Sweet summertime...

There is just so much to love about summer! Sunny, lazy days, the beach, flowers and gardens growing at full speed, longer days...

Some pictures from this last week or so:

Tomatoes

Roses

Flowers

Crafts

Just a little glimpse at the last week or so... 

Be back with more soon!

XOXO

Kelley

Monday~ A New Week and a Fresh Start...

It's Monday and a new week and a fresh start! I love fresh starts!!  

Today I am busy puttering my little cottage, tidying, watering the garden, doing laundry and all the other things that keep homes going.

Hopefully later I will get to get some soap made and knit a few dishcloths and continue to finish up on a lapghan I'm crocheting...

I feel blessed to have a roof over my head and a cottage to clean and care for...

I Have Found Such Joy
- by Grace Noll Crowell
I have found such joy in simple things;
A plain, clean room, a nut-brown loaf of bread
A cup of milk, a kettle as it sings,
The shelter of a roof above my head,
And in a leaf-laced square along the floor,
Where yellow sunlight glimmers through a door.

I have found such joy in things that fill
My quiet days: a curtain's blowing grace,
A potted plant upon my window sill,
A rose, fresh-cut and placed within a vase;
A table cleared, a lamp beside a chair,
And books I long have loved beside me there.

Oh, I have found such joys I wish I might
Tell every woman who goes seeking far
For some elusive, feverish delight,
That very close to home the great joys are:
The elemental things--old as the race,
Yet never, through the ages, commonplace.

Have a wonderful and joy~filled day!

XOXO,

Kelley

~Friday, Friday~

It's a lazy Friday around here... I can't seem to muster the energy to do much of anything except the basic necessities~ the garden's been water, tomatoes harvested, weeds and dead leaves pulled, laundry is in process, breakfast dishes done, floors swept, and now I am tidying my living room, putting away my yarn and books...

I am looking forward to getting this in the mail today:

Isn't it gorgeous?! I just love Lecien's fabrics!  It may just be too pretty to use! I just love pretty fabric

but find it hard to cut up and use for something...Am I the only one? 

The flowers are starting to bloom now and I think I am going to dry them and save them for my beeswax ornaments, soap and potpourri...

Speaking of potpourri, I have ALOT of oranges to slice and dry... I'll try and get half done today and half tomorrow...

Hoping and wishing you a joy~filled Friday!

💗XOXO💗 

Kelley

Happy Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July! Be safe and enjoy your holiday celebration!

 💗 Kelley