friday pretties- vintage, beachy, country...love it all...

g'day from the beaches...sans sunshine...bikini's...coffee's on the sand...or sun kissed faces...

it is still raining...we have ducks in our street...truly...!

ducks & rabbits...

but that's a whole other *country-living-on-the-beaches-a-ferry-trip-from-the-city* post!

i feel like we've left the English countryside to live in the English countryside by the beach!

so...dressed in yes, a woolen vest...french scarf & birkenstocks...i'm trying to find my inner

summer beach girl...i'm trying to not put my toes in shoes again today...

so...all this rain means less walking the beaches taking photos...& more time dedicated to 

actually sorting out this house by the sea...

no kiddos today...my last chance before the weekend to unpack & sort a few more of our stored

bits...

i actually love the process of falling in love with all our collected things again...& i love

the process of finding a place for everything...always with the thought of the wonderful stash 

from ol'Blighty arriving soon in the back of my mind...

as i'm unpacking i'm trying to put a *name* to the pieces we have gathered around us...

from our very first days together- Ritchie & i have loved building a space that is ours...


financially, we have moved on from old crates covered in calico as bed side tables & the like...

but we still gather the old with the new...the modern with the vintage...the found with the *saved for*

 

i love that my treasured wedgewood china- after 4 years in storage is now used again each 

morning...

i love that it sits alongside my new frenchy striped tea towels & a *brought-back-from-

England-in-my hand-luggge-vintage-cotton-doilie*...

small things that make me smile big- despite feeling like we have moved home on the Ark...

i actually stashed a few things i didn't want to live without in our luggage back to the beaches...

a few special pieces that take me back to the English countryside & our little village instantly...


some of you may remember this wall hanging that i made for our Royal Wedding party last year in

our big old country house...

{you can see my post on that gorgeous day in the English sunshine here}

well i found it amongst a pile of fabrics i had thrown in stored in a basket on the bedroom floor whilst

moving back in here...

just having it over a chair makes me feel all contented & at home...

already our lives- the two sides of our life that sit in my heart- the country & the beach are 

beginning to come together...

eames chairs...city stuff with home made, vintage fabric, throws...heaven to me...

 

& see that stand there...i danced with happiness on re-discovering this in our storage crates...

wrought iron...curly & white- yeah i loooove that...

it's been many things in our many houses- from a plate stand...to a verandah stand potted with herbs...

as we have NO very little furniture, it's currently holding our treasured BUSH radio & my treasured

home mags...

chippy white vintage perfect...i'm home...
 

whilst some of you sweet friends are snow bound...

& some are living on hawaiian beaches...where the sun really is freckling your nose...

i'll be happy here, rain bound for at least the rest of the day...

unpacking our life from yet more boxes...

taking moments to create little visual moments for us to enjoy over the weekend...

have a good one!

see ya monday- i'm gonna be wearing a beach hat & sunscreen if it kills me!

xox