Easily missable, everyday lovely and Vintage Inspired Calendar for August

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I think that my very best label is "everyday lovely" why?..

because when you consider the events of most of our lives in 

any given week they are often simple, routine, easily missable

& seemingly insignificant unless we have our 

"everyday lovely" glasses on. 

Only then is it possible to see that life may indeed 

have been crammed with sweet encounters & events.

Like a bowl full of gentle offerings for "Katie" 

from a sweet wee boy.

  together we picked some of mummy's favourite flowers

finding freshly dropped macademia nuts on the footpath 

when out walking with my love

(I didn't know that they were ready in winter!)

walking by some waste land today & spotting
these vibrant calendular flowers. 

I think I might infuse some in almond oil to use for my

next batch of skin cream ..nearly run out again. 

(follow the link for my recipe)

rediscovering the skinniest bit of paper with the simplest 

recipe for fruit cake that you could ever imagine & finding 

that it works really well

the astonishing royal blue of the berries that have 

turned up on the the mondo grass

sunshine in winter & afternoon tea in the garden

..with visitors

pretty finds from Trade me

two sweet vintage necklaces

and some exquisite vintage French ribbon

which will be lovely for using on one of my upcycling projects like this cotton sweatshirt that I "did" sometime ago

 

of course when you are immersed in everyday loveliness you

don't spend too much time fussing about the front "moss"

..we no longer have a front "lawn" after a winter of 

persistent rain, instead you take pictures that can only be 

captured when the world around has been stripped bare

much