Floral

I love floral, especially vintage floral on the walls and in vases of course. I've been cutting the peonies lately, taking advantage of the few weeks they are in flower. The children have been picking flowers in the garden too,  presenting me proudly with sweet bunches of daisies and cow parsley.

Joining Lou with Nature in the Home.

Dress for Bella

I made Bella a dress recently from my Japanese pattern book. It's the second time I've made this. The first attempt was too small. This time it's the perfect size but too short. That's ok, she can wear it as a tunic.

Vintage-ness

Be it a tin or a chipped cup, being surrounded by vintage, wondering where it came from makes me smile. Of course most of it goes in my shop, but I get to enjoy them for a while.

Yellow

Bella's favourite game is playing shop. She stands behind her 'counter' with all her goods and waits for customers. This instance my mum "nana boat" .

I realised in many of my photos there is something yellow. A vintage teapot, yellow chair, yellow tights and yellow crocuses. I think I might like yellow.

Cherries and chickens

Bella is fully capable now of tending the chickens. She can unlock the pen, feed them and collect the eggs. I am there to supervise whilst drinking one of many morning coffees.

We have two cherry trees next to the chicken pen and the two cherries hanging from the top of the pen were the only ones I saw. The cherries on the table were bought ones.

Everybody out it's stopped raining!

We had a good half an hour outside before there was a loud crack of thunder and another heavy shower. A quick trip around the garden to witness what had changed. The apple blossoms are out, the tomatoes are struggling with these low temperatures even in the green house and the wisteria is creeping across the house. Spring is trying to make an appearance!

Chalk and Dungarees

Whilst sheltering from showers, storms and hail, we had fun with chalk. Sam loves to draw and write and Bella obsessively cleans the chalk off. Any excuse to play with water.

The super cute Osh-kosh dungarees arrived  - thank you Whitney :)

Bits from last week

Here are a few (quite a few!) photos from last week, before I file them away in my flickr filing cabinet.

:: Bella playing hide and seek with grandad and wearing bling from nana.
:: Using an old jumper of Bella's to sew onto a dress I bought from the charity shop.
:: Bella reading my book in her bedroom.
:: Sam took a photo of his doudou.
:: Lots of sewing.
:: My 3 euros rug/mat from the secondhand shop.
:: Bella keeping warm next to the fire on a rather chilly day.
:: Yellow cardi and blue chair - just because :)
:: Joanne Harris' cook book. We've been making most our meals from here this week.
:: Bella playing with chalk and water and she's wearing another re-cycled top - the sleeves are from Sam's old t-shirt.
:: Vintage fisher price sandals from here.
:: A view from the garden.
phew, time for a cuppa!