I've started to notice a very strange pattern regarding the colors in my life. A year or so ago, I started surrounding myself with clothing, accessories, fabrics, and more that fell into the red, orange, and brown categories. I love these colors; they are warm, rustic, passionate, and sensuous. Here's a photo of all the previous acquisitions that I'm talking about:

But lately, everything I buy comes out some shade of blue or turquoise--a much more ethereal, dreamy, and floating kind of color. It's quite uncanny, and unintentional. I first noticed it about a week ago, then gathered all the objects I had recently acquired together. See?

I don't know what my subconscious obsession is made out of, but I'm getting suspicious that something is up. Perhaps I'm gathering these colors around me for an deeply intuitive reason. I'm also highly suspicious because I know (based on color theory) that blue and turquoise are the complementary colors of red/brown/orange. I'm also a huge fan of primary colors; I gravitate to those simple starting colors very quickly.

I started to think that I needed the folks at Pantone to come and analyze me. Then, I looked at their website and did a double-take. The Pantone color of the year is TURQUOISE. NOT KIDDING.

Somebody pinch me.