Colour me impressed
In amongst the joy of the day I had to go to my local printing.com, to get some business cards printed up for my mama. The team there are always really, really nice and incredibly helpful. I used to use them a lot when I worked in marketing for local SME’s and they are absolutely the bees knees if you are on a budget, but want a fantastic, professional looking job.
They put up with our total indecision, mucking about and gazing vaguely at the sky humming, and even did a good job of pretending to be sad to see us go.
We await the finished product with eager anticipation, and when they are ready I will unveil them to you with all the drama and verve of one who has found a previously unheard of Vermeer in his garage.
We had the best time choosing colours for the cards. Printing.Com have their own colour chart, and the colour titles are unbelievably camp and fabulous. I was laughing so much when I found the colour Camel’s Toe, that I thought I might actually fill my shoes with wee. Awesome.
Here are some of the other colours that are available to you, the public:
- Darker than light blue
- Bobble Hat
- Red (only joking)
- Burnt meatloaf
- Full cagoule
- Hint of teabag
- Spandex jumpsuit
- Constant gravy
- Rampant radish
- Nothing rhymes with orange
- Car keys
- Favourite puddle
- Nan’s front door
- Sandra’s snood
- Green even up side down
- Dentist’s coat
- Hairy hamster
- Funky leg warmers
- Colour formerly known as blue
And there are loads more where that came from.
Is this not the most awesome colour chart you have ever seen?
This is the sort of colour chart that I would invent.
Inventing this sort of colour chart may actually be my new dream job, after writing rude descriptions of vintage knitting patterns.
This news, this thing, this miracle of modern imagination over the boredom of bureaucratic indifference has actually made my day a happier one.
Even if I didn’t want a business card, faced with this chart I might have to buy some anyway, just so that I could say, ‘Give me some Queen’s Hankie on a background of Cornish Pasty’.
And they gave me my own copy of it to take home, because it made me so happy.
Now that’s what I call service.
Katy, read Katy’s blog here http://katyboo1.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/colour-me-impressed/
