The last of my Summer Snapshots posts - home. I'm not sure that any of us feel as if we're properly home yet. We definitely love our house even with the squish and the squeeze (currently the boys are sharing a small single bedroom*), and I'm very confident that it will feel like home but at the moment it is all too new - the house, the schools, the activities, even the scenery and surroundings. It will just take time.
The wild flowers were picked for my new vase, which was a gift from some of our summer visitors. Do you know Anta? They design and make wonderful homewares (all materials are sourced and made in this country). I have coveted their stoneware for quite some time so I couldn't quite believe my luck when I unwrapped the vase. The Anta workshop is not far from here and I'm itching for an opportunity to visit.
John took Finn off for a big boy weekend part way through the holidays. One day the rest of us collected beach stones, washed and then painted them. It was a great wee project for us all........apparently the finished stones look very 'pretty' arranged along the wall of the house and Katie takes pride in showing her 'bunnies' to anyone who comes round.
Last but not least I had a little time to do some sewing. The first for months. I still have a fair bit to go on this quilt top but it was very satisfying just to sit down and lose myself in the fabric - the patterns, colours, textures - and the planning........ so much planning goes on while I sew!
Katie and I have picked brambles most mornings this week. Or should I say that I have picked brambles while Katie has eaten them. She has shared a fair few with the dog too, Susie loves fruit. I'm finding it a really relaxing way to begin the day........wave off the school bus, wander down a footpath to the shore picking as we go, throw some stones or run in the sand and then make our way back home - to remember all the jobs that need doing! We've eaten brambles most nights through the week and have frozen a few bags too. I do love free food! Have you had a chance to pick any berries so far this year?
* There's only space for a small desk between the two beds (each has half of it) and the door doesn't open fully because the room isn't designed for two beds. They are coping remarkably well especially given that Finn is very messy and disorganised and Angus is the opposite. Finn's hamster, Sporty, is on the floor between the two beds as well.......and that's it, no more space. We have plans, though, to convert the garage which will give us a fourth bedroom and separate rooms for the boys. We may also be able to add on a fifth bedroom if we're able to stretch our money and then the girls wouldn't have to share either. I know that plenty children have to share rooms all through their childhood and if the girls have to carry on sharing that would be fine too, and isn't in any sense a judgement on families who do so - we fully understand the predicament, we have always had at least two of ours sharing! If we can manage a fifth bedroom it would feel like such a luxury and really help with overnight visitors.
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Love your ANTA vase, last time I was up that way, I popped in to their shop, and might have fallen a little in love with lots of their tartans and fabrics too! Lovely guests to leave such lovely gifts:)
What a lovely vase and the flowers look good too. I hadn't heard of Anta until now, but I'll have a peek at the link. Glad to hear you are starting to get settled in. I'm too lazy for cooking so we don't do a lot of free food picking, but we do eat berries whenever we're out for a walk - blackberries and bilberries mainly (I think bilberries are called blaeberries in Scotland?!)
Looks like the dug's a quilter at heart ;o)
Good luck with the uncramping of the rooms...
DONT take your purse to Anta!!! Gorgeous but soooo pricey, our teapot didnt pour and the dishwasher safe cups chipped first time in... oh but the rugs, the footstools... wow.
everywhere we look at doesnt feel big enough either. good luck!!
Sounds like you have a full house, hope all is well with you.
So pleased to hear you are all settling in well :) The fruit picking sounds good, we have been doing the same here and there, free food is the best! I used to share with my younger sister all through my childhood and teens and have fond memories of it, as we became very good friends (I was ultra tidy and she was messy)! But it worked :) Hope you manage to get the space you want in the end, safxxx
I'm glad it sounds to be going well, even if it isn't all settled yet, it must be such a bit thing to move all of you, I'm in two minds as how to approach moving just me and two boys (and really, it's the boys that are the concern for me) so I can't imaging moving so many little ones. We will have to face the room sharing issue again, having just moved the boys into their own rooms late last year, if/when I sell they will probably need to share again, as it'll be to go to a much smaller house, it's tough, I think it depends on the children, I shared with my sister until I was 11, despite being brought up on a large 6 bedroom farmhouse, and by the time I begged to get my own room we were ready to kill each other. I hope it continues to go well and it feels more like home soon. Bxx
It's the four children predicament isn't it, unless you have a five bedroom house you are in trouble. Two of ours shared a room right up until uni and only now one has a place of her own have we taken a bed out and opened up the room ... until recently they were still sharing in the holidays. I think they are better friends because they've always shared.
Lovely to catch up with all your recent posts now I'm back from my hols :)
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