Rainbow scarves

Hello my friends. Thanks so much for the lovely comments on my new look blog!

As you will see, the blog isn't the only thing having a makeover.

Check out my new hair! Ta da!!

I'm not sure how I arrived at this post. I have been inspired by Anne of SpyGirl's Pantone colour post, although I was too late for that, and now the current topic is a post influenced by a book or "Reading between the lines" which made me think of this post about stripes, and this post telling the story of a scarf.

I also have been thinking about Sacremento of Mispapelicos's ShareinStyle Scarves which reminded me of two of my posts, waiting for love(the above story of a scarf) and scarf play (where I play making headwraps).

I do a lot with scarves!

I'm also wearing a new dress to me, with beautiful detail around the waist, in a colour very close to the Marsala Pantone Colour of the Year.

I have a lovely book about colour and how all the pigments and dyes were created around the world.

 

So put all that in the mix and of course out pops a completely new post about colour, specifically rainbows.

(some colours I could have filled with 4 or 5 scarves!)

Red

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. Billy Connolly

calls subtly, seductively

and klaxonically shouts

...at the same time

Orange

Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast. So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

sunburnt country

turns orange

in the heat

Yellow

Drive, guy. That green light isn't going to get a deeper green. It'll only ripen and turn yellow. Jarod Kintz

how can one colour

be the symbol for happiness

and for cowardice?

Green

I've learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naïve indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green... Munia Khan

my favourite green

is spring green

newborn bouncy elastic green

Blue

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. Yves Saint Laurent

 

sad music

that makes people happy

Indigo (or thereabouts)

His eyes were that colour you can't see in the rainbow. Indigo. Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

 

exotically rare

mysterious, magical

and ever so slightly confusing

 

Violet

Sir Richard, life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous. Violet Crawley, Downton Abbey

 

old fashioned name

reminiscent of shrinking,

inflate little violet

you too can be purple!

(Both dress $12 and earrings $8 were thrifted. All scarves thrifted except the green and last violet - retail, and blue - gift. Painting and haircut by me!)

 

I was feeling triumphant having cut my hair at the right time of the year for once, when the weather turned cold on me. Never mind, a perfect excuse for a colourful head wrap!

PS. taken when I had hair because...lazy! You get the picture:-)

 

I leave you with the rainbow hues in my colour washed painting of Life.

Enjoy a colourful time until we meet again.

Keep on creating!

Jazzy Jack

Linking to SpyGirl and MisPapelicos.

Come on over and see Anne dressed in a bookish striped scarf, and Sacremento radiant in stripes using Furoshiki to make a bag out of a scarf. How amazing are my friends ...and scarves!!

Update: Linking to StyleCrone to give her a Hat Attack with my scarf hat, and to Monday Mingle looking at Summer.

 

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