Well it’s late Friday arvo here and I’m checking in with the Beach Cottage ♥ Saturday’s Clubbers for our next mission
I’ve been wondering about how long this’ll run for…perhaps a 10 week stint? Then I’ll put up the missions, maybe we’ll have a little break and then start with some new ones…not sure yet…maybe I’ll just keep it going forever lol…
Anyway my friends so this is the place where we take downtime, we wrap it all up in beach cottage coastal love and we spend some time on Saturday’s (though of course you can do any day you like) to just zone out and take some time for ourselves.
It helps in this Club if you like ruffles and vintage things, and most certainly stripes and white and peely paint and adirondacks and coffee and Limoncello and biscotti and cups of tea and wooden floors and laundry drying in the sun and the list goes on…
but most of all you must love
♥ all things coastal
♥…nautical stripes, sea glass & starfish
♥ the sound of the sea, a coastal breeze
♥ and seashells and cockleshells on the seahore
So, what have we got?
Get ready to rumble that ruffly stripe
and this week mine is going Coastal Praire and chic
with a leetle bit of tan cowboy boots thrown in for life by the sea
♥ ♥ ♥
Your Mission
should you choose to accept it
is this
you must head to your nearest
florist
or flower market
whereupon
you must spend quiet, easy, laid-back time
oooging among the flowers
you must touch
and stroke
and sniff and smell
and you must
treat yourself
to your favourite bunch
after which
you must place
your flowers
in a basket or
tote
so they are just poking out from the top
and you must then
sling that bag
over your shoulder
and skip down the road
with your flowers
and your bag
and your ruffly stripes
upon entering home
you must
make the choice
between
splitting up your beauties
and dotting them all around
or arranging your bunch a bit more…fancy
you must select
an appropriate
Beach Cottage style vessel
…a mason jar, a vintage bottle, an old milk bottle, a teacup, a jam jar
that’s it from me, I have nothing in particular ear-marked this week, though I am thinking with the week I’ve had including but not limited to a Trojan horse, if that’s what we are calling them on my Dell, which might I add will soon be swiftly replaced by my new love the Apple Corporation and dealing with all manner of little hiccups that come when 3 kiddos who are out of school for a few weeks…..with that bunch of flowers there might well be a dirty great Peroni
Good morning…This is probably one of my all time favorite posts…thanks for thinking of it…, you are sooo speaking to me right now….(read my new post)…I’m in.!!!….I’m picturing it right now…white flowers in an old jar…soft music and opening the windows down the shore and hearing and smelling the ocean!!!…AHHHHHH……….
XO, Mariaelena
I love the idea…I am a floral designer and have worked more than normal this month due to my boss being off work for surgery. So, I dont think I want to go into a floral shop for a while:) But, maybe I will just go down the road and pick something thats blooming along the roadside. Thats what I enjoy:) That way I get to be outside. :)
A few days ago I picked Hyacinths and tulips from my garden and put them in a mason jar with some raffia tied in a bow around the top of the jar. Beautiful!
I like this one Sarah, I have bought flowers for myself before, but I don’t do it often……….this is the perfect excuse to indulge ) xx I guess even picking some lovely blooms from the garden and arranging them around the house would be ok too if like me its the end of the pay week and I only have just enough to feed us ;o) Either way I will bliss out on flowers. xx
Ooooo….flowers….my FAVORITE!!! And I hardly EVER buy them:( My mom and I used to joke that I would have chosen to just have flowers at my wedding instead of any people!!!
Sarah, Love this idea! There are no flowers blooming here yet and our florist shop has only those horrible cultivated roses so my only other option is to go to the grocery store to see what they have or go into the woods and collect bare branches.
I have eight more weeks of school before retirement and coastal living forever! Half the year in Maine and half in Florida. So, I’ll be dreaming of that this weekend.
I would love to put flowers thru out my house this coming week (I’m eyeball deep in spring cleaning thru Sunday – no fun til I’m done). So count me in.
sounds awesome, just that I ‘ve been doing that all week already;-) i have so many flowers in my house;-) best deal of the week was a huge pot of blue hortensia for $20. But sure i can do some more flower shopping over the weekend;-)
Perfect!! My Mothering Sunday flowers have just hit the compost heap so a replacement is a must. Think I’ll go to the local garden centre as they sell gorgeous scented bath goodies as well – and there’s nothing in this challenge about restricting myself to just flowers, now, is there?????????
Well, I can’t physically play, as I will be spending the entire day (from 3 am until about 10 pm) driving from NY to Atlanta, Georgia to visit our son, daughter-in-law and grandbabies – BUT, I will cut a few daffodils and bring them in the car so I can be there in spirit!
Have a great weekend!
Just so you know I have completed all the Saturday missions and certainly will include this one, who would not want to attempt these glorious moments of pure joy;-) Not having a blog I did not know what to do with the results so maybe just a note posted here will have to suffice….
YUMMO, flora and fauna…..YIPPY SKIPPY and yes, I do talk that way even at my age and THAT my dear is one reason why I belong to your delish Saturday club((*_*))
Off to play among the daisies and whatever comes my way……I shall even partake in the skipping part since my town folk think I am crazy already, might as well give them fodder for their gossip**wink wink**
**runs off to tiptoe thru the tulips, Lord help me*** LOL
Mission accepted. I was heading to the local farmer’s market first thing tomorrow morning (I mean first thing after breakfast and pampering myself a bit). There is the most perfect flortist there.
So sorry. I meant I AM going to the market. I had a glass of champagne with friends before writing that comment and it didn’t help my grammar. You’re not going to kick me out of the club for the mistake and/or glass of champagne, are you? Please, I’ll be good from now on…
ohh!!!1 I actually did that last night!! I bought chysamumums . ( cant spell that one and cant find in dictoinary cause I cant spell it) I have also collected some pink tulips and some tiny white roses.. I spend the evening dividing and spreading through the house.. I think I may buy more today as it is essential for the club. A great excuse. I want some of those everlasting daisies. great for the bathroom. Have a wonderful day
Hi Sarah, thanks for telling us to take care of ourselves. I once owned my own flower shops and so love them. I usually by fresh flowers to keep around each week. It’s such a bright spot.
Sounds lovely! It’s is supposed to be a chilly 40 something with rain, not exactly my favorite weather to be skipping around in, but I think a visit to the Farmer’s Market is in store for the day, come rain or shine.
I had a relaxing morning at the market admiring all the lovely flowers and fresh veggies. Picked a lovely bunch of of hyacinth, daffodils, and pussy willows. Simply beautiful in my ball jar and my grandmothers metal grease can, oh and I did add a bit of shells too! The outfit…I pulled out my yellow wellies, sported a striped shirt and red raincoat along with a very large ruffley flower head band. I hope I did the BC Sat. club proud. I posted pics of the flowers : )
P.S. I did a skipping jig of sorts while holding my basket of flowers. Pictures were dreadful, will not be posting those.
count me in too gonna rai here so i will be skipping in the wellies and i do need to go get more flowers my lil happy daisies are looking pretty sad!!! starbucks is always a part of my weekend! so mission will be acomplished!!!!! hope you had a great sat sarah mine just started after midnight going to bed!!!! xoxoxoxo
I also revisited last weeks mission as I had done my flowers for the weekend and had to work today. so had a great soy flat white and a delightful piece of carrot orange and sultana loaf toasted servied with yoghurt and warmed honey!!!! I got it from Jamaica Blue and will be going back in a fortnight after work as my little saturday treat for working on a saturday!!!
I did it and posted about it, Sarah. I had so much fun poofing those flowers! I even took pics of my shoes like you do. But I didn’t do the boots so I guess that’s an A minus?
I am doing the beach for the next 3 days, to redeem myself http://cottagebeachhouse.blogspot.com/2011/04/sarahs-saturday-mission-v.html
I have been very quietly doing all of the Saturday Club missions so far, so it’s time for me to tell you: I love this! Stopped at Trader Joes today and picked up the most gorgeous smelling bunch of fressia (and carried it home sticking out of my tote bag, of course). It’s simple and small, and I couldn’t be happier with this little boost to an otherwise gloomy-outside day. Enjoy your Saturday!
Aaah, it drove me crazy after the fact that I misspelled freesia! Yes! It’s so lovely…!! And oh yes, stop into a Trader Joes someday for a smile; I don’t know why, but it makes me so crazy happy that everyone uses reusable bags
Oh Sarah, after reading your list I realized I should be the Vice President of your club (my husband agreed)-we love the same things! My dilemma with the fabulous flower assignment is that I am currently in a friend’s home in WA state so my daughter can finish high school here, and my “home” and stuff is in Illinois1 But…I can still enjoy getting flowers and borrow a vase! I love your blog!
I too had a Trojan Horse virus this week. blah! Luckily, the old antivirus software took care of it before it could do any harm. Don’t know why people have to do stuff like that. If they all had flowers sitting on their table in pretty beachy vases I bet it wouldn’t happen anymore.
The nearest I got to flowers this weekend was the table decoration at a ‘do’ I went to last night! The previous two Saturdays were spent travelling to and from the French Alps so I’m not doing very well in this challenge!
My mission led me to one of those lovely nurseries that has a coffee shop in the middle of it. Wandered, pondered, sat and sipped. Enjoyed basking in the autumn sunshine and bought a lovely bunch of daisy type flowers. I’m very good at plonked so I plonked them in a old tea container and there they sit smiling back at me with their cute daisy faces. Nice one…….B:)
Loved this Sats TO-DO list!! Fabulous fun! More than just a shop – I even paid to enter a formal garden and take photos of the beauty there! WOW – this spring time in Cali is magnificent! Sorry, no wellies this time – far too warm here, and I had been hiking previous so I still had on me tightly tied hikers. Flowers arranged in requisite white pitcher, sitting in the kitchen!
Picked up a mish-mash bag of a dozen mixed roses for $8 and made four small bouquets, cream for my desk, pink for the bathroom counter, yellow for the window ledge above the kitchen sink, and greenish white for the dinner table. So tired and busy that I couldn’t really foof around with them, but I do like the sweetness of noticing them about and their tiny glass bottles from my granny, mom, and my own wedding. Thanks for the mission, Sarah. It does add beauty to my days!
Aaaah, that sounds like my idea of bliss. The problem is that my kiddiewinks would most definitely want to come too. And their idea of foofing with my flowers, is not the same as mine!!!!
With a ruffled blouse and bare feet, I went outside on the patio & cut out paper flowers in Fall colors.
Some of them wanted to blow away into other people’s yards. LOL
All my neighbors wanted to know what I was doing!!!
Then I came back inside the apartment and filled Starbuck frappuccino bottles with colored water.
I took my time to stop and smell the “roses” while arranging them!
Now my window sill is ready for Autumn.
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G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? 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. 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
6. layer on top the cream combo
7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
*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 ;-)
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. 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.
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. Oh yeah. 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. 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
count me in..
OHHHHH..I have flowers!!!! YEAH I can play!
I really like the sound of this one!
Look forward to some flower therapy.
Kx
Excellent…….
i can definitely do the nautical stripes, seaglass, starfish, seashells etc. have lots of that. love the flower idea so count me in too!
Good morning…This is probably one of my all time favorite posts…thanks for thinking of it…, you are sooo speaking to me right now….(read my new post)…I’m in.!!!….I’m picturing it right now…white flowers in an old jar…soft music and opening the windows down the shore and hearing and smelling the ocean!!!…AHHHHHH……….
XO, Mariaelena
Ooh I am definitely up for this….sounds like fun
I love the idea…I am a floral designer and have worked more than normal this month due to my boss being off work for surgery. So, I dont think I want to go into a floral shop for a while:) But, maybe I will just go down the road and pick something thats blooming along the roadside. Thats what I enjoy:) That way I get to be outside.
:)
A few days ago I picked Hyacinths and tulips from my garden and put them in a mason jar with some raffia tied in a bow around the top of the jar. Beautiful!
I like this one Sarah, I have bought flowers for myself before, but I don’t do it often……….this is the perfect excuse to indulge
) xx I guess even picking some lovely blooms from the garden and arranging them around the house would be ok too if like me its the end of the pay week and I only have just enough to feed us ;o) Either way I will bliss out on flowers. xx
Ooooo….flowers….my FAVORITE!!! And I hardly EVER buy them:( My mom and I used to joke that I would have chosen to just have flowers at my wedding instead of any people!!!
Sarah, Love this idea! There are no flowers blooming here yet and our florist shop has only those horrible cultivated roses so my only other option is to go to the grocery store to see what they have or go into the woods and collect bare branches.
I have eight more weeks of school before retirement and coastal living forever! Half the year in Maine and half in Florida. So, I’ll be dreaming of that this weekend.
But, I do have some shells and my imagination!
I would love to put flowers thru out my house this coming week (I’m eyeball deep in spring cleaning thru Sunday – no fun til I’m done). So count me in.
sounds awesome, just that I ‘ve been doing that all week already;-) i have so many flowers in my house;-) best deal of the week was a huge pot of blue hortensia for $20. But sure i can do some more flower shopping over the weekend;-)
Perfect!! My Mothering Sunday flowers have just hit the compost heap so a replacement is a must. Think I’ll go to the local garden centre as they sell gorgeous scented bath goodies as well – and there’s nothing in this challenge about restricting myself to just flowers, now, is there?????????
Well, I can’t physically play, as I will be spending the entire day (from 3 am until about 10 pm) driving from NY to Atlanta, Georgia to visit our son, daughter-in-law and grandbabies – BUT, I will cut a few daffodils and bring them in the car so I can be there in spirit!
Have a great weekend!
Just so you know I have completed all the Saturday missions and certainly will include this one, who would not want to attempt these glorious moments of pure joy;-) Not having a blog I did not know what to do with the results so maybe just a note posted here will have to suffice….
YUMMO, flora and fauna…..YIPPY SKIPPY and yes, I do talk that way even at my age and THAT my dear is one reason why I belong to your delish Saturday club((*_*))
Off to play among the daisies and whatever comes my way……I shall even partake in the skipping part since my town folk think I am crazy already, might as well give them fodder for their gossip**wink wink**
**runs off to tiptoe thru the tulips, Lord help me*** LOL
**smiles**
Oh I’m so there! I LOVE flowers! They are one of my favorite things on the planet!
Things have just started to bloom around here……I have spring fever SO bad! lol
God bless!
Mission accepted. I was heading to the local farmer’s market first thing tomorrow morning (I mean first thing after breakfast and pampering myself a bit). There is the most perfect flortist there.
So sorry. I meant I AM going to the market. I had a glass of champagne with friends before writing that comment and it didn’t help my grammar. You’re not going to kick me out of the club for the mistake and/or glass of champagne, are you? Please, I’ll be good from now on…
ohh!!!1 I actually did that last night!! I bought chysamumums . ( cant spell that one and cant find in dictoinary cause I cant spell it) I have also collected some pink tulips and some tiny white roses.. I spend the evening dividing and spreading through the house.. I think I may buy more today as it is essential for the club. A great excuse. I want some of those everlasting daisies. great for the bathroom. Have a wonderful day
Hi Sarah, thanks for telling us to take care of ourselves. I once owned my own flower shops and so love them. I usually by fresh flowers to keep around each week. It’s such a bright spot.
Sounds like a perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon here in Nor-Cal where the weather is in the 70′s! F.U.N.
Sounds lovely! It’s is supposed to be a chilly 40 something with rain, not exactly my favorite weather to be skipping around in, but I think a visit to the Farmer’s Market is in store for the day, come rain or shine.
I had a relaxing morning at the market admiring all the lovely flowers and fresh veggies. Picked a lovely bunch of of hyacinth, daffodils, and pussy willows. Simply beautiful in my ball jar and my grandmothers metal grease can, oh and I did add a bit of shells too! The outfit…I pulled out my yellow wellies, sported a striped shirt and red raincoat along with a very large ruffley flower head band. I hope I did the BC Sat. club proud. I posted pics of the flowers : )
P.S. I did a skipping jig of sorts while holding my basket of flowers. Pictures were dreadful, will not be posting those.
count me in too gonna rai here so i will be skipping in the wellies and i do need to go get more flowers my lil happy daisies are looking pretty sad!!! starbucks is always a part of my weekend! so mission will be acomplished!!!!! hope you had a great sat sarah mine just started after midnight going to bed!!!! xoxoxoxo
thats rain lol
Sounds like a great weekend! A beautiful post Sarah, I always enjoy reading your blog. Have a wonderful weekend. Sasha xx
Flowers flowers who doesn’t want flowers? Have a great weekend dear. Hope you can post the flowers that you’re talking about. Thanks!
I also revisited last weeks mission as I had done my flowers for the weekend and had to work today. so had a great soy flat white and a delightful piece of carrot orange and sultana loaf toasted servied with yoghurt and warmed honey!!!! I got it from Jamaica Blue and will be going back in a fortnight after work as my little saturday treat for working on a saturday!!!
I did it and posted about it, Sarah. I had so much fun poofing those flowers! I even took pics of my shoes like you do. But I didn’t do the boots so I guess that’s an A minus?
I am doing the beach for the next 3 days, to redeem myself
http://cottagebeachhouse.blogspot.com/2011/04/sarahs-saturday-mission-v.html
I’m doing this one. Nothing will stop me.
I can’t wait to find a gorgeous (bright!) bunch of flower love.
I have been very quietly doing all of the Saturday Club missions so far, so it’s time for me to tell you: I love this! Stopped at Trader Joes today and picked up the most gorgeous smelling bunch of fressia (and carried it home sticking out of my tote bag, of course). It’s simple and small, and I couldn’t be happier with this little boost to an otherwise gloomy-outside day. Enjoy your Saturday!
g’day April
rock the saturday club girl, I love that you bought freesia…just love the scent…
….and I have heard just so much about Traders Joe’s….one day I hope to get to one lol
xxx
Aaah, it drove me crazy after the fact that I misspelled freesia! Yes! It’s so lovely…!! And oh yes, stop into a Trader Joes someday for a smile; I don’t know why, but it makes me so crazy happy that everyone uses reusable bags
Happy, skippy, joy joy! What a way to lift the heart and keep things light and wonderful .. and coastal!
Oh Sarah, after reading your list I realized I should be the Vice President of your club (my husband agreed)-we love the same things! My dilemma with the fabulous flower assignment is that I am currently in a friend’s home in WA state so my daughter can finish high school here, and my “home” and stuff is in Illinois1 But…I can still enjoy getting flowers and borrow a vase! I love your blog!
thanks Jane for the blog love…and yeah flowers can be anywhere!
mission kinda accomplished in my own special way… with the help of my sweet husband… who didn’t even know he was helping
left me a home grown white rose in a recycled juice bottle… you know those little ones we love?… in my bathroom. nice
hope your weekend was grand. oh….. and keep an eye out at your post box…..
Hi Sarah…
I too had a Trojan Horse virus this week. blah! Luckily, the old antivirus software took care of it before it could do any harm. Don’t know why people have to do stuff like that. If they all had flowers sitting on their table in pretty beachy vases I bet it wouldn’t happen anymore.
The nearest I got to flowers this weekend was the table decoration at a ‘do’ I went to last night! The previous two Saturdays were spent travelling to and from the French Alps so I’m not doing very well in this challenge!
I just love these missions! I hope to participate soon!
flowers, old milk bottle and coffee~ no relaxing, though~ I had the granddaughter with me and she wore ruffles!
It’s not in my budget to buy flowers right now but I want in on this club!
My mission led me to one of those lovely nurseries that has a coffee shop in the middle of it. Wandered, pondered, sat and sipped. Enjoyed basking in the autumn sunshine and bought a lovely bunch of daisy type flowers. I’m very good at plonked so I plonked them in a old tea container and there they sit smiling back at me with their cute daisy faces. Nice one…….B:)
Loved this Sats TO-DO list!! Fabulous fun! More than just a shop – I even paid to enter a formal garden and take photos of the beauty there! WOW – this spring time in Cali is magnificent! Sorry, no wellies this time – far too warm here, and I had been hiking previous so I still had on me tightly tied hikers. Flowers arranged in requisite white pitcher, sitting in the kitchen!
Thanks for the fun!
Picked up a mish-mash bag of a dozen mixed roses for $8 and made four small bouquets, cream for my desk, pink for the bathroom counter, yellow for the window ledge above the kitchen sink, and greenish white for the dinner table. So tired and busy that I couldn’t really foof around with them, but I do like the sweetness of noticing them about and their tiny glass bottles from my granny, mom, and my own wedding. Thanks for the mission, Sarah. It does add beauty to my days!
Aaaah, that sounds like my idea of bliss. The problem is that my kiddiewinks would most definitely want to come too. And their idea of foofing with my flowers, is not the same as mine!!!!
Sarahx
evening sarah…loved this challenge- is it really a challenge when they are such delightful tasks you set??
anyhow- as spring has hit england i thought you’d like a little village walk for old times sake…
http://misssewandso.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-love-sunday-afternoon.html
so looking forward to your stopping-and-smelling-the-flowers-and-playing home decorator with them post…
melissa x
I got me some flowers and posted on my blog!!! Yeah I am back blogging! LOL
With a ruffled blouse and bare feet, I went outside on the patio & cut out paper flowers in Fall colors.
Some of them wanted to blow away into other people’s yards. LOL
All my neighbors wanted to know what I was doing!!!
Then I came back inside the apartment and filled Starbuck frappuccino bottles with colored water.
I took my time to stop and smell the “roses” while arranging them!
Now my window sill is ready for Autumn.