october vibes

New colours for October.

I got totally sucked in to the Gen See "viral" matte liquid eyeshadow on the gram. I must've clicked on it once and, I kid you not, the bloody thing came up once out of every 10 posts I scrolled through after that. And every single time I looked on stories. Every day. For months. In the end I caved and I ordered the two colours that promised I would have lighter and brighter eyes, I would look wide awake without trying and have a glow like I slept 10 hours.

I can confirm that none of the above are true and I still look like I'm surviving on 2 hours sleep in a field, and I have zero glow about me.

However, they did come in the cutest packaging, a colour blocked little box, which inspired my colours for this month. So all was not lost.

breakfasts are just better in a fancy Greek hotel

Does anyone else get back from a holiday and decide they're gonna just live on fresh fruit and veg from now on?

I'm just nipping to the supermarket cos my breakfast was a massive disappointment this morning....

girls' trip....

This is a picture of the dog waiting patiently for me to get back from 5 nights in Greece....

 

 

holiday countdown is ON

 Four more days of Autumn left before I get the hell back to summer 🙌

new patterns

I made some patterns from the GreatCupboardClearout.

Then added them to some kitchen containers....

And then, of course, I had to add them to some baby outfits....

As always these designs are available to license ...but drop me an email if you need anything cos I don't update my website anywhere near as often as I should...

dawn@dawnmachell.co.uk 

 

cupboard of doom

We have this massive corner cupboard in the kitchen with spinny-roundy shelves for food. In my dream kitchen I would have a cool walk-in larder with everything stored in a neat and tidy order. But I'm stuck with this. The spinny-roundy mechanism is clunky and results in spillages. And stuff always falls over round the back. I chuck stuff in it and close the door, and try to ignore the smell of spilled soy sauce on everything.

Anyway I decided to clean it out on Saturday. 

It's practically empty now cos it turned out that most of the shit in there went off in 2022. Including THREE tins of butterbeans.

We don't even like bloody butterbeans.

lie-in incoming

It's been a busy week....

 

big coat

I had to wear my big coat to walk the dog tonight.

And we had the log burner serviced this aft... and then lit it to celebrate. Cos it's bloody freezing.

And now it's dark.

So that's me moaning and groaning for the next 6 months then.

sunday stroll

We walked the dog through the woods yesterday.

We did not see any bears.

We did see the pub though. And we did sit in the beer garden for a bloody lovely Sunday roast. 

it's autumn...

It was dark by 8m tonight 😩

Summer is over 😞

september

Look, I know I sound bloody old and boring saying this, but....how the hellie can it be September already? Where has this year gone?!! 

Barney

This is the barn owl who lives over the back moor. He's usually spotted at dusk so we don't see him in summer. But dusk is creeping ever earlier so we might spot him again soon.

I mean he's a lovely sight.

But I'd prefer to keep the 10pm daylight ta.

not ready for autumn yet thanks....

Look, whoever switched the weather onto it's autumn setting, could you please switch it back to summer. It's not time yet. Stop being annoying!

 

august birthday

Our little monkey had a birthday yesterday. And horror of horrors he had to work!

The kid who was always on some exotic foreign holiday on his birthday, or in recent times had the bank holiday to shield him, had to actually do a full day's work!

I mean, he made it to 22 before he could no longer blag a free day off.... but still....poor Alf! 

big cats pattern