Timelies all!

Browns and other earth tones don't look that great on me. I tend to go for the jewel tones.(Yeah, I'm a Winter.)

Things I didn't say "No, Mom, even if we moved those two bookcases out of the nursery and moved the crib against the wall, the little guy would not stop going after cords and such. He's a baby, after all."

I like coffee & cream colored browns and tans, and some darker colors as long as they're saturated, but that murky gray taupe is not a good color to me. I like my taupes to have olive in them.

I have mostly avoided wearing browns, I find them tricky. I do like chocolates and camels on me, I think. Or maybe I just like them and ignore if they are flattering or not. Warmer browns are better on me, I think, reddish rather than greenish?

I find I like the olives and mustards more than I used to, but not on me or in my, for lack of a better word, setting as they are super unflattering to my olive skin.

I love cream and ivory but they are also hard to judge and can go too yellow very easily. Straight up white is actually a good color on me. Wearing it right now AIFG.

I'm paralyzed with indecision about whether to go to SPX or sign up for this class. Both options are panic-inducing for me.

That's a tough choice, Tom. Both options sound really interesting (though the panic is ungood [but I get it]).

I'm intrigued that Sherwin-Williams' range also includes Truly Taupe, not to mention Temperate Taupe. On the other side, it sits next to Less Brown, which, confusingly, is more brown than Poised Taupe. I have a preference for either Otter or Armadillo, to the surprise of no one. And now I'm tempted just to type random animals into S-W's search engine and see what develops. (Spoiler alert: neither Echidna nor Platypus are included in their current range, which is probably discriminatory in some fashion.)

which is probably discriminatory in some fashion

Stand up for the rights of animals to be represented by inexplicable colors!

I would love to paint something Platypus. Or Poised Platypus.

Stand up for the rights of animals to be represented by inexplicable colors!

Partial success! "Hippo" is totally a colour they have! It's part of their Vinyl Siding range, along with Humpback, Big Bear, Gray Squirrel and Llama. And Rrrreptile.

Alternatively, if you're in a "Who's your Dada" kind of mood, you could do your vinyl in: Boomerang, Sediment, Snicker, Weeping or (seriously) Guesswork.

I am anti-panic but pro-doing-stuff, Scola. I hope the panic ebbs, I guess, and one of them becomes more appealing?