Have any of you ever heard colors, or seen them where they weren’t (i.e. seeing a word that was purple, but was actually typed in black font)? It’s like that with names, too; most names look like colors to me, like Rebecca is dark pink and John is green and yellow.

And sometimes sounds immediately bring to mind certain colors, like how a crack is orange and tinkling wind-chimes are pale blue.

Is this normal?

I have a new wind chime that is black and has gold bells on it. I got it at Pier1 and its Indian inspired so a few min ago I looked outside and a grasshopper was on it and he was black and gold striped. I thought he was cameflougeing himself but i read online that they do, do that but not like chameleons do. they stay their general green and blend in with other green things. but it was weird. am I crazy? did i just happen upon a brown grasshopper that coincodentally happened to be the same colors?

The place I am having my reception already had centerpieces that I we could use..

Bowl, floating candle, crystals at the bottom. I added to this a light up ice cube that will make the bowl the colors of our wedding..

The problem is we just found out these bowls are TINY compared to the table. So I need to figure out something to enhance this.. I am NOT changing the bowls but what can I do to add to the centerpiece to make it look nicer and the right size for the table…

What did they wear besides bell bottoms?
What are some cd’s I should get to play? I already have some Earth, Wind, and Fire on my Ipod.
What are good colors for balloons and streamers?
What are some other decorations I can use?

I’d prefer answers from people who grew up in the ’70s and know first hand.

FH is Taoist and I am Zen Buddhist (Western, so we’re not having a Chinese wedding), and we are trying to incorporate this into our wedding. We are being married by his mentor, a Taoist priest.

We’d like to keep our reception very simple, but very elegant; think ‘Japanese Garden’ – we’re being married at a botanical gardens, so this makes sense.

The colors I was thinking about are cream, brown, and dark green – earth tones.

Not being a terribly decor-oriented person, I have no idea where to start. I have a concept, but as far as actual ideas for centerpieces and such, am lost. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I would also not like to spend a lot of money on this.

I want ideas on colors, decor and i am especially looking for some good bedspreads. Links would be amazingly nice too. I either want something like a late night tokyo or a tranquility garden sort of thing or just plain on japanese. Please give me as much as you can!

When I bought her I thought it was a boy because she was brighter that the other bird [the colors are more faded than the usual gray cockatiel though] but then when I noticed the bars under her tail and dots under her wings i thought it was a female. BUT ever since me and my friends watched a funny movie she started making laughing sounds, she imitates my little kiss noises i do to get her to sing, and well, she sings every night, now she started doing it all day, also, today I noticed that she was very vocal and attacking her bell toy with fluffy ropes she usually rubs her head against. One more thing, she has this one distinct whistle she does, she whistles this two note tune and raises her wings into a heart shape at the same time, usually facing her toys. Wait, one other thing, she loves to do the danger shriek [ I recognized it when i first got her, she did it when she was scared or around something new] she does it every weekend at 6 or 7 until i wake up, sometimes even after her bowls were refreshed she’d keep screaming until 10, is it a boy girl or a girl with the rare singing/annoying talent?
she also knows the wolf whistle, its worked into her songs

A customer comes into your shop carrying a gorgeous oval bowl. It’s very large, low, and has a pale gray crackled glaze; the customer says it’s a bonsai container that he picked up during a trip to Japan. He wants you to make an arrangement of fresh flowers in it for the foyer of his business, because a celebration will take place there next week. The furnishings in the foyer are very modern. The bowl is to sit on a counter, so the arrangement will be visible from both sides. The customer says the colors in the foyer are black, white, and gray. He wants something very artistic so suit the bowl. After he leaves you with the bowl, it occurs to you that a parallel systems design might be just what this container needs.

1. To prepare the oval ceramic bowl, you should
A. use green ¼ inch bowl tape in a plus sign to prevent the standard foam you intend to use from shifting.
B. wash the bowl thoroughly, dry it carefully, attach dry foam with a plus sign of clear bowl tape to the bowl.
C. wash the bowl thoroughly, dry it carefully, glue standard foam while it’s still dry securely to the bottom of the bowl with pan glue, and then soak the foam.
D. wash the bowl carefully, fill it with water, and wedge in a piece of standard foam that fits snugly in the bowl.

2. Your parallel systems design for this customer must be defined by
A. an s-curve of ivy cascading below the bowl.
B. at least two parallel groups of upright flowering branches used as line materials.
C. a variety of spring flowers arranged as if they were growing in a garden.
D. perfect lines of massed chrysanthemums forming concentric circles of color.

3. You decide to cover the bare foam left visible in this striking contemporary arrangement with maroon leaves that have an interesting gray reverse; you place the leaves on top of each other so that many leaf edges form a flat pattern and all the foam disappears. This technique is
A. basing by layering
B. basing by pavé
C. basing by terracing
D. basing by pillowing

4. You decide that you can add tulips to this parallel systems design if you can make them into an upright column by tying them with raffia to keep them from bending into curves as tulips often do. This technique is called
A. banding.
B. binding.
C. framing.
D. skeletonizing.

A customer comes in with a request for a romantic arrangement to be placed on a piano in her living room which is pale pink and white. A friend who’s a professional pianist has graciously offered to entertain her extended family at a reunion to be held at her house. She wants to honor her friend with a fluid, eye-catching arrangement to suit the classical music she’ll be playing for them.

5. You immediately suggest a Hogarth arrangement and you describe it to the customer as
A. an arrangement of cascading elements.
B. an arrangement with equally strong vertical and horizontal elements.
C. an arrangement with a continuous line in an s-shape.
D. an arrangement with a triangular shape in which the three points symbolize heaven, humans, and earth.

6. You decide to use pink, rose, maroon, and mauve flowers. Your color scheme is
A. triad.
B. complementary.
C. monochromatic.
D. analogous.

7. The container for your Hogarth arrangement should be
A. a low basket with plastic liner.
B. a ceramic dish filled with river rock.
C. a tall ceramic vase with wet foam and room for water.
D. a low, ball-shaped glass vase filled with water.

Someone at your local public TV station knows that you want to break into party floral designing. This TV executive went to a party where you had created an amazing set piece surrounding a small dance floor. She was impressed. She’s asked you to supply floral arrangements as a background feature for a live TV concert of a popular local rock band to air next month. You’ll receive an on-screen plug and you’ll be allowed to hand out brochures about your business to the studio audience. The band is very modern and sophisticated. A great opportunity to make a name for yourself has fallen in your lap, what shall you do to get noticed and at the same time give this band an artful set to back them?

8. You know that you want to make reference to this band’s punk influences, but you want to update the set-piece to inject your own feelings about their music, so you choose to create
A. a set piece of Flemish arrangements that have fallen and broken.
B. a set piece of waterfall arrangements.
C. a set piece of Ikebana in the abstract style.
D. a set piece in the new wave style with an interpretive approach.

9. In several areas of your design for the rock concert set, you decide to place identically drooping gladiolus leaves in pairs one behind the other. This technique is called
A. sequencing.
B. shadowing.
C. g

I want to get married in an indoor tropical garden during November, December, or January. The garden will be decorated for Christmas during most of the season. What are some colors I could use (not RED) and flowers that would be good for this season and location?

a Sony camcorder, a Tommy billfold with 0.00 in it, A Bose radio and leather rolling luggage.

I got two bars of soap ( I swear ), two crystal bowls that my mom has had forever (hello dust), some ice cream bowls (fifty cents), Estee Lauder Christmas Makeup package (which was good, except as soon as I opened it she said,"Let me see if I like any of the colors. I may want some", and a knockoff Coach purse that she paid no more than .00 for. I even told her, "mom, this is fake" and she goes, "no, it’s one of the new ones.

I wanted to cry. Am I being a big baby and should I just let it go or should I be super Pi$$ed? I kinda got over it a few hours later. But thinking of it ticks me off.

Matt was a football player who died at my high schools1st game of the season. Our colors are yellow and black. Any plant or other ideas for the garden?

The destruction of oneself begins at end of hope. No life, no movement only confusion. Mysteries and your greatest fears become a reality which is inescapable. Distorted colors, faint sounds, blurred vision. You have what you’ve been looking for. After every high, after every hangover, the drug is no longer the escape, is has become the captor. It doesn’t release. You remember everything like it didn’t happen. Full of un-reparable broken thoughts your body soon breaks down. You begin to curl into yourself. The memory of everything sweet was lost somewhere in time. The ground by which you lay can no longer support you. The fall of everything is near. your dreams, life and love begin to bleed away, though unlike a wound they will never heal. As you fall the stars, the universe and the wasting away will be your only comfort. Familiar faces become dark lasting shadows. Instability, vibration is your worlds view. No pain but unbearable hurt. Darkness there and nothing more. A waterfall of your truth pours into the earth, where it will never be found and it will always be forgotten. you’ve become walking death.

For my friend’s wedding shower, we’re having a Garden theme. Just potted flower centerpieces, springy colors, watering cans…etc. For the favors, her mom wanted to make chocolate covered pretzel rods. I kind of think the celophane bags are boring by themselves.

Any inexpensive ideas (webpage links would be GREAT) for what we could put them in? I had thought a little terracotta pot, but I’m not sure what we could add around it to make it look cute.

Thanks in advance!

I was wondering what exactly is normal for the healing process of a tattoo. So far, I have experienced no burning, itching, or otherwise STD sounding issues regarding my new tattoo on my neck. It is my first one, and I’ve been keeping it coated with Aquaphor just as the artist advised me to. My only issue is that my scabs are coming off in colors. The color remains, but the scabs, which are only on my outline, are colored. Is this normal?

What did they wear besides bell bottoms?
What are some cd’s I should get to play? I already have some Earth, Wind, and Fire on my Ipod.
What are good colors for balloons and streamers?
What are some other decorations I can use?

I’d prefer answers from people who grew up in the ’70s and know first hand.