Garden moodboard and monthly mosaic - April

Hello. Just squeezing in my garden moodboard for April before the month is over - Joining in with Karin A Photography and her collections of things from the garden each month. Its so nice to see a bit more colour appearing out there now. The spring weather is finally here and I love it!

These little photos are all from April from my Instagram. I will be happy to say hello to a new month, April wasn't a great one here really. It saw a family loss (my grandad) a breakup (mine!) and lots of illness. We are still getting over all the illness, still have funeral arrangements to be made and I'm still coming to terms with now being a single mum - but surely things can only get better in May!

Nature in the home

Encouraged by Lou this week to forage, these were all found in our garden. We have a little patch of wild and self seeded flowers at the top of our garden amongst the grass, like these forget-me-not's and pretty yellow celandine. I managed to go around them when I did our first mow this week and so some of these come from there. I also found our first bluebell and a couple of periwinkles tucked behind some bushes too - hidden away from any little perfume making hands!

Linking in with Lou of little green shed and her nature in the home series.

Here...

▲ New buds and flowers outside
▲ Shadows on the bedroom wall
▲ Daffodils picked from the garden
▲ Washing baby clothes
▲ Blowing dandelions and wearing a stethoscope
▲ Archie wearing my Saltwaters - finally sandal weather!
▲ New crayons
▲ Elizabeth's first school summer dress - she was very excited!
▲ Crashed out on the sofa - how that can be comfortable!
▲ A girlie cake bought for Elizabeth
▲ Archie's blackboard drawings - much progress from scribles!
▲ Sorting cars in the garden

Nature in the home

I have been putting a few bits and bobs up next to my little workspace this week, brightening the place up and hopefully giving me some inspiration. As well as taping these dried flowers and seed pods to the wall I thought I would also make somewhere I could keep a fresh flower or two. I just simply wrapped some wool around a test tube and pinned it to the wall. I quite like the idea of being able to change it as new things appear in the garden.

Linking in with Lou of little green shed and her nature in the home series.

Lately...

Hello, I'm back! I cant believe the school hols are over already. Our Easter break wasn't too great - partly due to the fact that we were all so ill. In the space of two weeks we managed to all have conjunctivitis and colds, Archie had slapped cheek and ear infections and then I had tonsillitis. Like really, anything else?!

We did try to get out and about and do as much as we could  in between though and it was so nice to spend more time with Elizabeth, I was quite sad she had to go back to school today, though luckily she was very excited to get back and see her little friends. I'm sorry I haven't been visiting your blogs much lately either, I will try and have a catch up over the next couple of days. x

▲ An egg hunt in the garden
▲ Seeing the owls at a country centre family day
▲ Littlehampton beach
▲ On the fairground rides
▲ Bucket of chips at the beach
▲ Feeding the ducks at the pond and trying to count the little babies
▲ Poorly boy asleep
▲ Painting
▲ Dressing up
▲ Bubble painting