Chip It

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I recently installed a new app on my mac and I love it.  As you are browsing you simply hover over the photo and click on the chip it app and it will give you colors found in the palette of the photo.  Here are two done based on a photo of a room.

For those folks that are truly color challenged this can be a powerful tool.  A person can take any photo displayed on the internet and use Chip It to make this happen.  Once you have been through this process you are able to save choices to a file on the chip it program.

These two Chip It profiles were taken of photos of art prints on the William Sonoma Home site.

These profiles of color were based on photos taken during fashion week.

This is such a fun app to play with and to begin to sift through the thousands of colors available.

A person could spend hours Chipping It and come up with some pretty interesting colors.  Could use these pallets to select neutral for walls and accent paints or fabrics.  I highly recommend this app to you for making paint color choices or just for fun.

Kitchen Confidential: Part IV

The kitchen is painted, some of the new and old items are in place.  Going from Signal Red to Italian Straw paint has been traumatic for me.  Don't know when that will feel normal.  Have not done new counter tops yet  and perhaps that will pull the look together.  I am still in a dilema regarding the table in front of the settee.

The English Pub table is beautiful and quite functional.  We have had several meals here and it as cozy as I imagined.  I have been on my computer blogging and it works just fine for that too.  Sadly the table is too high and too large.  I am just not sure I am willing to give up the function for the look.  We have tried this space with a tea table [ barely enough room for a cup] and I also I tried an antique card table I pulled from the attic [functional but temporary].  Dilemma:  Leave the table we love that works for the two of us or find one that is round and smaller that gives room for folks we entertain to feel invited into this area?  That decision will have to wait for awhile as there are so many final issues to resolve.  I could certainly use some comments and suggestions here so have at it.

The chartreuse light fixture is going to replace the pendant light over the sink.  I will have to move down a notch in wattage as it already is bright enough to land a plane in the kitchen and one more chandelier will add to this problem.  I like good light is the kitchen but 360 watts plus 240 watts is just overwhelming.

New fixture over island turned down with dimmer.  Love this light.  Perfect.

Pendant light over the sink currently looks sad.  Whimsical chartreuse light to the rescue.

Here are more photos.  Need more art and will definitely change as time goes and seasons change.

Arts and Crafts chair with new fabric.  Beautiful and comfortable.

Overall view from kitchen.  That tiny inappropriate light definitely has to go.

Here are a few views of the kitchen without the new counters.

More to come as progress is made.  Maybe new thoughts will come to me as I do my taxes.  Doubtful though as doing taxes just doesn't fit into my creative thought pattern.

Nobody Knows this About Me

Most people will be shocked by this revelation.  Most know that I am a right brain, creative person.  I love all things about entertaining people and welcoming them into my home.  I am generally a happy person with happy thoughts.  But this time of year I become someone entirely different.  I get my readers or bifocals on and get my adding machine out  and do the family taxes.

Tubotax for Home and Office is my tool of choice.  I have to fie a schedule C because of my design business.  This is a tool I have used for at least 10 years.  Now the tool is great but only as good as the one gathering the information.  Of  course, being the right brain person that I am, I have not kept these records well so I will spend days gathering the charitable donations thrown in drawers.  Having bank records online has helped me tremendously as I don't have to haul out the bank statements to gather figures for income and deductions.  As all this is scattered all over no professional could piece this puzzle together and by the time he/she did I figured out 12 years ago that I could do the final figures.

The gathering begins and every year I swear I will be more organized and put things in a file and then something more interesting and happy comes along.  I always choose to do the happy and interesting which causes me much aggravation for about two weeks during tax filing days.  If you run into me during the next two weeks and I am not focused it is because I am doing what my grandmother knew I was not suited for, dealing with figures.

It is amazing to me that our lives can be summarized by a tax return.  Seems so cold and "calculated" but so true that one can see what is important by where the money is spent.

I believe because I know I am not suited I am much more careful.  I am always so satisfied when finished and the program shows no mistakes.  So on to the task at hand so that I can get back to the joys of life and now everybody knows this about me even though some won't believe it.