Book Beauty Monday : Paris in Color

Such a beautiful coffee table book for daydreaming on gloomy day like today. I'm not particularly in love with Paris but I love overall atmosphere of european classic. Old buildings, cobbled pavements, little cute shop signs, ornamental frames of windows and doors and sweet romantic color combinations.

This book is all about colors. The author/photographer divided each section by different colors. Starting from black, blue, brown, green and so on. It's full of pictures of little things, of everyday life. Simple but beautiful.

Visit this photographer's blog here and you may be interested in her other book, The Paris Journal.

Etsy Treasury : Smile, Live a Cozy and Happy Life !

I have not made Etsy Treasury list for months. It's really a great way to help promote sellers with beautiful products and pictures. For me, I find that while browsing all those beautiful items, my eyes are trained to look and learn how this or that image attracts me, how teal can look so great on brown wooden background or how putting an item in surprising context will make it more charming. It's just a matter of observation, which I have just learned.

I always love the combination of bright orange and peaceful blue. You can take a look of this Treasury here. If you like what you see, please share and support these hard workers :)

Have a bright orange and beautiful blue day, will you?

Joining creative group and today is red!

I always love the idea of creating art based on keywords. That's how I start with each of my graphic design work project, find main keywords and develop connections from those words.  My 365 days I draw works with this idea too, also the Treasure Hunt photo prompts I talked about last week and other creative groups I found on blogs and facebook.

The latest one is from a facebook group called #amonthof. The general concept of this group is to create things based on keywords the group members select for each month. For this April, it's a month of color. And red is the first!

I spend most of my time in my studio which is also my home. So, I don't have many shots of traveling outside. I love taking pictures of everyday things though. The red plastic spoons come with ice cream boxes, I think. The red and green apple pattern is on cookie tin box which I bought just because of its pretty package :P and the beautiful red rose gift wrapping paper for the background.

Below is the other shot of my favorite thing. It's not red-red thing but I think the same red rose wrapping paper could help :) It's a close-up shot of my recently-bought notebook which replicating illuminated manuscript art. The details are embossed beautifully. It's a bit expensive but I can't help it. I'm glad I did buy it now :)

Thanks for coming, have a merry red-red day everyone :D