Colour My World

I went hunting for cereal/soup bowls this week - because accidents do happen and 3 bowls between 4 people doesn't work too well. We'd put together a jolly nice dinner set out of separate pieces purchased from Briscoes several years ago, but at the time had put off getting the bowls. It was pre-breakage, you see, so we didn't really need them. But now we regret that decision because, of course, the design was discontinued. All I want, all I really, really want, is a nice bright cheerful yellow bowl to eat breakfast out of in the morning - swirly pattern (to match the dinner set) optional - well, four of them, at any rate. But it would appear that "neutral" is in vogue. White, off-white, cream, sand, stone, beige, khaki - I never knew there were so many shades of boring! Admittedly there are some slightly more colourful options available, but they all seem to be too muddy, too wishy-washy or too dark. I want YELLOW!!

Sigh.

I don't know if it's some sort of post-winter thing, but I'm just craving colour at the moment. Particularly whenever I set out to separate the laundry into "dark stuff" and "light stuff" and realise how much black my family wears! I told one of the mums at "mainly music" the other day that she's a bright spot in my week because she wears so much colour - and it's true! There's a heck of alot of the old "basic black" around (not just in winter either, but probably more so than the other seasons) and colour really does stand out. I've set about filling my little world with colour - turquoise sneakers, a fuschia t-shirt, orange nail varnish ... not all at once though! :P

My favourite colour changes from day to day, depending on what mood I'm in. On a good day it's purple - on a bad day purple just seems too depressing and traffic-cone orange is the colour du jour instead. I craved the colour orange for much of my pregnancy with Amy, and through post-natal depression for months afterwards. I'm rather liking fuschia just now though ... so I'd better avoid Farmers like the plague because they have rather alot of it in stock at the moment!