Discovered: Sea of Shoes

Well, well...look what I stumbled upon tonight.  Have fun trying to pry yourself away from this blog for the next 30 minutes....near impossible.  This girl is gorgeous and has some wacky accessories/shoes/pictures and I LOVE them all.

Enjoy Sea of Shoes

Till next time,

Pink and Sparkles

1837

I thought I would celebrate my new header inspiration (I'm still not finished) with a bit of a history on the wonderful store that lead to the wonderful movie which showcased a wonderful woman JAny of you who are as obsessed with Tiffany & Co., like I am, know that the number title of this blog is the Pantone PMS number for this wonderful colour.

Coincidentally, it is also the year of Tiffany & Co.'s foundation. The Pantone is copy written and cannot be duplicated (legally, although we've all tried to come close). Even more of a coincidence, this year's Pantone Colour of the Year is Turquoise! 

Tiffany and Co. was founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York. Originally, Tiffany and Co. started selling as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium" called Tiffany, Young and Ellis until about 1853 when Tiffany took over and renamed it Tiffany & Co. {source}

The renaming of the company gave birth to its selling of jewelry and an impressive timeline you can read here.

And we all know Breakfast at Tiffany's – my all-time, favourite movie in the whole entire world. Here is where I fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Tiffany & Co. – I think I was 10 or so. Released in 1961 starring, of course, Audrey Hepburn, the movie starts with Audrey (a.k.a Holly Golightly) arriving at Tiffany's window after a long night out in full gown and pearls with breakfast.

That's all for now!


Till next time….
Pink and Sparkles,
xoxox

Writing on the wall

I want to accent a few walls in my house.  Right now, I have amazing colour, but its all kinda ... well ...solid, no pizazz.  Its small but every room on the first and only floor has a cathedral ceiling.

I was thinking of doing the washroom, but Im afraid that the wallpaper that high up (over 12 foot height), would peel off because of steam accumulation.

Until I can figure it out....here is a bit of a history on wallpaper taken from Wikipedia:

Wallpaper, using the printmaking technique of woodcut, gained popularity in Renaissance Europe amongst the emerging gentry. The elite of society were accustomed to hanging large tapestries on the walls of their homes, a tradition from the Middle Ages.  However, tapestries were extremely expensive and so only the very rich could afford them. Less well-off members of the elite, unable to buy tapestries due either to prices or wars preventing international trade, turned to wallpaper to brighten up their rooms. Early wallpaper featured scenes similar to those depicted on tapestries, and large sheets of the paper were sometimes hung loose on the walls, in the style of tapestries, and sometimes pasted as today.

England and France were leaders in European wallpaper manufacturing. Among the earliest known samples is one found on a wall from England and is printed on the back of a London proclamation of 1509. It became very popular in England following Henry VIII's excommunication from the Catholic Church - English aristocrats had always imported tapestries from Flanders and Arras, but Henry VIII's split with the Catholic Church had resulted in a fall in trade with Europe. Without any tapestry manufacturers in England, English gentry and aristocracy alike turned to wallpaper.

 By the mid-eighteenth century, Britain was the leading wallpaper manufacturer in Europe, exporting vast quantities to Europe in addition to selling on the middle-class British market. However this trade was seriously disrupted in 1755 by the Seven Years War and later the Napoleonic Wars, and by a heavy level of duty on imports to France.

In 1748 the English ambassador to Paris decorated his salon with blue flock wallpaper, which then became very fashionable there. In the 1760s the French manufacturer Jean-Baptiste Réveillon hired designers working in silk and tapestry to produce some of the most subtle and luxurious wallpaper ever made. His sky blue wallpaper with fleurs-de-lys was used in 1783 on the first balloons by the Montgolfier brothers.

During the Napoleonic Wars , trade between Europe and Britain evaporated, resulting in the gradual decline of the wallpaper industry in Britain. However, the end of the war saw a massive demand in Europe for British goods which had been inaccessible during the wars, including cheap, colourful wallpaper. The development of steam-powered printing presses in Britain in 1813 allowed manufacturers to mass-produce wallpaper, reducing its price and so making it affordable to working-class people. Wallpaper enjoyed a huge boom in popularity in the nineteenth century, seen as a cheap and very effective way of brightening up cramped and dark rooms in working-class areas. By the early twentieth century, wallpaper had established itself as one of the most popular household items across the Western world. During the late 1980s though, wallpaper began to fall out of fashion in lieu of Faux Painting which can be more easily removed by simply re-painting.

And now...pictures:

Till next time,
Pink and Sparkles
xoxo

Geeks can be pretty too

Anyone who really knows me, knows I'm a bit of a tech geek.  I just....get it...everything technological and Im acutually interested when new versions of hardware/software anything is released onto the market. Im the one who programs most of the "tech" things in our house (with the help of my brother for some networking issues).I'm defs not one of those girls who shys away from technology in the least ;)

What's even more amazing to me is the marriage of technology and pretty! For example.....

This low-down taken from Splendicity (a wonderful site who's Gadgenista section is dedicated to tech/pretty items) :
The shoes start out with white in color and it gradually changes to pink, orange or purple depending on the ingredient sprayed on the leather and the amount of UV rays the leather is absorbing.
Currently, the color changing feature can last up to 60 hours. But since that’s just the initial experiment, maybe the Taiwanese researches can make it last longer!


Amazing, right?

Ok, this one is not really techy, per se, but isn't it adorable!?

Till next time,
Pink and Sparkles
xoxo