Fleeting thought #9 {Learning something new!}

On February 21, 2025March 29, 2025 By ArtyMissKIn Fleeting thoughts2 Comments

Hello friends, I hope you had a good week!

Today I wanted to share my ninth Fleeting Thought with you. If you’re reading one of my blog posts for the first time (hi/friendly wave) and if your back and happy to read more of my ramblings (massive hug!!).

If you haven’t caught one of these before Fleeting Thought is something I’ve come up with while trying to post more of my feelings and be a little bit more blog-ish, these wordy posts might sometimes include stories or poetry or be a bit random and rambling about various things I think about.

So lets go…

Basically over the last couple of weeks I’ve been releasing my inner housewife and doing some old school things…I‘ve been learning how to bake my own bread!

Having never baked bread before I’m totally excited about the magic of basically turning a yeasty bowl of water and flour into fluffy white bread it really is alchemy. I also genuinely don’t understand the cliche that bakers are overweight middle aged men, kneading dough by hand for ten minutes is tough on your arms!

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Looking back on 2024 {reviewing the year!}

On January 4, 2025February 8, 2025 By ArtyMissKIn Photography3 Comments

Hey friends!

Happy New Year!!

This is only my second ever New Year’s post and I thought that instead of just doing a photography review of my favourite snaps, I would review my year as a whole and look back over the last twelve months. I actually meant to post something like this last year but the end of 2023 and early ’24 were too hectic, starting a new household in a place were I didn’t know anyone has been an adventure that at times has been really tough, but definitely worth it… so here’s my look back on 2024!

Ready? Lets go…

The biggest highlight of the year, has been properly settling into my new home, living in the countryside is so different to living in a city – my new neighbours are amazing! They’re all old school hippies and its lovely to be part of an old-fashioned community, where people actively want to be friends.

I’ve hiked through old mining sites, explored rock polls and woodlands, and even visited the odd standing stone, but I’ve found I genuinely enjoy just being at home, decorating, gardening…even cleaning (I love that everything has a place!), being in such a remote place I’m doing a lot more cooking and have been told I’m becoming somewhat of a domestic goddess! I realised that I now have a chance to live the Cottagecore lifestyle (basically having the time to bake/garden/craft) as much as possible in modern life and everything that entails.

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Fleeting thought #8 {Festive traditions and time well spent}

On December 21, 2024February 8, 2025 By ArtyMissKIn Fleeting thoughts, Photography2 Comments

Hello my friends! I hope the festive season is filling you with excitement and wonder!!

Before we start this post I just wanted to say that I did truly believe I was going to post this last week and do something cute and artsy this week but my life kinda imploded. I’m not a superstitious person, but I’m a great believer that things come in threes so when I awoke last Friday (the 13th) I found that my heating system had completely broken down and won’t be fixed until after the New Year (it is soooo cold right now!) Later in the day I fell down the stairs – my own fault I wasn’t paying attention, but I was so very very sore and by the time I was able to sit and prep my post I just thought ‘ya know what its not worth it, it might be the third thing!’ It wasn’t but I was glad I didn’t tempt Fate!

But I’ve decided that I’m a big girl and I’m not going to let the fact I’ve got no heating ruin Christmas as I’ve already got everything more or less sorted, so onto a more festive up beat thing…

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Fleeting thought #7 {Fallen leaves & favoured pastimes}

On October 25, 2024November 2, 2024 By ArtyMissKIn Fleeting thoughts, Photography4 Comments

Hey friends,

If you’ve never been here before then welcome!!

Today I wanted to share the seventh Fleeting Thought with you. Its been a while since my last one of these, so here goes…

Autumn is just lovely isn’t it?

The sound of the geese flying south for the winter – or the Starlings congregating in their murmurations, where I live is actually quite close to a forest that thousands of starlings live in the winter, every day at around seven o’clock morning and night you can hear them flying overhead you can literally set your watch by them! The parks and woodlands are filled with warm, beautifully mesmerising colours – even though the weather is less on the warm side! You can get your jumpers out and it’s okay to drink hot chocolate at lunch time.

Also pyjamas, pyjamas seem to always feature more in the autumn/winter months…the anti-social introvert in me loves a jammies day, especially if I’ve got a good book to read or an embroidery to finish.

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