Monthly Archives: February 2018

If you’re a lover of interiors or the colour pink – or a delicious mixture of the two –  you can’t fail to have heard of Emily Murray. Lifestyle journalist and award-winning founder of The Pink House, Emily tells The Colour File what colour means in her life…   My first colour memory A pink […]

Happy Tuesday, folks 🌸🌵💕 When I was a kid, I loved driving through rural mid Wales with my mum and listening to her regaling family tales. My particular favourite was about a relative who’d wear her beloved son’s shirts before he did to make sure they were properly aired. I remember thinking at the time […]

Welcome to a new week, my colour-loving friends. I was wondering if I could pick your brains? Following on from the success of last year’s card, I’m producing some greetings cards of Colour File favourites and was hoping you might be able to tell me which you like the best? Analytics are one thing but […]

Hello lovely people. I recently read that yellow is the colour that people fear wearing the most (followed by pink, orange, red and green). Apparently they would love to wear more colour but are afraid of what friends and family might think. Folks, I have something to tell you: life is waaaaay to short to […]

Welcome to the weekend, folks. When it comes to colours, I know what I like – and what I don’t. Some time ago I wrote about the world’s worst colour, the sludgy Pantone 448C. I thought that for a personal colour challenge I’d fling this drab colour together with the world’s favourite, blue, to see […]

Good morning, my lovely friends 👛🌺❤️🍊💛📗🌵💧👖👾☂️ Since divulging my librarian secrets the other day, I’ve had books on my brain. My local @oxfambookshops has inadvertently helped me in my quest to build a bibliographic rainbow by selling off vintage @penguinclassics and Pelican books for 99p and as such I’m starting to fill in the spectral gaps. As a big […]

Not so long ago, I had a part-time job as a primary school librarian. My time was mainly spent mending the Guinness World of Records with gaffer tape (it was a very popular read), saying ‘shooooosh!!!’ more times than you can actually imagine and scrabbling around on the floor, looking under bookcases for ‘Where’s Wally?’ […]

Happy Wednesday, folks. Which front door would you most like to see behind, fictional or real? Maybe it’s 10 Downing Street or the White House (actually, I think I’d rather not know 🍊) or perhaps it’s a door from a film. Personally, it’s any pretty-coloured door that does it for me, like these Bantham beauties. […]

Hello, my colour-loving friends. What’s in your top 10 of things that make you happy? Aside from the expected (second-in-command’s happiness, naturally. I once read you’re only as happy as your least happy child: so true), unexpectedly finding something colourful is probably right up there. Add ‘free’ and ‘by the sea’, whether it’s an image […]