The Beach Cottage Rental and Missing Home

Hello Everyone!  Just catching up after the photo shoot.  Hope your summer is going well!  Mine is. 

well sort of....

You see, I had the idea to rent the cottage for the summer since I'd be gone most of it while visiting the kiddos.  Before I knew it,  the first couple to look, snapped it up for three months! 

As soon as Fifi and Mark drove away at around six p.m. there I was like a wild woman with four days to prepare for the renters!   With countless trips up to the attic, (probably a hundred) it is now filled to the brim with half of my belongings and I am staying with a friend.   It's been nearly a month and I've finally recuperated long enough to write this post.

I really thought I'd miss it more, and have handled it pretty well...until now.

Yes, I miss my comfy, newly slipcovered chair in this fabulous gray and white cotton that looks like linen!  At less than eight dollars a yard, the body of the chair is the same fabric but reversed which I love the look of.  I first saw this fabric, or very similar, on a slipper chair here and was lucky to find it!  I stuck a pretty pin in the center of this sweet pillow that I found at TJ Maxx and now it looks like a happy daisy! 

And my bottle collection.  I had these scattered about the house on ledges and window sills but it wasn't until I saw a pic in a book and my friend suggested that I display them all together that I really fell in love with them!

Oh, and morning coffee while watching the tide come up and hearing the seagulls isn't a shabby way to start the day either.

Somehow, more red snuck in the kitchen with the little awning made the day before the shoot.  I also hung a curtain under the shelf to hide a bare space.  Pretty but not practical since I couldn't open the cupboard door holding the pots and pans!  It only lasted for one day but on second thought...hmm.

I was sorry that I didn't use my ironstone pitcher collection on the shelf with the cafe au lait bowls but it was too late by the time I remembered that it was displayed in the china cabinet in the dining room.  (can't find the pic)

Well, I'll be leaving in a couple of days to see the little guys in NC and my daughter in OR to help her set up the nursery for a baby girl so I don't think I'll missing home too much!!

I'll be gone for a few weeks but will post from the road.

Hope you have a happy and safe summer.

So glad you stopped by!!

xoRoberta