Michigan welcomed the arrival of August with daily thundershowers, storms and even some hail. What was left of the raspberries have long blown off as the season for our plants end. Luckily some late planted dahlias are growing like there's no tomorrow. DIY projects are starting to roll out, finally having space to air revamps of vintage furniture means I can finally get my hands dirty. As we mark the first month of house ownership and the year creeps further through, here's the little things of the last week or so.
- Reading everything between our Detroit Metrotimes to the Paris Secret, the reading bug that I mentioned last time has stuck around
- Watching it rain, a lot. It's like being back in Yorkshire. Great for saving water and therefore keeping that water bill down, great for the flowers and unfortunately the weeds enjoy it too
- Eating some fish n chips at Dino's in Ferndale to celebrate my British Yorkshire roots on Friday for Yorkshire, while the fish in it's tempura batter were delicious, the fries were far, far too salty ugh
- Pinning - cleaning ideas for vintage tiles to ideas for our bathroom revamp and record inspired decor.
- Crafting, well if DIY counts - repainting the bathroom and kitchen window frames and stills, repainting and updating the house numbers, revamping a vintage laundry hamper (post to follow). It's about updating and revamping. I'm more hand with a paintbrush than I ever thought
- Going to the Home Depot (a hardware store basically like B&Q if you're British and need a reference) far too often - it's like we live there. It's like a twice weekly thing
- Loving the cocktails from The Oakland (Ferndale), they might cost $10+ but they are worth every cent
- Hoping that the rain clears up, I have a garden to tame before I can plant all my spring bulbs
- Enjoying the odd non rainy evening spent on the deck drinking beer or eating ice cream with the husband
- Listening to some lady right behind us in the queue for getting into an estate sale complaining about foreigners, i don't think she was picking up on my English accent and Joe did well not to start ranting about how insulting she was being ...
- Thinking that even though I need to tame the garden this week needs to be more about work and less about gardening, sadly
- Finishing all the unpacking of out record collection, only took me four weeks to get there. But not that it's in any form of order ...
- Finding a great bookcase from an estate sale for $6 that's already filled with vinyl
What little things have been making up your world lately?
