Helpful Friends Guest Post - Privet and Holly - Small Bites

Thank you Michelle from Emerald Cove for your wonderful guest post yesterday!!!

I'm am so lucky to have friends that are not only fun, pretty, smart, and caring, but also super talented! Suzanne of Privet and Holly is another one of those friends.  She has a way with words and has created a special guest post just for LTHS entitled Small Bites...enjoy!

What a treat to be

guest posting here

at Low Tide, High Style.

Thank you, Kat!

This dreamy arts and crafts studio is also a treat.
Found it here.

I've been thinking

a lot lately about

the balance between

my job as a home-

maker mom and my

wish to express myself

through my projects.

There never seems

to be enough time

to do it all, or at 

least, to do it all

well. 


But I've discovered a secret.

Before kids {BK}, I had 

a full time career,

commuted 40 minutes each way...

yet still had time to 

garden, can, sew, craft

 and go to flea markets

in addition to the normal chores 

of a young married professional, 

like errands, cooking, cleaning

and spoiling our dog.

Phew!

Even after kids {AK},

when they were very young,

I still pursued ways to fluff the

nest despite what the experts

advise….

Sleep when the baby sleeps!

Never listened.

I learned how to 

smock clothing

make lined curtains

stencil walls

weld garden sculptures

finish unpainted furniture

flood sugar cookies

and make every single 

birthday invitation

by hand.

Then, somewhere along the way,

{probably about the time the

chauffeur’s cap came out}

all of this get up and go….

got up and went!  

{Hey, isn’t 

that a song?} 

There goes my get up and go....bye-bye!

However, since discovering

blogs such as Kat’s, 

my dormant creative 
aspirations have been 
reawakened.....

Yes, I’m still wearing my 

driver’s cap, but I realized
that I can pursue imagination,
as long as it's in

 small bites….


That's the secret.
{Okay, maybe not so secret.}

Like photography

I took this in Washington State this summer.

I always have a camera
with me!

New recipes

Goat Cheese with Pistachios and Cranberries


Fast fast fast,
but they'll never know : )

{Simply….wonderful.}

Get it here

Home improvement

{This happened in small steps over two days.}

Fun upgrade to the 
door that leads from 
our garage into the house.

Find my muse here.

Crafts

I re-purposed a trug to hold my current projects.
It's being used for Christmas cards at the moment.

I was inspired here.

And dearest to me….

writing.

{And blogging!}

All

in

small

bites.

Are you able to

have delicious

long stretches to

create, or do you

work in short

sessions, like I do?

Found this lovely work room here.

And how do you keep

your get up and go….

going??? 

I {and I'm sure, Kat} 
would both
love to know!


You must not for one
instant give up the effort
to build new lives for yourselves.
Creativity means to push open
the heavy, groaning doorway to life.   
This is not an easy struggle.
Indeed, it may be the  most difficult
task in the world, for opening.


~Dais aku Ikeda,
Buddhist philosopher and peacebuilder




[images:]
2-3, 5, 7, 12 Flickr
{click for attribution}
4, 8, 10-11 Privet & Holly
6 Martha Stewart
9 Real Simple
1, 13 noted above

To read more of Suzanne's wonderfully poetic words of wisdom stop by her beautiful blog Privet and Holly.  Thank you Suzanne, from the bottom of my heart!