I find
myself having a bit of a peacock obsession lately. The colors, shapes and the
over all mood of this majestic creature is captivating and some what
overpowering. Of course this is not something new to the fashion and
inspirational worlds, peacock have been around for quite some time. But for me
this fascination helps to see all this from a new perspective. Now I can see so
much potential for so many new projects. And let’s face it peacock is not one
of the more simple creatures. Let alone the number of colors and hues.
So this all
started from a couple of bottles of nail polish. One ordinary day I stumbled
upon a new color collection from my favorite nail polish. I picked two lovely
colors – apple green and this teal with glitter. They looked really nice
together, figured I’m gonna do my nails in that green and use the sparkly teal
for the ring finger (Yes I love this trend!♥). When buying these nail
polishes I thought to myself that together they remind me of peacock. And that
was the trigger. After few days I was working with polymer clay and decided to
make some earrings in peacocky colors and this nice swirl pattern so it would
look kind of like swirly feathers. It came out beautifully and made me want
more of this peacock inspiration. So as always for inspiration I “went” to
Pinterest. After few hours of countless images I made a “Peacock” board and got
hooked for real LOL.
Now I’m
working on this bead loom bracelet pattern with a peacock feather. Since it’s
beauty is mostly in the colors I had to made it in 25 colors (mostly different
hues). And after raiding my bead supplies I managed to match only half of those
colors. Good thing my favorite (and the best) bead shop is very near my home
and my good friend works there so bead shopping is always twice as fun. So I
got like 14 new colors (couple of more “just in case”) and plan to by done with
the pattern soon. And I’m really excited to start beading this bracelet. Since
after this I will have a LOT
of peacock color beads left, I feel plenty more peacock project coming up.
Right now I’m also making new set (or few sets) of crochet flowers in these
colors and while bead sopping I found these gorgeous tiny sparkly cabochons in
blues and purples so they will be becoming something too.
Accordingly
Cup of Color may be changing it’s color scheme for the time being, we’ll see ;)
That’s it
for now, till next time!
Best
wishes,
Kristina
