Hello, June! This has got to have been the most spectacular year for weather that we’ve had for ages, don’t you think? All that wonderful frost and fog in February and then glorious sunbeams (with awesome thunder and rain storms to water the garden) thereafter. Spring was a beauty and now summer is here already. Last week was a blur of rearranging out in the garden and with a little furniture swapping and paring back, the Tea Shed is now feeling all Wabi-Sabi-rustic.
Hands up if you’ve ever sawn the legs off a small dining table to make it the perfect height for taking tea seated on a floor cushion or in an armchair? We are not afraid to take a saw to a vintage piece of furniture here!
I invested in these beautiful tea bowls with some money I had been given for my birthday in February and finally got some cushion pads for these wool and linen covers from Urbanara. I have been saving both for ages indoors awaiting this day. Then basically decided I needed to dedicate a whole ritual and room to them plus all the TEA! For a list of the other items I bought and used in here this time around, I’ve put together a mini source list at the bottom of this post.
It’s feeling a lot calmer in here now, fewer patterns and colours but lots of subtle details and tactile textures.
Linen and wool, wood and ceramics. The scent and steam of herbal tea in the air and some incense in the mornings.
Simple new wall decorations – a few framed pictures and a leaf mobile swiftly made (from and old Fog Linen metal garland I bought a few years ago). I love the flash of old gold when the breeze blows it and the clink of the metal leaves as they sway together.
The glass baubles above have candles inside for an extra evening glow, the branch they hang from was one that had to be removed from our birch tree.
We really are loving this slightly more paired back rustic feel, less to sweep the cobwebs off and just a few plants to water down here now.
