To have the blues... and use your ears...

Well, technically, it is not I who have the blues, it is my neighbours. And it is not a miserable state of mind I am accusing them of either, but a whole sea of heavenly scented, luxuriously overgrown lavender, spilling out onto the pavement in the front of their house.

To my delight, some of the blue beauties are also spilling over to our side of the fence, and as I am a keen budget decorator, a few stems were snippety-snipped the other day, and brought inside...

I then ventured into our own garden, to find that the lamb's ears plants I planted not long ago, were ready to be harvested and used in my first, stumbling attempts to make a decorative ball, inspired hugely - of course - by the queen of lamb's ears creations, Lotten.

Adding to the cheap and cheerful display an old necklace from the shop Indiska in Sweden, and I think we are ready to roll.

As the sun was setting and our little town saw the first rain shower in several weeks...

I happily seized the moment to curl up on the sofa, light some candles and breathe in the fresh post-rain evening air through the open doors...

I hope there is room in your life to curl up on a sofa, light a candle and breathe in summer...

Sending you little puffs of lavender and wishing you all a lovely Wednesday!