happy friday sweet bloggy friends...
i've not been feeling *fantastic* the last two days- & have spent a little of this time trawling through images on my laptop...
it makes me feel constructive without actually doing anything much...
these are from last spring, filling the kitchen table of our big old house in the English countryside...
the one that couldn't be more different to our little sandy floored, white weathered house here on the beaches...
although there has been much shleping of bits around the house, with all the rain the Australian coast line has been getting...
lotsa loads of washing
not being hung on the line- but bunged endlessly in the dryer...
a wet puppy to take walking & then calm down...
big warming casserole's on the stove top...
Autumn days are really here on the beaches...
i'm looking forward to the small changes this brings...but i could do with much less
flipping rain...we're living like Noah on his ark- god knows how he did it with two of each animal in tow!
yes...these gorgeously blue blooms were from spring in the English countryside...
i loved filling the house in ol'Blighty with blooms- endless colour on those grey days & an extra shot of colour when the sun did shine...
i love filling the house here too...our little beach house is all white walls & dark floorboards...& this year, our first back on the Coast here in Sydney, i want to embrace the seasons we do get...
the small changes between seasons i'm going to really mark this year- it's something we loved to do living in England...embracing the seasons...
it doesn't take much to change even the simplest of beach houses to embrace the seasons...
introducing a little colour is the easiest cheapest way to change the feel of any room...
& i'm always up for a room *move-around*- even when the room has only been in place since one may have leapt off the plane from England a few days before Christmas....
so here on the Coast, we are filling vintage potato baskets with big Autumn leaves collected whilst puppy walking...
we're making shell & Autumn leaf collections...side by side...
a little more brown in our white beach cottage...a little bit of rich warmth...
warm timbers...chippy collected beach items alongside our Country treasures...
*rope-wound* old oars...
vintage cane chairs dragged indoors...
wool throws on the linen couch...
many of you bloggy friends are heading into what i hear has been a gorgeous spring- but from years of living in the beautiful but changeable countryside of England, i truly know that each day is a blessing...
when the sun is out...
daffodils growing by the truck load can lead you to think that the cold days are behind you...when one is from Australia, living on the other side of the globe- one can
take a while to
cotton on that each day of spring is a delight not to be taken for granted...
here in Australia- as we embrace Autumn, it seems each day without rain is a blessing & likewise, not to be taken for granted...
between you, me
& anyone who will listen to my moaning, this is not what we came back to the beaches for...
endless awful constant a little rain each week...so embracing the change in season is giving
me us a focus away from the
wet weather...
cheap & cheerful...simplicity at it's best...
are you changing your little old beach cottage for Autumn?
or
bringing the Spring indoors with big bunches of blooms as the weather warms up?
...wherever you are my side, or the other, i hope you're embracing the seasons...
let me know how it's going at yours
melissa
xoxox
