🍂🍁Pumpkins & prints🧡🍁

Sweet, whimsical blessings and all the magic that Autumn brings...🎃✨🌟🍁It always has been my favourite month! And the month that made me a mummy... 17 years of my beautiful, sweet hearted Sophs... ✨🌟✨✨

✨🍁🌟🍁🌟✨🌟✨🌟🍁🌟🍁✨It's starting to turn much colder & boy it's been a soggy old month so far...Time to get cosy in the cottage... 🧡 Sharing all my favourite joys this this month... Lots of beautiful National trust walks... 

🍁🧡🍂🎃Wonderful Pumpkin harvest at Buckland Abbey, national trust. Absolutely enormous pumpkins! 

🧡✨🍂🍁✨🌟Beautiful golden, red Paths of leaves... Woodlands looking magical in the glimmer of sunlight... 🧡

✨🌟🍁🧡🍂Definitely was a magical misty trip to the moorlands of Dartmoor... All the red berry branches look so abundant & beautiful... And Saltram gardens looked like a fairytale a few weeks ago now. 

✨🌟🍁🧡✨On a beautiful sunny day a few weeks ago we headed to one of our favourite Devon market towns, Totnes.... You have seen me mention this place many many times here on my blog... Always a wonderful, folky, artistic, eclectic, bright, colourful town.  Street music fills the air and a lovely bustling market, especially on Fridays. 

✨🌟🍁🧡🍂Rosehips & hawthorn berries fill the Devon hedgerows... 

✨🌟🍁🧡🍂🎃Pumpkin picking at Ben's farm shop & the pick your own fields behind... It suddenly poured with rain but eventually the the bright Autumnal sunshine appeared... Such a fun day! 🌞🍂🧡🍂🌟🍂

🍂🌟🍁🧡🌟✨Naughty treats on cosy Autumnal days... Candles and cake just perfect! Niiiiiice & snug... 🧡😋

🍁🍂🧡🌟✨✨Wonderful bookshop at Saltram stables, it's a second hand bookshop and I found this wonderful big scarecrow book & the history of them! I've really enjoyed reading it & all the pictures... 

🍂🍁🧡✨🌟🍂🍁I made some large tag decorations witches & a autumn rabbit with trims & mixed media 🖤 edit: all Sold on etsy. I will be adding more Festive prints this week... I'm joining in on Folktale week on Instagram during November... ✨✨🌟✨

✨🌟🍁🧡✨🌟🎃Autumnal Shelfling...

I Hope you're enjoying the beautiful Autumnal landscape around you,

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P. S Adding some festive prints into my Etsy over the next few days... (pin dolly studio) 

🌿🧡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. 

x   K a z z y  x

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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