It's been a tough week for me at the Beach Cottage, not that I want any sympathy, we all have those weeks don't we? I guess that's part of being a grown up. Trips to the ER, long late phone calls to England, leaks to the summer house…blah blah blah
So today, at lunch, I decided it was time to take a bit of time for me, appreciate, sit down, take stock and force myself to just zone out and I love to do this by sitting in my new little area that I showed you last week and flick through a few books and magazines. Oh and you must take a visit to Beach Cottage Inspiration, the portal for all things white, vintagey and beachy, where today you'll find some beachy house pics that'll knock your socks off!!
As I prepared the lunch and pulled out a few cookery books to leaf through for tomorrow (and thanks to all of you who left me your ideas, I'm emailing you) I remembered the tea light holders I had made when I was in turbo-burlap mode (and see a burlap table dressing which proved very popular,here)
While I was busily running around all crafty, I had rescued these old glass jam jars (not sure what you ladies stateside call them, jelly jars?) and a few old wire coathangers and made a Beach Cottage lantern, for free…
I promptly left them sitting outside on the table on the deck and completely forgot about them.
They were so very easy to make and a great low-cost and easy way to add to your outdoor area and I would have sat out there this lunchtime if it wasn't blowing a gale…
Hope you all have a great weekend especially if you have the good fortune of having a public holiday on Monday and I hope that you take a bit of time to sit still and appreciate and do a simple little thing to make life beautiful…
…and if you'd like to enter the Beach Cottage Giveaway for a bit of coffee table candy for your little nook, just
Hey, hey! I love the striped cloth and those 3 candles in a row on the side table!! You never cease to amaze us do you?? Love the burlap potties aswell…I found a big piece of Burlap in one of my old suitcases lastweek and made some little lavender hearts….thanks for aal your lovely idea’s! Hve a great day!!
Sarah is burlap the same as hessian? I’ve been quite loving playing around with hessian, I painted some simple teacups on a piece, it was a little too textured though, so I used some unbleached linen to do another version on, I did a blog post about them (yakes that wasn’t meant to be a promo thing)
I love all the ideas you’ve created making use of your burlap – brilliant!
Did you come up with a recipe? – sorry I’m a bit late catching up on your posts and am answering two at once. My fav quick recipe is Chicken Breasts, slice through the centre to make a pocket and stuff them with what ever you have, baby spinach leaves, fetta cheese, mushrooms, spring onions, seasoning of course – whatever, you can add a little mustard to the top and parsely or whatever to add a bit of colour, then simply bake them for about an hour – served with a garden salad, a dressing made from a mixture of mayonaise and natural yoghurt – delicious, easy and very economical!!
Goodness my brother and sis are in Northern NSW and are flooded, my brother is a part time farmer and has lost his sugar cane and bean crops – hopefully his cattle have been saved
Thanks Sarah for another enjoyable visit – sorry this was a loooooong comment!
Hi Sarah,
Sorry to hear you have had a ho-hum kind of week. I hope your dinner party tomorrow night will lift your spirits. I’m sure an evening of fun, laughter, friendship and good food will be the perfect pick me up tonic.
Hugs ~ Kerryanne
Oh Sarah this is awesome!!!
I received the most wonderful package from you yesterday – my little give away treat. The joy you brought to my heart is beyond measure and I just need to thank you. Thank you for your generosity, your creativity, your love for beachy things, and for taking the time out of your busy world to blog so that we could all have coffee in your amazing home. I’m going to have a post dedicated to your package (probably later today) and you will be able to know exactly how you blessed me. Thank you again.
Hi Sarah
Thanks for even coming back over to me to visit….it just gets a bit much to try and keep up with everything doesn’t it? -I’m at the stage, in saying to myself ~ just visit blogs when you can – read and enjoy as you would a magazine or newspaper and when you feel the need or inspirations to do so, leave a little feedback or comment, if you can’t it doesn’t matter ~ just enjoy your visiting blog time! – which I do your blog posts Sarah – keep ‘em coming there Girl!!
Re twitter (am following you – shabbychicky) if you want to see what people have twittered at you go to the home page and then click on @abeachcottage on the right hand side and you’ll see messages for you
Keep your chin up! We all have those weeks (mine was definitely LAST week), and before I started this week I just told myself to think positively and things would look up – and they did! Good luck and I hope you have a better weekend!
I am kicking myself for not snapping up the last of the burlap that Wal-mart had on sale when the fabric department was closing. I have seen SO many cute projects using it lately! These are darling!
Yep – a pretty crappy week for me too. How a little jar can make me feel a tiny better is crazy. I’ve surfed thru some of your friends blogs via comments for you, and am now inspired to blog. Shoulda known you’d have great friends. I’ve got some figuring out to do and I thank you for the inspiration. Where to begin – I don’t know – but I’m determined.
Just thinking of you sitting there breezing through a magazine after a hard week is lovely! I hope your weekend makes up for a rough week. And, of course, I love the little jelly jars!
Carrie
Sarah – you’ve done it again! That lantern is so cool. I love the burlap wrapped around it and of course I’m a sucker for sea shells. Love the way you’ve incorporated them with the tealight.
Blessings,
Marie
blog: http://emmacallsmemama.com
email: marie@waltercom.com
Hi – I hope you have a really mellow weekend and a better time next week! Great lanterns. We use tiny French glass yoghurt pots with tea lights, wired to our gate when we have an evening party – the effect is magical.
Oh, Sarah, I would love to win-anything you have. You just have “the touch”. I wish I could win THAT. But if not that, anything else. I just love poking around your beach cottage. I always feel at home here.
And I am a proud follower.
Hey there Sarah. Yes, I, too, “have those weeks”. Hubby and I were actually just saying the other day, “When are we going to get a break and just have a ‘normal’ week?!” I don’t think we had a ‘normal’ week in over two years. Anyhoo…..I feel your pain!
Love this idea of using the mason jars as lanterns! They turned out so lovely! BTW, you’ve inspired me to create my own blog….so right now I’m in the process. I’ll send you the link when it’s up.
Wow, you must have a lot of burlap The lanterns are beautiful. I think I should make some with all the empty canning jars I have in the basement that have been waiting for some cheap fruit (Which I don’t come across often in the Canadian prairies.)
Hi Sarah! I signed up to receive your email updates. Also, thank you for responding to me regarding that cute white sea shell sphere (that’s what I’m calling it!). I will have to keep my eyes peeled for one. You never know!
Blessings,
Marie
blog: http://emmacallsmemama.com
email: marie@waltercom.com
Hey there Sarah so hows your day going so far… better than the rest of yur week I hope. Love the jars they really look great, must admit I usually buy my jam for the jars then use them as vases etc & I have some old preserving jars that the rubbers have gone on so you have inspired me to find some old wire coathangers now.
Hope you enjoy your dinner tonight & thanks for the words of inspiration you left on my blog…
Sarah, Hope your weekend is full of sunshine because that is what we think of when visiting your blog.
Isn’t it a bummer when life imposes adult to do lists on you when you were planning to have much more fun than that.
Still stuck in job searching mode here but thanks to you and your blogging friends have been inspired to repurpose and redecorate our space into something we can post about soon.
Sarah: Thanks so much for visiting my blog and commenting. I’ve been lurking on yours for some time now. I hope you come back often and I’m looking forward to more “lurking” on yours.
Hope you are feeling better today, I don’t think it helps your mood when its overcast and raining either. Funny that I lived in the UK for years and I got use to it being overcast and rainy most of the time but when I get two days in a row of cloud here I feel depressed! Anyway I am loving your inspiration pages so keep them going and I am getting loads of ideas. Hope your dinner party goes well and your week finishes on a high!!
G'day! I'm Sarah, I live in a tatty old cottage, near the sea in Australia with a battered old deck & a big old fig tree out the back...stripped wooden floors, old sash windows & a jumble of vintage furniture. [Read More …]
G’day ladies, oooh have I got a good Beach Cottage recipe for you or have I got a good recipe for you. Â Well it’s actually not Beach Cottage, I cannot claim that… So, a couple of months ago I met up with a couple of blogging friends, AllConsuming and Mrs W for a lil [...]
G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? Â The original place for Too Easy Recipes on the web ;-)
So, after my last salad went down a storm in my inbox, that's here if you missed it, I had to do this one seeing as I make it most weeks.
There is a problem with this salad and kiddos though...it looks, well, it looks, kinda yucky...but once they try it, they'll ask if and when they are next having it....at least that's what happens in this ratty old cottage...but I must interject here that my kiddos are 'good eaters'? ...they didn't get a choice in that ;-)
Now, stop, don't start running and hitting that next on your blog reading list, pulses are your best friend in the Too Easy Dump & Go kitchen for the busy mum, or busy anyone for that matter...that reminds me I must blog the garlic canneloni Go To for when you forgot to do dinner, feel like a bath but have three ravenous young Beach Cottage Kiddos on your hands...another day.
I am almost embarrassed to tell you how easy this is, we have it so much that I always have a couple, make that six, cans of lentils around and a jar of goat's cheese in the fridge...the great thing about this is that it's all too easy to get ready in just a few minutes, but it looks, tastes and seems like you did oh so very much more than that.
You can obviously too change it up a bit depending on what you have to hand in your kitchen, and I must say that is how I settled on this version...because one day when I made it I didn't have enough Parsley in the garden and so I chucked in some basil too, and liked the Summer feel it added.
I think of this as being a rather posh salad, not sure why, because it couldn't really be further from the truth...the great thing is that it works so well for an average run of the mill day, (when I did this for this blog post, it was a hot Sydney Sunday and I did it just simply to go with Rosemary & Garlic stuffed pork, you can see that pork here),
...but just as easily it works on a regular old Wednesday night when you have lost all enthusiasm for rustling up yet another meal, or indeed on Saturday night, when your friends are on their way over for dinner and you my friend, are in your new vintage inspired clawfoot bathtub (that's me in a few weeks time, k?) without any clothes on, a tipple and no idea what to cook for dinner...
I have a complicated and ever-changing relationship with goat's cheese...it never fails me in its performance and it never fails to impress me (you can find out a bit more on what I like in food here if you like) and I kinda collect it...because it's very easy to collect and has a fairly long fridge-life, I love trying out different ones and there's not many things I love more than goat's cheese on sourdough...but I think the best thing about it is not thinking about it exclusively in the toast/salad department...I've stuffed it in chicken and all sorts of things as a last minute and it's been fab.
But let's get down to the nitty gritty of this super salad that makes you look like an angel who has been on her knees all day scrubbing the front step when really you are in the digital world and spent most of ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, howdy, howdy howdy today for a Beach Cottage Too Easy recipe.
If you like cake, cream, sugar and chocolate, make this.
This is, rather than a recipe, a putting it together...as you know I am no dessert maker, but, I do make quite a few sweet things, because, somehow I have ended up with kiddos, who in their roles as offspring, believe that part of the deal, is that not only do I feed them a home-cooked meal with a few homegrown ingredients in there, yes, they also believe that dessert and not the kind that comes out of a packet is included too in this All-Inclusive Deal they call Parenthood.
So, this, for sure, is no culinary masterpiece, but if you are looking for something that is so very easy, dump-able, uses everyday ingredients and at the same time makes you look like you spent hours pulling things together plus tastes good....well, then this is for you.
Best though, you don't make this for yourself, if you have spent the most part of your week sitting on your derriere reading blogs...this my friend ain't low in the calories department...if, however, you are treating yourself to a delight in a mason jar, this is so for you.
I first had a version of this when at dinner back in Old Blighty with a girl, I once, in another life, caught the train up from our village to London with...she was a funny thing really...I am not quite sure how we got on...she was kinda prissy and a bit bothered by too much...I would run to the train flustered, having got up late, and she would have a spreadsheet on the train times, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, a few years later when we both had bambinos, I bumped into her again and we met up for playdates and dinner sometimes....this particular night, after a lovely meal she served up little bowls of creamy, cakey fruity stuff topped off with chocolate flake...it was delicious!
She didn't serve hers in little jars like this, hers were in a champagne glass and not quite so layered as these ones, plus she used tinned fruit not fresh or frozen.
Years later when said offspring kept requesting dessert, one day I wangled together somehow these from what was around in the fridge and they've been with us ever since.
Most likely, if you ever come here for dinner, and shock horror, you dont' bring the dessert with you, this, if you are lucky, will be what you will get.
Throw it all together, sprinkle a lil bit of chocolate on the top and the blog reading past-time you so rudely left in order to make this, is my friend, your oyster.
Beach Cottage Too Easy Layered Raspberry, Cream & Sponge Dessert
1 small maderia or butter cake or a pack of cupcakes (or of course make your own)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
8 tbsp fruit
1 x chocolate Flake or chocolate bar for grating
 1. beat the cream cheese  until it is soft
2. Â whip the cream until soft peaks form
3. combine & add the sugar through
4. cut your cake into portions
& layer into the bottom of your jar
5. add a tablespoon of fruit
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6. layer on top the cream combo
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7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
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*Beach Cottage Recipe Notes : this is just a guide really, you can use any cream that you have on hand...I have made this with clotted cream (don't even go there unless you want to seriously get these babies on your thighs), with double cream and I have even, in desperate times squirted in that, ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, well I thought it was time for some blogging tips here today, alongside a few nice flowers and shells ;-)Â
I was recently part of a blogger discussion group over at Kidspot and a couple of hours later had a few questions from girls who couldn't make it to the live chat, one was on my Facebook page and one via email, the Facebook one I will deal with in another Real Girl Blogging Tips post...the email one asked me what essentials do I think every blog needs?
Well I have been around here for a while now doing the blogging thing, so I should know this, yeah and I mused this on my walk by the sea this morning I thought well what do you only need?
...I think it is really very easy when blogging, whether or not you are blogging up there in the lofty heights of the Super Bloggers or you are just dipping your toe in the water, to get side-tracked by 101 million different things that are 'essential' to your blog and if you are someone like me who actually gets a thrill from reading blogging tips then you are in an even worse place because you will find yourself literally buzzing with these essential things to add/do/implement on your blog.
However, walking along, gulping down that brisk sea air today (no sunshine & clouds) I thought you actually don't need any of that professional blogging stuff to be successful...but there are a few things that are pretty much crucial ...and once I started to think about it I got it down to about 5 - these are the only things that you need to concentrate on...once you have read through take a look at some of the big girl's blogs...you'll see that actually they don't have bundles of stuff on their blogs...but they do have all of these...
So here are my top things that your blog must have
1. About Page
There are all sorts of About Pages out there, and if you search on it there are many different tips and ideas for what to have on yours
Whatever blogging platform you use, adding an About Me Page is easy, quick and simple and will do everything to grow your blog.
I like a long-ish About Page, I am inherently nosy and I like to know a bit more about the person but at the least you should have on it your name and where you are located. Â I also think a photo is good too...over the last year or so I think this has become more important in blogging - if you are hesitant about that as I was, you can try using sunglasses or a behind shot until you get comfortable.
There is nothing worse than stumbling upon a new blog and going to find out more to only be faced with a piddly little one liner About Me Page...well there is something worse, not having one at all!
2. Contact Page
The chances are someone, somewhere will want to contact you and you will be surprised what lands in your inbox once you put yourself out there on the world wide web with a blog.
Many bloggers also use this page to include details for PR's/brands that may want to contact them and some bloggers put their stats on there too.
A short, to the point and simple Contact Page works really well...whenever I have wanted to contact another blogger I am often very busy and have limited time so I don't want to hang around sifting through information looking for an email address, so concise and clear ...
G'day lovely Beach Cottage lovelies.
So, yeah, so on a roll people, so on a roll.Â
I feel kinda home accessory wired right now.
I am always telling people, if anyone ever listens, that blogging is all about passion, not that sort of passion, but about passion that makes one tick.
Things like this make me tick tick boom.
I love finding things that suit my budget and let me treat my home but look amazing too.
So without further adieu I introduce you, ladies of the beach, to the blue vintage glasses that I have been stroking for about a week or two now...
These glasses are from a little boutique I sometimes happen upon, this boutique sells also pet accessories, carpet cleaner, bras and compost...it's quite unique though.
And, thanks to my friend Marnie (she blogs over here, go take a look at her praying position, interesting), who just so happens to be one day having me over for a lil' Greek dinner, has let me in on the fact that we call Kmart....The KMart...with an accent ....as in 'I love The KMart'...just like her MIL does. Â Oh yeah. Â Love that.
So I have had my eye on reproduction vintage glass blue wine glasses and being trying to find real true vintage blue glasses for like ever.
Oh yes I have spied them in Frenchy boutiques, I have lusted after them in stores that I shouldn't even enter and I have put them back pretty quickly in those shops with the hand-written price tags. Â C'mon, you know the ones.
And, though all of the above have tempted me, muchly, really, even with my wardrobe stashing skills I just thought that, actually, I'd rather be saving that casherooni for our next trip overseas..
Hello The KMart.
Tick Tick Boom
Vintage style blue wine glasses.
Do not come to my old place and think you might pick up one of these and smile with pleasure at their handblown quality, their weight, and be secretly jealous that my wine glasses cost more than your car...friend, that would not happen...these do not feel like that...indeed these in a funny way reminded me of my baby girl, she was a tiny little thing, with stick legs, the tinsssssssiest ankles and wrists you ever did see, she slept sideways in her cot wedged in between rolled up blankets and would only settle attached to Mr Beach Cottage or I or a (dirty) pj top of mine scrunched up under her nose...the first few times I picked her up to cuddle, being used to Honeymoon Baby who weighed in at 9lbs at birth and has never really stopped growing, I nearly threw her little bird-cum-rat down covered body over my shoulder.
These glasses are like that...be careful or you might lose your wine down the front of your shirt.
But oh baby, we are not talking picking up here, we are not talking quality, we are not talking house accessory snobbery.
Beach Cottage ladies, we are talking aesthetics.
And this is what I need in my cottage.
Blue vintage style glass, paired with coastal / nautical / beach stuff on my deck.
It's The KMart.
Tune in tomorrow, tomorrow, I have more budget foofing for your home, or maybe it will be the dress that wraps me up in supermarket-chic and makes me feel like me again.
Good Day to you my friends, wanna come hang out on my deck, talk house accessories, The KMart and drink some wine from blue glasses?
Sarah
Hey, hey! I love the striped cloth and those 3 candles in a row on the side table!! You never cease to amaze us do you?? Love the burlap potties aswell…I found a big piece of Burlap in one of my old suitcases lastweek and made some little lavender hearts….thanks for aal your lovely idea’s! Hve a great day!!
Love the lanterns!
Sarah is burlap the same as hessian? I’ve been quite loving playing around with hessian, I painted some simple teacups on a piece, it was a little too textured though, so I used some unbleached linen to do another version on, I did a blog post about them (yakes that wasn’t meant to be a promo thing)
I love all the ideas you’ve created making use of your burlap – brilliant!
Did you come up with a recipe? – sorry I’m a bit late catching up on your posts and am answering two at once. My fav quick recipe is Chicken Breasts, slice through the centre to make a pocket and stuff them with what ever you have, baby spinach leaves, fetta cheese, mushrooms, spring onions, seasoning of course – whatever, you can add a little mustard to the top and parsely or whatever to add a bit of colour, then simply bake them for about an hour – served with a garden salad, a dressing made from a mixture of mayonaise and natural yoghurt – delicious, easy and very economical!!
Goodness my brother and sis are in Northern NSW and are flooded, my brother is a part time farmer and has lost his sugar cane and bean crops – hopefully his cattle have been saved
Thanks Sarah for another enjoyable visit – sorry this was a loooooong comment!
I am dropping in to say, I’m sorry you had a tough week!
Hi Sarah,
Sorry to hear you have had a ho-hum kind of week. I hope your dinner party tomorrow night will lift your spirits. I’m sure an evening of fun, laughter, friendship and good food will be the perfect pick me up tonic.
Hugs ~ Kerryanne
Happy weekend to you and may you have many more quiet and personal moments in your space. Love the burlap lantern.
I love your beach tablescape. Living in Florida, my kids are always gathering shells and it’s nice to have something creative to do with them.
Oh Sarah this is awesome!!!
I received the most wonderful package from you yesterday – my little give away treat. The joy you brought to my heart is beyond measure and I just need to thank you. Thank you for your generosity, your creativity, your love for beachy things, and for taking the time out of your busy world to blog so that we could all have coffee in your amazing home. I’m going to have a post dedicated to your package (probably later today) and you will be able to know exactly how you blessed me. Thank you again.
Sarah, enjoy your weekend and dinner party. Love the beachy new light you fashioned with a canning jar and wire. I’m inspired to try it!
Hi Sarah
Thanks for even coming back over to me to visit….it just gets a bit much to try and keep up with everything doesn’t it? -I’m at the stage, in saying to myself ~ just visit blogs when you can – read and enjoy as you would a magazine or newspaper and when you feel the need or inspirations to do so, leave a little feedback or comment, if you can’t it doesn’t matter ~ just enjoy your visiting blog time! – which I do your blog posts Sarah – keep ‘em coming there Girl!!
Hi Sarah,
Looks amazing as usual. Everything is so fresh over here at your blog
I am having a giveaway over at my blog too!
The lantern idea sounds neat… I always keep old jars- jelly or pickle jars.. I will have to try your lantern project.
I love jam jars…especially those french ones with the gingham lids…the name escapes me but I’m sure you know what I mean. Happy weekend, x
Adorable! You are such a talented beach cottager! Yep!
What a beautiful lantern and fabulous way to end the week. Happy weekend (and pick me!)
Love the softness- great things to wake up to- thanks
Have a great day
Hi
Hope next week is better for you!
Re twitter (am following you – shabbychicky) if you want to see what people have twittered at you go to the home page and then click on @abeachcottage on the right hand side and you’ll see messages for you
Mel xxx
Keep your chin up! We all have those weeks (mine was definitely LAST week), and before I started this week I just told myself to think positively and things would look up – and they did! Good luck and I hope you have a better weekend!
Love them- haven’t found burlap bags yet but still looking! Have a great weekend!
I am kicking myself for not snapping up the last of the burlap that Wal-mart had on sale when the fabric department was closing. I have seen SO many cute projects using it lately! These are darling!
Love your blog – definitely a source of inspiration for my home!
So pretty! You always inspire me.
Yep – a pretty crappy week for me too. How a little jar can make me feel a tiny better is crazy. I’ve surfed thru some of your friends blogs via comments for you, and am now inspired to blog. Shoulda known you’d have great friends. I’ve got some figuring out to do and I thank you for the inspiration. Where to begin – I don’t know – but I’m determined.
Just thinking of you sitting there breezing through a magazine after a hard week is lovely! I hope your weekend makes up for a rough week. And, of course, I love the little jelly jars!
Carrie
Love the lantern, pretty cool idea.
That’s really cute, Sarah! Have a great weekend.
Sarah – you’ve done it again! That lantern is so cool. I love the burlap wrapped around it and of course I’m a sucker for sea shells. Love the way you’ve incorporated them with the tealight.
Blessings,
Marie
blog: http://emmacallsmemama.com
email: marie@waltercom.com
Sorry you’ve had such a difficult week. Your nook is gorgeous! I’ll be right over. LOL Ü
You did a good job.
Visiting you from N Ireland today.
What a beautiful cottage, and love what you have done with the jam jars.
Adding you to my google reader
You have made some fabulous things with that burlap. I love the jam jar lantern. Too cute!!
Hi – I hope you have a really mellow weekend and a better time next week! Great lanterns. We use tiny French glass yoghurt pots with tea lights, wired to our gate when we have an evening party – the effect is magical.
Oh, Sarah, I would love to win-anything you have. You just have “the touch”. I wish I could win THAT. But if not that, anything else. I just love poking around your beach cottage. I always feel at home here.
And I am a proud follower.
Hey there Sarah. Yes, I, too, “have those weeks”. Hubby and I were actually just saying the other day, “When are we going to get a break and just have a ‘normal’ week?!” I don’t think we had a ‘normal’ week in over two years. Anyhoo…..I feel your pain!
Love this idea of using the mason jars as lanterns!
They turned out so lovely! BTW, you’ve inspired me to create my own blog….so right now I’m in the process. I’ll send you the link when it’s up. 
Blessings!
Rachel:)
Rachel
I love the lanterns!!!
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I love the lanterns.
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Wow, you must have a lot of burlap
The lanterns are beautiful. I think I should make some with all the empty canning jars I have in the basement that have been waiting for some cheap fruit (Which I don’t come across often in the Canadian prairies.)
Hi Sarah! I signed up to receive your email updates. Also, thank you for responding to me regarding that cute white sea shell sphere (that’s what I’m calling it!). I will have to keep my eyes peeled for one. You never know!
Blessings,
Marie
blog: http://emmacallsmemama.com
email: marie@waltercom.com
Hey there Sarah so hows your day going so far… better than the rest of yur week I hope. Love the jars they really look great, must admit I usually buy my jam for the jars then use them as vases etc & I have some old preserving jars that the rubbers have gone on so you have inspired me to find some old wire coathangers now.
Hope you enjoy your dinner tonight & thanks for the words of inspiration you left on my blog…
Lyn xxx
Hi Sarah! I’m new to your blog and I’m having so much fun reading your posts!
But I am sorry to hear you had a rough week.
Hopefully you’re celebrating a long weekend just like us in the US and if not…hurray for Friday!
Love the lanterns and all of your gorgeous beach cottage photos!
Take care and have a relaxing weekend.
Here’s to a better weekend…and table candy, what a lovely name.
They are jelly jars, jam jars, canning jars…at my house we call the wide mouthed ones drinking glasses
Definitely a follower and I think I need to email you about your sitting room furniture…
Thanks Susan
Sarah, Hope your weekend is full of sunshine because that is what we think of when visiting your blog.
Isn’t it a bummer when life imposes adult to do lists on you when you were planning to have much more fun than that.
Still stuck in job searching mode here but thanks to you and your blogging friends have been inspired to repurpose and redecorate our space into something we can post about soon.
Sarah: Thanks so much for visiting my blog and commenting. I’ve been lurking on yours for some time now. I hope you come back often and I’m looking forward to more “lurking” on yours.
Hugs!
Judy
What a great idea to turn a jar into a lantern!! You really do come up with wonderfully creative ways to re-purpose things
Looking forward to seeing what other crafty ideas you come up with
Kelly @ DesignTies
Sweet little canning jars . So useful !
thanks so much for sharing love the candle and lovely pictures would love to enter the giveaway
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Lovely tablescape, as always. I love the way you casually added a mug to the bowl of shells. This table looks dreamy. laurie
Hi Sarah great spot to relax and read. Cute lanterns. As you say we all have ‘those kinda weeks’. What a fun idea having a giveaway.
Alison
Hope you are feeling better today, I don’t think it helps your mood when its overcast and raining either. Funny that I lived in the UK for years and I got use to it being overcast and rainy most of the time but when I get two days in a row of cloud here I feel depressed! Anyway I am loving your inspiration pages so keep them going and I am getting loads of ideas. Hope your dinner party goes well and your week finishes on a high!!