So, where is this 'place in the country?'
11/10/09 20:29
I love writing, and since I'm currently not being paid to write at my day job, I started a blog so I could write about whatever I want, whenever I want. I love to knit and crochet, and originally thought this would be a knitting-ish blog. I also love to cook, especially with my sweet husband. It's great fun to document this hobby through photos and writing and sharing of recipes (and eating what we cook!), so it's a sort of turning into a cooking blog. Yet sometimes it's about our critters. Or the history of ordinary events like Mother's Day and May Day. Or meteor showers and satellite flybys. Having a blog encourages me to make time to write about the things I like and research things I'm interested in, in the hopes that they will interest you, too.
The idea of this being my "place in the country" is a bit harder to explain. Every so often I read an article in Country Living or Victoria about someone's country home (aren't they lucky!), the place they escape to on the weekends. I noticed these homes-away-from-home, or sometimes even a sweet little guest house right on their main property, are often decorated in a more fun, funky, artistic, rustic, playful, woodsy, etc. style then their main home. The owners often describe letting loose and having fun creating these spaces, where they or their guests can leave behind their cares and enjoy being in a different place, sometimes literally in the country.
At some point I thought, now wouldn't it be nice if life was like being at a sweet li'l place in the country every day? Not being on vacation or being away from home, but making home the place you want to be, life the way you want it to be. The way I want it to be. Even as I'm working at my job day in day out, and performing all the so-called mundane tasks of daily life. Not that I don't want to get away, but I simply can't as often as I'd like (and we aren't at the let's-buy-a-place-in-the-country place just yet).
So I try to make sipping tea and Starbucks and ... oops, forgot to finish that sentence. This "about me" is still a work in progress! More to come.
The idea of this being my "place in the country" is a bit harder to explain. Every so often I read an article in Country Living or Victoria about someone's country home (aren't they lucky!), the place they escape to on the weekends. I noticed these homes-away-from-home, or sometimes even a sweet little guest house right on their main property, are often decorated in a more fun, funky, artistic, rustic, playful, woodsy, etc. style then their main home. The owners often describe letting loose and having fun creating these spaces, where they or their guests can leave behind their cares and enjoy being in a different place, sometimes literally in the country.
At some point I thought, now wouldn't it be nice if life was like being at a sweet li'l place in the country every day? Not being on vacation or being away from home, but making home the place you want to be, life the way you want it to be. The way I want it to be. Even as I'm working at my job day in day out, and performing all the so-called mundane tasks of daily life. Not that I don't want to get away, but I simply can't as often as I'd like (and we aren't at the let's-buy-a-place-in-the-country place just yet).
So I try to make sipping tea and Starbucks and ... oops, forgot to finish that sentence. This "about me" is still a work in progress! More to come.
