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Fictional Colors

While looking for alternative color names, I found this on Wikipedia. Since it is the source of all things true on the internet,* I decided to share.

 Fictional colors

• Garrow  and Infra-White  – colors invented in the Nebulous episode "Madness is a Strange Colour". The first color both colors affect the human mind in odd ways, either destroying or creating sanity. Professor Nebulous claims that he discovered Infra-White by looking underneath and behind the visible spectrum.
• Fuligin – both a color and a textile having that color, associated with the Guild of Torturers in Gene Wolfe's book, The Shadow of the Torturer. The color is defined as "the color that is darker than black" and also as "the color of soot." (The noun is a back-formation from the adjective fuliginous, "sooty.")
• Grue and bleen – colors that change after an arbitrary, but fixed time; coined by Charles Dodgson^{[citation needed]} and used by philosopher Nelson Goodman to illustrate what he calls "the new riddle of induction."
• Hooloovoo – a superintelligent shade of the color blue in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.
• Octarine – the color of magic in the Discworld fantasy novels, described as resembling a fluorescent greenish-yellow purple.
• Squant – a fourth primary color publicized by the experimental band Negativland in 1993.
• Jale and Ulfire – new primary colors (shades of ultraviolet?) in A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay.
• The Colour Out of Space – a vaguely-described alien hue, from the story of that name by H. P. Lovecraft.
• The colors tang and burn are colors in the infrared range seen by the albino mutant Olivia Presteign (whose vision only functions in the infrared) in the 1956 science fiction novel The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.^[3]
• Htun is a color similar to black only seen by gnomes in the book Fairest by Gail Carson Levine.
• Sangoire is a color of red 'so dark and saturated it [is] almost black', seen in the Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey.
• Blellow is the name given to the color created by Reece of "Malcolm in the Middle" when he mixed blue and yellow together. Otherwise known as green.
• Silentropae is the name given to the color of the cloud of debris following earth's destruction by asteroid 'Apophis' in the short story Silentropae by author Book Sim.^[4]

   

  ♥ Do you know of any additional fictional colors? Have you invented any yourself?

  *Not really. 

Fun News in Greenville NC

In Greenville NC news.....

www.usmagazine.com/cele​britynews/news/mila-kunis-acce​pts-marines-invite-to-corps-ba​ll-2011117

Mila Kunis Accepts Marine's Invite to Corps Ball
www.usmagazine.com

When Sgt. Scott Moore posted a YouTube video last week inviting the Black Swan actress to accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball on Nov. 18, it probably seemed like a long shot. But at the urging of her Friends With Benefits costar, Justin Timberlake, Kunis agreed to head to Greenville, North Carolina

And Mila is so cute. 

Greenville NC - January 2011 Events

Winterfest Raleigh

Go ice skating at the AT&T Raleigh Winterfest Ice Rink. Located in City Plaza, on the southern end of the 400 block of Fayetteville Street. Admission including skate rental is $8.00 for both adults and children.

Hours generally are:
Mondays – 11am to 9pm (except Jan 10)
Tues, Wed, Fri – 4pm to 9pm
Thurs – 10 to 11 for Stroller Skate; 4pm to 9pm
Sat – 11am to 11pm
Sun – 12pm to 5pm
Jan 27 to 30 they are open 11am to 11pm.
Check the schedule here:
http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/raleighwinterfest/hours.htm

Special Events:

January 9 and January 16. SnowMyYard.com will create a winter wonderland for sled riding. NO FEE and sleds are provided!

Family Tuesdays: A family of three to six skates for just $20 (includes skate rental)! The first ten families will receive a $10 gift card to a downtown restaurant.

Music Craze Wednesdays: Enjoy live music at the rink from 6 pm-9 pm.

Stroller Skate Thursday Mornings: Parents and babies share outdoor fun! Skate and push a strollers on the ice from 10 am-11 am. Click here to read an article and watch a video about stroller skating!

Date & Skate Thursdays: Free carriage rides with skating wristband from 6 pm-9 pm.

For weather updates and weekly schedule, call 919.821.6984. Ironically, you need to worry about the cold and snow for these events than the warmer weather (if you’re a good North Carolinian, you know this already.)

Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival

The School of Music at East Carolina University presents the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival January 13 at 7:00 p.m. and January 14 at 8:00 pm. Concerts will be held in Fletcher Recital Hall.

Dance 2011

ECU School of Theatre and Dance                  

PERFORMANCES (~2hrs each)
Thurs, Jan 27 - 8pm
Fri, Jan 28 - 8pm
Sat, Jan 29 - 8pm
Sun Mat, Jan 30 - 2pm
Mon, Jan 31 - 8pm
Tues, Feb 1 – 8pm

Original choreography by ECU School of Theatre and Dance faculty and guest artist(s) tba.

”Loved by patrons for its exciting and eclectic mix of dance styles and genres, our annual dance concert will not disappoint. Intended for both the dance aficionado and the novice to the world of dance, this perennial event offers ballet, modern, jazz, and tap-dance styles. Quick moving, colorful, and full of the unexpected, this show has something for everyone. You'll enjoy large and small ensembles, performance styles from physical to lyrical, and themes from the comical to the sublime.”

Purchase tickets online at www.ECUARTS.com, and by phone at 252-328-6829 or 1-800-ECU-ARTS.

INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES
Adult - $12.00
Current ECU Student (w/ID) & Youth (18 and younger) - $10.00

 

Jolly Skull Beer Fest

Jan 28 6:00 PM

Location: Greenville Convention Center

The festival will focus on American craft and regional micro breweries.
(See December Greenville Two Rooms Shy entry for more info)

New Bern Bridal Expo

New Bern, NC

Jan 30

Website: http://www.encshows.com
Riverfront Convention Center, 203 S Front St., New Bern, NC
 

Garnet, January Birthstone

Garnet.

’Garnet’ is derived from the Latin word ‘granum’ or ‘granatus’ meaning seed, because small red garnet stones look like pomegranate seeds.  There are 15 species of garnet; almandine, an iron rich garnet, is the most common. Other common species are spessartine, hessionite, and grossular; grossular garnets are so named for their gooseberry green color.

Garnets can be found as inclusions in diamonds. Garnet is a naturally occurring impurity in marble and lends a brown color to the marble.

Cape rubies, Australian rubies, and Arizona rubies are all actually garnets.

Unusual quality.

Garnet produces star stones, a type of gemstone that exhibits chatoyancy, the reflection of light from tiny inclusions of impurities, such as titanium oxide. These impurities are forced to align during the cooling stage of the formation of the garnets.  Star stones have to be cut with a flat underside and domed top (en cabochon), with the dome oriented in a certain way relative to the impurities or no star can be seen. Garnets produce four, six, or eight rayed stars. Other stones that form stars are sapphire, ruby, quartz, and kornerupine. Garnet is the only stone that forms 8 rayed stars.

Meaning.

Garnet is January’s birthstone, and the stone for the zodiac sign Aquarius (Jan 21 – Feb 19); it is the suggested gemstone for a second wedding anniversary. Garnet is associated with the root chakra.

Many meanings for garnets can be found. Garnets are typically associated with guidance, security, and protection, true love, devotion, and constancy, and health, friendship, and good luck in business ventures.

Wine-red garnet is the state gemstone of New York; star garnet is the state gemstone of Idaho. Garnet is Connecticut's state mineral.

Properties and characteristics of garnets.

Hardness: 6.5 – 7.5 on Moh's scale; garnetsd cannot be scratched with a knife, but they can scratch glass (but cannot cut glass.) 

Luster: Vitreous, which means it has a shine resembling that of glass.

Transparency: Transparent to translucent.       

Group: Silicates. Other silicates include quartz, amethyst, agate, opal, labradorite, lapis lazuli, prehnite, tourmaline, emerald, peridot.  

Crystal system: Cubic. Dodecahedral and trapezohedral

Composition: Follows the formula A3B2(SiO4)5, where A can be calcium, ferrous iron, magnesium, or manganese, and B can be aluminum, ferric iron, chromium, manganese, silicon, titanium, zirconium, or vanadium. The identities of A or B are factors in the color of the garnet.

Color: 15 species of garnet, which range in color: dark red, red-violet, pink, reddish orange, cinnamon, honey, yellow, yellow green, emerald green, grayish green, black, brown, cream, white, and colorless.

 

Some localities garnets are found.

Quebec, Canada. Czech Republic. Brazil. Finland. Bavaria, Germany. Italy. Kenya. Mexico. Norway. Poland. Russia. Scotland. South Africa. Sri Lanka. Tanzania. Turkey. Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Virginia, USA.

Formation of Garnets.

To understand how garnets form, we need a quick review of middle school science with some general, brief definitions.

Rocks are made of minerals, and some minerals are gemstones.

Rocks are naturally occurring and coherent aggregate of one or more minerals.

Minerals each have a specific chemical composition and distinctive internal crystal structure.

Gemstones are minerals that are prized for beauty, durability, and rarity. 

There are three main classes of rocks: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.

Igneous rocks are formed from molten rocks. Examples are granite, basalt, obsidian, and pumice.

Sedimentary rocks are formed by the accumulation of minute grains or by the precipitation of dissolved materials. Examples are limestone, chalk, rock salt, shale, and sandstone.

Metamorphic rocks are made when existing rocks are subjected to extreme temperatures and/or pressures different from the conditions under which the existing rock formed. Examples of metamorphic rocks are marble and slate.

Metamorphic rock formation.

An existing rock – either an igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic rock – transmutes under the new temperature or pressure, the atoms and molecules actually rearranging into new materials while in a solid state, without melting! We are not talking about turning lead into gold; we are talking about a rearrangement of minerals.

Quick examples:

~Under thermal pressure, aluminum-bearing minerals such as feldspar -sandstones are changed to micas and garnets.

~An iron-rich garnet and a magnesian-biotite (a form of mica) under low-grade temperature or pressure changes can reassemble into magnesium-rich garnet and iron-biotite.

~Under more intense conditions, the garnet and the biotite may disappear, their components recombining to form other minerals or liquid.

Sources:

Bonewitz, Ronald Louis. (2005) Rock and Gem. Dorling Kindersley Limited. New York.

http://www.gemselect.com

http://www.gemselect.com

http://www.antique-jewelry-investor.com

http://www.findyourfate.com

http://www.e-jewel.co.il

http://statesymbolsusa.org  

Week of 12/12/10 in Greenville NC

*Festival of Trees  - Family Support Network
Greenville Convention Center
Daily 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM until Dec 23.Free admission; donations can be made to Family Support Network. Enjoy the numerous decorations of trees as they are transformed into different themes and meanings. 

If you missed the Greenville Christmas Parade because of the rain, check out
*Ayden Annual Christmas Parade
Starts: Dec 18 11:00 AM
Ends: Dec 18 12:00 PM

Coming up at the end of January is the
*First Annual Jolly Skull Beer Fest
Starts: Jan 28 6:00 PM Friday
Ends: Jan 29 10:00 PM Saturday
Greenville Convention Center
http://beerarmy.com/profile/JollySkullBeerFest 
The festival will focus on American craft and regional micro breweries. Tickets are $30 in adv and $40 at the door. You can call the convo center for tickets or go to Winslows (other places to purchase tickets are listed on the website). 

(Not sure why this is all in caps. It is not in caps in my edit screen, but it posts in all caps.)

First Snow Treasury

We had our first snow here in Greenville NC this weekend! Big snowflakes drifted peacefully down creating a light dusting of snow for my husband's work holiday party. Then the snow was gone the next morning! That is the perfect storm.

To honor these four brief hours of snow, I created this First Snow Treasury, full of blue and snow themed items. Check it out here:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4cffc0e15bbe8eef45a5c159/first-snow 

If we could have another four hours of snow on Dec 24th and 25th, this will be the perfect winter!

A Great Treasury!

BeadsGalore2 who makes hand crafted jewelry using semi-precious stones, Swarovski crystals, and glass beads created this wonderful Treasury "Tis the Season for Red! and included one of my items, I'm a Fan of Red Feather Fascinator.
View Treasury here:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4cf65a9465dd6d913d068d1a/tis-the-season-for-red


Thank you!
I hope everyone is getting into the holiday season!

This week in Greenville NC.

You can't build the biggest snowman ever in your front lawn, you can't go sled-riding down the hill at Firestone park, you can't even throw a lousy snowball. What are you going to do with the family this weekend? How about enjoying some beautiful art, warming drinks, delicious food, and seasonal music, right here in Greenville, NC? (And it will be warmer than checking out the Macy's windows in Market Square, guaranteed.) 

Join me for...


Uptown Holiday Artwalk
Friday, December 3, 2010 6-9 PM
13 different galleries, museums, and restaurants are participating

Greenville Jolly Trolley is offering free rides.
ECU Department of Musical Theatre and the Magnolia Belles will be singing carols on the trolley and in Uptown District.

At the Fourth and Evans stop there will be readings of T’was the Night Before Christmas by Mayor Patricia (Pat) Dunn at 6pm, 6:30 pm, 7pm and 7:30 pm.

Children will receive free holiday craft bags from the Greenville Recreation and Parks Department
This is a free event! Art! Food! Drink! Music!


Map, list of participants, and other info:
http://www.pittcountyarts.org/exhibits/current-exhibitions/
What is Jolly Trolley?
http://www.greenvillejollytrolley.com/Home_Page.html
What are Magnolia Belles?
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-admin/mktg/east/Magnolia-Belles.cfm


And while your there…..
Holiday Window Displays
Dec. 3-Dec. 12, Uptown District
Check out the pretty windows and vote on your favorite! Voters will be entered into a drawing for gift certificates to local businesses.
Categories include "Most Whimsical", "Most Unique" and "Brightest.”
Ballots will be available at the Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge (across from Tipsy Teapot), or the public may vote online by visiting uptowngreenville.com starting Dec. 3 at 6pm until Dec. 12. Click here to vote: Fill out my form!. Winning windows will be announced in the Dec. 15 Uptown Enewsletter and photos of winning windows will be published in the January edition of the Greenville Times. Cash prizes will be awarded to winning businesses

But wait, there’s more…..
Greenville Jaycees 2010 Christmas Parade
Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 3:00 PM
This year's parade theme is Christmas Around the World.  Sponsored by Uptown Greenville & PirateFest. 10^th and Evans. 

 

Black Friday and Fun News!

Delicious Thanksgiving dinner and bonfire with desert last night; yummie leftovers for lunch, the season's first batch of chili on the stove, and a special treat today!

Thank you to to the T and D families, especially Mrs. D, for a great dinner and fun times on Thanksgiving. As with all good evenings over at the T house, it ended with a (mostly safe and controlled) bonfire. No marshmallows this time, though, because we had pumpkin cheesecake, pecan pie, apple crisp, and vanilla ice cream to munch on!

A special treat today! danceswithflowers, who sells upcycled clothing, jewelry, and home decor on Etsy, had featured my Fallen Leaves of Autumn Necklace in her Treasury: Magic on the Forest Floor. See the beautiful, unusual goodies here:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4cef3357dcf56d91b791967d/magic-on-the-forest-floor
Thank you!

I hope all of your Black Friday dreams came true!

Did you go out on Black Friday and join the Mad Dash for Mega Deals? I was not so brave, but I would like to hear your shopping story! Leave a comment and tell me all about it.

Fun News! And a Special Deal!

This weekend, LaughingFridge, who has a fun, funky store on Etsy, included my Trio of Rose Scatter Pins in Chestnut in her Treasury: Vermillion. I like the sound of this word...
Check out the other beautiful creative items on this list:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4ce84c8ae9268eef60ea6ac3/vermillion-i-like-the-sound-of-this-word
Thank you!

To celebrate my new blog, use coupon code BLOGTENOFF at checkout and receive 10% your total order (not incl shipping) in my store this week. To visit my store, click <http://lizabethdezigns.etsy.com/> or on the Lizabeth Dezigns box on the right of my blog post. This discount will be good through Cyber Monday (11/29/10) and I will be adding many items to the store this week. *Share the code with friends!*

Hello!

Well, here I am with a proper title, background, and header (coordinating, of course - thank you shabbyblogs.com). Nothing left to do but start blogging! And I have been putting that off because I am good at procrastination. And also because I am not so familiar with this blogworld with all of these blogwords, so I am just going to bluff my way through it and figure it out as I go. I imagine it will be frustrating at times and will require a lot of chocolate, coffee, and cheese-flavored popcorn to get through, but I am up to the challenge.

I love beads, baubles, jewels, and small shiny objects, crafting, reading, shopping, movies and television shows, my husband, family, friends, and my cutie little kitten, the above mentioned snacks, coffee (which bears repeating), shopping local, and exploring my new town of Greenville, North Carolina. So I guess all of that is what this blog will be about.

I have a store on Etsy (unashamed plug coming up…  http://LizabethDezigns.etsy.com ) so I will be running some deals and specials and generally talking about my great jewelry and accessories here, too!

Yay! I am so glad to be here on blogspot.com. Thank you for visiting me here.