The colors we choose to have around us say a lot about our personalities. Based on that, my personality is fractured.

I pretty much wear nothing but black, gray, green, and blue. The colors I do wear are dark jewel tones–navy blue, hunter or olive green. I don’t wear lime green or cobalt blue. I have one pink shirt and one red one. I seldom wear either. Most of the personality evident in my clothes is on my feet. I have some awesome, crazy shoes, yet, the shoes I wear most often are black Converse All Stars.

I have a friend whose wife sells custom blinds. If a person can’t make up their mind as to what kind of blinds they want in their house, she looks in their closet. She says that the best way to determine a person’s personality is by what they wear. I told her that, based only on wardrobe, I’d have black blinds, but if you look at my house, you’d see this:

Puple unicorn courtesy of Alex P

Pink sock monkey & cow courtesy of Mental Mama

HAPKO (Happy Anime Pink Kitty Organizer) (name courtesy of Alex P)

Orange pig made of orange slices is very literal

Angular owl keeping books from flying off

Additions to the Shelves of Special Things courtesy of Ra

Bathroom owls

Homemade frogs

Male’s ugly lamp, robot pic and chest of drawers

Orange pigs, purple unicorns, blue owls, pink monkeys, etc., on a backdrop of exploding color. My house is bright and colorful and cheery. All that color and silliness around makes me happy. I don’t dress like I live. Where does this dichotomy come from?

To console my friend’s wife, I told her that, ten years ago, her theory about closets and personality would have been valid for me. I used to live like I dress. My living spaces used to be dark jewel tones. I even had two sets of black sheets. Now, I have two sets of purple sheets. Two apartments ago, I had a dark green wall with black trim. Now, I have a bright blue wall and this is my bathroom:

Why the switch? Well, I’m not sure, but I can tell you that I’m a lot happier with all that color around.

Yesterday, I designed some badges for Nano Poblano. The first one I created was the light one on the center right. But then, as I do, I kept messing with it until it became the dark one in the center. I liked that one, but I also liked the light one. I could not decide which I liked better, so finally, I just said screw it, and posted both of them.

This morning, I went to add one to my sidebar. I tried both, but ultimately, I used the light one because it went better with my light-colored blog theme.  Ten years ago, I wouldn’t have even created the light one, let alone used it.

In a larger, metaphorical sense, a struggle between light and dark is happening inside my brain. Light seems to be winning externally, but internally, that’s a different story.

Does your clothing match your personality and your home?