How to Combine Color "Successfully"

Combining color is like combining tastes when you cook. You have to put the flavors next to one another and wait for that moment when you try it and it tastes delicious. You don’t need someone else to tell you that you want to eat it, you just know.

It’s like life, you know it when it feels good. You have to get relaxed enough to forget about rules and just play around. It’s the same way you feel when you meet a new person and just know you like them. You have to trust your own taste. If they turn out to be a jerk, well, you move on!

There are a lot of ways to get more in touch with who you are creatively, lots of ways to get back in touch with the little kid in you who just knew what you liked. I often think we forget how to dabble as adults, how to just try things and not worry so much about outcomes. We want the things we do to be “good’ and it makes us nervous to make ourselves the judge.

If you want some training wheels, look around you at the things you see that you like. Is there a flowering bush on your morning walk that you always feel happy to see? Look closely at the colors. They may be unexpected, not what you would have thought would work together. Now why not bring those colors into your world, in your house or in what you wear?

I always encourage my customers to wear the colors that make them feel good. Chances are, they will look good too. Honestly, even if they don’t work for someone else, who cares? Life is short. Please yourself, enjoy yourself with the colors you surround yourself with . Color is a major source of pleasure. Don’t let afraid, let yourself indulge.

Raspberry, Deep Purple, and Rose Pink handmade glass.