2008 Color Trends

For color palette inspiration, here's a website that focuses on Color Trends for Fall 2008.

http://www.fashiontrendsetter.com/content/color_trends.html

Mrs. T

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Hey everybody!

I am in Mumbai right now. It's really hot, but I'm loving it. Lots of family, food, and fun! I start my job with CRY (Child Rights & You) on Wednesday. Really looking forward to it. Hope all of you are having an enjoyable summer as well.

Siffat

On topic -

Greetings all -
I think it is time for a face-to-face meeting if we can possible pull it off. Tuesday & Friday eves or Saturday would work best for me.
Post what works best for you.
Mrs. T

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Hey Siffat -
Tell us about India. Where are you exactly? When does your job begin?
Mrs. T

i think that "life on the edge" would be a cool theme if we angle it more towards how we take advantage of our location. like for lowerschoolers living on the edge means that they can take trips to ben and jerry's on free cone day, and for people who are taking advanced courses outside of usn, living on the edge enables them to take classes at vanderbilt. for comunity service club, they take advantage of being so close to places like the edgehill daycare facility. so i think it works on the literal level. but metaphorically, do we actually live on the edge? i don't see it tying in that way.
kelsey

Here's my latest 2 cents ...

OK one more and then I'm going to stop because we really do need to choose.

Has anybody seen all the hype for the new TV series called The Starter Wife? (the expression "starter" is frequently used in real estate to describe a great first house - a "starter" house. I started thinking that USN as a K-12 could be considered your "starter" life. And, that an interesting theme could be expanded on The Starter Life. Could be too tied to pop culture.

Here's my pick-3 so far ...

Crossroads (although I'm not sure about the title-what about something like "Life on Edge (refering to Edgehill)"???) - incorporating a google earth satellite photo on the cover. The graphic device could be a sideways "T" - not the actual letter but the way. We could also use the plus sign and possibly other equation signs.

Just a little bit of history repeating (of course it could be that we should save this for an anniversary edition... is this an anniversary year? When was PDS established???)

As for the third... I think it is The Starter Life with perhaps a game board feel. Maybe a take off onthe Game of Life. With different squares along the way that are USN themed. This could be a lot of fun and I can't remember a game themed book.

One more idea to consider...

This idea is originally Mrs. Tanner's...Crossroads. We are at the crossroad of Edgehill, 21st, 19th, and Grand Avenues. As the link below defines it, we are "a small community located at such a crossroads."

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=crossroads

Also, we are taking on new things like Chinese. The East + West theme posted earlier (focussing on the East and West wings of our school and their diversity and community) could also be incorporated. The urban + suburban theme (USN + River Campus) also plays in. Finally, we also have our own street signs in the hallways. We could focus on the convergence at this crossroad.

- Siffat