Hello lovelies! It's been thundering and pouring and drizzling and raining here pretty much every day since the start of October (which I secretly love, as long as I don't have to venture too far out in it). 

  

All this grey weather has put me in the mood for watching movies on the couch (maybe Sleepless in Seattle for the 100th time), curling up under fluffy white blankets and sipping many cups of tea.  I'm working tomorrow for a few hours, but apart from that, I'm not locked into anything at all - divine freedom to do nothing! It looks like it is supposed to keep raining all the way through to next Tuesday so I've got lots of time to do exactly that. A trip to visit my family on the Sunshine Coast may be on the cards, but not if it's raining heavily - I'm not that good a driver just yet! I hope your weekend will be filled with all things wonderful and woolly.

I woke up to the soothing sound of drizzling rain this morning and even though it's almost 7.30 am, it is dark as night inside my house (outside it is almost as bad). Thankfully I have my computer as a cheerful refuge from the gloom outside, as well as some pretty photos I took of the tulips and roses that I treated myself to this past week. When I'm feel especially uninspired or unmotivated or lost, I like to pick up a bunch or two of affordable blooms at the supermarket or fresh food market (or pick something from outside if it is available) and place simple little arrangements around my room. Nothing fancy...just flowers inside whichever glasses or jars or even baking dishes that I have laying around. These tulips and roses are squished all together into a glass container which lost it's lid many house-moves ago. To me there is nothing quite like fresh cut flowers to make even the drabbest day feel manageable and the most mundane chores doable, and photographing them with my nifty Hipstamatic app makes them look so cute! 

Don't feel like you have to limit your inspirational clippings to just flowers. I love the look of arrangements of just green leaves, with large branches placed in vintagey mossy urns. Clippings of pink branches in the spring, or red or orange leaves if you happen to be one of those lucky Brisbanites with deciduous trees are lovely, too.

Do you have any little tricks or small pleasures that help perk you up when you're having a less than cheery day?