Happy Monday- Coastal life...

Morning from the beautiful beaches...autumn is treating us sooo good!

I've walked the puppy- she swam in Sydney Harbour and is all lovely and salty sitting at my feet.

I've hung out too many loads of washing to count and I'm getting side tracked in the garden...

I'm heading down to my *studio* {one side of the kids playroom space- it ain't glamour but it's mine} and sewing up Easter bunting for this Etsy shop of mine.

I've talked about for three months now...it's March and I sooo need to pull my finger out get organised!
I'm not quite sure what part of sorting out an Etsy shop scares me!?

Do you have one?
Did you start out tentatively, even when you'd successfully already sold everything you've ever created to sell...?

I've run my small sewing/creative business on two sides of the world {both here by the beaches in Australia and in the countryside of England} for quite a few years now- but still Etsy seems to have be baffled!?

I shop on it ALL the time- love the creativity of all it's sellers...love the simplicity of it and have desperately wanted to sort out my little place in it for a loooong time!

Hmmm...not sure what that says about me!

Anyway...whilst I'm cutting and sewing up stock for this little venture- I'm also enjoying my little *me-moment* today...flowers for me, from me...that will make me smile and feel good all week.

These were not thrown in whilst doing the mad, rush daily shop, but rather thought through, with a coffee in hand...bought from a sweet little local grocer over the hill, by the coast...

I'm trying to take a *moment of me-time* when I buy my weekly flowers- it's nothing in the scheme of life, but it's something that makes me smile and I want to stop and recognise that.

Some people indulge on a far greater scale...for me this has the same end result...almost! ;-)

Happy Monday people- enjoy your season...I hear from my sweet friends in the ol' U.S of A that you may be thawing out and sending those kiddos out to the back garden without their ski's on!

Hope so...Enjoy!!

Melissa xx

*Me-Time-Flowers*...simple pleasures by the coast...

Afternoon from the beaches!

Autumn here apparently, although I've only managed to do some *boot wearing* once since last winter. {I posted it here on IG if you're needing a boot/cooler weather moment}.
Mr.Weather man I am ready for jackets...and long socks...and boots...and scarves!
I'll keep the clear blue skies- but please...some milder weather would be divine!

Ok...moving on under this big blue coastal sky...
We've had a big week {hence my absence here}- one of those parenting weeks that cause you angst and to slurp a flipping huge a large glass of wine, or six two!
Kids can be tough on other kids...but it's a new week, we had a great weekend, and we seem to have had a great day so far! I've walked in to smiling faces this afternoon!

I'm so happily back today, sharing nothing more than some *simple. perfect. flower. love*- it makes all the tough stuff just seem easier somehow...!

When we lived our country life- in our English village and big old country house- where the local farm delivered milk each morning, I would buy myself a bunch of country grown flowers every Friday.

I'd get everyone off to school, and walk through the village for coffee, window shopping and flower buying.

It wasn't anything big, or life shattering, but it was my time...simple as that!
I miss that walk along our English village high street, but I'm determined this year to start embracing those small weekly me-times again- this time by the coast.
They cost not much in monetary terms, or time away from other life jobs and reality, but they bring me much peace of mind and calm.

So...here are my *me-time-flowers* this week...not supermarket bought and justified as part of the weekly shopping, but a bunch of flowers consciously bought for myself, from a little local grocer, just over the hill by the beach, who stocks beautiful generous bunches of blooms all year round.

We bought our lush and lovely smelling Christmas Tree from him last year, and I'm putting his little shop on my weekly walking schedule each week this year!
God knows, I've needed it this week...so no better time to start this weekly habit than today!

Do you have a simple-me-time-moment in your week?
Join me on Monday's for *me-time-flowers*...

Hope you had a wonderful weekend...I'm all for positive and smiles this week!

Melissa xx