Monthly Archives: August 2017
Colour Experts
Helen Gilbert, Luxe 39: My Colourful World
Helen Gilbert is the brains behind luxury velvet cushion company Luxe 39. Here, she tells [...]
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Colour stories
5 ways colour helped me cope with coronavirus lockdown
I don’t know about you but I couldn’t have done without colour during the various [...]
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Colour stories
How to paint a mini-mural in 15 minutes
I love painting things. Every stage thrills me, starting from leafing through paint cards, comparing [...]
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Colour stories
Where to find colour in London: Liberty’s
Where do you head to when you’re feeling flat, melancholy or in need of recalibrating [...]
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10 books about colour
As a colour-lover, I’m often asked colour questions like, ‘What’s your favourite colour?’ The other [...]
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Colour Experts
Quirk & Rescue’s Ms Pink: My Colourful World
From incredible wallpaper, cushions and prints through to bespoke hand-painted furniture, the signature prints of [...]
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Shelfies
How to ‘shelfie’ your way to mindfulness
Can creating ‘shelfies’ help as a form of mindful activity? Martha Roberts asks the experts… [...]
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Colour stories
How to create the perfect (colourful) freelance space
When I worked on a national newspaper, we did long hours (news never sleeps, even [...]
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Colour stories
The psychology of pink
One of the things I’ve learned is that colour isn’t just something we see: the [...]
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Lisa Dawson: My Colourful World
Lisa Dawson is an interiors blogger, writer and presenter whose weekly blog inspires fans on Instagram and [...]
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5 colourful holiday destinations
Someone recently asked me what my ideal holiday destination is. On a general level, the [...]
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Shelfies
14 May 18: ‘Shelfie’ is on its way!
BOOK NEWS!!!!!! OK, so I’m seriously excited. Some of you know (because you’ve been an [...]
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22nd August ’17: Banana yellow
Happy Tuesday, Colour Filers 🍌🍌🍌 My mum used to tell a story about being given [...]
Aug
21st August ’17: Pelican blue
Happy Monday, folks 💙🐬🌊👕👖 When I was a kid, we had two goldfish named Maslow [...]
Aug
19th August ’17: the beauty of maps
Welcome to the weekend, lovely people 💗💕💗💕. I am utterly hooked on maps. Whether they’re [...]
Aug
18th August ’17: Hello from Wales
Hello folks, My second-in-command and I are down at the beach with our lovely friends, [...]
Aug
Mosaic artist Carrie Reichardt: My colourful world
Carrie Reichardt is a leading contemporary UK artist and self-confessed ‘craftivist’. She uses murals, ceramics [...]
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Aug
18th August ’17: Black mood to multi
Happy Thursday, colour-lovers. Next week it’ll be six months since I started The Colour File [...]
Aug
Author Kassia St Clair: My colourful world
Kassia St Clair is a self-confessed colour addict and author of The Secret Lives of Colour, [...]
Aug
15th August ’17: A few library truths
Happy Tuesday, Instapeeps. In my job as a school librarian, I learnt a few things: [...]
Aug
14th August ’17: Cobalt goblins
Welcome to a new week, folks. Looking out of my window today, I can see [...]
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Aug
13th August ’17: Colourful acrostics
Happy Sunday, Colour Filers ❤️💥🐤🍀🦋👾☂️ When I was a newspaper reporter, a story did the [...]
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