I love you summer 🌞 🌹 🍉 🍒 🍓 🌻

'Hair gets lighter, skin gets darker, water gets warmer,

drinks get colder, music gets louder, nights get longer,

life gets better..'

I love you summer 🌞 🌹 🍉 🍒 🍓 🌻

Keep dreaming and reach out for your dreams

'You can be all that you want to be.

Keep dreaming and reach out for your dreams.'

Lailah Gifty Akita

What's new in the atelier

Hello, on this first Saturday of July. 

We went out for a quick drive with a visit to a local National Trust parks and gardens and now I am back in my studio updating my Etsy shop with new notebooks. 

In terms of new illustrations, I have been inspired by our trip to Verona, in particular this beautiful garden Giardino Gusti. Today I will be drawing cypres and lemon trees and some gorgeous Italian fountains, so stay tuned for a new illustration coming up soon. I really want my 2021 planer to be filled with pages of Italy.

Hope you're all keeping well. 

Have a beautiful weekend. 😘

Weekly market shopping

Depending on, where you are in the Mediterranean, your grocery shopping revolves around market days. Once a month, I stock up our kitchen cupboards with things like raw buckwheat, quinoa, rice, amaranth, teff, beans, lentils etc.., so the things we buy at the market are just herbs, fruits and vegetables, honey, as well as flowers.