Make it patterned and colourful. And please, don't cry if it breaks!

I decided a long time ago that there were far too many pretty kitchenware patterns for me to devote myself to just one. And with some beautiful new bowls as birthday presents,

I thought I'd take out some of my favourites to show you.

Some are vintage. Some are from Avoca, Anthropologie, Fishs Eddy,

Emma Bridgewater and Ikea.

Some are from travels abroad, but most of them given to me as gifts.

And I love them!

And I use them. Which sometimes is stressful because they get broken.

The cherry glass in this image is the last remaining glass

from a set belonging to my lovely grandparents.

(ok, so I don't let ANYBODY use that one!)

And in a dramatic Everyone-help-clearing-the-table accident,

I now only have 10 days of Christmas. oh well.

The bottom bowl here was one of the 4 bowls I got for my birthday.

It came with a note attached:

'From us 3, because we love you, and because sometimes we break things.'

Perfect.