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Tin Mug

“Just keep going” yellow tin enamel mug

isles painting

Isles with heather sketch card with envelope

puffin card

Puffin sketch card with envelope

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ON THE GRAM

Oct 11

Almost two weeks on the island already! *happy sigh

#happyplace #homeishere #isleofmull #islandlife #justkeepgoing #scotland

Oct 5

Beautiful Mull.

Someone was asking for some Mull inspiration photos and I’m always happy to oblige , so here you go! These are some of my faves over the last few years. Includes:

Mull itself, from the ferry
Duart Castle
Dervaig viewpoint
Staffa and the puffins!
Tobermory lighthouse
Loch Ba
Tobermory Bay at sunrise
More Tobermory including the amazing @mullicecream
Road down to Bunessan / Pennyghael area
Ardalanish bay beach
Treshnish @treshnish
Black beach
Calgary Bay
MacKinnon’s Cave

Just a few places you can enjoy when you come to visit ME! And the island and all the good people and places and shops and restaurants. It’s good for the soul (and the body and mind too). ❤️✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#isleofmull #calgarybay #tobermory #tobermorybay #beachvibes #lighthousesofinstagram #tobermorylighthouse #duartcastle #castlesofscotland #beautyeverywhere #justkeepgoing #sometimesjuststop #rest

Oct 5

Moving day!

It was only Monday and (in the best possible way) feels like a lifetime ago.

I’m still diving into multiple boxes every time I’m looking for that one thing (envelopes, a particular book, the microphone for my office, an extension cable), but I’m now past the “must haves” and into the “nice to haves”.

The move went relatively smoothly: after all, I was moving to an island, so it’s not fair to expect everything to be easy. But the ferry was on time, and the truck made it over, and I even got over on an earlier ferry so I could be at the house first. And it wasn’t raining!!

Sure, we had a little glitch with not being able to get the moving truck up the hill, so we carried half the truck’s contents up the hill and up and down stairs. But i loved the movers’ attitudes: just has to be done, so you do it as cheerfully as you can. We got a smaller truck the next morning and that went a lot faster.

But the electricity works and i have broadband and phone signal and i had sunshine for three days and when it rains i can be cosy inside.

Which is what I’m doing today. I have a living room full of boxes to tackle but I’m starting the day sitting in my yellow chair, drinking coffee and reading. And being distracted by lovely things like flying birds or the wind in the trees or clouds.

Happy Saturday to you.

#isleofmull #movinghome #homesweethome #atlast #rest #viewsfordays #goodmorning #leweekend #saturday #reading #unpacking #justkeepgoing #sometimesjuststop

Sep 28

For the last four months, this view of my new living room windows has kept me going through a lot of hard work.

Phone calls. Forms. Emails. Adjusted and refreshed home reports. Surveys. Issues with structural engineer surveys. Endless emails to solicitors (and from solicitors). Forms which need to be printed out on an actual printer. Deposits. Mortgages. Changes to mortgages.

And that’s all normal for any big purchase…but in addition to all of this has been the mental and emotional ups and downs.

Will it go through? What if it doesn’t? Sure I could find another house but it’s taken me two years to find this one in the right part of the island…okay just keep going…don’t think about it not working out…

Helpfully, I am stubborn as a rock in the best possible way when it comes to dreams.

There were at least three significant points in this process when we had to come up with a clever alternative route to make sure I got the house. And I dug my heels in and talked to more people and got more advice and tried it another way and we figured it out.

And now I own my house.

On my dream island.

These windows have gotten me through a lot. I’d hit the stage of “arghhh this is so frustrating this will never happen”…and then I’d think of sitting in front of those windows with that view, beautiful regardless of the weather, looking out on peace and tranquillity. I’d take a deep breath and go again.

It gave me a real visual (literally) on what it’s like to have a “vision”.

I could see these windows in my mind’s eye. From many miles away, on the mainland, on a busy street, on a train, wherever… even at the most stressful times I’d see the windows – the sun shining in or the rain pouring down or the wind moving the trees, and it would get me through the minutiae which need to happen in order to get the dream.

So whatever vision you’ve got for your life or your business – literally keep your windows in mind.

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#creativeheadspace #newhome #island #isleofmull #justkeepgoing #beautyeverywhere #onestepatatime #peace #vision