It’s a colourful world and over the years my favourite colours have changed, quite dramatically.
When I was very small, from as young as I can remember probably a toddler, till I was around seven years old, I loved the colours pink and red; I was a truly quite a feminine little creature back then. When I turned around 8yrs old, I grew to hate both of those colours, because my mum came away from blacks and browns and decided to decorate most of the house red and it came with her massive personality changes in how she raised me.
Red is a colour of aggression and violence and it happened to be a time where there was a lot of it in the house from each member of the family to each other and outsiders forcing their way into the home or dragging people out of it for a darn good belting!
Mum changed the colour scheme when I was around 12yrs old on advisement from the therapist I was seeing. This is when I began to believe in colour psychology, because a lot of the violence cooled down, not a lot, but enough to feel safer.
My favourite colour became sky blue until I reached around 10yrs old, when I decided I liked black and royal blue a lot.
Around the age of 14 my favourite colour went back to sky blue, but also pastel yellows, until I had my mastoid surgery when I was around 17 – when my colour scheme went back to black, royal blues and purples and more or less stayed there for most of my life since.
It was around 2013 that my colours kind of changed again – Royal purple being my main favourite, but with lime green, orange and chocolate brown – I still occasionally like royal blue and even teal or viridian maybe even turquoise, I noticed I like peacock colours and royal colours a lot.
These days I mostly prefer purples of any shade, blues of any shade and certain types of green and orange. I am going off brown lately, unless in fashion.
I’ve always loved certain patterns too, like harlequin patterns, black and white diamonds you know? Rainbows, zebra prints, polka dots and gingham, I also kind of like dogtooth.
If it’s garish I’d probably like it. I don’t like to have things looking too uniformed around a home, I kind of like to mix and match for comfort. I love cushions of any size and shape really.
I really, really hate large blocks of white and grey though; grey is the most hated colour in all the world to me. Though put grey on a man in a nice suit and it’s pretty good for some men, suits some of them – but ordinarily outside of that, I have a low grey tolerance. Silver is fine, but not grey.
I’m allergic to gold, but still like to use the gold paint, which reminds me…
I also love metallic colours and when I used to be able to afford practising my art, I’d use metallic up before anything else.
One of my favourite things in interior design is the Verdigris copper effect.
Most of the flowers in my garden are blue, purple or orange with little shocks of white here and there. Before the bad neighbour started to take the joy of gardening away from me, our front garden was known as the blue garden that stole nature. Because our garden was mostly all different shades of blue and purples and we had all the bees, butterflies, birds and other creatures you could think of, whereas everywhere else was barren.
I also like steampunk stuff too, as I said, I love metals, but I really hate all this modern interior design that goes in for a lot of chrome and that – that’s not me. I like organised chaos, mix it up, nothing that looks too clinical, you know?
My home here with Paul in the past few years has slowly started to look more and more like a teenagers bedroom, not because of the mess – that’s not me, I am not messy, it’s the boys of the house that does that! But for me what I meant is, I am not ashamed to have beautiful butterfly cushions on the sofa, mixed up with a marvel cushion and a piglet cushion etc.
I am not ashamed of adorning my bookshelves with trolls, gnomes, faeries, dragons and crystals.
I am also not ashamed to use perfume instead of air spray to freshen the rooms up a bit.
What gets confusing is days like today… I feel gothic today. I want to be like Morticia Addams, I wish I had her figure at least!
I often wondered what it would be like to be so rich that you could be ridiculous with it… such as, have a huge house that is completely identical on either side, you know, like a mirror, but its split in half, still attached, only one side is completely gothic on the inside with dark academia style – the other side is like a teenage fantasy house with kooky stuff and bits of kawaii. On the outside everyone can see what looks like a morph of The Addams Family residence stuck together and squished into some weird little fairy cottage or something.
Because day to day I change, some days I wake up feeling like the creature of the night and other days I am waking up with the same spirit and vibrancy of a care bear!
Mummy’s having a spooky day dear; please go to the kitchen of gloom for your breakfast today. Haha.
On a serious note, it is something I’ve thought about for a while.
Obviously on the dark side we’ll have creaky doors and noisy furniture.
It is hard for me to choose which lifestyle to be, fantasy colourful and bright or dark academia spook.
Do I want to wear rainbow dungarees today? Or do I totally want the Elvira vibe?
Decisions, decisions!
I think I’ll just mix it up and keep doing that.
So what if you see a three headed dog statue in one corner and a rainbow unicorn in another, so what if you come across hands in the wall to hang your coats and crystals shining rainbows into the room – it’s a home and it would be mine and I feel it to be divine!
Does anybody want to join me in my weirdness?
Because certainly if you want a life with me it’s certainly not going to be boring and I refuse to be normal… normal people scare me, why the heck do I want to be one of them?
If I won the lottery on Friday I will be buying loads of weird stuff, Paul dreads it. But Paul isn’t planning on being in my life anymore, so what the hey?
You can get an idea of my weird tastes by following some of my pin boards on Pinterest. My favourite and weirdest board is called FUNNYTURE https://www.pinterest.co.uk/thetardycreative/funnyture/
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