✨🌟💐 Last weeks of summer 🌞

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As I type this the rain is pouring down in Devon.  Actually I don't mind, it's still quite warm and I'm ready for Autumn 🍂🍁🍂✨🌟... But before I start thinking of pumpkin spice lattes and snuggly jumpers I better catch up on the last week's of summer ....🌞

✨🌟💐✨💕 Beautiful local farmers field flowers from my lovely Stevie 💕 (I love it when he surprises me, he's so thoughtful)All the colours cheer me up!. 
🌟🌞🌟✨ We've had trips to favourite market towns...
✨🌟🌟🌞💙💦Spent a lovely day by the coastal estuaries in the South hams

✨🌟🌞❤️✨Took a cream tea picnic and enjoyed a 1940s wartime weekend....

✨🌞🌟❤️✨ Family visits from the east coast, Walking/hiking Dartmoor and visiting Wistmans Wood...💚 Really magical old oak trees, Mossy stones... Incredibly beautiful.

✨🌟🌞✨ Visiting National trust gardens like Buckland Abbey and Saltram 

✨🌟🌞💚 Beautiful to see the changes as the season passes towards Autumn 

✨✨🌞🌟💚I love collecting all the Apples from our trees and lots of blackberries 

✨🌟💦💙✨🌟Some drizzle mizzle days on Dartmoor but the Heather was beautiful and the cobwebs filled with jewel like droplets 💦 

✨✨🌟🌞✨A few sketches and paintings and a whimsical black cat 😺 🖤

✨🌟✨✨🌞and Enjoying seasonal 📚 books...

✨✨🌟💙✨🌟Lighting candles and fairy lights on drizzle mizzle dark days in the cottage...Summers end... Looking forward to Autumnal days as they slowly creep in 🧡🌻🍂🍁🍂🍂🍁🌻🍁🍂🍁 x  K a z z y  x

💚🌞Summer jolly's✨🌟

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I thought I'd have a little catch up with my Summer joys so far ✨🌟🌞✨

It's part of my 'keep positive journal' to keep me jolly!...it does do me good to focus on those little joys during the seasons, months and weeks...All the little snippets that make life lovely 🤗✨🌞✨🌟

✨🌟🌞💚✨🧚‍♂️Making the most of days off usually weekends, bank holidays 😄 and spending date days together, I love mooching about the Devon Market towns...A jolly day well spent!🤭🌞✨🌟

✨🌞🌟🧚‍♂️🌹✨🌟🐝🐞 Beautiful blooms...My garden is not at its best this Summer, we'd had alot of rain then a heat wave, my pots and boarders got attacked by slugs , I couldn't keep up the watering in my pots for a few weeks when we were busy with work and the hill top garden got quite neglected... instead of getting down I just accepted this is not my year for lots of pretty blooms...I did have foxgloves, a few dahlias, the buddleia has gone huuuge , poppies, wild campian, ox eye daisies and rambling roses. But my beautiful Cosmos which I'd spent ages growing so many pots of just faded away... Anyhoo... what we have had is the National trust gardens to enjoy this  Summer.✨🌟✨💚🌞🧚‍♂️

✨✨🌟💚🌞🧚‍♂️The Vintage green fair in our local Market town...Fresh produce, cream teas, flowers, bric a brac, books, cakes, folk music, brass bands, games...Mainly helping the local church, charities. Definitely a jolly good atmosphere that weekend a few weekends ago, we even be friended a Shrew. Sadly I think a cat had got him...but we tried our best to tuck him safely out of harms way. I came home with a New knitted tea cosy, cakes and plants✨🌟💚🌞

✨🌟🧚‍♂️💚🌞✨🌟 Enjoying the Garden nurseries, pots of tea, cakes and plants! I love gathering ideas too ... definitely a jolly way to spend a few hours.

✨🌟✨✨🌞💚🧚‍♂️Jolly Summer foot ware. Colourful and cheerful ✨🌟🌞💚🧚‍♂️ definitely needed that on the rainy days.

✨🌟🌞💚🧚‍♂️✨🌟🌞The beautiful Devon landscape... enjoying good walks on clear days... especially up on the Tors of Dartmoor 

✨✨🌟🧚‍♂️💚✨✨🌟🌞 Creative time...I've been busy working away ...lots of ideas 💚

✨🌟✨🌞💚✨🌟🧚‍♂️ Dartmoor stone... loosely illustrated based on Whistmans wood...the mossy stones...the fairy, pixie ✨ ✨ 🌟 ✨ and Mr foxy tags, cut outs...

✨🌟😻🌟✨✨🌞Also a cat painting 🎨 🖌️ and my junk journal pages...I've actually decided to end it there on Julys junk journal as I was feeling a bit behind...I managed about 15 pages....✨🌟🌞✨ But I was more enjoying making time for painting 🎨 🖌️ 

✨✨🌞🌟✨🌟🧚‍♂️🌊💦⛵🧜And lastly, A jolly good time beside the sea side...💙 Making time for beachy, coastal days when the weather is absolutely beautiful...pretty Cornish cottages, beautiful seascapes  and paddling in the sea... Definitely a Jolly holiday 😉🧚‍♂️🌟🌊💦⛵🧜🌞✨💙🌟💛

✨💚🌟✨💚🌟✨🌞💛The sea was so calm and this beautiful green... Cornwall you were stunning 💚💦⛵🧜🌊🧚‍♂️✨🌟🌞

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A beautiful late afternoon was spent at the Duchy of Cornwall nursery too💚 and the beautiful bee gardens✨🌟🐝💚

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🌟 Junk journal July🌟 day 10

It's been 10 days since I joined in on #junkjournaljuly24  hosted by @megjournals & co on Instagram ✨🌟💙🌈🌞✨🌟

So as promised I thought I'd share my progress...I've really been enjoying keeping to a plan of creating a page each day in my junk journal. This is a very cheap, easy way to junk journal I've mainly used ephemera from old books, magazines & paper stash I've had for many years. I've also added some fussy cut illustrations I've printed up over the years.✨🧚‍♂️🌟It's been raining on and off for quite a few days so actually it's been good to forget the drizzle and create. But we do have some summer sun this afternoon 😁 yay🌞✨🌟🌈💙

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