Friday Thoughts - the year has flown

What a beautiful night with my family this last Monday night at my hazel eyed boys last awards night...  He worked so hard and it definitely showed...He was beaming as he was awarded a special award for initiative {for all his fund raising this year}.... He is a lovely young man and he is so excited to finish school in 2 weeks... 

I still have a few of Marley and Lockyer items in STORE.

Two new bracelets in STORE.

A wrapping case designed by me in STORE.

A combination of some pretty images I used in collages on facebook through October.... I love making these each morning...  Well only 4 weeks now till we head off to europe and my shop will close on December 1 so please if there is anything you need talk to me soon as it will be a busy time...  My hazel eyed boy has 5 exams next week and then in his last week he has formal and graduation....Don't worry I have the tissues stocked ....  Happy November 1 my friends xo

Tuesday Thoughts - It starts today ....

The beginning of the holidays in STORE now

Packaging up orders in my studio......

Vintage by Nina's new book in STORE now...Among Vintage and Friends.

I think the weeks just keep getting faster and I am definitely one of those people that truly like to savour each and every minute....  Flights booked for europe...a month with my hazel eyed ones just sounds like bliss to me and even a white christmas which will be a childhood dream come true...My hazel eyed boy is counting down only 11 actual days left of school....so excited for him but a little sad all at once... It has been a roller coaster of a year...so much change and uncertainty but also so much beauty and new life...
 Creatively Made Home - Home for the Holidays starts today....I would love you to join us.  Please click on the link below...

Thursday thoughts - where are the days going !!!!!!

I don't know about you guys but looking at these images takes me to my happy place....It is a bit of a joke in my house but when the conversation gets negative or too intense, I tend to go to my happy place.... I realised pretty early in life that we are on such a precious journey and I think life can be dramatic enough without adding to it so "yes" joke as you will I do spend some time every day in my happy place... Life in my little cottage has and always will be pretty simple.... I enjoy my time with my hazel eyed boy at the kitchen table in the mornings and even when we don't have a lot to say I still love it.... Working away in my studio, putting my clothes on the line, baking, listening to my baby lambs bleat, the neighbours kids playing in the yard are all happy places and the list would go on and on.... So I hope you get some time today to go to your happy place ;)

Vintage my Nina's new book Among Vintage and Friends should be here any day now.....I can't wait...you can pre-order it HERE

My family at Christmas 46 years ago.....  I am the little one in the back of the bike.... I will share a little more about my Christmases in the course Creatively Made Home - Home for the holidays....only a few more days before it starts...The image below is some of the homes of my fellow teachers in the course....  What an incredibly talented bunch of woman.

Please join us in this course....  Click on the link below.