At Home in The Garden. Bringing the Outdoors IN!

I would dearly love to have a cabin in the garden. A hideaway nook for me and the husband to take turns to have some me-time in. Would be wonderful.

Follow Liska's board Tiger Log Cabin Dream Interior on Pinterest.

Tiger Lob Cabins have the perfect thing! They also have a shiny new blog called The Grassy Broad. Maybe I could be one of them if I got myself a cabin ;-) I'd certainly be more zen like ha ha!

Being that Aaron follows me everywhere, I know it'd be me and him out in the cabin, unless he was either at school, or busy with Daddy. I think I'd love being out there if I could convince them to both have an early night.

If you hop over to the Pinterest board you will see that I have chosen a coffee table that converts into a bed, so I could even have an early night tooooo if I got tired in there!

I haven't chosen an arm chair, as I don't want to encourage visitors to linger, and when I want to relax and get away from the desk, I will sit cross legged, zen like, in easy pose, on my yoga rug!

As you can see from my mood board, my needs are small. I'd only need a bookcase, a radio, a rug, a desk, some nice plants, and some nice lighting. I am a simplistic girl after all.

Minimalist would be the name of the game for my log cabin, and then I would add some personal items, that I wouldn't have to buy, like my sheepskin Kundalini yoga rug, and some throws. I'd bring my favourite mugs in there, and of course my favourite books that need that seclusion in order to be read.

I can imagine in this cosy nook of seclusion I could get back to my daily yoga practice, start sadhana once again, and even get back to teaching yoga again, like I did every Friday, for 6 years, right up until 38 weeks' pregnant. 

This beautiful cabin would be the perfect space to meditate and put the world to rights. After all, meditation benefits the space around you, so I could send out zen like vibes to all my neighbours, right from my own garden hideaway.

I've painted too good a picture in my mind. I want one now, like. right. now.

Don't be fooled by the childlike look of the book shelves. I have chosen these for their space saving qualities, as I want my yoga cabin to be spacious. It'll be all about the vibe, the lighting and the meditation baby!

A place free of the usual distractions (fridge and TV), a place where I can be at one with my higher self ;-)

This post is an entry for the competition over at 

Love Chic Living

As the competition states, yes indeed, I would like it to be a "stylish sanctuary" - that is exactly it!

I will leave you with a pic of me in my yoga days :-)

At The Stroke of Midnight - time for me on T'You'sDay

M is not only for Mum, it's also for Me (and me time)!

The ONLY trouble is, as a New Mum, you're the driving equivalent of a learner driver.
The L before the M!

Well THIS Mum has learned - it's taken too long, granted, but I am there.

Aaron is happier when I am happier, and that means taking - every so often - time for ME.

Cybher rocked my little world and Aaron was FULL of hugs for me the next day.

Last week I had a hair cut and a pedicure and I had a spring in my step for days - still have.

Tonight, here I am, at the stroke of midnight, watching tonight's two episodes of Corrie on catch up TV.  Granted it'll give me a late night, but it's worth it.  It might only be a little thing, and you the reader may not even like soaps.  Each to their own eh?  I know from a few years in the blogging world that we have many and varied hobbies.

June is going to be an amazing month.  We're away for the weekend for Aaron's birthday, then I have the weekend of Brit Mums Live to look forward to (lots of me time there) and then a weekend away with that +anya harris (and her boys and mine).

So, without further ado, I'll bring you to the point of this post.

I want us all to remember that M is for Me as well as Mum more often.  What's putting the spring in your step?

This will be a weekly Tuesday linky, except Tuesday is written as T'YOU'sDay, which is short for The You Is Day.

Several mums have linked up already :-)

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It represents a TV that is showing you the sky that is beyond the screen.  It represents the rose that you can give to yourself - the time you can make for you, if you make a few adjustments.

Liska xx

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Anyone else find they have to make a special effort for you/me time since becoming a parent?

Well I don't often do it, but since becoming a SAHM (stay at home mum) it has become EVEN more necessary, as if that was at all possible.  Considering I have adopted "attachment parenting" I find it is something I neglect as I am with Aaron from sun up to sun down, but recent events have taught me, me time gives me back my sparkle, as the Mummy Whisperer has been saying to be for years!

Last week I had to use a Christmas voucher and used it for a haircut (overdue since about 7 months) and a pedicure (my toenails were hoofs) and I felt like a MILLION dollars afterwards.  Pity it was AFTER Cybher (which incidentally also gave me a spring in my step).

Anyway, #CountryKids forces us to remember to get some outdoor time so that we can showcase it.  #R2BC (reasons to be cheerful) forces us to find reasons to be cheerful, #SilentSunday forces us to be aware of great photo opportunities, and #MagicMoments forces us to consider what might have taken place that was magic enough to write about and share.  

So I thought it might be ideal, if we had something that gave us a nudge to put ourselves first once a week, or more often ;-)

The ME time doesn't have to have happened on a Tuesday, just link it up on a Tuesday.  You can do the post in the days before if you like, but I will have the linky open each Tuesday and will pimp your linked up post out for you.

Anyway, people often abbreviate THE INTERNET to t'internet, so I thought TUESDAY could read T'you'sDay, which translated means The You Is Day, with the T' being short for "the" and the 's being short for "is".  Get it? Still with me? Hope so!

So....... do you think you've had some ME time recently??? Can you write about it by tomorrow?

I will share the linky here and in tomorrow's post.  Grab the code above which the lovely Nickie and Liz helped me with.  The actual code instructions can be found at Code it Pretty.  The best place to store your badge image seems to be Photo Bucket.

Liska xxx