A Key Lime and coconut flesh room….

Ok, Ok….perhaps a stretch.

It is just that a key lime has a beautiful subtle yellow/green/ochre color

and the flesh of a coconut…One of natures true whites.

And when I saw this loft room. I thought of them. those.

But could you just curl up in this room?

Languidly stretch out on this window seat…and while away your time with a good classic book?

Oh. I so could.

Designer and blog friend Lauren Leiss

did up her home sooooo right.

Just real and honest.

Find more of her gorgeous abode in the new issue of Domino Magazine.

Find a key lime and coconut pie

…on my kitchen counter.

yep.

Oh….and sadly, well not sadly for her…happily for her

Spotted and dotted beauty has found a home with another family.

But your names were oh so fun!

Finding fall in the subtropics….and a pumpkin recipe…

It is always a different kind of fall

that we celebrate here in the subtropics

Our lemons are fruiting

variegated lemon…pink inside!

We feel the change in the climate…subtlety. We see the change in colors…Beautifully.

It rolls in much slower, more casually.

Daring you to notice.

Blue ginger

Paths throughout our jungle of a yard

I love finding some of these vestiges of seasonal changes and bringing them in the house

with some small pumpkin gourds in an old French baguette mold

Then using some vegetables of the season…creating a touch of fall for dinner

I used some canned pumpkin pasta sauce….but you could make your own

  

Pumpkin and Fontina Cheese Lasagna

Based on a recipe from here (click on photo)

Happy Fall in your corner of this wonderful world!

Color….color…coloriscious…

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
~Marcus Aurelius

I may have mentioned before that I have synesthesia…

a melding of the senses…of sorts.

Words and numbers and letters all have a correlating color

I remember names and places and dates… first by the color or colors

they construe in my mind

and they blend together and form other colors...to keep me on my toes.

When I was introduced to Artist Michelle Armas’s work a few months ago...

I found it compelling. Almost musical in it’s flirtation with color.

She told me that

she also has a cacophony of color swirling around in her own mind

…she too has synesthesia.

“ It is how I do simple math...green plus purple equals black!” says Michelle

makes complete sense to moi.

yep.

So…now I have a happy inducing Armas piece of work in my home.

An Armasm hee

And it has already enjoyed a few different rooms...

I imagine it will keep moving around leaving a happy little wake of color behind.

I have seen her work throughout blogland….Allison at My little Happy Place recently acquired one…

yum

As did Jenny at MFAMB

If you are looking for a shot of color…some happy…a cacophony of thought.

and who wouldn’t...

If you want your own little insider world into synesthesia…

Michelle Armas is generously giving a 15% discount on her Art

to Lime in the Coconut Readers...

just type in COMEBACKSOON when you place an order
here:

Color…what would we do without it?

Seriously?

design imitates life imitates design…

yes indeed…YES indeed.

image groupings: 8 tea west

Need a shot of color?

Sure ya do.

On sale now.

at a Wisteria Catalog near you.

And keeping with the turquoise and red theme….

I find these paintings by Samantha French

stunning.

The water

the movement…

sublime.

Me want

What art feeds your soul these days??

House snippets…

I dunno…no real rhyme or reason…stuff on my computer

But I found…as I was zooming through our house pictures…

that we have a most certain red and turquoise

thing going on in this casa….

.

Snuck this one in…Inspiration pic from a local shop…decorative arts

love the painting!

So…try it…

find the colors you gravitate to

by looking through pics of your house…

fast.

Now...I don't mean...drop everything and do it now... I mean whip through them

quickly...to get only a color sense.

far be it for me to tell you......nevermind

Carry on.

Some humpday turquoise, perhaps?

Maybe it is a muted painted dresser/vanity

~shy

Some blue coral...subtle.

A soft floor...

A delicious painted chair....On sale from Viva Terra see sidebar------>

Jump in...

the water is great!

It's wednesday...a great day to visit

our colorful,

benevolent

friend....

Turquoise!




Oh....look...Their recycling likes to pile up in corners too...

phew. Not just us.


A touch of the color on your table...

It's a PERFECT color for wednesday.

In high and low dose...

The calming blend of blue and green...

It's like a little vitamin B boost
shot right in your arm

It's only job...To colorfy your wintry white days...

what a benevolent color it is!


Just a tad will work...does for me.
Ahhh.





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