Morning Morning Morning, welcome to Beach Cottage ♥ Saturday Club.
Ready to rock your Saturday, ready for a lil’ bit of me time, some time where you move the pace down down down?
Come right on in baby
Now, I know that we have quite a few new Beach Cottage Girls here at the moment, so if this is your first ♥ Saturday Club, welcome.
This week I am starting a little hashtag to go with this Beach Cottage Saturday Club, according to my inbox a lot of you love this meme and I thought it would be great to share not just on this blog but anywhere you want to…
so add the tag #BCSATCLUB to your sharing…. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, wherever you share, so all of us girls all over the world whether we are on the beach in Sydney or sitting in a cafe in New York in the cold can connect
♥ Saturday Club started one rainy weekend for me, when I went out with my lovely husband, just the two of us, in the rain with our umbrellas and a coffee…it was just a snatched couple of hours of time away from running around after the kids, house stuff and generally just being busy.
We ended up on the beach in the rain, messing about with an old glass bottle that had been washed ashore, he took photos and we just had a laugh…
I blogged it and hence the start of ♥ Saturday Club…here’s what you have to do to join in
Beach Cottage ♥ Saturdays Club membership is 100% free.
There are a few conditions….you must be willing to call yourself a BC’er & you must love white paint and wellie boots ;-)
You must also be willing to do the following: when required
You must be prepared in being part of this club to embrace the value of down-time & dwelling on the good little things…finding the good in life
…this club is so not about money, how much you have or haven’t got, or time, how much you have or have not got, it’s about working with all of those things to rock your life before you blink and it’s all over
and it helps if you love
ruffles
subway tiles
vintage things
pretty floaty cotton
nautical stripes
ballet flats
white things
bathtubs
new friends
reading on the beach
Italian coffee
Australian tea
So this weeks mission, should you choose to accept it
is this:
you must take yourself off
and look for
inspiration
quotes
once you
have gathered
some
about your
person
you
must take
yourself
away
shut the
door
get in the bath
or
head for
a walk
in the park
a coffee
on your
own
with those
quotes
you will
add
that big
piece of
cake
or your
indulgence
of choice
you must
ponder
your words
of inspiration
let them
sink
right into
your bones
you must
breathe
and
think
and
enjoy
and most
of all
you must
love
you
I have been gathering my inspiration on Pinterest
I am loving finding inspirational quotes, and this week with my iPad I will be doing my Sat Club brain dumping via a cafe on the beach surrounded by quotes
there was a time I thought quotes were for ninnies, no more
oh & this is a Pinterest board I am loooving from Chantelle at FatMumSlim….inspirational & pretty at the same time, I am working my way through it daily
See you next time lovelies,
Sarah
p.s. if you don’t have a Pinterest addiction or an account yet, send me an email with PINTEREST in the subject line & I’ll get one right to ya xo
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Golly Gosh Sarah, you have just taken me off for a ramble into pinterest. I have lost an hour of my day. All for a good cause though.
Luv your pin interest finds follow you each day, I will have to follow Chantelle, another excuse to get out of housework, happy BC Saturday x
i would be interested in pinterest, could you please help me get started.
bet you”re ready for that new tub and a bubble up!
amishsjsmith@gmail.com
thanks in advance
My favourite favourite quote of all time has to be Mark Twain, my children are sick of it, but it never leaves my side, and that is
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines, set sail from the safe harbour …. Explore, Dream, Discover.”
It’s not just a quote, it’s a mantra for life (apart from I need my bath tub back!! ) ;-) xx
I totally agree. We are in the process of down sizing, retiring, and getting ready to sail for a few years….literally. Can’t wait!
“Love with all your heart and accept the unlovable side of others; for anyone can love a rose, but only a great heart can include the thorns.”
Will have to do Saturday Beach Cottage Club on Sunday this weekend, have been too busy being at the beach and napping on the daybed on the veranda!
Hope you have a bath to lounge in soon x
Fleur
Just baking the apple muffins now – unfortunately the time out can’t be on the beach (-8 last night!) but cosying up to a log fire. Don’t know if you know W H Davies poem, ‘Leisure’ (here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_(poem)), but I am a great one for finding the ‘time to stand and stare’ . . .
Pomona x
Got up this morning thought right lets have some me time and guess what I ended up doing !! making shortbread now thats a surprise to me as much as it was to my dear husband…. Its surprising what just a little down time can lead to he hexxx
Hi Sarah! I would love to get on pinterest. I look at it often, but have not made my own account. I love your style, so an invite would be great. Thanks so much!
Oh, I LOVE me some downtime!… I have always be very good a the relaxing, daydreaming and just oozing the time away with fun things..but it is not often I have the opportunity.. that is why I appreciate the Saturday Club, which I usually do on Sunday because I have to “work” on Saturday… that four letter word!!!… I have loved quotes for a long time, I just wish I could recall them but I seem to have CRS syndrome (can’t remember sh($%%!)…. sun is shining.. it is cold, but I am gonna get my cuppa coffee and head to the couch for some lazing!! Enjoy your day all!
Subject: Pinterest
I would LOVE to get started on Pinterest…
I’m addicted to Pinterest and I love, love, love all the quotes! They’re definitely not for ninnies! Smiles, Lesli :)
Hi Sarah!
I have just discovered your blog and am so happy I did! It’s just beautiful. I know I’m going to enjoy becoming better acquainted with it and with you this year!
Have a wonderful week!
From a new follower in Missouri, USA,
Keri
Hey Sarah!
I love reading your blog! All your ideas are gorgeous!! We recently moved away from the beach : ( and are trying to make our house a little less coastal feeling. Let’s just say I am living through your blog vicariously!!! I wanted you to know I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger away. Thanks for all your beautiful ideas!
- Kat
http://withywindle.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/v-is-for-versatile-blogging/