A little Good Life Corner of my home for this week…
This is the IKEA chair I bought not long ago…it’s completely changed the way we use this corner…before it was always lost and the various different pieces of furniture that were here never quite worked…you know how that happens?
Now, it’s working for its living big time…and surprisingly still seems very white without too many grubby marks from horrid little Beach Cottagers…not sure how long that will last….
This has become my cookery book reading nook and I couldn’t be happier sitting here in the evenings when the sun’s gone down…
So that’s me this Wednesday, tucked up in corners in the evenings when all is calm and quiet with a book…
…what about you?
See ya
p.s. random commenter on this post will win one of those lovely bags for you to stash your vintage treasure in
just let me know what essentials you stash in your bag, I’d lurve to know
…mine are pretty much the kitchen sink, but I am never without lipgloss, phone, usually a book and sunnies
Let’s see… It’s FALL * the season I adore with passion * so into one of those lovely bags I would drape a vintage tea towel (half in, half out), Susan Branch’s Autumn book… a bottle of wine, a loaf of bread, the most huge chunk of Stella Parmesan (not as nutty as the Italian’s fav, just how I love it!), my reading glasses, and my darling pink lip gloss, so that I look just as adorable riding my bike home as I did getting to the shade of the tree at the park! And all of that will go into the vintage metal basket on my Schwinn 1963 Tiger bicycle! Can’t you just picture it?! The only thing better would be doing the exact same thing, but pedaling over Italy’s cobblestones…even if their cheese isn’t my Number 1 pick for Parm! Thank you so much for the dream to win!!!!!!!!! That was fun all by itself! Ciao!
Definitely the latest issue of Home Beautiful, Australian House and Garden or Vogue Living. Three copies might be excessive but if they fitted I would carry them onto a patch of grass and read and swoon till my hearts content!
Sarah, I just recently discovered IKEA and I’m major hooked. Love just walking through that place. Great chair and it’s perfect for your room! Love how your beautiful floral just pop against the white…so beautiful!
Ahhh your going into Spring and your corner looks so fresh and lovely. We are heading into Fall here so my bag would be stuffed with a sweater for sure. Maybe some pieces of wheat sticking out, cause I like to decorate with them. And eat in a stone ground wheat cracker with cream cheese on it! Some pumpkin spice smelling candles, and I can’t forget a bottle of French Bordeaux to keep me toasty, while I sit by my chiminea.
Thanks for the party Sarah!
As a mother to too many…. I am always trying to pare back on my “essentials”… as I end up carrying “essentials” for everyone else!
My absolute essentials are my car key, a bottle of water that’s small enough to fit into my handbag, my wallet {inside which is a chap stick} and my phone. That’s it…….
I suppose I could use it as my thrift store tote !! I have become a thrift store hound and I usually try to go to all the thrift stores in town once a week or so looking for anything white that tickles my fancy! ( teacups, white pitchers, decorative bowls, old corning ware. ) I have come across several items and am starting to get a collection going. Now that I have become a ‘hunter’ so to speak, I find that it is the thrill of the hunt and the anticipation of knowing you are turning someone else’s trash into your treasure and all for ‘dirt cheap’! I’ve never been sure about how I wanted my home to be decorated b/c i was unsure of how to pull everything together…. so for 20 years it’s been a lil of this and a lil of that but never really anything great. But now, thanks to your blog and all your bloggy friends, I have been totally inspired and want my home and life to reflect the simple and beautiful things of the past …. vintage, white, thrifted, french inspired…. all those things are who I have been all along I just never discovered it til now. Thank you Sarah and your lil tattered beach cottage for helping me not be afraid to paint things white !!
My bag always has lipgloss, mints, a beautiful vintage comapct mirror, my iphone and wallet plus usually various toys put in there by my son and business cards I’ve picked up around the traps. I’d love to win this bag! looks gorgeous.
Hey Sarah, I haven’t been over in a while! I’ve been poking around and your house is as gorgeous and as fresh as ever! Hope you are well. I’ll be back lots xoxo
I can see you from here looking for the next recipe to try in your comfy chair! I’m still reading every body’s posts on Good Life Wednesday, even if I’m too busy with stupid things that are not decoration-linked to link a post of my own!!!
umm lets see One starbucks small sipper, earphones, lip-gloss, kohl kajal, a scarf, i pod, moisturizer, wallet and Sherlock Holmes combined volume. Yeah i carry a heavy bag all the time and joke has it that i’ll need to dive in my “other world” in order to get something out of the bag.
You have one lovely house sarah…love how everything in your home is filled with a heavenly white glow.
Hi Sarah…what a pretty corner!
Love that bag and the rack it is on!!
Hmmm…let’s see my bag would have my camera, my house book (has house measurements, my wish list, friend’s wish lists…), a measuring tape and some chocolate for energy. I think it is so cute to take treasure hunting!!
I do love that bag! My bags are always heavy – there’s my wallet, my checkbook, lipstick, keys, powder case, mirror, small book, cell phone, pouch for receipts and such, bottle of water, hairbrush, tape measure, notebook, pens, and oftentimes my camera… that might not be all, but it’s all I can remember. I could use a bag like yours! ::Jill
Welly well well! I too have been sitting on my chippy, pale-aqua rocker, perusing my two favorite cookbooks on every break i get the last few days. I am fantasizing (as usual) about food…
I definitely need a nice, big, comfy chair for my art room for when it gets too cold to stay on the porch for long. Maybe this Ikea one could fit up my 2 flights of narrow, old stairs?…
P.S.— That is totally a lovely bag! Flea Market junking bag all the way!
Hi Sarah. Everything is looking so lovely and cozy in your home. I love that you found a way to love a forgotten corner of your home. Inspiring to all of us with little dead spots here and there. Love the bag. Mmmm. These days in my bag I have my toiletries bag full of little balms, lotions & drops, wallet, always a small camera, tape measure, my fav pens, cell phone & then everything The Man & The Little Bug sneak in there.
Hmm… essentials I pack in my bag… Wallet, of course. Lipstick. Day planner. Notebook. Kleen-x. And a wad of crinkly old reciepts. The latter may not be essential, but is mysteriously ALWAYS there, so I thought it must be worth including
Sunglasses, Cath Kidston Rose lip balm, rolled up cotton shopping bag, purse, cheese sandwich, mini flask containing Rooibos Earl Grey tea, a few ladies items! Your chair looks cosy, I feel another trip to Ikea coming on
Dear Sarah, Love your blog. Was over thrifting at the Northern Beaches last week hoping to catch a glimpse of you in one of the shops!
My bag – I feel like a camel because it has everything – food, water, toys, band aids, tissues, head ache tabs, phone and a thousand more ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL items. I need to go to the gym to build up my shoulders because it is always so heavy! Never mind, my choice. Love reading about your life and home.
Hi Sarah,
Love your little corner – just what you need in the evening. A little oasis of calm. Re the bag: I seem to declutter on the weekends if out walking and just take my Trelise Cooper shopper with phone, lipstick & wallet. Always seem to come home laden down with random purchases from seconds shops, or cuttings of plants or seeds whatever. It’s like leaving the working week behind though and just enjoying the weekend and the sights and smells of the neighbourhood. Always looking at trees and beautiful homes and plants on my walks. Beautiful old things in romantic shops and just enjoying being here to enjoy the simple things of life.
cheers,
Karen
I <3 your blog. My bag is always full of receipts with ideas for my new business scribbled on the back, Burt's Bees chapstick, a permanent marker + more writing utensils, passport, wallet, sunglasses, a light sweater (its getting to be fall in the mountains) and some tea bags so I can warm up wherever I'm at!
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 …]
Beach Cottage ladies, we have some vintage linen and some wood/twig washed up on the beach today here in Beach Cottage Land….don’t say I don’t keep you entertained now will you . Come on in. So, yep I have posted about colanders on this blog, about things sourced from the side of the road, about [...]
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
Let’s see… It’s FALL * the season I adore with passion * so into one of those lovely bags I would drape a vintage tea towel (half in, half out), Susan Branch’s Autumn book… a bottle of wine, a loaf of bread, the most huge chunk of Stella Parmesan (not as nutty as the Italian’s fav, just how I love it!), my reading glasses, and my darling pink lip gloss, so that I look just as adorable riding my bike home as I did getting to the shade of the tree at the park! And all of that will go into the vintage metal basket on my Schwinn 1963 Tiger bicycle! Can’t you just picture it?! The only thing better would be doing the exact same thing, but pedaling over Italy’s cobblestones…even if their cheese isn’t my Number 1 pick for Parm! Thank you so much for the dream to win!!!!!!!!! That was fun all by itself!
Ciao!
There ya go… now you can find me… (The ‘h’ hopped off my url, but it’s back where it belongs now.)
A perfect cosy nook. Have a good weekend Sarah. jojo3b
Definitely the latest issue of Home Beautiful, Australian House and Garden or Vogue Living. Three copies might be excessive but if they fitted I would carry them onto a patch of grass and read and swoon till my hearts content!
Love your new chair in the nook and love that you spend time sitting there looking through cook books.
Sarah, I just recently discovered IKEA and I’m major hooked. Love just walking through that place. Great chair and it’s perfect for your room! Love how your beautiful floral just pop against the white…so beautiful!
Ahhh your going into Spring and your corner looks so fresh and lovely. We are heading into Fall here so my bag would be stuffed with a sweater for sure. Maybe some pieces of wheat sticking out, cause I like to decorate with them. And eat in a stone ground wheat cracker with cream cheese on it! Some pumpkin spice smelling candles, and I can’t forget a bottle of French Bordeaux to keep me toasty, while I sit by my chiminea.
Thanks for the party Sarah!
As a mother to too many…. I am always trying to pare back on my “essentials”… as I end up carrying “essentials” for everyone else!
My absolute essentials are my car key, a bottle of water that’s small enough to fit into my handbag, my wallet {inside which is a chap stick} and my phone. That’s it…….
I suppose I could use it as my thrift store tote !! I have become a thrift store hound and I usually try to go to all the thrift stores in town once a week or so looking for anything white that tickles my fancy! ( teacups, white pitchers, decorative bowls, old corning ware. ) I have come across several items and am starting to get a collection going. Now that I have become a ‘hunter’ so to speak, I find that it is the thrill of the hunt and the anticipation of knowing you are turning someone else’s trash into your treasure and all for ‘dirt cheap’! I’ve never been sure about how I wanted my home to be decorated b/c i was unsure of how to pull everything together…. so for 20 years it’s been a lil of this and a lil of that but never really anything great. But now, thanks to your blog and all your bloggy friends, I have been totally inspired and want my home and life to reflect the simple and beautiful things of the past …. vintage, white, thrifted, french inspired…. all those things are who I have been all along I just never discovered it til now. Thank you Sarah and your lil tattered beach cottage for helping me not be afraid to paint things white !!
My bag always has lipgloss, mints, a beautiful vintage comapct mirror, my iphone and wallet plus usually various toys put in there by my son and business cards I’ve picked up around the traps. I’d love to win this bag! looks gorgeous.
Hey Sarah, I haven’t been over in a while! I’ve been poking around and your house is as gorgeous and as fresh as ever! Hope you are well. I’ll be back lots xoxo
I can see you from here looking for the next recipe to try in your comfy chair! I’m still reading every body’s posts on Good Life Wednesday, even if I’m too busy with stupid things that are not decoration-linked to link a post of my own!!!
oh that looks like the most comfiest spot.
i stash all my gadgets in my bag, too much crap actually, really gotta sort that out.
umm lets see
One starbucks small sipper, earphones, lip-gloss, kohl kajal, a scarf, i pod, moisturizer, wallet and Sherlock Holmes combined volume. Yeah i carry a heavy bag all the time and joke has it that i’ll need to dive in my “other world” in order to get something out of the bag.
You have one lovely house sarah…love how everything in your home is filled with a heavenly white glow.
Hi Sarah…what a pretty corner!
Love that bag and the rack it is on!!
Hmmm…let’s see my bag would have my camera, my house book (has house measurements, my wish list, friend’s wish lists…), a measuring tape and some chocolate for energy. I think it is so cute to take treasure hunting!!
I do love that bag! My bags are always heavy – there’s my wallet, my checkbook, lipstick, keys, powder case, mirror, small book, cell phone, pouch for receipts and such, bottle of water, hairbrush, tape measure, notebook, pens, and oftentimes my camera… that might not be all, but it’s all I can remember. I could use a bag like yours! ::Jill
Welly well well! I too have been sitting on my chippy, pale-aqua rocker, perusing my two favorite cookbooks on every break i get the last few days. I am fantasizing (as usual) about food…
I definitely need a nice, big, comfy chair for my art room for when it gets too cold to stay on the porch for long. Maybe this Ikea one could fit up my 2 flights of narrow, old stairs?…
P.S.— That is totally a lovely bag! Flea Market junking bag all the way!
Hi Sarah. Everything is looking so lovely and cozy in your home. I love that you found a way to love a forgotten corner of your home. Inspiring to all of us with little dead spots here and there. Love the bag. Mmmm. These days in my bag I have my toiletries bag full of little balms, lotions & drops, wallet, always a small camera, tape measure, my fav pens, cell phone & then everything The Man & The Little Bug sneak in there.
Hmm… essentials I pack in my bag… Wallet, of course. Lipstick. Day planner. Notebook. Kleen-x. And a wad of crinkly old reciepts. The latter may not be essential, but is mysteriously ALWAYS there, so I thought it must be worth including
Sunglasses, Cath Kidston Rose lip balm, rolled up cotton shopping bag, purse, cheese sandwich, mini flask containing Rooibos Earl Grey tea, a few ladies items! Your chair looks cosy, I feel another trip to Ikea coming on
I like a big roomy carry-bag, but I don’t carry much!
Purse, sunglasses, keys, phone, pocket-pack tissues, notepad, pen, and 2 drink bottles if the kids are with me.
I love seeing around your home and all your thrifting finds, Sarah. Thanks for sharing.
Dear Sarah, Love your blog. Was over thrifting at the Northern Beaches last week hoping to catch a glimpse of you in one of the shops!
My bag – I feel like a camel because it has everything – food, water, toys, band aids, tissues, head ache tabs, phone and a thousand more ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL items. I need to go to the gym to build up my shoulders because it is always so heavy! Never mind, my choice. Love reading about your life and home.
Wow! Looks awesome. Bali has my traveling heart. Absolutely love it. x
Hi Sarah,
Love your little corner – just what you need in the evening. A little oasis of calm. Re the bag: I seem to declutter on the weekends if out walking and just take my Trelise Cooper shopper with phone, lipstick & wallet. Always seem to come home laden down with random purchases from seconds shops, or cuttings of plants or seeds whatever. It’s like leaving the working week behind though and just enjoying the weekend and the sights and smells of the neighbourhood. Always looking at trees and beautiful homes and plants on my walks. Beautiful old things in romantic shops and just enjoying being here to enjoy the simple things of life.
cheers,
Karen
I Love to have a traveling bag for my trips to quilt shops. Other than my wallet my purse is empty. love your sweet corner.
My bag would include kleen kateen water bottle and what every I need for a thrifing trip………
Just came across your blog. Hoping to join your parties on Wednesday…..always enjoy good decorating ideas and pics! Diane
keys, iphone, sunnies, gum, little tin of almonds just in case, lip balm, water bottle and a great book… and I would love one of those bags
I <3 your blog. My bag is always full of receipts with ideas for my new business scribbled on the back, Burt's Bees chapstick, a permanent marker + more writing utensils, passport, wallet, sunglasses, a light sweater (its getting to be fall in the mountains) and some tea bags so I can warm up wherever I'm at!