am at a computer (like now), I completely forget what I was so excited about and meant to write about.
So my ideas are just floating out there in the ether somewhere, because I frequently say out loud that I need to blog about something, but never do, because I forget.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
I have seen the future, and it is PINK!
Ok kids, let's take a few minutes out of our day and talk about color choices, or how more does not equal less.
The next time you think that adding barbie pink yarn to bright rose pink-on-medium pink-on-just-lighter-than-barbie pink twist yarn will somehow mute the pinkness, remember, THERE IS NO WAY TO MUTE PINK. Not real pink, anyway. Baby pink doesn't count, since it's already muted, probably so as not to sear baby's eyeballs with its pinkness. But adding pink to pink, well, I've made enough wrong turns into the barbie aisle to (you'd think) know by now that pink + pink = PINK.
I am currently working on an item I have dubbed The Pink Panther scarf. For anyone who remembers the cartoon, I mean that sort of pink. Now, I love pink. But I'm almost appalled at how pink this is turning out. It's not 80's neon pink, or let's-play-princess-pink. It's PINK. I don't think pictures will do it justice. And this is a custom order, for which I picked out the yarn, after makingan attempt to describe it on the phone, completely forgetting the above equation in my excitement. I have told the recipient that if she does not like it, I will gladly remake it in colors that are either more (eek!) or less pink. I'm not worried about being stuck with this one, because as soon as I put it up for sale, I know some pink loving soul will snap it up and love it forever. But it will come with a warning that colors may be brighter than they appear.
The next time you think that adding barbie pink yarn to bright rose pink-on-medium pink-on-just-lighter-than-barbie pink twist yarn will somehow mute the pinkness, remember, THERE IS NO WAY TO MUTE PINK. Not real pink, anyway. Baby pink doesn't count, since it's already muted, probably so as not to sear baby's eyeballs with its pinkness. But adding pink to pink, well, I've made enough wrong turns into the barbie aisle to (you'd think) know by now that pink + pink = PINK.
I am currently working on an item I have dubbed The Pink Panther scarf. For anyone who remembers the cartoon, I mean that sort of pink. Now, I love pink. But I'm almost appalled at how pink this is turning out. It's not 80's neon pink, or let's-play-princess-pink. It's PINK. I don't think pictures will do it justice. And this is a custom order, for which I picked out the yarn, after makingan attempt to describe it on the phone, completely forgetting the above equation in my excitement. I have told the recipient that if she does not like it, I will gladly remake it in colors that are either more (eek!) or less pink. I'm not worried about being stuck with this one, because as soon as I put it up for sale, I know some pink loving soul will snap it up and love it forever. But it will come with a warning that colors may be brighter than they appear.
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