A strange kind of peace
Greetings to those arriving here from Design for Mankind—it has made my day to be featured there. Such a lovely place to check out if you haven’t already! (And there is a giveaway there today, which is cool too.)
It also made my day to have a nice, tidy kitchen that now has food in it. We are rubbish at food shopping…we mean well and then things get in the way. We are extra rubbish when it is chucking it down with rain, which lately, it is. A great deal. But today we have stocked the fridge and the cupboards and there is life in the kitchen and we have eaten things that do not contain MSG or glow-in-the-dark colour additives. I also get excited when there is juice in the fridge. Right now there is a choice of juices. Many days I could quite happily live on juice and dark chocolate, so juice is a good thing in my world.
As happy as those two things have made me, they may not sound outwardly inspiring, and the other things I have been doing today involve typing, decluttering, paying bills, sneezing, studying for an exam (when I’m not in any type of school! It’s a story for another day.) and finding out the recycling bin is very full only when one’s arms are full of recycling. These things are also not outwardly inspiring. So, here are some things that I do find outwardly inspiring today:
pretty spring colours and lacy cardigans from Emily Temple Cute,
a spring green art journal entry,
this crocheted garland that is just right (but I can’t crochet for toffee) and
this kitchen illustration by Camilla Engman. I quite like the idea of something like that on a photo of our own kitchen to be displayed in our kitchen, even if that is like looking into a kitchen-filled kaledioscope.
Which has just reminded me of the many hours I used to be entertained by finding things I could put in the end of a kaleidoscope my grandpa made. I remember being particularly mesmerized by the pictures made by sequins and dry cat food. Those were days before internet so I am sure Grandpa made it by understanding the entire concept and thereby being able to make it (which is how I see the way my grandfather works at pretty much everything, and if I am wrong, I don’t really want to be corrected) but because these days the internet has all our answers, here is a “set of instructions”.
And this post is just about as coherent as my day has been. How is yours?
xlovesx
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