A 'conkerer' goes nuts again...?

A not so sunny Sunday, I put on my fraudulent stylist cap again...

Nothing fancy, just an old garden leaf 'bin' turned upside down with a tray on top...

The tray boasting second-hand bargain bowls with the latest cherry tomato harvest from the garden, the last few days' crop of walnuts from the neighbours' tree - having had the good taste to fall on our side of the fence, together with the conkers we found on yesterday's walk...

The wellington boots not of the ravishing, fashionable sort one might find in the shops today, but the ones I remember my grandmother wearing picking sloe berries when I was a child - still going strong and just as perfect for muddy walks in the 21st century.

The shawl and cushion carrying sweet memories from our year in Turkey...

The only newcomer on the scene - the green pot with the white heather. Having seen these gorgeous pots appear in several Swedish blogs, I managed to make a quick stop at the gardening store "Plantagen" on my last trip to Sweden and marvel at the many beautiful colours and shapes they offer this pot in. Moaning with frustration that airlines are so grumpy with weight restrictions, I settled for one only, but as it was on sale (SEK 49, GBP 4,50), it was indeed difficult to leave the others behind...

I hope your Sunday offers rest and recreation and wish you a lovely start to the new week!

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A very big thank you to Country Hill and Creative Momone for the awards you so kindly have sent my way recently! As I find it too difficult to choose among all the lovely blogs out there, I choose not to pass them on to anyone in particular, but to all of you. Thank you!

Impatient and itching...

... itching...

to find blogging time, 

to finish recovering my grandmother's old chair, 

to go for walks with my boys and search the ground 

under all the chestnut trees in the area for more wreath material,

to let all the hundreds and hundreds of ideas bubbling away

in my head take shape also in my hands,

to stop to smell the clear autumn air...

... a bit more...

Impatient, I show you the chair, recovered with one of H&M's lovely linen cushion covers, where the scars of the staple gun's brutal performance is still an uncovered eye-sore...

A few tactile conkers bound together hastily into a wreath...

All placed temporarily in the dining room, just to judge its "bloggability", then quickly deemed half acceptable and therefore speedily photographed, awaiting a more permanent position elsewhere... that is, when that 'elsewhere' is arranged in such a way that it can accommodate freshly recovered old chairs...

Time...

Time is not on my side at the moment, and I am itching. 

Impatiently.

I cannot thank you enough for all your kind comments on past blog entries - they really, really, mean a lot to me, every single one. Welcome also to all you new readers out there - thank you for stopping by!

To those of you curious about the bottom right photo in my last entry: 

they are borlotti beans, here photographed with a largish zinc egg.

In green(s) we trust...

Home, sweet home...

After a very interesting week working with people from every corner of the globe, I have returned home, tired, yet inspired. Blogging time is eaten up by other commitments, but soon, soon I hope to stroll around in the Garden of Inspirational Blogs, soaking up what delicious views you have to offer, muse at your stunning creativity. The fact that you have been kind enough to stop by here and leave kind words despite my silence, is heart-warming. Thank you new readers, thank you old. Autumn-scented greetings to you all...

(The shrivelled up peas in the shape of a heart looked a little more appetizing here...)

Waste not, want not...?

Oh, but I do. Want it, that is. Want the courgette that was not harvested in time and therefore grew too big. And the cucumber that was left a little too long and started growing into a strange shape and go soft...

Have I gone completely decoratively potty? 

Probably. 

Will you find me playing with my food again, despite telling my sons not to? 

Absolutely!

Pssst... To all of you responsible grown-ups out there...
how about we all play a little more with our food this week?
What do you think?

Ps. When you read this, I am still away, just had a little

blog entry in my back pocket, prepared in advance...

Cosy...

Cosy colours are what I long for when autumn sets in. Different shades of olive green, softer tones of brown, gently mixed with white. Or should I say whites, as I seem to surround myself with various shades of white, all of which come to life in different ways depending on the texture of the material. 

Texture, mmm, I do love the tactile texture of the lamb's ear's leaves, the roughness of the wooden letters, the "hairy" string, the ... I could go on. Amazing, really, how such seemingly subtle aspects of an item can make a difference to the experience. At least for a tactility-thriving girl like yours truly...

What materials do you like running your fingers over and what colours are cosy to you?

Dearest blog readers,

Again I must thank you for taking the time to stop by, for making blogging worthwhile. To those of you who also take the time to leave kind comments, thank you ever so much - your encouragement is precious. I will now go abroad to work for a week and will not be able to visit your lovely blogs, but look forward to catching up on all the loveliness when I return.

Wishing you all a lovely week!

Less is NOT more...

... at least not when it comes to spreading colour to the world...

... in the "in-between time"...

... when the world seems brown and grey, awaiting the leaves to turn a fiery orange...

HUGELY inspired by Charlotte and her stunning blog Garden Flow, I did cartwheels of joy when I stumbled upon some stemmed decoration cabbage, having recently seen Charlotte use similar ones in a beautiful autumn arrangement. As the man in the house had just harvested one of our pumpkins (prematurely on purpose, as he wants the other ones to grow competitively Halloween-y in the next few weeks...), and together with a moss wreath I made a few months ago (which fit nicely on top of the zinc bucket), I ventured into the garden to - for the umpteenth time - move a few things around...

With the neighbour's walnut tree and bamboo in the background, this little colour fiesta was laid out on a day when the weather gods managed to control their - forgive me - bladders for a few hours...

May your day be spent doing cartwheels of joy, whether for cabbage reasons or any other!

Weather for heather...

The Tuesday market came to town...

... and with it came some pretty heather...

... which is just what our autumnal garden needed...

... to feel a little more colourful, a little more cheerful...

Home-grown cherry tomatoes, a favourite shawl from many moons ago, a hanging lantern and a basket from Turkey (whose shape I have always found so pretty and hug-friendly), the grapes slowly ripening above my head... yes, this is definitely a place where I can greet autumn... 

Wishing you all a colourful week!