orange you glad it's tuesday?

i have always loved the color blue. when i was little, everything i had, had to be blue. when the children i teach ask me what my favorite color is, i say "blue". even though i like so many colors and color combinations, blue is forever my favorite...from the palest, whitest blue to the brightest turquoise...it is consistently the shades of blue that catch my eye. i am a visual person. i love color. i loved studying color theory in school. i liked the science of it. i love mixing colors. i love the challenge of taking the primary colors, white and black and making just the right shade of a color for a painting.

as we i we have been collecting images of things we like for our house (and you know there is an organized notebook for these images) there is a common theme of shades of blue and shades of orange in most of the ideas. it is obviously my favorite complementary color scheme on the color wheel. (i know, what a dork.)

as i was gathering all the images i have been saving to write this, my mother in law rang the doorbell and handed me a little something that i didn't realize i was missing.
we sold our washer and dryer because we need a stackable set for the new house. so we are doing our laundry at her house downtown until we move. last night we walked over in the dark to pick up our clean laundry. my favorite blue underpinnings fell out of the basket and were waiting for her in the driveway this morning. thanks for rescuing them gk.

so with that, here are some pretty blue and orange treats!

spotted this car while having a glass of (the best!) wine with jbp last night on broad street. didn't photograph so well but it was the perfect orange for our foyer.

great table. great wall.

perfectly distressed turquoise.

cute orange pants.

cheers!

this trim, these chairs, this lounge.

the hanging of the artwork in this orange bathroom.

and this cat (sitting up like a person and watching eat, pray, love with me last night) that matches everything we own.