G'day weekenders! Are you enjoying Saturday? I am and I don't normally come by here at the weekend but I thought I'd share my lovely afternoon…
I love Saturday especially ones like today, a Wintery day, where I get to go out on my own, walking around, going to the market, popping into secondhand book shops with a coffee and of course hunting out old treasure.
After stopping by the beach, a read of the papers, a coffee and the book store I walked home, looking at houses as I went. Do you like doing this? I do. Just walking around nosing into other poeple's lives…imagining living here and there. This is one I pass regularly, I'd love to go in…
And then this one, a Cottage after my own heart…
sweet little seaside house with a tiny little balcony and Aussie tin roof…
the ferry to the city goes past…
a lovely old bookstore, complete with in-built character owner, a big old green leather sofa that I sat in and flicked through books with a latte and a book ladder (gotta love one of those, I wanted to ask if I could buy it and take it home to paint white)
love these old shopping chambers - just look at that beautifully curved window and people look at the tiles…sigh, I'd love a little shop here
and of course I passed a million and one surf shops…with guys in flip flops whom Miss Beach Cottage called 'dudes'…
I felt pretty lucky to be here today and thought about how someone recently asked how much I liked it here and if I ever thought about our big seachange much (you can click 'Beach Cottage Story' link above to read about it)? Well today I thought about it a lot as I walked home and counted my lucky stars at where our life is at now even though my thrifting luck was most definitely not in and all I came home with was a lovely old French heavy saucepan for 3 dollars…but I guess that's not so bad
Oh and thanks for the Pillow love yesterday, wow those went well!
thank you!
So have a beautiful weekend girls, hope you get some thrifting in, even if all you come home with is an old French saucepan
Love your blog and you are so lucky – I hope to follow in your footsteps shortly. Cheers – Julia
We certainly do live in the lucky country.
Thanks for the tour
Alison
Sarah this is just a perfect post! I love weekend bloggers, as that is when I have the most time to read them! Thanks for sharing all this beauty. I will have to post my little neighbourhood one day! Julie
What a great little place. I’m dying to move to a similar area, but my husband is resisting.
I love the bag you’re holding in the first picture. I have a similar bag that I’ve had for 15 years and its so great for the beach. Its finally falling apart. I’m in the States, but where did you get that bag? I have no idea where I can find another that big.
Love your blog!
What a perfect day. Such dreamy images. We are so lucky in this beautiful country. Thank you for sharing your little outing with us! A-M xx
You have the life I’d like to live. Seriously! Visiting from SITS…Happy Saturday!!
I love shopping for bargains…especially of the Vintage Variety. You house is just lovely! SITS sent me over…have a wonderful weekend!
Hi Sarah, beautiful post and little tour…I think my mother had the matching chair to that green couch in the book store! Man that thing was comfy!
I took my boys thrifting with me yesterday…found SOME things…mostly resisitance for having to go
Have a great weekend!
Michelle
Beautiful photographs! Stopping over from SITS.
Loved the tour! Loved the beach! Thanks for the tour!
I did enjoy all these great photos, Sarah. I love your simple blog dress…makes your words and your photos really stand out.
xo bj
Great tour – I would love one of those ladders complete with wheels – yes I would paint it white too.
Aahhh what a lovely trip you took us on.
I must admit I am one for admiring other people houses like you, I love walking around our neighbourhood on a summers evening with my husband and look at all the wonderful old huge houses & imagine what type of lives are going on.
Have a lovely weekend
love
Alison
x
What a wonderful post to start my day
The tour was lovely and the pictures of the cottages were beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing.
Toni
What a delightful post. I feel as if I have been walking around your neighbourhood and now coming back to yours for a cup of tea !! I just love the old Victorian Australian houses. It’s the gingerbread wooden carving in the first house that is my passion.We don’t have as much of that, here in the U.K, although my sisters house has got it.
Oh, and your straw bag, I’m 58 now and I had one exactly the same when I was at school !!!They were really the thing to have in the 60′s and now they are back in fashion.
Have a great rest of your weekend. XXXX
Hello Sarah,I’m a little frenchy and I love your blog I love love love your blog.Thanks for your photos. Kiss Isabelle
Sarah,
Thanks for the mini tour of your little neck of the woods. I’ve never been to Australia but now I have some idea of the scenery around you. Maybe someday I will be lucky enough to visit Australia. Both of my brothers have been & loved it. I’ll get my turn someday. But until then, I am living there vicariously through you and I will dream.
Kim
I’m so happy I found your blog & follow on Twitter! It looks so beautiful there! I like to think about how it would be to live someplace else, and I also enjoy the ocean. I enjoy visiting through your eyes.
Cindi
Happy SITS!
Loved walking with you in your wonderful community.
thanks
T
Oh how beautiful–your blog, your cottage, everything. So glad I stopped by!
I’m having a rather quiet day with two dogs in my lap as I surf the blogs. No other surfing for us, unfortunately. As I don’t live near water. (Sigh…) Isn’t it wonderful to sit in a bookstore and just be for awhile and lose yourself in a book you might or might not purchase? The boot is HOT!
Brenda
Hi Sara I love your website so relaxing! My name is Madison I have a blog. And boy when I show my mom your website she will LOVE it(she loves the beach)!! Those little book stores are soooo cute I would love to have one of those ladders! Hope you have a great day!!
Love, Madison
Lovely tour….thanks for the glimpse into your side of the world….
Take care, Laura
52flea.blogspot.com
Hi Sarah,
Just thought I’d pop by while waiting for the paint to dry on a couple of chairs I picked up thrifting this morning. My thrifting ventures turned up tons of cute treasures this morning, a stark contrast from last time. We all tumbled out of the house early this morning and caught a few rummage sales & even a couple of thrift stores having half price sales.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend,
Hugs,
Gina
Yes, I do that too ! I did that yesterday as a matter of fact, and posted it yesterday also ! Take a look at my area !
Sigh! Watford just doesn’t compare does it?! LOL! My mum lives by the sea in Normandy, and I’ve always wanted a beach cottage. At least I get to go to one a few times a year, even if it’s not my own. Every day I await with impatience your updates, and it’s making me seriously re-think my future. What am I waiting for??? Take care! Oh, and check my blog, I’m just about to do update about Sherbet Fountains.. oh yes, they’re messing with my childhood now!!!
If I couldn’t be a Texan, I’d insist on being an Aussie. Or a Bermudian
Hi Sarah, I loved the walk around your town, it seems so idyllic, and your winter seems about as cold as our summer. Thank you for the little tour. Hugs,Margie.
Just clicking over from SITS. It looks like an amazing place to live!
Just a lovely day, thank you for sharing your thoughts and images with us!
Your blog is like a drink of cool fresh water on a hot summer day! Totally refeshing.
I am posting quickly so i can go back and read some more.
Simply divine.
TTFN~~Claudia
What a perfect weekend Sarah – love your pictures and the beach, the ferry, the surf shops made me feel very homesick. I just love that laid back Ausiness….xv
It doesn’t get much better than that Sarah – PERFECT!!!
Hugs ~ Kerryanne
I just love all the pictures and the atmosphere you discrivbe…. I think I am a seaside girl inside but I do love my big big city as much as I do the sea…
What a great tour! The photos are awesome. Thanks for sharing.
The beach is so beautiful. Even in the middle of winter. Don’t you just love how different the beach and the ocean looks in different types of weather. Thanks for the tour.
Beth.
Thanks for sharing your day! This was great! I really enjoyed the tour, great houses, great book shop!
mmmm, lovely. thanks
Sarah,
I just stumbled upon your blog. It is simply stunning.
Melissa
Sunbonnet Cottage
What an absolutely lovely day, Sarah!
A perfect day in every way Sarah! Thank you so much for sharing your part of our world – it is enchanting!!
xo,
Kim
Sounds like a perfect day to me! I love the beach I enjoyed the tour of your neighborhood very much! Australia looks like a great place to live.
Have you seen this blog:
http://www.inthefunlane.com/
Seems like you would like it, she is also a lover of white and has a bunch of really great white furniture makeovers. Enjoy!
this sounds like such a wonderful way to spend a saturday – i love looking at houses too!
i esp. love the sound of the old bookstore – another dream is to own a shop like that – ladder & all!
a lovely tour of your quaint city! I’d love to book a flight there and take it all in.
Great photography!
Thanks for sharing the tour, I really enjoyed it! Somehow I love the beach more when it’s windy and a little downcast, strange huh? I’d love to live in a seaside town someday….ah…catching myself dreaming again!
I excel at walking around and nosing in other people’s lives, lol!! That’s probably why I love visiting my bloggy friends.
Great post! It was nice seeing the world outside of the beach cottage. Looks like a lovely place to call home.