{"id":18710,"date":"2014-06-23T03:05:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T10:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=18710"},"modified":"2014-06-13T18:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T01:05:42","slug":"maple-samara-palette-premo-color-recipes-vol-074-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/maple-samara-palette-premo-color-recipes-vol-074-a\/18710\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Samara Palette | Premo Color Recipes Vol-074-A"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maple<\/a><\/a>1-<\/span>A<\/span>: Helicopter<\/span>
\n2-<\/span>A<\/span>: Maple Samara<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/strong>3-<\/span>A<\/span>: Winged Seed<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/strong>4<\/span>–<\/span>A<\/span>: Maple Fruit<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Well I learned something new today! Did you know that the winged seed pods which float down from Maple trees like tiny helicopters, were actually called Samaras? I didn’t and I am the type of person that is actually into knowing these sort of things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just this week, Doug snapped some cool pictures of Maple Seed clusters for this upcoming Summer 2014 color palette. After choosing the colors I needed to name the palette and was a little stuck, since we already had a palette called Maple Pods<\/a>… a Fall palette from way back in Vol-029.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now since today’s palette is based on a newly developed (beginning of the growing season)<\/em> Maple Seed, and is clearly in a different color way, I had to come up with a different name.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a few Google searches of Maple Seeds<\/em>, Maple Pods<\/em> and such, I discovered they were indeed called Samaras and not Pods at all. How cool is that? Such a pretty name for a delightful piece of flora! Very inspiring name for a color too, don’t you think?<\/span><\/p>\n

So, there you go. Were you already familiar with this botanical information that I just learned about today? Or did you discover something new as well?<\/span><\/p>\n

Please enjoy this Maple Samara photo as it inspires your for this month’s Vol-074 A-series color palette!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Maple<\/a>The following Vol-074 A-series Maple Samara Color Palette will be added to the Polymer Clay Members Library<\/a> at the beginning of July 2014:<\/span><\/p>\n