pillar box red

too much...

 
Too much to say - not enough organised thoughts - best just to start as if I never left and hope nobody notices...

Thursday colour/white and silver...

 
 
 
 
 
The baubles are from my ever increasing christmas stash - in fact this has been the first year I haven't needed to buy something for decorating the house. We did indulge in the beautiful christmas fairy - she looks so serene we couldn't resist. The branches are pussy willow and waxflower (which I had never heard of before, but which provided a lovely pine smell to the house). The cloth fairy is a christmas veteran now and looked for by the girls. The icing hearts decorated some gingerbread biscuits and spiced blueberry cupcakes - all evidence eaten up before pictures could be taken I'm afraid.

monday bake/cakes...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yum! Definitely ready to start baking again. 

sunday colour/red...

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Big changes have made lots of little changes that I haven't really planned for. I don't mind but I've had to accept that I just can't do some of the things I did before - or at least not in the same way. I feel the need for editing and streamlining - perfect for January - and the perfect time for a look back through what I now think of as my old life. 

in no particular order...

 

 

 
... but colour co ordinated at least.

oh so quiet, oh so still...

 
Except not so much...

summer has been and gone, a house sold, another one bought, a little one starting nursery and a bigger one back at school, job interviews ( when exactly did it become okay to be absolutely vile to an interviewee?), proper, grown up, same days every week jobs started, vans hired, stuff moved, a little bubble car bought by mummy (the first ever car I have owned!) and , you know, stuff...

 
Now there seems to be an endless set of phone calls to be made to builders, joiners, plumbers, floorers, tilers - a whole unfamilar world of haiy man who call me 'pet' and 'love' - and endless decisions about all of it.

But yesterday I started to knit again, so I know that evrything really is going to be okay.

 

the bay...

This is Druridge Bay in Northumberland, a national heritage site, only 50 minutes away from Newcastle, and about 20 minutes away from my house...

It has dramtic dunes, clean, windswept beaches, warm ltlle rivers flowing into the sea, and in the middle of the school holidays, it was so quiet there were under 20 people on the entire bay for the whole morning...

We splashed in the waves, ran down the dunes and the girls were little wild things. It really was amazing - if I could choose, it would be one of the days I'd like the girls to remember from this summer - rather than the endless packing and moving and chaos. Maybe I'll luck out?
 

geranium...

sunflower profile...

blackbirds and rowan berries...