Showing posts with label Purple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Purple. Show all posts

Saturday, April 10, 2010

The Bees are Back!


The infamous bee locket has returned in three different hues. I listed one last night that sold within a few hours in purple. I have ordered the standard purple, a new vivid green and a teal that is slightly more rich than the one from the last batch.

To have these made first I create the image in photoshop, in this case the image was made in synergy with my husband Greg. I rescale and resize the image to fit the locket and then I go in and start adjusting colors. Since I stay within the confides of my color palette there isn't a whole lot to choose from thus the purple, tea and green. The green starts to move
out of my palette a bit, but, I have a sense that it will be a good color this year. We will see, I'm very curious. I also contemplated doing a burgundy and pale rose tone. What do you think dear readers? What colors do you wish to see these in? Once I have printed out all the sheets with multiple images I send those along to Lori, my jewelry craftwoman and she does the rest.

Besides the lockets the little art deco brass bee pictured below will be returning as well. I made prints in the purple, vivid green and teal for that style well. The image of the new lot uses the newer logo and a little sweet little bail connectors detail As soon as I receive them I'll be doing a photo shoot. Look forward to sharing these with each of you.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Crown: Purple


Everything is blooming most recklessly;
if it were voices instead of colors,
there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke

Between red and blue one encounters purple, the color attributed to royalty and the crown chakra. Mauve and purple are celebrated today in Spring Color Week at Poppytalk, here are some of my contributions for the festival.



Lavender, a plant containing one of the most useful essential oil available. The refreshing and balancing note of Lavender is celebrated in Vera, a botanical perfume, which contains several varieties of the essence from all over the world.

Vera is a song to lavender and the regional farmers working with this healing herb. This fragrance is an herbaceous bouquet inspired by the Ojai Valley in Southern California. Regionally distilled herbs harmonize with a floral heart in an oceanic base. This perfume contains essential oils distilled and tinctured from local flora. Vera was created specifically for the Ojai Lavender Festival in 2007. The term Vera is derived from the botanical name for true lavender, Lavandula vera.