You’re Frozen When Your Heart’s Not Open

You’re Frozen When Your Heart’s Not Open

You only see what your eyes want to see How can life be what you want it to be? You're frozen when your heart's not open You're so consumed with how much you get You waste your time with hate and regret You're broken when your heart's not open Mmm-mmm, if I could melt your [...]

Cooking to the Beets

Cooking to the Beets

I'm back in the kitchen again this week with a beauty of a kitchen with so many options I'd go over my word count if I mentioned them all. As I'd taken a photo of a lighter rustic kitchen a week or so ago I wanted to use the darker option in this kitchen to [...]

Tropics Retreat

Tropics Retreat

A couple of weeks ago Mr Smith and I ventured to Kidaka Resort for a couple of days mid-week getaway.  I highly recommend this for a casual break but even more so this time of year when everywhere else, including my own region Snowdrops, is full of snow and wintery chills. It was partly that [...]

Poolside Gourmet

Poolside Gourmet

The start of the month is always busier for me than the latter part of the month and one of the reasons I look forward to the last half of the month is that it gives me time to blog. It's how I unwind from the busy times and honestly the reason I keep on [...]

Where the World Gets Put to Rights

Where the World Gets Put to Rights

This is the kind of place, with the kind of view, where I could imagine sitting for hours with a friend and just putting the world to rights over a few drinks. I'd love that kind of big porch, preferably somewhere warm, but not humid and right on the beach. The name of this house [...]

Spring Laundry

Spring Laundry

I need SL and my therapeutic blogging more than ever! Being able to create beauty in a virtual world really is a 'breath of fresh air' right now. I spent a few hours yesterday going through the items I had received in blogger packs. I often see comments from creators about event bloggers 'taking things [...]

Open Season

Open Season

The title might seem quite random. It's just two words from a song that I have on loop in my head today.I'm sorry. I've woken up in a terribly melancholy mood and I've sat looking at this page for half an hour thinking about what to write and nothing is springing to mind. I had [...]

Kiss Me at Midnight

Kiss Me at Midnight

It's natural at the end of the year to look back at the past 12 months...the good and the bad. I'm not going to dwell on the bad as it's all in the past and I deliberately give as little thought as possible to those negative feelings. I have a lot to be happy about [...]

Frost Nook

Frost Nook

Good morning. So, it only really dawned on me yesterday that we had a week til Christmas. I hadn't really thought about it but sort of had it in my head that it was a couple of weeks away. I'm pretty much on top of things in real life. I need to send something down [...]