Counting my Blessings (a search for equilibrium)

It's been frantic here with just not enough time to sit and reflect on the good things, the positive things ,the progress and the general 'pretty good'ness of life here at the Urban Cottage.  I have allowed a mild sense of unease to creep in, which has resulted in severely slapped wrists for me and an undertaking to search out, find and stick down with double-sided sticky tape and rubber solution glue a real sense of equilibrium which I hope to take me through the colours of Autumn to the crispness of winter and hopefully to the sprightly green shoots of spring next year.

Always High Hopes as my Julie Arkell 'Creature' says!

My personal method for refinding my balance, my crafting mojo and my general joie de vivre consists of... well... taking things easy (wherever possible to include early nights, afternoon naps, and plenty of snuggling with blankets, fires, yarn, old films and Miss Lu when she is available), eating really well of the healthiest foods to nourish the soul as well as the body, fresh air and gardening, achieving at least 1 important thing each day (hats off to Lucy at Attic 24 for the good example there!), counting my blessings and having those High Hopes!

So, with no further ado, here is the new face of Our Bedroom!  Gorgeous, even if I do say so myself!  

We Heart You, New Bedroom!

So, when we came home from Holidays it looked like this...

 

 

 

 

then, it started to look like a photographers studio!

and now it just looks like this!  Home!!!

I AM happy with the Orla Kiely wallpaper (and the new Orla handbag!)

It just makes me happy

So, when the ''mean reds' raise their very ugly heads, I just need to toddle up to my new bedroom, curl up with my latest book and mug of tea and everything seems better! 
Counting Ones Blessings is a fine pass time, oh Yes!

Back to Business

Yes, it HAS been a long time, hasn't it?  Since July, I have been much occupied with these

rather a lot of this

 some of this

and plenty of these

We saw this

and this

 

and even this

 

And that was all very well and very fantastic, but since coming home at the end of August it has been more like

and, well.....

However, not to bore you with the mundane details of a frustrating time, suffice to say that I think we are out of it now and ready to motor on with some great new things.

And, of course, not all of it has been so bad....

the weather has been beautiful, the garden is in its early autumn blousyness, the bedroom has been beautifully redecorated and we now have amazing bottom-up blinds in the sitting room to prevent too many in-lookers from the street.  Thing 1 and Thing 2 have settled well in their new classes and I have some magnificent yarn on the way and I am very much looking forward to getting stuck in to that!

I have many other 'can't wait's on the list, and lots of lovely (I hope!) images to post - the bedroom is looking particularly magnificent with it's new walls and paper.  But I fear that must wait until next time as there are many more 'can't wait's to deal with again now!
I WILL be back again soon, so until then...
Toodle Pip!