Fall ing for it...

Oddly, right now the weather in this normally grey, whippingly windy and wet town - it's been one of the most summery weeks I can remember!  And, equally as odd, I am craving the cozinness of Fall!  Perhaps it's the following finds that have inspired such a spur....

HOW gorgeous....

I really love the drapey, cozy, casual, almost Navajo Chic looks of A/W every year...they excite me, and give me a sense of calm coolness too. SO in fact, does my lovely friend Kerri! (Kezza), we had (too much) wine last night and I always feel refreshed and renewed after being with Kez, she's just such a REAL and genuine person, and we always manage to talk and talk and talk and REALLY talk.  And on top of that, she's got such a quirky style, like no one else....

 and she makes sushi in hearts....

So, in other news....HAIR CHANGES!
In total contrast to the floaty/messy, and thrown together drapey styles I'm yearning after - I've gone and dyed my short bit of hair white, and I love it.  While I have decided to grow my hair, I'm stoked to enjoy it at every stage.  Queue, hair:

and we can't forget the button earrings:

and a lunching outfit:

werd.

Now, with that out of the way, I have news:  Will and I are NOT, in fact, moving.  Dissapointment? Yes.  Ability to turn it into a positive? Always.

Long story short: the lovely house I was crafting up and making a home has had a hefty offer put in for it, and Will has, wisely, chosen to accept it.  So, looks like someone else will have to make curtains to fit those big lovely windows!  I know it's a great sense of success for Will that he has worked so hard for, doing up the house, being patient, doing his research, etc.  and I am SO completely proud of him for it too - however, I can't help but have selfish feelings of dissapointment, if not feeling a bit crushed.  I was SO longing (and working towards) being SETTLED (there is no more suitable word).  Since getting back from my Canadian trip all I was feeling like doing was hunkering down for (at least) a year, feeling truly at HOME, and now....well, quite frankly my feelings of settling have been turned into those of unsettlement.  Things aren't so terrible though, we have sorted out our living situation, and it looks like we will be able to stay in this little house for a while longer.  I have decided, though, that even if staying here is temporary, I'm GOING to make it a home, not just a house.  I will continue being crafty, just HERE instead of THERE.  No matter what happens, I have health, love, and happinness around me everywhere, and I'll embrace all of that, and also think of things like how much that broken-sealed window would end up annoying me in that other house, and now it's someone else's problem! No matter how big my closet was going to be....

big love yo XO

couple of easy smiles...

My new full length white linen skirt - total bargain..and looks great with contrasting boots...

I love finding eggs sat in motivating formations.... :)

I fully believe that this cute pencil/eraser/sharpener set will encourage me to do better work.

Not more work....but better.

All of Gandhi's worldly posessions.

InsPIRE much?

...but you will notice - he still had more than one pair of shoes ;)

me too

XO

Out with the New, In with the Old....

This has been SUCH a nice week - probably greatly due to (but not only because) I have had four out of the last five days off work.  *Let it be known that up until a few weeks ago, I was totally (not fully knowingly) unhappy at work.  Now - exciting news - I have QUIT! yES!!  I love quitting things that i HATE.  It really doesn't happen very often anymore, but it is such an absolutely liberating feeling - almost as exhilerating as completing a goal I've set out to do.  I know it sounds ridiculous and not very reasonable - but I think it is completely AS important as following through with important things : quitting unimportant things.  If you just aren't happy, and have truly given it a good go, then just stop!  You could actually be missing out on something that would make you happy.  I was at my job for 2 1/2 years - dont' get me wrong, I really adore the people I work for and with, I think it just had something more to do with the fact that I have not been challenged once since the first day I started.  There is definitley something to be said for an easy job/life sometimes, it can be relieving, relaxing, or perhaps a nice change if you've got a semi or full-blown hectic lifestyle.  However - I do not.  And what I do have in my life, is the evergrowing need to be creatively challenged, and enlightened!  Unfortunately, my job with lovely people could not fullfill either of these necessities.  Anyways, job quit = me happy. I will however miss things like this:

Marc dressing like a total creep to make me laugh.

which he does, and I do.

Liam doing things like bringing his home-brewed coffee to work in an empty CAN with a SOCK around it because it's hot.  WOW.  and yes, this actually happened.

So job gone, but.....

 I have ALSO found a new one! haha...one day a week at a new place, fresh atmosphere, ALL I need.  One day a week working while I am finishing the last year of my Degree. WOOHOO!  I am SO excited to get back into it and eventually finish it and, eventually, get a REAL job - one that creatively challenges me, demands me to push myself!! Can't.wait.  ....except I can in one sense beCAUSE the past few days of not having a job that demands anything of me has meant that I've been able to get some mega craftyness on the go. 

I made some curtains for the lounge in our new place...

I recovered these chairs!!! with AWESOME fabric:

Will and I successfully purchased a dining table and four chairs for 10 quid on ebay, booya.

Will paints :)

How good do these bad boys look now? love.

This is pretty much me this past week.

This, however, is not my creation.  Our friends live right on the prom, overlooking the sea, and one of them made these gorgeous mosaics of seehorses - beaut!

And this is my coffee and the amazing view from their place that day...

This is a fabulously bespoke gate that's rather hidden away just a block from our place

This is some 70's-tastic fabric that I found at a car-boot sale earlier this week.  It will be framed and be proudly presented in my 'retro-corner'.

This is a WICKED din-dins we had on Monday.  I know it looks disgusting (food photography is, sadly, not one of my greatest skills) but I assure you, agedashi tofu with roast veg stir-fry with basmati is the shiz.

This was equally as yum!  Pesto and salad, simples!

So, this week has been pretty chilled out and swish, BUT it's not been all good.  One of my favourite peeps has left me :(  PAUL!!  Paul has been one of my best mates for a while now, and we would talk, if not see each other, every day.  In fact, I would go as far as to say that I wouldn't be suprised if Will was a bit jealous...aww.  So, Paul has decided to follow his wild heart and skip off to Thailand (again) for an undetermined period of time.  I am SO sad to not have him around anymore, even though I think what he is doing is absolutely for the best.  It has to be done!  And I, myself, would be the ultimate hypocrit if I didn't understand (hence, being a Canadian who followed her heart to England...).  Alas, my dear Paul...I miss you so!!

Not the greatest of photos, but the greatest of friends! XOXO

Come back!  But don't.....but do!

XO

Well, at least I've still got Mini...

even though he's a bit insane....I love him too.

xoxoxo