Finally At Home

It has been a rather lengthy hiatus of painting, re-insulating, packing, unpacking, getting a hundred colds and flus and trying to juggle the minutiae of daily life with the desire to prettify and make homely…but I can finally report that we have made ourselves well and truly At Home. I mentioned some months back (in […]

Transition Time

The Holmes and Rahe stress scale is a list of 43 stressful life events that can contribute to illness. Some years I have gathered a pretty impressive score on this scale…Making big changes to one’s life can either be rather liberating, or downright terrifying. Strangely, although I think I am a pretty stressy, nervy, risk-averse kinda girl, I […]

In The Countryside…

Now that we have been here a few weeks we are finally settling in. Though it is still a pretty quiet affair in that Kazuo and I spend most of each day here at Newbridge while Akira slogs away at the University, and not too much of our days necessitate human contact with other adults…so […]

Tasty Treats and Wild White Washing

Since we arrived in the cooler climes of North East Fife, Kazuo and I have spent rather more time indoors than usual. This is partly climate-related, partly due to having to wait for my driving licence renewal (the tediousness of being mildly epileptic and having to rely on the doctor to say it is OK […]

Settling into a Northern Kingdom

What a transition the past few weeks have been. We have finally made ourselves at home in the Kingdom of Fife. After more than twenty four hours of taxis, airports and flights, we arrived to a very warm Scottish welcome in the tiny village of Kingsbarns. Enroute, Kazuo finally made the acquaintance of his great-grandmother […]

Wardrobe Wednesday

Okay, I am a day late…but I wanted to take this brief wi-fi opportunity to say…WE MADE IT…and yesterday was a lovely if not sorta crazy day. After a load of travelling and some strange sleeping, we are in Fife and our first day was spent collecting the keys to our house, getting me mobile […]

This Moment

We go offline for a week or two from this afternoon, so I am posting early. Happy Friday everyone! {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you’re inspired […]

Saying a Fond Farewell

This leave taking has been going on an awful long time really…and is kinda taking it’s toll, both Kazuo and I are fighting off our own special little bugs, and we are all fairly tiredy. But in the interstices, we are still feeling very grateful for all the loveliness (much of it joyously unexpected) of […]

Packing Up and Packing It In

This last weekend was a holiday again. And for once, Akira took Labor Day off work. Of course we spent most of our Kazuo-free hours packing up for the shipping day, which is tomorrow (arrrgh…are we ready? it is gonna be a long night I think). But during our family times, we got out and […]

Charmed By…

With thoughts of creating a thrifty yet homely and hospitable space in Scotland that finally brings ALL our beloved things from around the world into one place, I have been casting about in my spare time for inspiration. In the meantime, I have also tripped over a few things that have me longing for disposable […]