I spotted this fishy window as we passed the flower shop today and had to snap a pic! Strangely I have always admired the windows of this shop, but I have never been in. I think I need to pop in sometime soon. Join in and follow Six Word Saturday on Instagram using #sixwordsaturday. Happy Weekend!
This week’s prompt has got me thinking. What is the difference kind friends between stairs and steps? All I can find in my direct vicinity are steps, up to porches, down to basements, into shops, even rock steps in the woods, but no stairs. I class stairs as the steps (confused yet?) which are inside a house, apartment block, department store or theatre. They are often carpeted, but still stairs if not. Why? Why do I go up the stairs in my Mum’s house to the next floor, but I go down the steps to my basement and up the steps to the porch. In stately homes there is always a sweeping staircase, never sweeping steps. They are essentially the same thing, why the different name? You take ‘steps’ as you walk but you never take big ‘stairs’ to get somewhere faster, but bigger ‘steps’ will get you there quickly. So alas, I have no stairs, only steps for my photo! Pretty darn cool steps though, check out the ivy climbing up step by step. …
Do you print photos? Any photos? Regular phone and camera shots are easy peasy to get printed, but fancy having your fabulous Instagram squares in your hot little hands? Want an album of them or have a box filled with them? I love to see photos printed in albums or in a lovely box or tin. There is something special about leafing through an album or rifling through a box of photo memories. Whatever you do, don’t send Instagrams to a regular printing place as regular prints, you will get a strange 6×4 print with part of your lovely Insta square picture on it, I have plenty of these from before I found places to print Insta’s as squares. Lots of places do Instagram printing now in various sizes but always the signature square. Yay! I usually send mine to Walgreens and look out for coupons for bargain printing, Insta prints are more expensive than regular, so a coupon is worth having! Walgreens is my local drugstore, so that is best for me, but …
1. I was on the look out for orange last week and found some! 2. Frothy coffee with some cool shadows. 3. We spotted this giant cobweb while wandering in the creek. 4. Tea robot full of green tea ready to go. 5. Week two of a sunflower’s life. Happy Monday and enjoy the week ahead!
My little patch of lavender is coming along nicely, I have managed a handful of dried buds and flowers to make some sachets with. If you want to play along with Six Word Saturday, add yours to the comments or pop a photo on Instagram #sixwordsaturday. Have fun!
For this week’s Through the Lens Thursday I chose a tea cozy. I made it black and white in Snapseed. Next week is stairs, which might be a hard one as there are no stair here! I will need to go and find some. Happy Thursday x
I have been a busy bee since I had an idea to make some new wrap bracelets, keeping them really simple and retaining the lovely organic look I love to create. A kind of stylish friendship bracelet, casual and pretty, featuring vintage buttons to fasten. They like to be worn together, but also play nicely alone. It is all I can do to stop myself throwing all three on and keeping them for myself! I see many combinations of beads and colours for these in my near future! They are going in my Etsy shop today or tomorrow, I wanted to share with you first. What do you think? Like them? What colours are you loving at the moment? I do like the blue one best I think, I just love the denim blue of the thread.
Last week was spent mostly swimming and watching the sunflowers start to bloom. The giant sunflowers have no blooms yet and are over 6 feet tall, the flowers are on the slightly shorter plants. It is lovely to see how they change every day. We have had hot dogs and s’mores over the fire pit and even some marshmallow roasting over the hob when my youngest told my teen that he is a ‘professional cooker’ as he toasted the marshmallows! I love it when the kids say daft things to each other and always make a note in the diary! Did you see the full moon on Saturday night? So cool. As it rose behind a huge tree the silhouetted leaves made the moon appear to shimmer and sparkle behind them as they gently rustled in the breeze with the moonlight seeping through. We stood and watched it, mesmerised, the moon was so pretty and we caught it at just the right moment. I wish I had video to share, but none of my visual …
This morning I checked on the sunflowers and I noticed these twin flowers, almost joined in the middle, but still two independent sunnies battling for the same growing space. They have only just bloomed, so I will be interested to see how they do grow. This is my Six Word Saturday. If you have one, please share in comments or on Instagram using #sixwordsaturday and I will come and find you! Happy Weekend x
We make lots of pizza in our house, sometimes I am told it is too regular on the family dinner menu. Boo to that, I say! I love making pizza, it is so easy, the hardest part is remembering to make the dough far enough in advance to allow it to rise. Everyone can have a blob of dough and make their own pizza shape and variation and get all floury in the process! In the interest of listening to the mob and trying to make pizza more interesting I decided to make a couple of variations to see how they worked. The first one is an idea from Pizza Express in the UK and when I had this pizza a couple of years ago when we were home, I was flabbergasted – what a simple but fab idea – why I (or anyone else for that matter)had not thought of this before, I don’t know. The pizza has a hole in the middle which is piled with salad. Well, how hard can this be …
Clare Davis Etheridge 