Thrifty Magpies: A Touch of Orange

Saturday, November 12, 2011

A Touch of Orange

via HGTV

There must be one color your drawn to more than any other.

If your like me, there's a few.

Your perusing a catalogue, magazine or the web and you come across this gorgeous room featuring your favorite color(s). Your heart stops for a brief moment. OK, maybe not! But I kinda get that feeling when I see the color Orange. Seriously. It just puts a smile on my face. A refreshing, happy color.

For me, a little goes a long way. Too much and it can be a little overwhelming.

I like little nuances. The green could completely overtake this room if it weren't for the touches of orange and cream that take your eyes away from the walls. Keeping the bed the focal point.

Love everything about this room, really. The mirrored wall, the taxidermy peacock and that gorgeous orange credenza/buffet.

images via Traditional Home

Even a focal wall can be amazing with a few pops of the same color family throughout to tie it all together.

via CB2

The pouf! Always a favorite. At least to me. Still think it has some trendy life left.

This Missoni vase from Target is amazing. I love the structure and the striations of those amber tones throughout. Placed on a mantle or the centerpiece of your dining table. Lovely!

via Etsy

Think I might have to place dibs on this chevron pillow. Would look nice and comfy on my couch.

Little accents like a pillow, a vase, a book or going big like a credenza or a wall. Either way, I'm a fan of orange and it's many shades.

Ever thought of experimenting big with your fave color or just flirting a bit?

I think I'm the flirting type :-)

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The Magpie's Nest

by Joseph Jacobs
English Fairy Tales

All the birds of the air came to the magpie and asked her to teach them how to build nests. For the magpie is the cleverest bird of all at building nests. So she put all the birds round her and began to show them how to do it. First of all she took some mud and made a sort of round cake with it.

"Oh, that's how it's done!" said the thrush, and away it flew - and so that's how thrushes build their nests.

Then the magpie took some twigs and arranged them round in the mud.

"Now I know all about it!" said the blackbird, and off it flew - and that's how the blackbirds make their nests to this very day.

Then the magpie put another layer of mud over the twigs.

"Oh, that 's quite obvious!" said the wise owl, and away it flew - and owls have never made better nests since.

After this the magpie took some twigs and twined them round the outside.

"The very thing!" said the sparrow, and off he went - so sparrows make rather slovenly nests to this day.

Well, then Madge magpie took some feathers and stuff, and lined the nest very comfortably with it.

"That suits me!" cried the starling, and off it flew - and very comfortable nests have starlings.

So it went on, every bird taking away some knowledge of how to build nests, but none of them waiting to the end.

Meanwhile Madge magpie went on working and working without looking up, till the only bird that remained was the turtle-dove, and that hadn't paid any attention all along, but only kept on saying its silly cry, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

At last the magpie heard this just as she was putting a twig across, so she said, "One's enough."

But the turtle-dove kept on saying, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

Then the magpie got angry and said, "One's enough, I tell you!"

Still the turtle-dove cried, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

At last, and at last, the magpie looked up and saw nobody near her but the silly turtle-dove, and then she got rarely angry and flew away and refused to tell the birds how to build nests again.

And that is why different birds build their nests differently.