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Red Underpinnings

Just in time for Valentines I discovered The Underpinnings Museum. Color this week had to be red and the ‘red lingerie’ exhibit at the museum fit the bill. The exhibit was mentioned on a recent episode of the podcast DRESSED. Today I made a visit to the digital exhibit on the underpinnings museum website. Incediary:…
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Colors of Gold

A curiosity about the composition of ‘rose gold’ jewelry took me on a journey of discovery around the colors of gold. yellow gold, white gold, rose gold This handy chart [from Wikipedia] says it all, the % alloy alters the gold tone My color challenge this week was to find the watercolors to reproduce the…
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Royal Color

I was referred by a reader to a colorful book, Our Rainbow Queen by Sali Hughes. I found a copy on Abe books to add to my color library. Sali Hughes is quoted as saying “The queen tends to wear one color because she feels that if people are queuing for many hours just to…
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Color of Food
Recently I heard Sanjay Gupta MD talking about his book Keep Sharp Build a Better Brain at Any Age so I put a copy in my audible library and started to listen this week. Gupta narrates his book and in Chapter 7 ‘Food for Thought’ he mentions ‘color’ … the color of food. His statement…