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Piggy Pink for a Viking of the Day

  Hex colour reference: #fdd7e4 A colourful note: piggy pink is a Crayola name, introduced in 1998 as pig pink, but later softened to “piggy pink”.  And it seems a very close match […]

Ultimate Power

Hex colour reference:  #c5d0e6 A colourful note:  this pale blue-lilac shade, known as periwinkle, is named after the flowers of the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb. The first recorded use of […]

Pacific Blue

  Hex colour reference: #1ca9c9 A colourful note: this greenish-blue shade appeared in Crayola fashion in 1992, known simply as #16.  This naming by number was a way of promoting that […]

Hope and Anchor – week 4

My edit for the final week of the March challenge has gone vintage again.  I have used a tight crop to focus on the hexagonal lamp, and have toned down the red […]

Succulents on Cue

The cacti and succulents at Kew Gardens seemed to call out for a spot of monochrome treatment. Linked to Monochrome Feb, Macro Monday and B&W Weds Copyright Debbie Smyth, 28 February 2016 […]

Greenery and Pinkery

    Hex colour reference:   EF98AA A colourful note: mauvelous is the name of a 1993 Crayola crayon, a company with rather traditional colour terms until the public naming competition […]