🤩 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.

I'd love to welcome @Cherise Clough who is a "System's Fairy" and I love good systems for everything from work in my office to cleaning the bathroom! Cherise is an admin Queen and @Paula Chapin is a paper lover who is ready to nuture her creative heart, so we are going to have lots to talk about!

Today was a holiday here in Western Australia. We spent a lot of the day cleaning up after a wild storm and then spent the afternoon by the fire burning off all the branches that fell. Ate food with the family and had a beautiful relaxing Monday! CREATIVE MOMENTS I also taught one of my daughters to crochet 🧶 ✨and started a few little recycle projects! How did your week start?

Sundays is always a contemplative day for me! Today I as I sat and journaled, I listened to music - it helps me focus and get in touch with what’s really going on in my heart. I’ve had a hectic week and found it hard to settle - my mind felt busy and overwhelmed so it was good to sit and write. Down my feelings as I listened to the words of numerous songs… The words below caught my attention. What are your thoughts when you see them?

Made some mini octopuss recenly. Some got rehomed to a chairty raffle