Tagged: Dreaming

Swing by x

A main focus of the garden planning is creating an area that people want to be pulled to, that’s different from any other part of the house.  I have always been a great admirer of the American porch – cool, shaded, sociable, restful, a place to sit and while away time without over missing the seconds ticking by.  A place you want to go with a good book and a long cold drink to hide away.  So on the list of musts, after pergola comes  swing chair..

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Bring on summer!

Laters, Kate x

What’s real?

I think I would like to live in a log cabin by water with honest furnishings and the simple things in life.  But there’s always the nagging thought – does life just look greener on the other side? Are you taking for granted the bits of urban grime that really make your heart sing? Or is living in the big smoke an assumption we all buy into?

Money is an assumption.  It now has no actual value other than the fact we all believe in it.  Take this dress – except that’s an assumption too because it’s really a nightie.  Are you prepared to accept that without questioning?


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These could all be multi-functional, year long investment buys – nightwear in the winter, day wear in the summer.  The only barrier is what you’ve been told. Or not.

 

Laters, Kate x

Who is Kate Bentley?

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It’s half term this week and we’ve gone away to the sea side town of Hastings to breathe the country air and walk by the sea.  As a result this is an eco-friendly week of posts, re-cycled from the past..starting with this one.  Enjoy x

Ever Googled yourself? I could be Kathryn Bentley..a Texas Native designing handmade jewellery and running the rather wonderful Dream Collective in Los Angeles..love her dress..

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And her style.

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 Or maybe I’m Kate Bentley the  award-winning professional painter based in the Lake District in the beautiful Lyth Valley.

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Pretty idyllic..

 

Or collecting pins on Pintrest..’cept it isn’t me..but I like her taste. I think she might be a nurse..

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Or maybe  I’m just Kate in a Bentley..

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(Photo by Kelvin Bruce)

The truth is, out here in the cyber-world, we can be who we want to be….and sometimes it’s pretty awe-inspiring to look around..

But after the burst of imaginary gasoline…I rather like coming home to my little reality again..after all, home is where the heart is.

Laters, Kate x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dodo Bar Or

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In London we’re still breathing clear blue skies and warm rays. It’s so nice to be able to still look at light, cotton clothes without thinking goosebumps. This label – Dodo Bar Or, headed by actress turned fashion designer Dorit ‘Dodo’ Bar Or is one that unashamedly flaunts all things summer and features on my wish list radar.

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Sigh.  There’s what I’m doing in my present.  What I want to do in the future. And all the dreams inbetween.

Laters, Kate x

Do you Dream?

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And then when you do, can you select your thoughts with silver tongs?

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I thought this was the way that everybody dreamt – it was only speaking to a friend last week that I realised what I took for escapism and wishful thinking was in fact a unique state of mind and has a name: Lucid dreaming.

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(All pictures from pinterest)

It’s that moment when you become conscious in a dream – sometimes it’s that time just as you’re waking up and you’re reaching out for a mood that’s disappearing fast over the horizon and you’re trying to catch it’s tail, because you know if it goes, you’re going to sense it’s loss, but you don’t know why.  But you know if you can catch it..it’s a magical, mythical beast…

And then there’s the dreaming you do with your eyes open..for me it’s a similar state and The Husband can spot it a mile off…I can run a list through my head and see all the actions so clearly, I can convince myself I’ve already completed the tasks. Or falling asleep when you’re the architect, director and star of all you see, softly slipping into a timeless world of controlled infinity where anything is possible…I think I’m going to have to explore this some more…in a quiet corner, somewhere..

 

Laters, Kate x