Summer Tea

Recently I've got addicted to Whittards Instant Tea, which is strange as I'm not a tea-drinker. However this tea isn't the proper stuff, it comes in powder form in brightly coloured boxes. There are lots of flavours and I've only tried two flavours. Best one has to be Pink Lemonade which you can drink hot, cold or with fizzy water.

Another Tree

This is so true...

------------------ Girls ---------------------- -
-------------- are like apples ----------------
-------- -on trees. The best ones -----------
-------- are at the top of the tree. ----------
------ The boys dont want to reach --------
---- for the good ones because they- ------
-- are afraid of falling and getting hurt. ----
- Instead, they just get the rotten apples--
-- from the ground that are not as good, --
- but easy. So the apples at the top think -
- something is wrong with them, when in --
--- reality, they are amazing. They just ----
----- have to wait for the right boy to ------
------- come along, the one who is ---------
------------- brave enough to- --------------
------------------ climb all -------------------
------------------ the way -------------------
----------------- to the top ------------------
----------------- of the tree .---------------

The trees - they're always listening

You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. ~ Amelia Earhart

The Lake District

The location for Hill Top in the film Miss Potter. Somehow the 'fake' Hill Top is better than the real one!

Yew Tree Farm in reality (above) and Renee Zellweger as Beatrix Potter (below)

"Life is very beautiful"

Life is beautiful. The colours and sounds of the living. The quiet serenity of a meadow in summer. The joy of welcoming in new life. The excitement of discovering a long-forgotten secret. Life is not to be squandered. So make the most of everything today: be happy :)

Glowing fingertips

Here comes the sun :)

Things I'll never say...but I want to

I wonder what would happen if, just for a day, people had to say what they felt...

My Dragon

From yonder o'er
The high seas, fast encroaching:
Here Come The Dragons.

Dean & Son

"So one day, my son, this will all be yours." Mr Dean gestured grandly to either side of him as his father had done before to the neatly printed signs on either side of them.

Meow

My ideal pet: a tiny, china cat!

Cute as a Button

Literally this is one of the cutest buttons I've come across ♥

Patterns

I took some close up shots of some patterns that I found in my wardrobe from stuff that I love...♥

Matching Moods

"Whether you are sweet or cruel I'm gonna love you either way."

"Sometimes makes me sad and blue, wouldn't have it any other way."

Lena - Satellite

Being an Only

Today I was thinking why people never like the idea of being an 'only'. An only child that is. I'm an only and, personally, it is the best thing to be. Everyone who has a sibling can never understand the utter loneliness or utter peace you can get. If I wasn't an only I don't think I'd want to create things.

When I was younger I had a world of my own that I'd slip into. People used to mock my drawings and shyness and I'd let it get to me. No one would bother to understand me. They'd box me up, slam the lid down and walk away. I'd be left alone. I used to mind, cry and scream that it wasn't fair and how I'd try and fit in next year. It never worked and so I became the wallflower of the world. Never being understood and to a degree I'm still not. In my life I think only two people have seen the real me. A rare specimen and painfully shy. I think I was too discerning of people when I was younger, selecting the people I thought would like me. Vacuous is a word I like to use of the cast offs. They have a large circle of friends anyway so I don't get missed. This could be mistaken as a hard exterior but I have to have something or everyone will know what I really am. An air-head, dreamy, imaginative child.

When I was younger I made a promise with my best friend who is like a sister to me that we'd never grow up. We'd find something to stop us getting older. Neverland, magic, Hogwarts, T.A.R.D.I.S and finally vampires. We've tried everything. Though being an only means you don't give up on life and never surrender to the tide of normality. Like Leslie from Bridge to Terabithia.

To all the only children, young and old, guy and girl, lonely and content. Never give up and give people the satisfaction of bringing you down. Keep smiling and keep fighting back because one day, maybe one day, they will be sorry for everything they did....well you can dream

For my friend whose sunny smile and sarky remarks keep me going always

What if happiness could be bottled?

What if happiness could be bottled as easily as water? Would you save it for those rainy days where nothing feels right? I would.

♥♥♥

Eurovision 2010

Last night was the night when Europe is supposed to come together and celebrate the Eurovision Song Contest. Apart from heavy tactical voting and "unique" acts that is precisely what Europe did. Well done to all the performances and protestors. Well done Germany, Greece, Turkey, France, Serbia, Moldova and the UK for coming last again. Order is restored. Well done Lena!

In with the new

Remember the saying "Out with the old and in with the new"? I decided to act on that and tomorrow I'm going to apply that saying to my hair. Tomorrow I'm going to give my hair a long awaited defined style for the first time since I was very little. It should be interesting and hopefully turns out better than expected since I was three. That seems ages ago and it really was. This is what I'm aiming for...

Wish me luck :)

The ever approaching future

If step out of your door and you don't keep your feet there is no knowing where you'll be swept off to...

Moorland

Homeward bound,

I wish I was,

Homeward bound,

Home where my thought's escaping,

Home where my music's playing,

Home where my love lies waiting

Silently for me.

"I'm not being funny but..."

Do you remember the old gang of Robin Hood? Robin, Much, Little John, Jack, Will and Alan and Roy for a short time. Ah those were the days...

Hidden gems

Like sparkling gems they hide, deep within the roots of an ancient tree...

Audrey Hepburn Lives on...

Although Audrey Hepburn died in 1993 there are reminders of her grace and style even now. Like little pockets of fresh air in a smog-filled world.

Though there will only ever be one Audrey Hepburn...

My Dream Vintage Wardrobe

Straight from the 20s, 30s and 40s ♥

From Dorothy Perkins, Charming Girl, Miss Selfridge and Urban Outfitters.

If money was no object...

If money was no object I'd live in a pretty cottage in the hills with a cherry tree and a little latch gate leading to a quaint village green. The weather would be perfect even in the rain it would look wonderful. Though that would be the greatest thing if money was no object. In an ideal world there would be, in that cottage, a good collection of books for me to read on a window seat and a fine wardrobe of vintage clothes. And, of course, someone to share this with... :)

♥ A beautiful house ♥

I read about it in a novel once...

“The house was built in Elizabeth’s time, and is a large, regular, brick building; heavy, but respectable looking, and has many good rooms. It is ill placed. It stands in one of the lowest spots of the park; in that respect, unfavourable for improvement. But the woods are fine, and there is a stream, which, I dare say, might be made a good deal of. Mr. Rushworth is quite right, I think, in meaning to give it a modern dress, and I have no doubt that it will be all done extremely well.” - Mansfield Park

There's nothing better when you see an old country house half concealed behind dark trees. This house looks so perfect in it's surroundings --- I wonder what the magnificent rooms contain, what secrets were whispered in the corridors and who used to call that house a home?

Exploring...

I was out walking through the fields of lush grass, speckled with golden dandelions, when I found something: a stick. Perfectly ordinary before I realised that every explorer needs a trusty stick!

If you go into the woods today...♥

'If you go into the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise. If you go out in the woods today, You'd better go in disguise.' ♥

Bonjour :)

Je m'appelle Aliènor and this is 'La petit maison dans la forêt'. I am christening it with the first post so *drum roll please* this is what you can expect from 'La petit maison dans la forêt'.

In a few months time I'll hopefully be taking a course in photography so I thought it would be wise to get some practise. In the future I also want to be a writer and this worked for Cassandra in 'I Capture the Castle' except she used a penny notebook and I decided on a blog. Modern day equivalant? Anyway - Welcome to 'La petit maison dans la forêt'.

Aliènor