peacefullness and smiles and cups of tea

hello dears!! this weekend feels calm and peaceful, a perfect time to write and share with you all. i know that for relaxing this weekend, i will pay monday and be ultra busy. but i feel it is time to stop!!


i realsied that because of all the pressure to get my work done along with all the other things that have been happening, such as my love being ill (he is beginning to feel better thank goodness!!), the artwork i was doing for my project had no feeling in it whatsoever. i did not like it and i was making it very mechanically, knowing i had to have something done. but this week i had a tutorial, and my lovely tutor picked up a piece of my work, the toothfairy piece, i created a while ago, and told me how wonderful it is, and how much everyone loves it, and that it is because it is me, it is what i do and it is what i love. so i am now forgetting everything i have done in the studio since christmas, and just going to do whatever i feel and whatever i enjoy. this should probably put more pressure on me, as it is only 3 weeks until we begin putting up the exhibition which my work must be in. ut strangely, i feel very very happy and so much better.

so i have a cup of tea and update you all. i adore adore blogging and all of your beautiful inspiring blogs so much. during the summer these posts are going to be much more regular!!

yesterday was red nose day, which i absolutely love!! i love the comedy, and how everyone in the country suddenly gets together and unites to help others, no matter who they are. it is wonderful and everyone always seems in wonderful spirits also. everywhere i went yesterday, someone was wearing something red in support. i was very upset that i lost my red nose, but i wore a red ribbon in my hair, my red tights and red belt to show my support.


the night was lovely, it was a wonderful show, i cried with laughter at all the hilarious sketches and mad things people did to raise money. and the appeals with the heartbreaking videos of children dying of malaria and orphans and people who are desperately in need of help were so powerful, i cried and cried and them all. comic relief does such wonderful work, it is astounding. since i have been away my love and i have celebrated our 3 year anniversary. we could not do a lot due to his illess, our lack of pennies and the busyness that has filled our days. but he did buy me some sweeties from the 'olde smithys sweet shop' which were ever so yummy!! and i made him a teeny card to tell him how much i love him, and cooked us a meal.


loveliest lottie sent me a package full of wonder and magic. it was wonderful, with another teeny book to add to my little library from her, a starry pencil, cute teeny pegs, a little jar full of moon beads, two chocolate bunnies, a sweet little drawing and a lovely letter. it was beautiful, i adore it!!


and i have been filling my tiny notebook with the wallpaper cover with yellow tulips. i think it has been my little escape lately, where i can loose myself for 5 minutes, doing a little sketch, or pressing some flowers, or sticking in something inspiring i found. here are some of the little things i have filled it with recently. i love drawing, but am never ever happy with the results. my drawings become covered with tiny annotations i make, reminding myself of what needs to be improved!!



i am so excited about the house me and my love have got!! a house for just us. it is only teeny, and a little scruffy, nothing special. it is a uni house for term time. but i adore it!! it will be special to us. i adore its mint green front door. and the rooms have cream walls, a blank canvas for the ideas i have. one i have is to put my teeny brothers paintings he has done for me into frames, and make a kind of collage of them on a wall.


i want to do the same with photos i adore and some postcards i got on mine and my loves first holiday, that are of old vintage adverts. i want the beautiful painting my love brought for me to hang above our bed. i will fill the spare bedroom with my art materials and artwork. i want to grow some plants in our garden. i want to make some cushions for our sofa.
and... we are getting a hamster!!!!!! i am so utterly and completely excited!!!!! i cannot wait :) a teeny furry friend for lotties little tilly~rose it shall be. any suggestions for names are welcome!! we do not know if we are getting a boy or a girl yet. if it is a boy it will be called bob, because we think it would be cute and it is a silly little tribute to my grandad. if it is a girl i do not know!!! i want to find an utterly pretty little name. what do you all think??



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i have been tagged dearies, by the beautiful mila and gorgeous chloe, to do the 'show your heart' tag!!! it looks like a lovely tag :) thank you dears!! the rules are:

With as much creativity as you can muster, show your heart in:

1 picture 1 poem
1 song or piece of music
1 phrase or quote
1 item of clothing 1 place [And just for fun-] 1 Disney princess!

"i was picking you up from the train" "i miss you rosie. you are the prettiest in the world. from oliver"

these pictures show my heart completely. they are from my little brother and i treasure them!! i live for being piked up from the train station by him and my family.

"Our souls are one, if you must know
and never shall the be apart;
with splendid dawn, your face aglow
I reach for you and find my heart."

It was really difficult to pick one song, but this reminds me of driving in the car with my father when i was younger. He used to play it lots, and i loved it, and would ask for 'the lampost song'!! it just makes me smile :)




for clothing i have picked my bracelets. i wear them constantly, even to bed. they are all special to me and have different stories behind them. from left to right: the first is a bracelet i made out of tiny star charms. i made one for lottie also, so they are our little moon friendship bracelets. the next 3, missing the silver chain, are ones i brought on mine and my loves first holiday. they are special because they are from that hiliday, and also because the isle of wight is very close to my heart as i adore it and me and my faily have gone there lots and lots ever since i was born. the silver chain was my loves, and he gave it to me when we spent our first week apart. we were 15 and he was going on a cadet course trip, and before he went, he gave me the bracelet, and said he wanted me to wear it. i havent taken it off since!! the next two are ones i bought in a little shop i found when exploring the nearby town on the first week i started uni. and the last i made when i was leaving school, and clearing out my studio space in the art rooms. i was very upset and teary. i didnt want anyone to see i was crying so i crawled under the table, pretending to be clearing up, and i found a navy blue wooden charm, with circles on it. i put it on a piece of ribbon and have worn it ever since.

My place would be home. this picture is of my little brother in the cardboard house i made him :)


my favourite disney princess is absolutely belle. i always wanted to be her, wear her dresses, have a horse, have that lovely old bookshop to go to, or the amazing library the beast gives her, and to fall in love.

i tag:

lovely lottie
anywhere i lay my head
end of march
the yellow elephant
set yourself on fire
oh ayla

now my dearies i must go and tuck myself up in bed. thank you all for your beautiful comments i MUST get back to and will!! have a lovely weekend and sweet dreams to you all

x ♥