I have always been the person to choose the cozy over the chic.
Oh don't get me wrong, I like to look nice. I like to dress stylishly and classically as best I can, but no one would ever accuse me of being avant-garde.
The same thing applies to my decorating style and the houses that I love. I do not live in a big fancy house. The most modern thing you will find in my house are the stainless steel appliances. I have too much furniture and too many odd corners to ever find myself in a decorating magazine, unless it is called "Real Life Mishmashes"
I have been carrying a 1992 issue of Country Living magazine around for 20 years, since someday, if I can make enough money, I will build this house:
But, I could also build the following houses:
In a word, I like COZY. Modern furniture and design, with all that space and clean lines, makes me nervous. No surprise to you all - I need a little nest of blankets and books, and well, probably a little mess, too!
This week, I was searching on the internet for an outdoor faucet for my potager that would be decorative and found this one:
I spend most of my days trying to make my garden look like it has been there forever. This will help.
But while searching for this faucet, I ran across this:
A wee Hobbit door with our house number on it. Did I buy it? Of course I did! I have not yet decided if it will go outside or be placed somewhere in the house, but I knew I needed it, because it made me so happy. Can you even see there is a wee key off to the right? Perfection. Cozy. Since I want my own hobbit house someday, this seemed like the best of all worlds to tide me over till then. You can buy your own here. These might be what everyone gets for Christmas this year!
In honour of all things cozy, and really, what is cozier than Tolkien's Shire, let's make a summer time drink favoured by the hobbits: The Shire Flower
Ingredients
Oh don't get me wrong, I like to look nice. I like to dress stylishly and classically as best I can, but no one would ever accuse me of being avant-garde.
The same thing applies to my decorating style and the houses that I love. I do not live in a big fancy house. The most modern thing you will find in my house are the stainless steel appliances. I have too much furniture and too many odd corners to ever find myself in a decorating magazine, unless it is called "Real Life Mishmashes"
I have been carrying a 1992 issue of Country Living magazine around for 20 years, since someday, if I can make enough money, I will build this house:
But, I could also build the following houses:
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This week, I was searching on the internet for an outdoor faucet for my potager that would be decorative and found this one:
I spend most of my days trying to make my garden look like it has been there forever. This will help.
But while searching for this faucet, I ran across this:
A wee Hobbit door with our house number on it. Did I buy it? Of course I did! I have not yet decided if it will go outside or be placed somewhere in the house, but I knew I needed it, because it made me so happy. Can you even see there is a wee key off to the right? Perfection. Cozy. Since I want my own hobbit house someday, this seemed like the best of all worlds to tide me over till then. You can buy your own here. These might be what everyone gets for Christmas this year!
In honour of all things cozy, and really, what is cozier than Tolkien's Shire, let's make a summer time drink favoured by the hobbits: The Shire Flower
Shire Flower
Ingredients
- 3 oz. Purity Vodka
- 3/8 oz. Elderflower liqueur
- 3/8 oz. Lemon juice
- 1 bar spoon apricot preserves
Instructions
Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake until ice cold. Double strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with small, white flowers.
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| Bottoms up, Baggins! |
There - wasn't that refreshing? What about you? Do you like cozy? Tabs said in her blog the other day that she wants to live in an air stream trailer - I think that's pretty cozy! You will need a couple of Adirondacks out front, Tabs!
Have the most marvelous of Fridays and Stay Safe out there!
