{ Weekend wonderings, some roses and perhaps a tablecloth? }

This Saturday it is a drizzly, bleak day here on Ythanbrae. I feel winter slowly creeping closer. Luckily the house is still reasonably warm without having the fire lit yet. We are trying to delay lighting the fire as I know it will be on constantly until at least October (I feel the cold a lot.) 

After scrubbing this little cottage from back porch to bathroom to stove I was lying on the couch having a lazy Saturday afternoon moment, but something was bothering me. Out of the corner of my eye it is just teasing me - that is, the big blank wall space next to our dining table. We used to have this big print in that space. But after we painted last year we decided we were a bit tired of it. It used to hang in Mr M's city apartment when we lived in Melbourne so had been around for a good few years. We haven't really committed to nailing in another hole in our precious freshly painted surface. But perhaps now is the time? I know I want it to be something good though. If only I could think of what...

I would also like a pretty tablecloth for our dining table. It's black-brown seems to drag the space down a bit, I'd like it to be a light more 'fresh' area. Any tablecloth suggestions? I have been looking at the ones from Rhubarb. I found out in my investigating that my beloved Rhubarb is winding down it's homewares section to only stock children's homewares/clothing etc.

Oh and the roses. The roses. Well they are from my little garden, the last blooms I think before the hibernation of winter. And the Ken Duncan photograph of Craig's Hut in the Victorian High Country I gave to Mr M for his 18th birthday, not realising at the time that we would one day live together! I hate it but he loves it, it used to live above our mantlepiece but I have relegated it to this wall. Compromise.

Meanwhile, stop looking at me blank wall...

{ Images by Little Miss Emma }