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Every now and then I need a break from illness. I found one! I stumbled upon the site www.colourlovers.com. I am having a ball with it! It lets you create your own color palettes and designs, shows you current trends, shows web site colors, etc.
Art therapy has always been a key to my survival these past 20 years of illness. I designed my own papers (with an old, very outdated computer program) and made cards on my headboard because I spent my life in bed. My cards were and are a big hit with my friends.
Now my kids have put together an art room for me. I do projects with my grandchildren and putter in it myself when I have some energy.
Playing with colors and designs is very therapeutic. This site makes it very easy to do. I plan to use it in lots of ways...maybe even print designs on fabric.
The site lets you set up groups of people with common interests. I am thinking of setting up a Lymie group so that we can all express ourselves, design lyme awareness logos, make our web pages more creative, etc.
I have always been very artistic...painting, sewing, scrapbooking, etc. It makes me happy to create something...even the simplest thing. My lousy memory limits my ability to follow complex directions...hence my lack of a website. And I have to work in short spurts.
But this site inspires me to try. Meanwhile I just play around with it.
I would love to hear what you think. And, no, I have absolutely no connection with it. I can't even remember how I found it!
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Thx, Farraday - I love art too. One thing I have done through these years is make art with my room - literally turn it into a depiction of the seasons as they evolve,
with pictures, colors, things from the season. It's my way of traveling, of feeling a part of the larger world with its seasonal changes.
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I love that idea! Maybe I will print large photos from different seasons and put them up. I also grow plants to give ahealing, green look to my room. We use essential oil burner, candles and family photos.
I used to make quilts and am thinking of using my new color site to help me choose colors for a new one. If only my energy and brain cooperate!
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Farraday that is really cool but the link doesn't work
The "ARTS" really did help me get through treatment though my art was a different form. I dragged myself to small live concerts.
Live music was really a good element for me, to help distract me from my reality.
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Found the site! That is a really cool resource for colors. Thanks for sharing!
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I camped out in an apartment for about five years when I first diagnosed myself and was in bad shape, not able to make plans for better housing.
So, in the absence of much furniture, I decorated the walls with big pieces of paper art. Intended to see how it looked and then make it in fabric, but no sewing machine, so it stayed paper art. One that I really liked was a broad band than ran around two adjoining walls, mostly blue with swan cutouts in white, then one section with gold. Like almost two feet wide.
Had a floor to ceiling tree in bedroom, also made of pieces of paper, one side with summer leaves and the other half of fall leaves. Made with pattern of real leaves.
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Poppy - Do you still make art where you live? I've done similarly - it's fun to really do it with the room -
My first one started with flower wraps that I put up on a new wall, like a collage, and then I just spread out from there.
I did a Roman villa room once, anchored with some larger pics from the poster store.
I did a winter room once, all in white - drawings and cut-outs on white drawings on white walls - very subtle effect - people would walk in and not realize at first that there was art up on all the walls!
I call them my room seasons. Spring is pretty right now - mostly calendar pictures. It's the easiest way to go, and just add colors, knickknacks, etc.
And go with your color feeling for the season - it changes for me every year - like I've had dark winter rooms, light winter rooms, mixed light/dark, etc, and the same for every season - what feels right to live in -
It's a very good mood picker-upper, to look at art anywhere in the room -
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No, had to stop for several years due to upheavals in housing situation.
Want to start doing some fabric wall hangings soon.
Your rooms sound very intriguing.
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