Thursday 28 May 2015

The Colour Collaborative: May: Morning



I'm very pleased to share that as of this month, I'm a permanent member of the Colour Collaborative. I've always loved writing occasional guest posts so am really excited to be part of the group and to be contributing each month.

So, May. Our theme is 'Morning'. I gave this quite a lot of thought while we were away in Scotland last week and considered using some of the photographs we took from the deck shortly after waking each day; pictures of the loch and the mist moving across the mountains. But then I didn't. 

You see, what I really love about this collaboration is the way we can each interpret the brief. And to me, 'morning' is all about routine. Familiar, comforting things and simple pleasures. Morning is when you're at your softest; recently awake and still a little bit fuzzy from a warm bed. It's before you ready yourself to face the world. And I like (whenever possible) a gentle start to my day. So the colour of my tea (Earl Grey, a tiny splash of milk) has to be just the right shade of brown.


My breakfast of choice: mashed avocado on toast. Green and nourishing and creamy and delicious. 


A wander around our little yard, cup of tea in hand, often results in a few little snippings being brought indoors for the table. Even better if those snippings are what you'd class as 'weeds'.

In this house, we tend to live in the back room (the front's always freezing, whatever the time of year). And on a perfect morning - i.e. a sunny one - the back room gets lovely light coming in. It shines through and illuminates the flowers on the dining table. It doesn't matter which colour they are; they look as though they're lit from within.


The kitchen faces the same way and so the geraniums on the windowsills and whatever we happen to have growing outside in windowboxes are similarly lit. At the moment it's all reds in varying shades so on a reasonably sunny morning they glow warmly.


Even things which are colourless become more beautiful; fleeting rainbows appear on walls as the light's refracted through cut glass. And windowsills are filled with dancing shadows from the plants growing outside.

Here, in this house, the light makes a huge difference to your appreciation of colour. On a gloomy morning the high ceilings and thick curtains make it seem cavernous and oppressive. But on a sunny one everything seems to take on a life of its own and we're transported, Dorothy-like, from a monochrome Kansas to a glorious world of Technicolour.



Don't forget to visit the other Colour Collaborative blogs for more of this month's posts, just click on the links below.


What is The Colour Collaborative?


All creative bloggers make stuff, gather stuff, shape stuff, and share stuff. Mostly they work on their own, but what happens when a group of them work together? Is a creative collaboration greater than the sum of its parts? We think so and we hope you will too. We'll each be offering our own monthly take on a colour related theme, and hoping that in combination our ideas will encourage us, and perhaps you, to think about colour in new ways.



21 comments:

  1. your flowers Do look like they're lit from within. truly beautiful x

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  2. A great celebration of the morning!! It is a lovely peaceful time of day when you can potter on your own first thing isn't it. xx

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  3. What a lovely post Sarah, I like a wander round the garden first thing as well. Our house is the same as yours, bright at the back and darker and cooler at the front. The first morning sunshine is beautiful isn't it. I hope you have a good day. CJ xx

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  4. There's nothing nicer than a sunny morning. Our kitchen and dining room are flooded with morning light to the point where the kids ask me to keep the curtains closed while they eat breakfast as it's too bright! And you have window boxes? I'm jealous, I'll admit. I'm slightly obsessed with them but our upvc windows are all two or three metres wide and John says emphatically, no, it wont work. :-(

    (I've always had a rule of never reading any other CC posts before pressing publish, and I love it when our interpretations of a theme overlap.)

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  5. Love the tour of your morning! :)

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  6. Mashed avocado is a touch of genius - never tried it but will do tomorrow! I love this idea- will join in too :) x

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  7. Mashed avocados on toast is my easy go-to breakfast!
    Kaylee
    gold&hearts

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  8. I love the way the colors in your photos seem to have a glow to them, from within as you say. It was a good idea to think of the theme in terms of routine. I really like that. The colors of a routine make the individual parts of it stand out more.

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  9. Oh those plants really do glow! But I think I like the shadow picture best, probably because of the poetry in their dance.

    Like Gillian I never look at the other posts until mine is up, and I'm always late with it. I seem to be the only one of us with a misty morning picture, and even then it's borrowed.

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  10. beautiful colours and light in your mornings. such a wonderful project

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  11. I agree, mornings are the best and a walk around the garden with a cup of tea is even better :)

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  12. Really like the Colour Collaborative posts (have come here via Gillian). Great to discover lovely blogs such as this. Being able to wander into the garden with a mug of tea on sunny May morning has to be one of life's absolute pleasures. Sam

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  13. Lovely images, often in PJ's first walk round the garden....
    Amanda xx

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  14. A truly lovely post. It makes me want to get up early tomorrow and do all of those things except the avocado on toast - a bright yellow poached egg would be my choice.

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  15. I love the idea of a gentle start to the day and I am going to try avocado on toast for breakfast soon. Lovely post Sarah. xx

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  16. Your breakfast looks delicious! I think mornings have more routine for me than other times of the day

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  17. Lovely post, avocado sounds a healthy breakfast! X

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  18. This was lovely. The lacy shadows, especially, but you've inspired me as well to switch up my tomatoes-on-toast breakfast for avocado. . .

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  19. I love the shadow shot and the little pink flower ... all my favourite wildflowers are classified as "weeds" and "invasive plants". Ah well!

    Avocado for breakfast sounds very healthy indeed. :)

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  20. Beautiful post and pictures. Those shadows are so pretty. Delighted to hear you're doing the Colour Collaborative each month now. I will be looking forward to your future posts! Bee xx

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