🌿🧡Hello September 🧡🌿

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🌿🧡🌿The Summer months have gone by so quickly I hardly had time to think. August seems a distant memory... It suddenly warmed up when I was hoping for more Autumnal days and cooler temps... 🌞

So I thought I better do another catch up post... 

We had an abundance of Apples & blackberries 🌿❤️🌿I made a Summer sponge flan and crumbles... 

🌿🌞🌿🌧️🌤️🌥️We had a bit of a soggy August to be honest. But between showers we've visited some local places in Devon like Totnes, Dartington & Ashburton. And long walks on the Moorland. 

🌿🌞🌿 Well, we did enjoy some lovely trips until our car failed the m.o.t so we've had it in the garage being fixed and costing a small fortune! Hopefully, we get it back by Friday this week. 

🌿🌞🌿❤️My beautiful, bright Sophs got her gcse's results during August, she did amazingly well... We are all so proud of her😊❤️But she's already working at an accountancy firm near the city on her apprenticeship, so she's already settled into life there and college once a week. 

My poor dad's been back in Guys hospital London having radiotherapy but caught Covid while there the week before and is feeling very weak 😔❤️ so emotionally I've felt so exhausted with worry and guilt not being able to see him. 

But I'm hoping to spend a long weekend soon. We talk twice a day ❤️ but it's not the same.  One of the reasons I didn't feel good about August as it felt a tough month.  Life sure is an emotional roller-coaster at times! 

🌿🌞🌿But I do try and find the little joys... However big or small... Loved the scarecrow competition at Otter's nursery. Sure cheered my soul 💕

🌿💖🌿I have to admit I long for Autumnal days... And seeing the leaves change and blackberries in the hedgerows. My favourite time of year. But today it still feels like Summer! And the butterflies are enjoying the last blooms on the hill top garden🦋

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🌿❤️🌿Something exciting to share with you before I go... My *New* etsy shop is Open for business... 'Pin dolly studio' on etsy. I will be adding more and more prints as the weeks pass💕😉 so do check it out. 

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Edit:: popping these New Autumnal, halloween Prints into my Etsy shop, 

Pin Dolly Studio

🌿💐🌿Summer🌿💐🌿

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Summer time 

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The joys of sweet Summer days... 

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 Another catch up post. Has it really been a month? 

My daughter has completed her gcse's and has now just started her Accountancy apprenticeship... It has been a busy, full on summer for her so far. I'm so proud of her & wish her all the best in her new career. She is working for an accountancy firm just outside the city and will go to college 1 or two days a week. She's so enjoying hands on training and her own desk. She's so grown up!... I felt so teary on her first day she'll always be my little girl. 😢 Happy tears🌟 it's all *change* in the air this month and I get unsettled... Things will soon be in a routine and feel like the norm I guess. We had a lovely family week just before she started her apprenticeship. We visited some lovely, local National Trust homes & gardens, we walked to a peacefully hidden cove and enjoyed the coast, city shopping, local walks up on Dartmoor and being in the garden. It had been so hot so I'm glad it's cooled a little. 🏖️🌞🌤️🌥️

🌿💐🌿💐🌿Beautiful Buckland Abbey🌿🌻🌿 Dartmoor walks... 

🌿🌹🌿🌹🌿Antony house, Cornwall 

🌿💐🌿💐🌿Beautiful coastline of plymouth 

🌱🌹🌱 Antonys beautiful gardens

🌿🌹🌿🌺🌿🌷🌹🌿All the beautiful blooms and blue skies... June was so beautiful. 

🌿🌹🌿💐🌱🌺🌿Now my daughter is settling into her new job it's time for me to focus on my etsy shop full time. I've already been working hard on new illustrations and junk journal creations. Follow me on Instagram for more regular updates. I'm still sorting my shop out and ordering prints. I hope to sell some original art too. 

🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿Im full of ideas at the moment. And it's lovely to have more time to create. Life at the Pin Dolly studio... Full of creativity. 

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🌱🌸🌱🌸🌱Whimsical flower girls for junk journals... Watercolour, ephemera, mixed media and pen & ink... 

🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐🌿💐Cosy dresser top one evening a few weeks ago, lit with candles. 

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🌱🌿🌱🌿🌱🌿 Cornish country lanes. 

🌿🌱🌿🌱🌿🌱🌿Calstock to Cotehele, Cornwall... Such a beautiful walk. 

🌺🌼🌱🌼🌺🌱Wonderful wildflowers from the cornish lanes

🌿🌞🌿 A wonderful steam fair visited our market town... 

🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸🌞 Sunshine dresser top full with sun beams... Oh what a beautiful month it's been despite being quite overwhelmed and emotional most of it with my daughter starting her new career 🌟... Such an exciting new adventure for her... Superly proud mumma💕

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🌿🌞Moments in May🌞🌿

🌿💐🌿💚🌞The weather in Devon this May has been glorious... Blissfully sunny.  I think the Winter felt so long and at times so bleak! So to have the sun rays and blue skies has cheered my soul completely... With my daughter going through stressful exams it's been good to escape it all in the beauty of the Devon countryside & up on the moorlands.

Stevies work has had a weeks holiday while they up date certain steel machinery & softwares. So I've had both my favourite people home with me this week. Sophia has had some extra hours with an English tutor too. So between that we've mainly fitted in local walks as Sophia needs time for revision. I haven't minded at all being local, home or nearby walks. I've spent time in the garden (mainly sorting pots & beds) digging & weeding... Doing household chores and getting up at the crack of dawn to paint with my acrylics on canvas board. 

🌱🌼🌱💛A few weeks ago we took a drive about 40mins to Lanhydrock estate, national trust in Cornwall. It's a beautiful place to explore lots of woodlands, gardens, park land & huge house... Even a thatched cottage & church within the estate. And still lots of bluebells in the woods. We didn't walk around the whole house just the kitchens & larder rooms as it was nust so busy with tourists. 

I loved that the cook was called Mrs Candy!! Great name isn't it. 🤣💕

🌱💛🌱🌿💐🌿The dresser top looked so pretty & cosy with the lamp & candle light, especially with my beautiful tulips from market day that I took a photo of it. I've been busy behind the scenes with house things, paperwork and trying to set up my Etsy shop again. I'm trying to build a collection of art to get bulk printed into prints. I'll get there, eventually. 

🌱💛🌱🌞The Devon country side is so perfectly blissful right now.... 💚And a real inspiration for my imagination to paint. 

So many beautiful walks on our doorstep 💚

🌱🌞🌱💚We found a hidden meadow down an overgrown foot path... Isn't it exciting when you discover a new walk way... I love a secret adventure discovering hidden gems. 🌱💚🌱

🌱🌞🌱💛Early morning & early eve walks are my most favourite times... The bird song & sunlight at this time are perfect & peaceful 💚

🌱🌞🌱Meadow & wildflowers are my favourite 🌿💐🌿💚... I always think May & October are the most beautiful months of all. 

🌱🌞🌱💛Peaceful moments in the garden... 

🌱🌞🌱💚Simple pleasures are the best....like a Mornings cuppa alone in the garden listening to the birds and watching the bees... x    K a z z y    x