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Monday, February 14, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Artist corner: A beautiful butterfly!
Artist: Chai
Age: 5
About the work: Mummy drew me a butterfly to colour in and I used oil pastels.
Would you like to have your art work featured on the rainbow blog?
Just email a scan or photo of it to: info[at]beyondpinkandblue[dot]com
This month we are show casing anything PINK.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Once apon a time, boys wore pink
Image taken from Sarah Hoffman's website, who has a boy who loves pink.
Babies and children wore white for a long time, gender was not an important factor before the 1900's.
It wasn't until the 1920's that Western culture started assigning the colour pink (and blue) to an individual gender.
Pink was actually an appropriate boy colour, because it was seen as more masculine, being close to the colour red.
Blue was seen as a more dainty and delicate colour, so was appropriate for girls (also think Virgin Mary).
But rumors are, the two colors were used interchangeably until World War II.
During that time one of the cruder examples of the shift for pink as a more feminine colour was a pink triangle to identify homosexuals in Nazi prison camps.
After the war women stopped working and became housewives, encouraged to wear pink lipstick and own pink cars....a more rosie outlook to life and family after the war.
Barbie was born shortly after and, of course, pink was her colour of choice.
Pink became the colour for girls and blue as a color for boys.
And so here we are today.
Sometimes fashion allows men to wear pink (or salmon), boys have a dash of pink in their t-shirt design and baby boys will get mistakened for girls if they're anywhere near pink.
On the other hand, majority of girls seem to gravitate toward the colour pink and dad's won't allow their sons to don anything in the pink family.
This is all generally speaking, of course, because if you are reading this post, you already know that kids of any gender can like any colour they want... even pink.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
February is PINK month!
So lets embrace the colour PINK this month, with love.
Pink stuff in the store is discounted this month, just head on over to the specials area.
Would love some pink inspiration this month from our readers!
Please send anything you have to monica[at]beyondpinkandblue[dot]com and I'll post it up for everyone to enjoy. Can be a photo taken, a picture drawn, a poem, a story.... anything!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Mibo paper animals (giveaway)
1 of the fabulous range of paper animal packs by mibo (UK) now at our store.
All you need is scissors and glue and you can make these chickies too!
Other packs include: Wise Guys (owls), Forest Friends (woodland creatures) and Carrot Crew (yep, rabbits).
Great activity for ages 6+ (including adults!)
Decorate your room or next party table top with a set of paper animals.
GIVEAWAY!
Who wants a pack? me me me me!Just follow this blog and then leave me a comment below stating which pack you'd love to win and where they would live in your home once made.
Winner selected randomly (from correctly entered entries) on 1st Feb. 2011.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Fair trade ice creams
They are hand knitted by a women's fair trade collective in Bangladesh.
This one here is Vanilla and as it's yellow, it's 15% off until the end of January. Yummo!Also available in Strawberry (pink) and Pistachio / Mint (green), available in the rattles and squeakers section... naturally.
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