I'll tell you something about myself. I get easily distracted. Very easily I start a task with enthusiasm, but before long the whiff of something more interesting or creative and/or pressing has me wandering off and starting on something else before I’m finished the first thing. Anyone else? It happens too when I have so … Continue reading The Life Changing Magic of Twenty Minutes A Day
House Shaped Things
For When Your House Has Issues
I suspect my house might be like a lot of houses - its smaller, its older, its needy. It has issues. And such a range and variety of them. Long term issues, short term issues and everything in between issues. There's the undone, the half done and the nearly done. Things that are broken, things … Continue reading For When Your House Has Issues
The Bench Least Likely
Not too long ago my sweet little girl stopped me in the middle of what I was doing with a plea along the lines of "please please please can we paint something right now, I don't want to do it another day, I want to paint something today. You MUST have something we can paint right … Continue reading The Bench Least Likely
Summer Holiday Road Trip
Each time for the first time. Each moment the only moment. Jon Kabat-Zinn Would it be alright if I just shared some photos and thoughts with you today from our most recent adventure. Now I'll warn you - the thoughts may be brief but the photos are many!! I'll set the scene One Kia Grand Carnival, two … Continue reading Summer Holiday Road Trip
Making Room – DVD Storage That Works
So this ones for when you or your families love of a good movie or 400 is threatening to take over your house. Now I don’t usually do these "this is the answer to all your problems" type posts because it may not be, but this little idea worked a treat at my place so I’m … Continue reading Making Room – DVD Storage That Works
A Simple Kind of Wonderful
Everything is beautiful in its time Ecclesiastes 3:11 Life get’s all sorts of complicated doesn’t it. Even with our best efforts, complications and chaos are business as usual more often than not. Yet they have a way of revealing what's really important. They have a way of showing us how very little in the end we … Continue reading A Simple Kind of Wonderful
A Reason to Celebrate
Five Minute Friday = prompt word, five minutes, just write. This weeks prompt word: Celebrate Celebrate - now that's appropriate - see we’re in a celebrating mood round these parts - so much so you might see me skipping. On an ordinary day I'll go looking for them - reasons to be thankful, to rejoice and to celebrate … Continue reading A Reason to Celebrate
Simple Hospitality and Other Non Events
So happy to be rounding the corner of the seasons and seeing spring on the horizon. Spring seems so full of possibility and opportunity but I like how the cold isn't quite finished with us yet - cardigan weather I call it. Warmer in the day but still chilly at night so if you go … Continue reading Simple Hospitality and Other Non Events
Water Into Wine 