Hi sweet ladies, thanks for all of you that where worrying about me and that send me sweet Facebook or Email messages. I am all right. Things just have been a little rocky around the nest. I haven’t been in the best of health and there just wasn’t enough energy left to blog.
Whenever I’m feeling off, when body, mind and soul are not aligning, when the road gets bumpy, I tend to withdraw.
Withdraw in myself, withdraw in my house.
And it is exactly then that I realize how important my home is to me. How much I rely on my safe haven to retreat in. How incredibly fortunate I am with a house and a home that is safe and ours and where I can take shelter from the world and heal my ‘wounds’.
You just have to turn on the evening news to realize once more that having a home, let alone a pretty one is not self-evident. Most people in the world are struggling just to have a roof over their head. Making pretty coastal vignettes is not even in their imagination.
And yet, this little decoration that has been standing on my little side table, has given me so much comfort. I made it a couple of weeks ago. Like usually not difficult, just a vintage crate, some vintage bottles, Christmas lights and some beach decor.
Probably the last outright beachy decoration in my house until next year. Fall is really only days away and nature is reminding me every day that the season is changing. But the weather has been really good, and we didn’t have a lot of sun over here this summer. So I prolonged the summer vibe just a tad more with this little corner.
Funny how something as trivial as a pretty corner in your home (especially when the rest is a downright mess) can help you feel better. As I was trying to sort out what was happening to me and why I just couldn’t feel better, this little corner next to my favorite place on the couch, made me smile.
It reminded me of days when I had energy to spare for playing with vintage crates and bottles, and promised me that those days would come again soon.
And hopefully they are here and I have turned the corner.
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Some twinkly lights, bottles and my favorite beachy decorations. Vitamin for the soul.
So what have you all been up too, while I was sipping tea on the couch and taking naps? What is happening in your corner of the world? Still clinging to the last days of summer, or have you jumped in the Fall season with both feet?
Let’s catch up…..
Lovely vignette! So glad you’re feeling better.
I totally understand the need to find ways to keep your blog simply that, YOUR BLOG, and for me to click through and open another window, knowing that by doing this I am giving you a sense of being in charge of what is on your site and what travels somewhere else, is definitely not a big thing.
The post today is wonderful…a good use for all those bottles I just needed to keep and not take to recycling.
Thanks for providing great ideas, wonderful stories and a blog I love to read.
Thanks for the support! And for the bloggy love ♥ M
What a wonderful post! Your vignette is lovely! I agree it is “vitamins for the soul”! Thanks for sharing! So happy you’re better!
So glad to hear that you are feeling better. I love the idea of “vitamins for the soul.” Your vignette is fun. I like the bit of sparkle with the lights.
Yeah I am feeling better. Some days more than others, but there is a definite upward trend. And my momma taught me that one can never take too many vitamins
Beautiful uplifting display of christmassy seaside bottles. A great idea for us Aussies heading into summer. Cold christmas always seems so bizarre to me. Its always been, backyard bbq’s, long days at the beach and cold beers from the esky. Sorry to hear you have been unwell and hope your recovery is speedy.
Bec x
Glad you like it. Must be so strange to celebrate Christmas in the summer. But I guess you are used to that.
new fan!
Thanks and welcome!
With this vintage crates and bottles is a better way to welcome Christmas spirit.
I hadn’t thought of the Christmas thing. To me it was an end of summer vignette, but you are right of course. I guess without knowing I turned out to be really on time with the seasonal decorating