Color Palette Ideas & Interesting Meanings

Color can influence your perception's of taste, sight and feelings.

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The Unique World Around: Lace, Crochet, Appliqué & Trim Edition

There are many types of lace, classified by how they are made -      

*Vintage Lace

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• Needle lace, such as Venetian Gros Point, is made using a needle and thread. This is the most flexible of the lace-making arts. While some types can be made more quickly than the finest of bobbin laces, others are very time-consuming. Some purists regard needle lace as the height of lace-making. The finest antique needle laces were made from a very fine thread that is not manufactured today.

• Cutwork, or whitework, is lace constructed by removing threads from a woven background, and the remaining threads wrapped or filled with embroidery.

• Bobbin lace, as the name suggests, is made with bobbins and a pillow. The bobbins, turned from wood, bone, or plastic, hold threads which are woven together and held in place with pins stuck in the pattern on the pillow. The pillow contains straw, preferably oat straw or other materials such as sawdust, insulation styrofoam, or ethafoam. Also known as Bone-lace.Chantilly lace is a type of bobbin lace.

• Tape lace makes the tape in the lace as it is worked, or uses a machine- or hand-made textile strip formed into a design, then joined and embellished with needle or bobbin lace.

• Knotted lace includes macramé and tatting. Tatted lace is made with a shuttle or a tatting needle.

• Crocheted lace includes Irish crochet, pineapple crochet, and filet crochet.

• Knitted lace includes Shetland lace, such as the "wedding ring shawl", a lace shawl so fine that it can be pulled through a wedding ring.

• Machine-made lace is any style of lace created or replicated using mechanical means.

• Chemical lace: the stitching area is stitched with embroidery threads that form a continuous motif. Afterwards, the stitching areas are removed and only the embroidery remains. The stitching ground is made of a water-soluble or non-heat-resistant material.

Source:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace#Types

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The Unique World Around: Retail & Commercial Space & Window Display Ideas Edition

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       Some History about Visual Merchandising - 

When the giant nineteenth century dry goods establishments like Marshall Field & Co. shifted their business from wholesale to retail, the visual display of goods became necessary to attract the general consumers. The store windows were often used to attractively display the store's merchandise. Over time, the design aesthetic used in window displays moved indoors and became part of the overall interior store design, eventually reducing the use of display windows in many suburban malls.^{[citation needed]}

In the twentieth century, well-known artists such as Salvador Dalí^[2] and Andy Warhol ^[3][4] created window displays.

In the beginning of twenty-first century visual merchandising is forming as a sсience. Nowadays, Visual Merchandising became one of the major tool of business promotion which is widely used to attract customers and increase sales.^[5]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_merchandising#History

Beverage Fountain Recipes: Fountain Garnish Ideas -- Keep Your Fountain Cool & Beautiful At The Same Time!

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From: www.fontanadicioccolato.com/fotogallery

Some Of My Favorite Garnish Ideas From This Board Are:

     Vanilla Bean Ice Cubes
     Edible Floral Ice Cubes
     LED Lighted Ice Cubes
     Mini Burger Garnish
     Colored Lemon/Lime Garnish
     Coffee Ice Cubes
     Sugared Fruit Garnish 

*Freeze coffee as ice cubes and toss in a cup of Bailey's.

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The Unique World Around: Antique & Vintage Edition

A Qing dynasty ivory and hardstone inlaid black lacquer folding screen (China)

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Unique Products, Gadgets & Designs From Around The World

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*Hockey Treadmill 

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The Unique World Around: Funky Jewelry & Accessory Edition

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From CNET: Metal Smith and Jewelry maker Dukno Yoon creates small kinetic sculptures that turn your ring finger into your wing finger.

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The Unique World Around: Flowers, Centerpieces, Bouquets & Natural Displays

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*Dazzling Dahlia Flower Arrangements

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( ARTIST ) Claude Monet & Inspired Art Edition

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*Monet Inspired Nails

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The Unique World Around: Lip Art Edition

*Lip Art 

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Unique Mosaic Designs From Around The World

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This Board is comprised of early Mosaic works from Persia, Turkey and Syria. As well as, modern Mosaic designs from interior decorating.

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The Unique World Around: The Stylish Life Edition

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{ Style } 

a mode of living, as with respect to expense or display.

Wedding Season: Wedding of The 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness'*

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* Title of Smashing Pumpkins 3rd album 

Some Of My Favorite Ideas On this Board Are: 

     Black & White Wedding Bouquet 
     Vintage Victorian black lace parasol
     Black Wedding Dress
     El Diablo Martini -- Garnish with blackberries
     1890 Pelerine
     Rose gothic lace, black Wedding gloves - French lace beading

The Unique World Around: Peacock Edition

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From Wikipedia:  The Indian peacock has iridescent blue and green plumage. The peacock "tail", known as a "train", consists not of tail quill feathers, but highly elongated upper tail coverts. These feathers are marked with eyespots, best seen when a peacock fans his tail. Both sexes of all species have a crest atop the head. The Indian peahen has a mixture of dull grey, brown, and green in her plumage. The female also displays her plumage to ward off female competition or signal danger to her young.

The green peafowl differs from the Indian peafowl in that the male has green and gold plumage with black wings with a sheen of blue. Unlike the Indian peafowl, the green peahen is similar to the male, only having shorter upper tail coverts, a more coppery neck, and overall less iridescence.

The Congo peacock male does not display his covert feathers, but uses his actual tail feathers during courtship displays. These feathers are much shorter than those of the Indian and green species, and the ocelli are much less pronounced. Females of the Indian and African species are dull grey and/or brown.

Chicks of both sexes in all the species are cryptically coloured. They vary between yellow and tawny, usually with patches of darker brown or light tan and "dirty white" ivory. 

Occasionally, peafowl appear with white plumage. Although albino peafowl do exist, this is quite rare and almost all white peafowl are not, in fact, albinos: they have a genetic mutation called leucism which causes an overall reduction in pigment which, in peafowl, causes a complete lack of pigment in their plumage, but still leaves them with blue eyes; by contrast, true albino peafowl have a complete lack of melanin and therefore have white plumage, but also an albino's characteristic red or pink eyes. Leucistic peachicks are born yellow and become fully white as they mature.

Source:      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peafowl#Plumage

The Unique World Around: Decor of The World Globe & Solar System Art Edition

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Some Of My Favorites From This Board Are:

     Free Map Printables
     Globe Ornaments
     Globe Chandelier 
     DIY & Craft Ideas For Globes
     Map Wallpaper

*Crystal Chandelier by Hans Van Bentem

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The Unique World Around: Magician's Arsenal Edition

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A Few Of My Favorites From This Board Are:
     
     Vintage Card Decks From Around The World
     DIY Top Hat Tutorials
     Top Hat Designs 
     Magician Costume Ideas
     Famous Magician Photos Throughout Time
   

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A Cupcake For Each Day....Unique Cupcake Designs, Themes & Extremes

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Design, Art, Nature & Places - Exploring Connections

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The Unique World Around: Ivy Edition

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  “Ivy has been accused of destroying everything in its path and threatening some of our best loved heritage sites. Yet these findings suggest that there are many benefits to having ivy growing on the wall. It not only provides colourful foliage but also provides walls with weatherproofing and protection from the effects of  pollution.”

Heather Viles, Professor of Biogeogmorphology and Heritage Conservation at Oxford University

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/7723508/Ivy-is-good-for-walls-finds-Oxford-University-study.html

The Unique World Around: To The Future.....Edition

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