Bet you can’t guess who our hostess is for Blue Monday….in case you are new, it is the famous Sally at Smiling Sally. There you will find all the Blue Mondays you could possibly want.
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Shades of blue
Air Force blue
Alice blue
Azure
Baby blue
Blue
Brandeis blue
Cambridge Blue
Carolina blue
Cerulean
Cobalt blue
Columbia blue
Cornflower blue
Cyan
Dark blue
Denim
Dodger blue
Duke blue
Egyptian blue
Electric blue
Han blue
Indigo
International Klein blue
Light blue
Majorelle blue
Maya blue
Midnight blue
Navy blue
Periwinkle
Persian blue
Powder blue
Prussian blue
Royal blue
Sapphire
Sky blue
Steel blue
Teal
Ultramarine
Yale Blue
I decided I would look up a few of these blues. The first one was Brandeis Blue, I knew there was a Brandeis University and sure enough it is associated with the University.
Next I looked up Majorelle Blue.
Majorelle Garden, Marrakech
Majorelle Garden, Marrakech
In 1924 the French artist Jacques Majorelle constructed his largest art work, the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, Morocco, and painted the garden walls, fountains, features and villa this very intense shade of blue, for which he trademarked the name Majorelle Blue.
Hope you enjoyed a little lesson in the color blue. I thought it was quite interesting and may look up and post about some other colors later.
HAPPY BLUE MONDAY!
BARBARA
17 comments:
HI!!!
Never knew so many blues!!!! That is why I love the big box a crayons!!!! But there was lots of new ones on your list!!!!
hugs,
jamie
I love all the various shades of blue, Barbara. SO this was a fun post to read. I did learn something knew. Thanks for doing that research for us. I enjoyed reading all the various shades!
Happy Blue Monday!
XO,
Sheila :-)
How cool, learning where the different names came from! I live right near Brandeis!
I am having a big book giveaway. Hope you'll check it out!
This was such a fun/great post. Love all that blue info...who knew?! I sure didn't :0)
Thnanks for the lesson in blue and I hope you have a perfectly wonderful day!
What a fun post; educational, too. All those blues... I bet they sound lovely in French or Spanish.
Happy Blue Monday!
Julia @ Drawn to the Sea
Wow I didn't know there were so many.Thanks for looking that up and sharing.
I love you goat collage, I knew you could do it!
And HB to hubby Roy to bad he had to work on his day!
Have a great Monday ;-)
Great balls of fire...had NO clue there were this many shades of blue. You know, I used to love the color blue so much that I decorated with it for years. Finally burned myself out on it and I don't do blue much now at all. My blue and white dishes, I still love and I have a couple of chairs in blue that I want to recover someday.
Good post!!
Cool! Blue, that is!
No, this was a cool post!
No wonder it is so hard to find just the right shade to paint on any given wall. There are so many.
Becky K.
Nice post. All the pretty blues. Love the pictures you found to go with them.
Cindy
I never knew that there are so many blues. Very informative & great post. Thank you for sharing
Happy Blue Monday
♥Ita
What a great post. Thanks for doing the research for us and presenting it in a summarized fashion. Have a wonderful day.
Wow. That is a lot of blues....interesting for sure! Happy Blue Monday.
Howdy Barbara
Happy Blue Monday .
I never knew there were so many blues !
Thank you for sharing this fabulous post
and all the awesome blue information :)
Blessings to you sweet lady.
Hugs
Happy Trails
Barbara,
It's fun to think about all the various shades of blue. Some times I like to browse the paint chips just to see the wonderful names given to each of the different shades within a color range. I've been to the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech. The blue is truly that vivid. It is a beautiful garden! Hope to see you over at hyacinthforthesoul.blogspot.com/
So many blues, and I love all of 'em! Thanks for sharing. Happy Blue Monday.
I never mentioned our anniversary. You didn't miss a thing.
Happy Blue Monday, Barbara! Love all the different blues!
A fun, pretty and educational post all-in-one!
Have a splendid evening!
Hugs,
Lynn♥
~Let FREEDOM Ring!~
I remember as a child I was happy to have a single file of crayond with different colors (ROYGBV).
And then I get excited to see a double row of colors in my crayons (with 2-color combo).
Oh but I squeal when I see not only double, not trible, but lots of rows in two columns of colors of crayons! LOL
I wonder, what do you think will be Sally's Blue Monday shade of blue :-)
Happy Blue Monday!
Li
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