The dawn of a New Year brings one of my favorite milestones: Pantone’s Color of the Year. The principal on all things pigment has selected Wild Orchid as the optimal hue for 2014 (PANTONE 17-5641 to be exact). While 2012’s Tangerine Tango screamed energy and 2013’s Emerald connoted growth (financial and otherwise), this creamy purple beckons us to do something …
A Journey Through Middle-Earth
I am a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I have read both of them multiple times and am currently reading The Hobbit to my 7 year old daughter… Tolkien did write it as a children’s book after all. With each book comes a nice illustration of the map of Middle Earth. You …