How about a little bit of neon to brighten up the start of the week? Yes, please! Never under estimate the revitalizing/energy-infusing powers of colour. And if the regular rainbow ain’t quite doin’ the trick, crank’er up a notch to neon bright! That’ll put a little extra spring in your step. In the same way I went giddy for those extra special neon crayons that came with the extra special 64 pack of crayons, my inner child is getting some major squealy feelings on about all this neon coming back into fashion. Three cheers for colours so bright it’s like an 80′s cartoon married a rainbow hopped up on radioactive chemicals… and then exploded. (In the fun sort of way.) Three cheers for neon! Hip-horray!

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P.S. Has anyone seen Birdsong? It’s a two-part television series (?) she stars in along with Eddie Redmayne. I’d really like to, just need to set aside some quality curl-up-on-the-sofa time.

Images via Studded Hearts.

Surprise! I’ve hinted at this before, and it’s been a loooong time in the making thanks to eye surgeries, computers blowing up, all-consuming finals, Christmas holidays, a wee bit of procrastination… you know, the usual excuses. But at long last, I’m thrilled to open my new blogging adventure, k.! I’ll admit, I’ve been having a bit of a blogging identity crisis over the last few months trying to figure out where I wanted to take Shimmer Like Gold as myself and the blog have evolved a looot over the past few years. The logical explanation after much (muuuuuch) sole searching was a new blog. Shimmer Like Gold will continue to be a place of constant dumping of anything and everything that I’m inspired by at present, and k. will be my new little playground to get a little more personal — something a little more substantial, more original, uniquely me. You know, bits of art, photographs, some doodling, design projects… the like. If any of that sounds at all appealing to you, I hope you’ll check out and follow along my new adventure!

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P.S. Stay tuned over the coming week for a few little change-ups around these parts as well.

Can we talk about a few things that are blowing my mind? For starters, and most obviously, this collection. Incredible. McQueen is known for bringing the mind-bogglingly intricate “how can this even be real?” detail, and nope, no disappointment for the spring 2012 collection. Just pure art from head to toe. Wowzers, Sarah Burton, you are knocking this out of the park time and time again. What a talent. That orange number? I have no words. I very vocally dislike orange, but man, it’s like like my whole belief system is falling apart! What is up? What is down? I don’t even know any more. All I know is: a) wow, b) WOW, and c) WOOOOW!

That’s all I’ve got. Baring some minor incoherent babbling above, I’m speechless from prettiness.

Images via Self Service Magazine.

Isn’t this nifty? Oneighty Creative, a design and branding collective, created this enormous photograph as a means to show their clients, visually, how their creative process of designing a brand identity is put together start to finish. Start to finish, top to bottom, end to end… this is just plain cool! I love how they’ve turned something abstract into this sort of visual mind map documenting step by step their methodology – as they say, “a sort of mad hatter’s tea party feel, creating order out of chaos”. Absolute brilliance!

Image via Oneighty Creative Blog

Cute, right? I love their funky spin on minimalism. Their collection is fresh, beautifully edited, and full of cheer. And I love it lots and lots.

P.S. Speaking of love, they just launched their new “love” line this morning… it’s super cute!

Images via Our Paper Shop.

Those that know me, know that I’m a wee bit head over heels for winter. It’s only the greatest season! Nothing beats knitted scarves, snugly mittens, icicles sparkling in the light, that tingly feeling when your nose starts to un-thaw after being out in the cold air. And most importantly, snow!! It’s no stretch of the truth when I say snow is one of my favourite things in the whole wide world. “Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes / Silver white winters that melt into springs /These are a few of my favorite things” – that lyric could have been written by me. It hasn’t been feeling too wintry around these parts the whole season and that’s been supremely depressing (for me, anyway). But over the weekend, we finally got a nice little dusting of snow, and I’m thrilled! ILU, snow.

P.S. Trying a little something different with my images this time around. Yay/nay?

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(* Oh, the music. I love me a good soundtrack, and this one was beautiful! If I can get my hands on it, I want to transcribe the song playing over the credits. Gorgeous.)

Hope you’re all enjoying your weekend! And if you’ve pulling a few of couch potato moves like myself, what movies are keeping you company? I always love a great movie recommendation. xo.

Images via Nowness.

Images via Pikayla Biehn.

Salut, mes amis! Remember me? Things have been quiet around here over the last 2 months. Thanks to a Christmas miracle (a.k.a. the wonders of Apple’s customer service), my computer’s life has been saved and I’m back in business! Horray! Confetti! I’ve sure missed the blogosphere and I’m so glad to be back. So stay tuned because I’ll be bringin’ the sparkley (plus some other nifty things) back around these parts again pronto! Thanks for all the support during my time away. Regular posting shall resume again within the next day… so stay tuned! xo.

Image via edubarba.