Late last spring when everything was blooming in the gardens and yards around our home, I longed for a small, pretty space to occasionally 'escape' to with my cup of tea. Since we are gutting everything for the house remodel, it didn't make a whole lot of sense to do anything big. My husband and I like to stick to a 'master plan', but the romantic in me envisioned something like this...
This little spot was off to the side of the Villa we stayed in in Tuscany a couple of years ago.
So, our gardener Eswin and I hatched a plan. If he worked on the space g-r-a-d-u-a-l-l-y...
It would just kind of evolve...
The table and chairs were an Alameda find, we had the bench, the pots are from Home Depot and the boxwood were in a garden bed that is going to be torn out, so Eswin moved them for me.
A perfect Saturday afternoon presented itself - sunshine after a week of storms, no kid's sports, everyone at home puttering around. I'll just take my tea down to the garden for a minute of quiet...
Until Violet the cat followed me...
And then little miss sporty spice followed...
And of course, where there's a ball, Penny's never far behind...
And then my husband saw us all down there and thought we'd like to have the leaves blown away...
I hope that you're having a relaxing weekend too!
