I haven't written for ages, have I? I have found it really difficult getting into a routine working for myself. I don't always make time for the things that I love; one of those things is writing.
I am going to try really hard to discipline myself to blog more regularly. I know we all agree that with instagram it is easy to neglect our blogs, given that IG has been described as a form of micro-blogging. I love instagram but I can lose hours there but there is something missing that only real blog posts can offer. I still prefer to read well-written blog posts, I find them comforting and cosy to read when I'm queuing at the shops, having a coffee or off to bed. I don't always want the quick and easy version that instagram offers. Posie Gets Cozy is my absolute favourite blog. I love to read Alicia's words, I think she has an inspiring life as a fellow maker. I share a lot of things in common with Alicia and love how she appears to make the most of every day by making the little things special... It is something that I try to do myself too.
I had considered vlogging but I don't think that's me. I like to make little videos of what I'm up to and where I've been every now and then but there is no way that I can just sit in front of a camera and chat. I have tried and I just don't feel comfortable. I feel awkward and exposed. I talk to myself at home all the time and I've spent years pretending to run a cookery show in the comfort of my own kitchen! (I think I used to drive my mum mad emptying all the weighed ingredients into separate little bowls for my 'shows'). For some reason when there is an actual real-life camera in front of me I just feel like a wally. And that is that.
Summer is passing for us in a blur of salted caramel ice creams, fruit cider, long dog walks in the late evening and lots of cool showers. Electric fans whirring, duvets relegated to storage and small posies of roses at our bedside. Brocantes, antique fairs and car boot sales. Fresh sourdough loaves and my favourite Portugese custard tarts. Watering the roses, sweet peas, hanging baskets, geraniums and tomatoes with a morning coffee. Trips to the zoo, parks and paddling pools with my nieces who cartwheel and dance on every spare inch of ground. It is all so perfect. We have had such wonderful weather and we are relishing every minute of it. Since my workshop at the Cozy Club at the end of May I have been obsessed with seaside paraphernalia - I have been making tiny bunting for tiny vintage boats and digging out all of my old ticking in red, white and blue stripes to make cushions, lavender bags and hanging hearts. It is so nice to have a bright white bathroom at last, that I can decorate with pretty handmade things. I have a few more boats to make, a few more hearts and a little drawstring bag to keep my make up in. Mostly though I am spending my time working on a few new embroidery designs that I will be bringing with me to the brocantes at the end of August. Sign up for our newsletter, below, to get advance notification of sales and Little Green Door news!
Speak soon, thanks so much for popping by.
Nicki x