Short Girl Tall City: paint chips

Alright, here it goes. The world finally needs to hear my addiction confession.

The truth is:

I'm addicted to color

Seriously, color is just about the most amazing thing to grace this planet - and I am absolutely in love.

I mean just look at this:

and this!

and so on, and so forth.

I'm sure to some I may get border line clownish with some of my outfits, but I like to hope I keep my color to a tastefully outrageous level at all times.

The other night, zee roommate introduced me to a most glorious site-web:

Design Seeds

Pretty much what goes down at this website is as follows:

- genius lady finds or takes (unknown) gorgeous pictures

- genius lady creates color schemes from pictures

- my eyes are very happy.

And there are over 300 pages of these...

Honestly, if you ever feel like you're out of color combinations, take a look outside. I think you'll change your mind quite quickly.

I really like the idea of getting color schemes from photographs you love. I never really thought about the option, but it would really be quite simple.

- open up a photo in photoshop or similar program

- use the little eyedropper tool to suck up colors

- create palate of beautiful colores!

So after spending a good 20 minuets staring in awe at all the wonderful colors, we decided it was time to take action ourselves. H had been collecting paint chips over the summer, partially for inspiration for the family living room, partially because they were really pretty, partially because she thought they might make good tiny canvases to paint on.

Splaying them out of the floor, it didn't look like we had a very smooth spectrum going on. There seemed to be loads of one color, few of another, and very stark transitions. Still, we set our minds on and end goal, and got sorting...

some hours later, we had almost completed a project that makes me just that much happier ever time I walk into the room: