Wild Things

Tiny Happy was also one of the first blogs I started reading, and is still a daily read for me. It is one of the most beautiful and calming spaces on the craziness that is the internet, and Melissa never fails to inspire. I am so thrilled to have you posting here today, thanks Melissa!

Hello, lovely readers. My name is Melissa, and I'm honoured to be guest-posting here at Bliss in a Teacup.

One of my favourite things about summer are wildflowers. In 2008 and 2009, my partner, two kids and I lived in Norway and I think that's where I really fell in love with weeds and other plants growing along the motorways. Here in New Zealand, our seasons are less extreme, so quite a few plants are flowering during the winter months. I never quite appreciated the bold and rebellious nature of wildflowers until I'd driven through the Swedish countryside one summer, taking photos out of the window from my passenger seat. When I got home, I made embroideries and drawings of the plants I'd found.

Here are some of the wildflowers I gathered over my last three summers- in Norway, Sweden and New Zealand.

Looking through these has me longing for summertime- we are currently deep in winter here at the bottom of the world.

Hope you get to gather some wildflowers this summer.

Colour pop!

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You wouldn't know it by looking at my wardrobe, but I've found myself being drawn to bright pops of colour lately. I think it's perhaps a Spring thing, or a combating the rainy, grey days thing. Luckily there's lots of bright flowers around the place in Vancouver for me to bring inside and pop around the house to brighten things up!

Speaking of combating the grey, rainy days, I made my first attempt at making marshmallow last night! I'm a little worried that I didn't quite beat them enough to make them really airy and light, but apparently I'm meant to leave them out for 24hrs (making them ready by 9pm this evening, perfect timing) which in my head has become the magical step in the process that will turn out lovely, fluffy marshmallows. We shall see!

Happy Tuesday! What are you up to today?

xo