Monday Pinspirations: Nontraditional Fall Home Decor

fall mantel | fall table decor | gold leaves | painted acorns | white pumpkin decor

glitter dipped leaf garland | front porch display | fall centerpiece | milk paint pumpkins

Pantone Spring 2013

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I've been planning for spring designs and decided to do a little research on popular colors for 2013. I spent some time exploring Pantone's Spring 2013 Color Report and found several shades that I love! I also found this cute graphic featuring all of the spring colors at Long Distance Loving:

Over the next few weeks I'll be posting color inspirations for many of these colors. Stay tuned for my first color themed post next week!

Happy weekend!

New Blog Design (Part 1)

I am in the process of redesigning my blog and my first step was to decide on two or three colors that I like. After a lot of thought I decided on yellow, turquoise, and grey. I want main color to be white to give it a nice, clean feel, and I want the rest to be a combination of these three colors.

I used Paint to give me a visual of the colors that I had in mind and also so I could move them all around and see which I liked best. I started off by searching Pinterest for color palettes that I liked. I found the website Photo Card Boutique and looked through their Color Crush Palettes to find specific colors and their hex codes! I searched hex codes using this website. It gave me not only the color that I typed in, but also darker and lighter shades to compliment the color. These two websites combined with Paint helped make it a fun and productive process!