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Get Ready: Color and Print Weeks!

Paper Magazine: Get Busy, Get Dizzy, photo by Emily Shur

I've never met a color I couldn't grow to love. Same goes for a pattern. Even when I think I don't like a certain color (I once proclaimed that I didn't like yellow only to be proven wrong a million times over), I work hard to like it. It seems like a dis-service to hate on a color, you know?
Anyway, in honor of color-love I thought I would bring back an old favorite: Color Week! And that seemed so fun that I added Print Week too! Starting next Sunday, I will feature inspiration and thoughts on every color of the rainbow on every day of the week and then after that I will do the same with prints. Oh, and feel free to play along and host a color week on your blog too. Let me know if you do, of course!

A {Pretty} Pouch A Day

Yesterday, I went in to get my weekly allergy shot. As I was leaving, the receptionist watched as I gathered my purse, tote bag, jacket, scarf and cup of tea and dryly commented, "you don't travel light, do you?"
This is one of the NY things I have not been able to let go of in my Philly life. Like a modern-day nomad, I travel with everything I need for the day, including but not limited to: my make-up, a snack, at least one beverage, a wallet, a notbook, my phone, a change of shoes and a magazine or two. Sometimes I throw a few groceries in there too. People who have cars use them to throw all their junk in, I carry mine on my back.
One thing that keeps my bags from falling into complete disarray is my love for pouches. Here are some favorite pouches, so cute they inspire rhymes...

Sunday's pouch is grey and flat, in the whimsical shape of a sleeping cat.



Monday's pouch is of fine feathered flocks, it's bright photoprints will knock off your socks.


Tuesday's pouch with delicate beads, is a tiny purse of a highbrow breed.


Wednesday's favorite is no slouch, it's a rosy pink fold-over pouch.


Thursday's pouch is patterned and fun- oh-so hard to just pick one.


Friday's pouch is worth the hype, with worn-in leather and railroad stripe.



Saturday's pouch, with colors electric. Each one is unique + quilted geometric.