Visualizing Characters

You know how when you read a book you form a picture in your brain about how each character looks?

And the movie always ruins it.

Well I do this with bloggers.

No offense. You are all lovely. Truly. But when I'm reading a blog that doesn't have your picture on the header I often find that I create a completely made-up mental image of you. And I am almost always wrong. So maybe the movies don't ruin it.

 Maybe they are right and I am wrong?

Glorious, wonderful: Yellow!

Yellow is everywhere right now. And I could not be more tickled about that. I'd like to think that I was ahead of the yellow curve when my mother and I painted my bedroom BRIGHT yellow at my last apartment. Only when new furniture that was nearly black in color was purchased did I change the color because the room looked like a giant bumble bee and it wasn't cute. Still my love and affinity for anything yellow is near and dear to me.

I walked into Crate & Barrel today on my way to pick up a Starbucks on my break (my office is entirely too close to the mall!) I was enamored with so many things as usual but even more so because guess what their featured color is right now: YELLOW!!! Take a look:

Check out this cheerful espresso machine!
(Photo courtesy of Crate&Barrel)

Not a coffee fan, how about tea?
(Photo courtesy of Crate&Barrel)

All of the charming yellow products. Mama wants!
(Photo courtesy of Crate&Barrel)

Not to mention the throws (blankets and pillows), the art, and the way all of this beauty was displayed with wonderfully large canvas paintings. Ahh..yellow, you make my hear sing!