A splash of colour....

Today was a other rather grey day here 

(definitely no sign so far of the Indian summer I had been hoping for) 

and desperately needing a splash of colour
I was looking through our summer holidays photos from this year and there it was that excitingly....lovely....colourful.... August day in my parents garden.
My parents live in leafy suburbia in Berlin not a place you naturally think of,
when thinking of wild peacocks. 
But Berlin is always good for a surprise and it didn’t disappoint this time either!
“Mum & Dad we have guests.... there are Peacocks in the garden” teen Paperdoll shouts and to be honest at first I didn't even get the full meaning of what she was saying, 

Peacocks in my parents garden impossible.

    But there they were a pair of young male Peacocks gracefully walk on the path through
    the flowerbeds and one even took a look inside the living room through the open patio door. 

Where they came from, where they live or if someone owns them, nobody really seems to know.
They just appeared earlier this summer, and they have become such a regular fixture in the neighborhood that the locals don't even get excited any more. 

 “Oh them they have dropped by regularly over the past few months”
 my dad said rather laissez-faire.
Their favored spot in the garden, my mum tells me later is the roof of the shed
understandable really after all it gives them the best views over the garden.

Mr Mc, myself and the Paperdolls are clearly not locals and we where excited 

or more to the point mesmerized by this stunning pair. 

And who can blame us when the unexpected guests are a pair of beautiful Peacocks.
Looking at this photos has filled my need for colour for today and 
I hope this has brought a splash of colour to your day to!
Have a lovely week!

Plans....

Hello there.... its so nice to see you here again! 

At this point in the month I was really hoping to share with you a little sewing project
I have been working on for a couple of weeks.
I had it all planned at the beginning of the month.....

but surprise......surprise.....it never go’s as planned.  

A little tick bite I had a couple of weeks ago that was all forgotten about seen to that......
it started with a red mark I ignored for a few days, then came the headaches,
tiredness & pain in the joints to make it short I ended up in hospital
just over a week ago with a drip in my arm....
diagnosis.... suspected Limes Disease.....
nothing to be flippant about as I have since discovered!! 

Thank goodness I’m now out of hospital and feeling much better.  

However the sewing schedule I made for the summer holidays is well & truly out of the window! 

So unfortunately I can only give you a sneak preview. 

    

Revamping some of my old cushion covers for the garden furniture was the plan. 
It has since grown to more then just a few cushion covers, 

but more about that tale with the photos of the finished project.

Fingers crossed I have this finished by mid September,  

just in time for the last few days of summer in the garden.  Here´s hoping.  

Today though I’m off to Denmark
with Mr Mc & baby Paperdoll for a couple of days well earned R&R. 

 Have a lovely week!  


 

P.S.  Not to scare anyone but....PLEASE....PLEASE....check out the information on tick bites/

Limes Disease available on many reputable health care websites.  Limes disease can be a real nasty disease which can cause long term health effects if not discovered & treated early!!  

And with this disease.... KNOWLEDGE is POWER!!!        

Blossom....

Sorry today will only be a short post....
but I really wanted to share this little happiness with you!
As I am sure you have gathered by now its little pretty things that make me very happy.
Like my garden for example, Mr. Mc & I are no gardener’s by any stretch of the imagination
more like a couple of hopeless amateurs with often no idea what is a weed or plant
but somehow our garden seems to forgives us, the amateurism
and still rewards us with a beautiful mix of blossom.
And in July our garden really started to come into its own.
 

So over the past month I have been taking photos of the pretty blossom to share them
with you in the hope it will bring you a little happiness too!!
After all who doesn’t like flowers?!
 

  Sorry again for the shortness of this post...
but with the Paperdolls on summer holidays I try to spend as much time with them as possible
and squeeze in a teensy-weensy time for a couple of little....large
sewing projects that I like to get finished soonest.
Hopefully I will be able to share one of them with you later this month!
Until then have a lovely August!!