Showing posts with label cats. colors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cats. colors. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Colors that Tell

I have a thing for colors. You too? I love color combinations in fabric for clothing and upholstry, in jewelry, and in nature. I even have favorite colors of cats!

As a writer, I enjoy finding new ways to use color:

Scarlet heat creeping up my neck;
Mauve and rose washing across the horizon;
The blackness of a bitter memory.

If you write, how do you use color to enhance your scenes? If you don't write, how does color enrich your life? What are your favorite colors?

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Monday, June 14, 2010

What About YOU: Quirks


A two-fold What About YOU?


Every Monday I ask a question, to get to know YOU better.


Ready for today’s? Do you consider yourself a quirky person?




Here are two of my quirks:

I have a thing about pens. I can’t stand tacky ballpoint stick pens, which I consider cheap. I almost insist on using either a gel or a roller ball pen, preferably retractable. I don’t have the patience to fiddle with caps.



I also have a thing about colors. If I have a choice between white and a color, unless it’s paint, I will choose a color every time. I’m crazy about brightly colored post-it notes and highlighters. My Bibles look like coloring books. I’ve even asked the Lord to put a colored stripe in my white linen robe when I get to Heaven, so I won’t be bored wearing a solid white gown!


Your turn…

Friday, February 5, 2010

Ten Little Confessions



I got this crazy ten little confessions idea from Wendy Miller of All in a Day’s Thought. I hope these are little enough not to shock you, and big enough not to disappoint you.

1.My husband brings me coffee from freshly ground beans every morning. When he is gone overnight, I tote the programmable coffee maker into the bedroom and set it on my desk across the room, so I can wake up to the smell of coffee brewing.

2.I spoil my four cats beyond reason, talking baby talk to them and letting them climb wherever they want. They even jump on the bathroom counter and drink water from a cup there.

3.We lived in Illinois six years before I shoveled snow the first time, and that was only because my husband had broken his ankle.

4.I not only snort when I laugh real loud; I also snort when I’m disgusted.

5.I love to slide across the kitchen floor in my stocking feet.

6.On my end table I keep several stacks of different colored 3 x 5 cards with encouraging Scriptures written on them. Every day I pick a stack that matches the outfit I’m wearing, and confess them aloud.

7.Some days I get really wild and say Scriptures from cards that don’t even match my outfit!

8.I am not fond of cooking. My favorite cookbook is one containing recipes of 3, 4, and 5 ingredients.

9.My favorite sport is dining out. Shopping comes a close second.

10.My hair is not this bright red; its natural color is auburn, which went bye-bye when I was thirty-five. My youngest granddaughter’s hair is the same shade. YES!

Which one of these surprised you? Have you done “Ten Little Confessions” on your blog?

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