The Colour Collaborative: May: Morning

My morning starts neon green, flashing and beeping.

It glows red and green over the top of the bedroom curtains as the sun hits the trees and cars on the drive below and sends colourful beams shooting upwards. (This always makes me think of the Northern Lights for some reason.)

My morning is the pale blue of my favourite-morning-brew-mug as I make the first (and best) cup of tea of the day. 

After showering and dressing, my morning is the red of my make-up bag as I sit at my dressing table, gathering my thoughts and readying myself for the day ahead.

Downstairs, the rush begins. My morning is the primary brights of toast and jam on melamine plates, the white of glasses of milk poured, the brown of a second cup of tea.

It is the red of strawberries on top of my cereal.

The greys and pastels of a dishwasher waiting to be emptied.

And the glaringly bright neons of lunchboxes and water bottles.

There should just be time to brush teeth and hair, check all children are dressed and ready, open the curtains and make the beds before re-grouping in the hall where the brown clock determines whether I start shouting or not.

And the day begins.

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I've tried to give you a flavour here of my normal, slightly rushed but very colourful weekday morning. Of course, it's half term this week - otherwise there would never have been time to take some photos! - and I am not rushing about like a mad woman today, but sitting in my dressing gown enjoying my second - actually, third - cup of tea and generally feeling quite relaxed. But it's always so interesting to observe colour in our daily lives, where we notice it, where we need it, where it's too much, where it soothes us and where it makes us happy. 

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

Annie at Annie Cholewa

Sandra at Cherry Heart

Jennifer at Thistlebear

Claire at Above The River
Sarah at Mitenska

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.