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d then there is the odd surprise to brighten one s tuesday like the garden of my son s saxophone teacher which yesterday greeted us with a sea of small cyclamens photo snapped with my phone just before i lay down and rolled around on this pink blanket no not really but very nearly decorum is overrated don t you think wishing you a colourful flower rich week helena posted by helena the swenglish home 15 comments friday 30 june 2017 a summer postcard oh go on then why not make it two dartmouth castle dating back to the 1380s from stunning dartmouth on the coast of devon here in the uk these photos are from a couple of years ago and i long to go back should you find yourselves anywhere in the area i urge you to visit this gorgeous spot on the on the western bank of the estuary of the river dart stay in dartmouth or across the water in kingswear and take the small ferry across to have dinner in dartmouth enjoying the sunset on the water great sea view walks in the area and for those longing for white sails there is the annual port of dartmouth royal regatta the countdown has started summer holidays come come summer greetings helena posted by helena the swenglish home 11 comments labels uk monday 5 june 2017 what s for dinner oh dear not much by the looks of it but this is where dinner happens when it happens prepared in the tiny kitchen at the back of the house it is carried through a small passage and gobbled up at this ebay bargain oak dining table on one side an ikea bench reasonably comfortable for a long meal with friends and on the other side oh so uncomfortable plastic stools as this space is quite small i prefer to have small stools rather than space craving chairs but for the sake of my family and friends i hope i will soon find some more comfortable ones i do have a penchant for small bird details on kitchenware this bowl is a recent find at ikea the quarry tiled floor in the dining room i believe is the original floor in this old worker s cottage and dates back more than a century when i came across this old and rusty army barrel i thought it would make a nice side table to match the slightly rougher look of this room an old floorboard a jigsaw and a few pearls of sweat later a table top was born and now hosts my bowl of proud orchids so there we are a small tour of my small dining room now time to start thinking about what to cook tonight all the best helena posted by helena the swenglish home 18 comments labels dining room thursday 25 may 2017 fairytale feathers it is quite a crazy creation don t you think good crazy this blue beauty our town bird yes going for a stroll around our little town without stumbling over a peacock or five is actually quite an unusual thing they live in the grounds of corsham court the local estate house but often venture out into the streets stopping for a casual rest on the side of the road on top of a wall or in someone s garden even as i write this just after midnight i can hear them calling in that tooting voice i have become so accustomed to yet still find so peculiar how can these the prettiest of birds make that noise fairytale birds who you would think ought to have vocal cords like silk to match their spectacular costume but don t get me wrong i love these fancy feathers and their unusual way of communicating with the world and i love stumbling on them on an almost daily basis sometimes even in my road nature s own painter s masterpiece the world s very real fantasy bird all the best helena posted by helena the swenglish home 1 comment labels nature uk thursday 11 may 2017 peaceful pickings perhaps i should not be so light hearted in my word play about something so crucially urgently desperately important peace with so much conflict in the world and so much pain it may perhaps feel like making a peace sign of moss and bluebells is a decadent waste of time time which might instead be used to try to make the world a better place like the whole idea of blogging about craft projects and pretty petals is a pointless luxury that is unlikely to feed hungry mouths or put an end to suffering big or small yes i feel like that sometimes but throughout history different forms of art have helped people through difficult times perhaps served as a balance to an uglier reality nearby and perhaps that is what i am drawn to an opportunity to balance bonkers with beauty for myself and for others to offer a corner of tranquility with no demands on the reader you to do anything other than sit back relax and hopefully find something that pleases your eye or inspires you in your own artistic expressions perhaps that sounded big headed of me to think that i could offer all of the above well it is perhaps a wish more than a belief and with that i think i may just have described the reason i am blogging however this is not to say that we can t combine the two balancing bonkers with beauty and work for a better world in any way we feel we can and on the topic of bloggable blue beauties the image above and the two below are recycled images from a few of my previous blog posts of bloggable bluebells from the rougher untidier or wilder looks pic above and second of the two below to a slightly more sophisticated setting in the first photo below i love them all sweet sweet little blue friends the last photo above was snapped with my phone a few weeks ago when i stumbled upon one of uks many many bluebell forests and no you are not drunk the photo was taken on a slope i believe my squeals of bluebell delight are still echoing between the trees wishing you peace in every form helena x bonkers is british english for crazy or here madness posted by helena the swenglish home 14 comments labels flowers hand made wednesday 26 april 2017 green meditation in recent years i have seen an increasing number of colouring books for grown ups pop up in book stores everywhere they are often designed to offer a form of meditative anti stress art therapy or mindfulness and often contain different mandala shapes for you to colour in i completely see how they could offer all of the above but have personally not been drawn to them however when i recently stumbled upon stunningly creative hanna wendelbo click on her name for link to her website and here for a link to her instagram account a swedish designer with a passion for all things floral and who among other things designs beautiful wallpaper and offers workshops in what i would call floral art something clicked in me and i could not wait to experiment a little myself a large black sheet of paper a few leaves and buds snippety snipped from my garden and i found myself absorbed in meditative petal positioning and a wonderfully symmetrical adventure that is right up my street these first attempts are perhaps not so advanced or elaborate but the marvellous thing about creating something for yourself is that it does not need to be advanced or elaborate it can be what you would like it to be i already have ideas for many other patterns and petals and with any luck i will find the time for some more green meditation i will finish this blog post with one of hanna wendelbo s photos of one of her amazing flower art creations for some reason this photo has really stuck with me and i find these gerbera petal angel wings so breathtakingly beautiful image shown with hanna s approval so dear friends go on pick some petals and try for yourselves but a small warning might be appropriate here i cannot guarantee that you will not become slightly addicted once you start love helena ps i just saw that another hugely talented and creative designer and influencer helena lyth recently attended and wrote about one of hanna s workshops on her blog where she also shows some of her own beautiful flower mandalas ps 2 thank you so much for your kind words on my last blog post and for welcoming me back so generously to the blog world despite my long absence posted by helena the swenglish home 10 comments labels flowers hand made friday 21 april 2017 pretty in pink dear readers greetings from a dormant blog it has been a while a very long while having just spent a snowy easter in sweden it was rather lovely to come back to a very pink world in our small town in the uk eager to enjoy the floral fiesta before the petals fall to the ground i walked down to the local cricket field stroking the soft fluffy cherry blossoms as i walked underneath them spotting at least two benches where i could see myself with a picnic basket with a head so full of craft ideas and a heart full of blog longing i would love to take a few trembling steps back into the blog world life tends to demand my attention to be directed elsewhere but i might just try a gentle re entry baby steps wishing you all a colourful day love helena posted by helena the swenglish home 28 comments labels flowers uk wednesday 5 november 2014 a sneak peak dearest blog readers a quick hello from the land of dormant blogs thank you so much for all of your lovely greetings both here and in emails you have really touched me with your kindness many of you have also asked to see the inside of my new home so perhaps it is time for a little sneak peak yes there is an inside to this little cottage a work in progress you might say an interior that is yet to be helenafied or swenglified for this i need a creative mind to outwit the challenges of compact living a eureka moment about how to live with carpets e v e r y w h e r e and the time and the head space to realise the ideas as they come to me but i think i might get there in the end even if slowly the potential is there the good vibes the friendly house elfs together we will create home the walls look a strange shade of greeny yellow here but they are in fact white see the strange and not at all straight line at the top of the first photo above yes that is indeed where the wall meets the ceiling visitors taller than 1 87 m may think twice about coming for tea compact living oh yes bijou at its bijouiest wishing you the loveliest of weeks helena posted by helena the swenglish home 34 comments labels living room the cottage the new swenglish home wednesday 16 july 2014 summer greetings dear blog readers have you entered the summer lull yet the lazy days the stopping what you are doing long enough to spot the most wonderful of growing inspiration of nothing is impossible and two fingers in the air to anyone who says poppies cannot grow out of a dry stone wall if they feel like it does you laundry smell wonderfully fresh from spending hours in the light summer breeze weaving more than fresh air into the thread count of the sheets storing life and new beginnings in the same is your home made elderflower cordial drunk yet drunk with sparkling water to the tune of the ice cubes clinking and clanking in the glass drunk till the last drop of golden summer flavours is devoured and the longing for next year s harvest has begun has your vine started producing grapes yet and more importantly have you stopped to smell the roses i confess i am not quite there yet my work has not gone on holiday so neither have i but occasionally and eagerly encouraged by my youngest son i do stop to smell the roses literally my son says mamma you have got to come here and smell this one it smells like lemon although he says it in swedish den luktar citron mamma oh and come here this one smells like raspberries so i stop and i smell and he is right the yellow rose does smell a little bit like lemon the red one like raspberries so i pick one put it on the table the scent of lemon summer and sweetness fills the room wraps us all in the arms of summer despite the boys still having a week left before school finishes and my having more work than i dare to think about lemon roses raspberries sometimes that is all it takes helena posted by helena the swenglish home 29 comments labels garden monday 23 june 2014 why i think i might start drumming every now and then i hear other parents tell me not seldom without a poorly hidden despondency in their voices that they have just bought a drum kit for their child because said child really really wants to become a drummer i have often wondered how i would react if one of my boys presented this idea to me glorious glorious part of this home housing the indoor swimming pool i am not sure i would jump up and down with joy i think i would rather spend the rest of the day trying to convince them that the instruments they are already playing are so much better for them for so many reasons noise level being one of them however having today fallen completely and irrevocably in love with this stunning house and its equally stunning gardens i am beginning to think that this drumming business is not such a bad idea after all if this is what nick mason former drummer in pink floyd is able to call home one of his homes today and yes this is his home on the outskirts of our little town i think my view of my boys potentially choosing a drumming career might just have changed dramatically in fact i think i might give it a go myself summer greetings to you all helena posted by helena the swenglish home 27 comments labels garden uk thursday 8 may 2014 garden glimpses scruffy shed at the back of the garden nothing that a few pots of lavenderishious loveliness and a couple of gently green garden chairs from asda cannot fix my peaceful friend joined me in the move from the old house and now enjoys the scents of summer from the perfumed plants whilst contributing to the calm and the cosy in this little corner of contemplation the view from the chairs or the bench above well a lawn crying out for a haircut and the garden path leading back to home sweet home dearest readers i am again humbled by your kind words your greetings here on the blog and via email your warmth and your kindness thank you all so much with love helena posted by helena the swenglish home 43 comments labels garden the new swenglish home thursday 24 april 2014 trashy treasures and a woolly welcome dearest blog readers would you let me hug you please hold you tight for a minute and tell you how lovely you are and how touched i was by your kind words after my modest blog come back two weeks ago i struggle to find the right words to describe how you made me feel i feel i ought to say something profound and yet all that comes to mind over and over again is you made my day you made my day during my blog silence one of the things that kept me busy was moving in to this little 18th century cottage in a tiny hamlet a few minutes away from the old swenglish home full of good vibes history lady birds and spiders this is a home where my compact living skills will be tested again and again however my nose for recycling and turning trash into treasure has already proven intact for example when i spotted these two rattan chairs being thrown away at the local recycling centre stop hold on surely you are not throwing those away i bellowed at the men unloading the conte...