Today my dear mother and I went on a mish to find op-shop furniture for the homestay student. We didn’t find any, but we did come across a rather lovely hospice shop which had piles of fabric. Piles and piles! I fossicked through it with embarrassing thoroughness and very nearly bought about eight lengths of crepe and floral cotton and the like; but in the end I restrained myself and only got some white and cream cotton. One can never have too much white and cream cotton.
Anyway it reminded me of my plan to colour-code the snortlepig’s wardrobe for fall and winter. So I started looking at colour palettes.
It is harder than one thinks.
One does not wish to age the snortlepig with overly sedate colours. She is only tiny, and one should wear clear cheerful colours while one can.
One also wishes to choose colours that suit her, naturally.
And they need to blend with each other, that being the point of the whole exercise; but they can’t all be neutrals, because if one uses up all one’s neutrals in the first season what will she wear in the second? Also, I do not wish her to look drab. People might sneer.
And it being winter, one feels one should choose warm and cheery colours to counteract the effects of the damp.
But one is currently partial to pale blue and grey, which are not warm and cheery.
And one should not go too pale in the winter, because nobody wants to wear dark clothes in the summer and again, variety.
And a lot of colours don’t go well with pale blue.
And I didn’t get much sleep last night, and the colours are beginning to blur before my eyes. And I have to make chocolate ripple ice cream and do an hour of housework. And colourlovers.com requires you to log in before you can make your own palette.
So… you tell me. Too cockatoid? Too nautical? Too drab? Too cheesy? Too girly? Too pretentious? Too… no, I think not. Too dull?
Bah. You do it. I’m just her mother.
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