🤩 COTTAGERS - I THOUGHT I MADE THIS WORD UP - I WAS WRONG! The word Cottager POPPED INTO MY HEAD a while back. It came from a trip I had in France - when I stumbled upon the sweetest tiny restaurant called "The Potager" The term "potager" refers to a traditional French kitchen garden where vegetables, herbs, and flowers are intermingled for both aesthetic and culinary purposes. I even gave my own meaning to the word .... 🏡"COTTAGER" essentially refers to anyone in our little cottage community here to grow in the area of creativity, cottage crafts and heart matters. WELL, I thought I better google before I gave claim to my famous word creation 🧐 I found this.... 🏡 "A cottager is a person who lives in a cottage. Depending on context, it can refer to a vacationer in a private resort home, or a rustic rural dweller." I still hold to my meaning where our Cottage members shall hereby be called "Cottagers" 🌟 Oh and I was thrilled to find a picture online of the place I visited some years back.

Life at the Cottage is always interesting. I love the creative process of making these videos and sharing my Cottage Life with you all. For the time being, it's all I have space to do while I'm squeezed into this tiny cottage. Sharing makes me happy, and I'm achieving some of my goals. The editing process is long, and I still make mistakes along the way, but it's ok. In this video, I realised I forgot to add the pictures of the journal I gifted to my Scottish-loving friend. 📓 It was a handmade journal made by me and was so perfect for the whimsy soul that she is! Needless to say, she loved all the vintage papers and special additions it contained, and the cover was almost Tartan, 😅 but not quite!

Lots is going on at the cottage this week, and I haven't much time - life has thrown a little curve ball, changes are afoot, but for now, here's a little glimpse into life at the cottage! More about the curveball later!

I watched your jar video and loved it. Thank you for sharing. I love jars too!

Here's a little YT - a bit longer that usual. Farmy, funny, sad and hopefully entertaining 🌟 Drop a comment if you get time to watch it. Any kind, critical advice accepted - there's always room for improvement - I think there may be a grammatical error in one of the typed lines! See if you can spot it!