Monthly mosaic - August

Some little pictures from August from my Instagram - some treasures found on our adventures out and about, lots of visits to the beach and some craftiness with the kids.

Its been such a wonderful month, I feel a little sad to say goodbye to August. We have had such a great summer together and have been especially lucky with the gorgeous weather this year. Though part of me is also ready for some routine too, to have just a little me time and maybe a house that stays tidy for more than about five minutes!

We will try and make the most of our last few days left, I still have some things from my summer list I'd like to squeeze in! That and preparing for school - some last minute uniform buys, haircuts and trying to get back to our normal bed time routine!

Wishing you all a wonderful September. xx

Junk modelling photo book

Last year when Elizabeth was in reception class, I photographed all of her Junk models that she brought home from school. I wanted to keep a record of all her hard work before having to put them back in the recycling!

I have just made them into a little photo book and love how it turned out. I think its a nice way to remember all her makes without taking up any space, plus she loves looking through it.

Now I just need to write on what they all are - I don't want to forget that they're actually a telescope pirate phone, mummy in a windmill or a panda bear on wheels!

Spinnaker tower

Yesterday we combined a little shopping with a trip up the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth. The kids absolutely loved it. I thought they might have been a little nervous of how high we were, but they thought it was great to be able to see so far. They walked and laid on the glass with no worries (I didn't however - it just feels too wrong!) and spent ages just watching the boats and taking it all in. Its definitely something we will do again!

Garden moodboard - August

My garden moodboards for August - linking in with Karin and Asa and their beautiful collections of flowers and foliage from the garden each month. As I had hoped, our garden is looking much more colourful this month and the seeds I had planted with the kids way back are now all blooming beautifully. I ended up making three moodboards as the white flowers wouldn't show up on my first and I thought it would nice to include a little more greenery this time too!

I also had a go at making these pictures by taking some flowers apart, I'm quite liking the patterns they make when they're dissected and then reconstructed like that!

Pictures from my Instagram - @caroline_south

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Wishing you all a wonderful weekend! x

Life lately...

Hello, I'm back! I must say its been quite nice to have a bit of a blogging break, to just spend some time with the kids in the holidays without trying to fit it in. I haven't actually taken that many photos either - opting to just keep it simple and use my phone camera on many of our outings. These are a few of the pictures I have taken, there has been:

▲ A picnic at the beach, watching the seagulls and the boats racing
▲ Playing pirates with a treasure map and hidden gold in the garden
▲ Giant footprint painting
▲ Play camping in the garden with foraged (from the kitchen) food on the campfire
▲ At the beach again
▲ Painting bird houses - this ones Archie's, everything he paints is brown!
▲ A day spent at Butlins - the family pedal cars and playing in the water fountains were favourites!
▲ Spending time with family on the beach in Bournemouth

I cant believe we have only a couple of weeks left before the start of school. The holidays seem to be just whooshing by so fast. I think we have fitted quite a bit in so far and have also had plenty of chilled, no plans kind of days too. Looking back at my list there's only a couple of bits we haven't actually done! Since we weren't going on holiday this year, I have also tried to have a few days out including Peppa Pig World and Butlins - a couple of places Elizabeth has been asking endlessly to go to for months! She is already talking about her next visits!

Our last week or so will be spent making the most of our time together, that and preparing for school and nursery in September. I still have some little Archie sized nursery uniforms to buy - Oh my!

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Hello! Sorry for the quietness around here. I didn't intend to take such a long blogging break but just seem to have been busy with the Summer holidays, plus I have also been working on my Etsy shop in any quiet moments. Its very nearly ready so I will share some pictures soon.

Anyhow I just wanted to say I am changing my blog URL to a slightly shorter one and although readers should all automatically be redirected to my new name, I just wanted to let you know the new one in case there were any problems. The new address will be:

www.scrapsofus.com

I'll be back soon with some pictures from the holidays so far. xx