Yellow Things

What do you give someone that explicitly says she wants NO gifts for her birthday? Well, in the case of my studiomate Maria, force behind Brain Pickings, I set up a Tumblr blog called Yellow Things For Maria. Why? Well, Maria has quite an obsession with the color yellow, and I simply can not email her every time I see something that makes me think “Oh-Look-It’s-Yellow-I-Neeed-To-Send-This-To-Maria”. So, now I am secretly collecting yellow stuff. Quite fun, I must say.

(Let me know if you have any yellow things I should add, in a comment below.)

And, now all together: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIA!

58 Comments leave a comment below

  1. Happy Birthday, Maria! I love Brain Pickings.
    As for yellow, how about a giant lemon?
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/memake/4846122564

    Jane
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 7:20 am

  2. Happy birthday Maria!!!
    I invite you to visit my Etsy store where I have these yellow earrings: http://www.etsy.com/listing/72997695/yellow02 and http://www.etsy.com/listing/53054775/yellow01
    You can also like this “modern yellow” treassury list I made: http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTA0MTE0MzN8MTk5NzU4/modern-yellow?ref=pr_treasury
    Hope you like it and have a nice day

    Menemu
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 7:50 am

  4. This will definitely brighten your day – Happy Birthday!

    Mdidit
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 8:10 am

  5. They are sold out, but still worth a look: http://www.outofprints.com/product/pantone-letraset-poster-605u

    rileystewart
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 8:11 am

  6. Fun way to find yellow.. stuff: http://svpply.com/search/products/yellow

    <3 that site.

    Zac
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 8:46 am

  7. Tina, you’re THE sweetest, thanks lady! I love this soooo much! xo

    Maria Popova
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 9:20 am

  9. that is so awesome :)

    amanda
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 9:50 am

  10. I appreciate both of your blogs so much. You brighten up my Google Reader! 3 Pretty yellow things. (including a happy birthday cake for Maria) – Thanks, Debby

    1) http://www.hveus.com/Serata-p187.html
    2) http://store.candywarehouse.com/yellow-squiggly-pops.html
    3)http://www.countryliving.com/cm/countryliving/images/lemon-cake-de-33842736.jpg

    Debby R
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 9:57 am

  11. yellow lovers unite!

    I created a pinterest board for my yellow things: http://pinterest.com/beckyhargis/yelloh/

    Becky
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 10:00 am

  12. happy birthday maria ! yellow architecture, interior design http://goo.gl/UfNwK

    marcia
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 10:20 am

  13. This is the sweetest thing! Happy birthday, Maria!

    LilianS
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 10:56 am

  14. This is so awesome! Happy birthday Maria! I will add: yellow nail polish :) http://amzn.to/riDQGU

    Tangent: I collected actual yellow things for a project in art school (each of my 5 then-studiomates took a different color), at the end we made a ginormous installation that stank up the hallway. Just an idea…

    Erica
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 11:05 am

  15. Happy Birthday Maria! Brain Pickings is the coolest!!

    Jenifer
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 11:08 am

  16. What a lovely project! I’m a frequent reader of Brain Pickings too.
    Happy Birthday Maria, С Днем Рождения Мария!

    Armina
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 11:23 am

  17. such a creative and thoughtful idea!

    LEAH
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 11:31 am

  18. Aren’t you the sweetest? By the way, happy birthday Maria! I really enjoy reading Brain Pickings!

    Zana Fauzi
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 11:34 am

  20. Prepare yourself.

    B!
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 12:57 pm

  21. Dunno how to just make it the link, didn’t mean for it to be giant!

    B!
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 1:06 pm

  23. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARIA! I absolutely am in love with both your blogs (BrainPickings + SwissMiss) and think this is such a cute idea!

    <3
    Vivek

    Vivek Mayasandra
    Jul 28th, 2011 / 3:20 pm

  28. Oops. That bunny’s in Sweden. Erp.

    bb
    Jul 29th, 2011 / 7:35 am

  30. seriously? awesome? what? please…

    B
    Jul 29th, 2011 / 12:46 pm

  33. Happy Birthday :)
    Честит Рожден Ден и благодаря за прекрасния Brain Pickings :)

    Rado
    Jul 29th, 2011 / 4:22 pm

  37. HAPPY BIRHTDAY MARIA!
    Lately I designed a yellow tablecloth,napkins and towels for a Dutch brand called Wei-Design. it only needs a yellow cake on top of it!
    if you are interested, watch http://www.liannekuijpers.com/wp/?p=760

    Lianne Kuijpers
    Jul 30th, 2011 / 3:40 pm

  38. The Swedish classic backpack “Kånken”. Now upgraded with a laptop compartment. Color option below large image.

    http://www.fjallraven.com/produkter/Ryggsackar-och-vaskor/Kanken-Laptop-15

    Louise
    Jul 30th, 2011 / 6:20 pm

  42. i totally hear Maria on yellow! here’s something i stumbled upon just a couple of hours ago:

    http://stylescout.blogspot.com/2011/04/from-archive-lfw-feb-2011.html

    J Koes
    Jul 31st, 2011 / 3:11 pm

  43. AND

    the yellowest song, of course!

    J Koes
    Jul 31st, 2011 / 3:14 pm

  44. I might not be the best fashion adviser, but this looks cute.. and yellow.
    http://pinterest.com/pin/81310601/

    Silver Sova
    Jul 31st, 2011 / 3:50 pm

  45. The branding for Baltic Shop by Founded:
    http://wearefounded.com/baltic_shop.htm
    And the ZIIRO Gravity and ZIIRO Orbit Banana watches:
    http://www.ziiiro.com/shop

    Happy Birthday Maria!

    Charis Poon
    Jul 31st, 2011 / 5:02 pm

  47. What a brilliant idea!

    I adore Yellow, so I make yellow stuff for fun!

    Yellow Thread
    http://www.kanella.com/work/#yellow+thread

    Day and Night
    http://www.kanella.com/#day+and+night

    Happy Birthday for Maria!

    Kanella
    Aug 1st, 2011 / 1:19 am

  49. What a wonderful idea! I have a friend who loves the color orange…

    russ morris
    Aug 1st, 2011 / 10:44 am

  52. I followed a link back on my stats to here, but it seems to have disappeared.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/theerstwhilekate/5962935961/

    I wasn’t sure about copyright of this image and so I wrote to the artist, Nathan Sawaya, to ask whether he was okay with images like this to appear on flickr, and he said it was fine as long as I wasn’t selling prints. (Guess it also advertises him, which is why he’s not worried.)

    Anyway, if you wanted to collect the image for Maria, that’s fine :)

    theerstwhilekate
    Aug 2nd, 2011 / 7:18 am

  53. Yellow Superhero Wings for your shoes (i think you posted these a while back): http://www.etsy.com/listing/53229700/superhero-shoes-yellow-wings

    Carolyn Sewell
    Aug 3rd, 2011 / 2:06 pm

  55. This may be apt:

    Ollie
    Aug 18th, 2011 / 5:01 pm

  57. a yellow submarine!!!! http://bit.ly/qVJMhW
    coldplay’s yellow cover!!! http://bit.ly/n0dwqW
    and a yellow gummy bear, of course!!!! http://bit.ly/oOp75O

    dominic
    Aug 21st, 2011 / 5:14 pm

  58. Great! I’m big on yellow too!
    even bought my own http://www.ownacolour.com/#like_eddd30

    Justa
    Dec 16th, 2011 / 10:08 am