Living in the Seventies

[msgenevieve]

You know, I remember loving the colour orange when I was a child, but I've just found two old photos and it's just hit me how much I must have loved it. We moved to this particular house when I was six years old, and all six kids got to pick the main colour scheme in their bedrooms (luckily for my twin brothers, they both liked green

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[bijoux83]

That IS a lot of orange. And I love the color. Hey, we have one kitchen wall painted orange and it just livens the place up.

Also, you're totally rocking that ring.

[msgenevieve]

My sister's room was purple (she was nine years older than me) and my 'closest in age' brother's room was brown. Our kitchen was originally orange too, but then it got changed to cream. *g*

I loved that ring so much, I wish I still had it. sarah_scribbles knows the correct name for the type of ring it is, we've discussed it before. It was a cameo picture of a flower (a red one) made up of curled up bits of 'something' on their sides and smooshed into the setting.

The hat makes me laugh, as does the incinerator in the backyard, where people used to burn their excess paper rubbish. Damn the environment, it's the Seventies!

[scribblecat]

It's made of FIMO! You be so kewl.

[msgenevieve]

FIMO?

[scribblecat]

You are also painting with a burnt orange. I dig your hippos.

[msgenevieve]

Dude, even the bucket for rinsing my paintbrush was orange!

[sparkling_chan]

Ahhh! So cute!!!!! LOL, those posters! CUTEE!! Who were on them? The vibes and the Bangles?

[msgenevieve]

Who were on them? The vibes and the Bangles?

I wish, because then I'd be a lot younger, lol! No, it's the Bay City Rollers. Wheeeeeeeee!

[redwolf]

You've just made me remember my mother's kitchen that was only renovated a few years back. While most of it was bland, for some insane reason known to no one, the back of the breakfast bar base was covered in orange vinyl. Odd.

[msgenevieve]

Orange in furnishing is like red hair in humans - it's handed down generation to generation. *g*

[redwolf]

Red hair in my family skips a generation. However, I love orange and do have an orangish wall.

[savepureness]

When I think of orange, a somewhat shinier colour comes into my mind. Your favourite color would be better defined as ochre, but perhaps the person who graduated from an Art HS speaks for me :)

Anyway, lovely room, and lovely handwork there. What was that you were painting? It looks like a squirrel, and a very cute one!

[msgenevieve]

Well, it *was* the early seventies. "Orange" pretty much covered a wide variety of shades. *g*

I'm painting a weird little cat thing that was part of a set. There used to be this stuff that you'd buy and mix with water, then pour into a rubber mould and make little statues which would then shrink a little as they hardened. When they were hard, you painted them. As I recall, I was obsessed with them.

[savepureness]

Told you, it's my graduating-from-art-HS personality talking above, no need to mind it, sometimes it happens to behave *sigh*
:p
And I do love the cat. I'd love to have that kind of stuff here as well, I'd certainly model a lot of stuff in it. So this pretty much means I'd be obsessed with them too.