First thing to think about is COLOURS! Yeah, you can have every colour possible on your tree and around the house, or.... stick to a colour theme. Here are a few decorating colourways for you to ponder:
*traditional: green / red, gold / silver (or mix of any of those colours... a no brainer I'm afraid)
*silver / purple / pink / aqua (we did this one year)
*sticking to cool colours: green / purple / blue or warm colours: red / pink / orange
*fashion favourites: blues / brown (chocolate/ taupe)
*all brights (good for kids)
*all pastels (soft, easy on the eye)
*black / white , then add a highlight colour like red .
Tomorrow we'll check out some decorations!
Feeling crafty? Crochet a tree or star bunting! So cute!! Head over to The Royal Sisters for the tutorial.
Okay. Here's the dealio: 1. Choose any of the pictures below (or all of them) and click on the one you want. It should come up nice and big. Print it out onto paper.
2. Colour the picture any way you like, using anything (crayons, pencils, textas, glitter, coloured sands, torn paper....). Have fun with it!
3. You will need to scan it back into your computer and make it a file that you can then email to me and I'll upload it to the colouring comp. photo album on our Facebook page. Please include artist's name and age.
The winner will get a $30 gift voucher to spend at beyond pink and blue!
My 2 little girls will be the judges..... *Closes 30th April 2009, drawn 1st May 2009. *Winner's name will be posted here with their picture and be the title photo of our album on Facebook. I will email the winner with gift certificate. *Open to children from 1 to 10 years of age.
Yep, this week's colour is 'typically' boyish! BLUE A primary colour, comes in many shades..... from baby blue to the greenish aqua to to the strong and dark navy. Think of blue skies, lakes, the ocean, eyes, really cold fingers and lips! This was my favourite colour when I was growing up..... until Fine Young Cannibals released a song about it! Just wrecked it for me.....
Anyway, same as usual; * comment about blue * submit a photo
The shop will be celebrating BLUE this whole week.... all BLUE stuff has been discounted through out the store! Now that's nothing to be blue about!
PINK: a colour mix of Red and White In the Indonesian language there isn't a word for pink as such, instead because it 'stems' from the colour red, the words to describe the colour pink thus has the word for red (merah) in it. So pink in Indonesian is either "merah muda" or "merah susu" or "merah jambu" which translate into "light-red" or "milky-red" or "red jambu" -jambu being a tropical fruit found in Indonesia which has a deep pink, almost magenta colour to it, hence the closest natural colour of pink that people can relate to. (image above) Nowadays however with almost everyone able to speak English, the work 'pink' has been adopted into the Indonesian language, and almost everyone would know what it means when we say 'pink'.
Thank you to Jacinta for this great contribution on what Pink means to her.
We are fortunate to have the most enormous Camellia bush in our front yard. You could pretty much call it a tree! We love it and have a great view when it's pink flowers appear.
This week we're girling it up a notch! My 3 year old will be very pleased!
PINKPINK PINK PINK PINK
Looked up Wikipedia..... lots of pink ideas there! Mainly associated with the female gender, pink was once a colour for boys! (and blue for girls) Boys wore pink as it was a strong colour, being in the same family as red.
But why is pink naturally a little girls favourite colour? Having first hand experience, my oldest girl loves pink, everything to do with the colour. If it comes in pink - it's hers! There has been no influence to suggest she should like pink above all other colours. (Believe me, she has been exposed to all colours equally and none more than the other.....) My youngest girl hasn't been able to experience much pink (as her older sis. has claimed it as her very own colour!) yet...... will she choose pink too? Maybe when she's older, she may secretly covet pink and sneak a bit of pink in here and there.... never letting her sister know in case it's snatched away from her! Or maybe she won't care too much about pink and have a love affair with another colour. I hope so.
Would love your views, ideas on this sweet colour! The shop is celebrating with all PINK things going at a special price..... not just in the SALE section either. Have fun!
Green is everywhere in nature. Blue and Yellow mixed together makes green. Green has great healing power. It is the most restful color for the human eye; it can improve vision. Green suggests stability and endurance.
All green stuff is on sale this week at the shop!Yay! Share your green stories and comments with us.... is green your favourite colour?
I'm kicking off the colour series with my favourite!
Orange.
Orange is known for it's vibrancy and energy. It's made up of red and yellow. It's a fruit. Orange increases oxygen supply to the brain, produces an invigorating effect, and stimulates mental activity. It's a hot colour on the colour wheel. It's opposite is Purple. It's bpab's main colour!
Through the week we'll explore Orange through pictures, art work and words. You can join in too by adding your views on Orange.
The shop will have Orange items on Sale this week too! Yay!!
Hey there! Welcome to August - the last month of Winter (in my part of the world anyway!). We have been enjoying the cool weather this year.... surrendering to layers of clothing, hot chocolate drinks, even cooking outside in the chiminea (roast vegies and damper). Spring is peeking her head up here and there, as blossoms start to appear, the sun shines a bit more frequently and we get the chance to play at the dewy wet play ground now and again. Lovely! Anyway, time for some news etc... Have a beautiful August, Monica @ bpab
Pram Outings off to UK
Well, the talented girls that are Pram Outings are relocating themselves (and business) to England! We will still be stocking there beautifully quirky clothing and giant softies and supporting there venture whole heartedly. I'll be keeping in touch with Pascal and Kim so we will have new things in the future.
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Monstar Kids Spring / Summer (sneak peek)
Some cool threads will be hitting the bpab virtual shelves in September.... Does anyone want to pre-order any items? I won't be stocking the whole collection, so if you'd like to have a proper look at all the clothing on offer for summer, please email me and I will send you the pics. I'd need orders in quickly. Aren't I nice?!
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NEW STUFF IN:
Poss Bloss (new brand)
I've been blogging about Jodie's stuff already, so to read more on Jodie the PVC queen....... ***Comp: buy something from the Poss Bloss range of creative mess (protective) gear this month and you may get your purchase for free! Yes, we'll refund the cost of your Poss Bloss purchase (not postage though). Only 1 lucky duck will win!
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Still feeling a bit on the chilly side?
There are some hand knitted scarves and some limited edition beanies (that were once jumpers!) under the Made for bpab label.
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Opinions on products mailing list
You may already be on the Opinion list and if so Thank You for your valuable input! We are getting summer shoes in store sometime in August and at the moment we're deciding on a family organiser pack.
If you are not on THE list and want to have a say on potential products (plus special deals to do with them), email me with "I wanna say!" in the subject line. I'll then get back to you with more info. I'd really appreciate your help!!
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Just for fun, I'm starting a COLOUR theme a week kinda thing!
Every Monday morning (better remember this!) I'll kick off a colour for the week. I'll be exploring the colour through out the week AND the shop will celebrate the colour with SALE items of said colour too!
You can join in by leaving me comments (at the rainbow blog) on anything to do with the colour of the week or send me an email of photos / comments celebrating this colour. Hope you find it fun and let me know your favourite colour when it comes up!!
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Lastly......
You will be receiving an email from me in the coming months to find out if you want to be on the newsletter list and some other stuff too. It will be a long process, so I hope you don't mind when you get an out of the blue email that's not a newsletter. Thanks for your support in all things related to bpab, it's lovely to know there are many beautiful people out there in this crazy world we live in! Enjoy...........
First thing to think about is COLOURS!
Crochet a tree or star bunting! So cute!!
