{"id":193,"date":"2013-10-10T22:41:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T02:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/creative-nudge-plum-dandy"},"modified":"2015-03-07T00:07:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:07:22","slug":"creative-nudge-plum-dandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/creative-nudge-plum-dandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Nudge – Plum Dandy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"GangesPurple_550\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am a Purple Person. I have always loved Purple,
\nPlum, Violet, Amethyst, Berry, Eggplant, Mauve, Heather, Lilac and Lavender<\/a>.
\nThis time of year I am really happy to drag out my plummy lipstick, purple
\ncorduroy pants, and heather sweaters. It's like comfort food. But no calories.<\/p>\n

My best friend in junior high was a purple person. Back then nobody wore
\npurple, at least not in my town. Only people who were a little hippyish wore
\npurple. I admired my friend for her bravery. <\/p>\n

But then movie 'The Color Purple' came out. We became aware of Jenny Joseph's
\npoem "When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple…" which was
\nwritten in 1961, but became popular in the 1980's. The Red Hat Society
\nfollowed, and then it seemed like we were
\nall wearing purple<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In color psychology, the color purple is associated with creativity. It was
\nlong associated with royalty, and also represents spirituality.<\/p>\n

Tyrian Purple, mentioned in texts dating back to 1600 B.C., was produced from
\nmarine mollusks. It took 12,000 shellfish to extract 1.5 grams of the pure dye.<\/p>\n

Rome, Egypt, and Persia all used purple as the royal standard. Purple dyes were
\nrare and expensive; only the wealthy had access to them. Emperor Aurelian
\nforbid his wife buy a purpura-dyed silk garment, because it cost its weight in
\ngold.<\/p>\n

In an election year, purple represents a state that is evenly balanced between
\nboth political parties. It is a mix of cool blue and hot red, and the blending
\nof the two represents peace.<\/p>\n

My childhood friend who wore purple in junior high is now a law professor and
\nmedical ethics consultant, but she is the most stylish and humorous academic I
\nknow. She is not a quilter but she
\nloves cats so much<\/a>, she could be a honorary quilter. We
\ntraveled to Spain<\/a> together a few years ago, and she was amazed when groups
\nof quilters came to meet us in the different cities we visited. What did we
\nwear on our trip? Purple of course!<\/p>\n

What is *your* comfort color?<\/p>\n

eQuilter has just received a shipment of Oliver
\nTwist hand-dyed threads<\/a>, including lots of luscious purple, plum and
\nlavender spools, and hanks of yummy green, teal, charcoal and sunset orange
\nsilks. We are expanding our line of Oliver Twist threads, thanks to the
\nenthusiasm of quilt artists like Marianne
\nWilliamson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We are accepting comfort quilts for Colorado Flood victims. You can drop them
\noff or ship them to us at:
\neQuilter.com
\n5455 Spine Rd, Suite E
\nBoulder CO 80301<\/p>\n

Namaste….
\nLuana<\/p>\n

p.s. the photo above was the sunrise over the sacred River Ganges, on our last
\nday in India.<\/p>\nShare Post:<\/strong>
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I am a Purple Person. I have always loved Purple, Plum, Violet, Amethyst, Berry, Eggplant, Mauve, Heather, Lilac and Lavender. This time of year I am really happy to drag out my plummy lipstick, purple corduroy pants, and heather sweaters. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}