Necklace and blouse from the charity shop

I found these two beauties on the same day as the housewares shop I did the other week.

My life has been chaotic this month as I unexpectedly became single and have been packing to move (which I will be doing in two days), so the green finds were perfect.

I now wear green as much as possible (which is quite a lot considering it was already my favourite colour!) in hopes of healing.

Things I picked up for the home.

I have figured for a while that I would be moving within the half-year but the circumstances are a bit different than I could have imagined.

I’ve been pretty good with getting rid of unwanted objects, materials and such yet had not thought about furnishing a new place. Or, doing this alone. I guess that intellectual challenges haven’t been enough growth so I “needed” emotional challenging as well…

Saturday I wandered all the charity shops in town and came up with a few things. It was a beautiful day just about to crest into autumn. The shops were all prepared for the influx of students to our town and luckily, I arrived before they wiped the shelves clean.

The cutlery was purchased new with a £10 gift card to ease the burden! The storage basket, baking dish and bath towel all came from the charity shops for £5.04 in all.

Kitchen mat from scraps

I still had some purple fabric strips from the rainbow rag rug and made a quick kitchen mat.  I didn’t worry about making even stripes, just using the yarn up.

It comprises a sheet, t-shirt and chocolate covered pretzels flannel pajama bottoms.

(sorry the second picture is blurry)

Sunshine and Dirt

The house plants were desperately in need of some attention and space.  I sat on the floor yesterday as the beautiful sunshine streamed in the windows, playing in dirt, and re-potted almost every plant.  In the end, I had 21 plants (or plant clusters, in the case of bromiliads) to re-home to teammates, neighbours and classmates.  It felt really good to be nurturing.

Done!

I submitted today! It is not perfect but I’m so glad it’s gone for now- I need my energies in other parts of my life.

I am still working on projects

… just don’t have anything pretty to post yet.  The main project right now is the largest creative undertaking I’ve ever involved myself in and I hope it will be done in the next few weeks.

Then, I’ll be able to post a photo of my completed PhD thesis…