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Yes jump for joy because Pantone has announced the new color of the year! Get ready to see turquoise all over the stores and draped over people. FYI last year was purple. This year it seems we all want to escape the gloom to the pure waters of the Med or some tropical island. So ditch all your gloomy colors if you need to be "in" and very groovy. :D

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Top-col...

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I like my gloomy colors!

However, I like turquoise as well.

There's such a thing called Color of the Year?

Wow.

turquoise is the new magenta

Turquoise is the color of the walls in my bedroom. :)

I do really like turquoise, and also love purple, so I hate when my favorite colors are selected as color of the year because then I'm inundated, it's like a song being overplayed on the radio!

When I first moved to Seattle in 91, most of my wardrobe was black since that's what everyone wore in NY, and hey, I looked good in black! (not so much anymore now it makes me look gaunt) And out here nobody wore black, I stuck out like a sore thumb. As a matter of fact, strangers would say You're new here aren't you, just because I wore dark grunge colors. I suppose since it's so gloomy here people like more vivid splashes.

And suddenly I too wanted more colors, and discovered I loved wearing so many more hues. The longer I live here, the less I want to wear dark colors, I want I need I crave death to the gloom.

I love turquoise, and aqua, and blue-green, and green-blue, and azure, and sea green, and cerulean...

I loved the color palette/art direction in Mamma Mia.

Another reason to take my next big vacation in Greece, where I've always wanted to go.

Jackie's pic is so beautiful, I may make it my desktop. I especially love the deepest blue in the sky, on the upper left. that's been my favorite color for years.

turquoise

precious stone, 1560s, replacement from M.Fr. of M.E. turkeis, turtogis (late 14c.), from O.Fr. turqueise, fem. adj. "Turkish," in pierre turqueise "Turkish stone," so called because it was first brought to Europe from Turkestan or some other Turkish dominion (Sinai peninsula, according to one theory). Cognate with Sp. turquesa, M.L. (lapis) turchesius, M.Du. turcoys, Ger. türkis, Swed. turkos. As a color name, attested from 1853.

It's my birthstone. :D

Well alright!

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:D!

Turquoise - Ken Nordine

Gee, you shouldn't have.
Of course you did, couldn't help yourself.
Had to.
Turquoise, don't you know how simple you are.
Don't you know what affect you're having on everything.
See the flash of you, turquoise,
there, by her gliding through the light
and by such swifts and shifts of slight.

Also there you go,
all streaks of turquoise blur;
definitely so.

And here, here a turquoise all tender
trembling like water--
whatdya think of a turquoise like that?

Thenn there's this turquoise
and that turquoise...

Ohh *laughs*
Turquoise, you shouldn't have.
Of course you did.
Couldn't help yourself.
Had to.

Isn't that right?
Ohhh...

There's something that you can...
tint.

Turquoise.

For 2011 the color of the year is honeysuckle.

Aren't honeysuckle flowers yellow?

That's honeysuckle?

When I say it several times, the word honeysuckle takes on a nice connotation.

It's a sensual word.

From a Washington Post article I recently read about the yellow vs. pink debate:
Wild Japanese honeysuckles are yellow and white, but preferred garden varieties have coral-pink hues.

I just painted my living room in the new house a shade of this color (mine is brighter) and will be pairing it with black and white damask old timey wallpaper on one wall and I cannot WAIT to see the finished look!!

Crap, I thought the new color was turquoise. I look great in turquoise! Or aqua. If that is honeysuckle I am just going to have to make it a little more coral-ly to work for me.

ps. barb is dirty. I like it.

Carol wrote: "ps. barb is dirty. I like it."

She should probably shower!

Jim wrote: "Carol wrote: "ps. barb is dirty. I like it."

She should probably shower!"

No way! She's just right!

Jim wrote: "She should probably shower!"

But never alone.

Phil wrote: "Jim wrote: "She should probably shower!"

But never alone."

Agreed!

Suefly wrote: "It's a sensual word."

Like the forget-me-not.

I love honeysuckle. Color, sure, but also the wild flower and the taste, as well as the aroma.