visual warmth

Still feeling a little cold this afternoon, I went in search of some more visual warmth. When I'm cold I want warm, cuddly, woolen things. I want knitted scarves, hot tea, boiled eggs and toast soldiers. I want beautiful soft blues, creams, navy, charcoal... and a hint of sunny egg-yolky yellow.

Ah, I feel all warm and fuzzy already.
Now maybe some more tea?

the humble egg

Today I inadvertently found inspiration in my breakfast. Now, generally I do find breakfast to be quite inspiring - I will do just about anything to get my hands on a cup of tea and slice of toast in the morning - however, this morning I was particularly struck by the wonder that is the humble egg.

Enjoying a delicious soft-boiled egg with toast soldiers (pretty inspiring already, no?)I began to get all excited about the beautiful natural colour palette of the brown egg-shell, the crisp, clean colour of the egg-white, and the golden eggy-yellow highlight of the yolk. Beautiful. (And quite tasty, I must say.) So, this got me thinking about eggs, and their associations. To me they speak of natural country-goodness, of lazy sundays, and of new springtime life.

Eggs make me happy. They are cheerful, hopeful, and remind me of happy childhood memories, and today that was just what I needed.
So, here's to eggy sunshine!

mmm...delicious! The perfect lazy Sunday brunch.
I love the colours - beautiful, natural, calm. Yum.
(image from notebook magazine, date unknown)

Gorgeous! This image makes me happy.
A hopeful little eggy, all clean and pure!
(image from here)

The only thing cuter than a clean brown egg...a little specked one!
(image from here)