Recap: Pantone-inspired Spring Color Challenge

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Can I just say that I loved this challenge? It wasn't hard, it didn't require me to buy anything (though I feel like I need to own something legitimately linen-coloured now), and it just inspired creativity. Pick a colour, pick a piece of clothing--or an accessory! or shoes!--and go from there. I went with two tops, two skirts and a dress, and I'm really happy with the results, though I do kind of wish I had picked a pair of shoes for one of the colours (African Violet, maybe?). I don't officially speak for anyone else, but I think everyone involved might want Heidi and Marissa to do this again when fall rolls around. I know I do!

Tickle me red

Cardigan: Target | Dress: JCPenney | Belt: Target | Heels: Target

I bought this today, and I am so excited now to make deviled eggs. If I weren't working this weekend, I would be all over that like white on rice. Like white on eggshell. Like white on white people. Okay, I need to stop now.

She hides the bruises with linen and lace

Top: Target | Skirt: Walmart | Wedges: Target

volume, n.
(ˈväl-yəm)

1: a series of printed sheets bound typically in book form
2: scroll
3: the amount of space occupied by a three-dimensional object as measured in cubic units (as quarts or liters)
4: amount; also: bulk, mass; a considerable quantity
5: the degree of loudness or the intensity of a sound
6: my hair

Mellow yellow

Top: J.Crew Factory | Skirt: Talbots | Wedges: Target | Nails: butter London Jaffa

I'm taking a Maymester class (on storytelling! FUN!), and that means that I am cramming fifteen weeks of one class into fifteen days. This is not a joke. But from this Saturday to next Saturday, I am class free, which means I can read whatever I want. I am very excited. I will be reading Insurgent by Veronica Roth, and possibly The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman.

UPDATE: my boss has just goaded me into attempting to read a book a day next week. DOING IT. I'll keep you posted on the outcome!

Purple rain

Top: J. Crew Factory | Tank: Eddie Bauer | Skirt: JCPenney | Wedges: Target | Band aid: Band-Aid

I have spent the last three weeks covered in lesions of various sizes. You can't see them because they are only on my torso. Every week they have seemed to get worse, more numerous, more flaky and itchy. Being the mild alarmist that I am (that we all are these days), I did a little Googling and OHMYGODIT'SBEDBUGS. I tore my bed apart, looking for the slightest sign of bed bugs, but nothing. I slept in the guest room last night after panicking and thinking I was being eaten alive, but after being unable to sleep, I finally retreated to my bed and fell asleep immediately. I went to the doctor this morning, ready to hear that I would die from being smothered by a giant bed bug, but GOOD NEWS! It isn't bed bugs! It is instead a "plain old infection" known as pityriasis rosea, an annoying but harmless viral infection of the skin that causes these suckers. Oddly enough, it generally occurs in young people from 10 to 35, so watch out, gang. It's coming for you, and there is literally nothing you can do but ride it out and put some antihistamine cream on it when it gets itchy. I might be wearing exclusively cotton for the next few weeks.

But, I mean. Still way better than bed bugs.

Green is the colour that everyone sees all around me

Sweater: Anthropologie | Belt: Target | Skirt: JCPenney | Wedges: Target

I am very excited about Heidi and Marissa's Pantone-Inspired Spring Challenge! First of all, I love Pantone. Second, I love easy challenges (meaning I will not feel like pulling my own teeth by the end), and this totally fits the bill! I need something for a little inspiration. Not that I don't love SIA, but I feel like I'm stuck in a slight style rut, and I think this will help. It's also finals week, which is not helping my creative state. Whatever. We're getting this show on the road. You're welcome to join in too! Click the banner below to be taken to Heidi's blog, which will explain the mysteries of the world the challenge.

SIA: PSA

Feeding the Ducks, by Mary Cassatt
Drypoint and aquatint, with monotype inking, on paper, 1895

Mary Cassatt was my first favourite artist (followed shortly thereafter by Picasso, and then all hell broke loose). I loved her art when I was a child. Impressionism in general was my first love, and Cassatt in particular was a superhero. But Mary Cassatt wasn't just an Impressionist; she also made a sizable contribution to the field that would become graphic arts by developing these drypoint and aquatint prints. This print, Feeding the Ducks, was one of those original prints. The prints stand as one of her most creative and unique contributions to the arts--this technique was something that hadn't been done before in the West, and she drew considerable attention for it.

Entries for Style Imitating Art will be due to Salazar by the evening of Monday, May (MAY!!) 6th. Enjoy this one, and email us if you have questions!