Welcome to Blog Around The World, a circle of 40 bloggers bringing you …. the view from our kitchen windows, and maybe a scrapping space or two! Blog Around The World is the brainchild of New Zealander Helena, who can be found at http://helenascreativemaven.blogspot.com/, and was inspired by the wonderful Shimelle and her online class Blogging For Scrapbookers. An extra welcome to any readers who have joined via the blog train’s last stop at http://www.calendulafitzpatrick.blogspot.com/.
As for the view from my kitchen window, it’s not very exciting, I know, but that’s what happens when you live in suburbia. The gates are open because my DH had just left in the car and I was waiting for our nephew to arrive and park up before heading off to Uni. Those pink sacks that you can just about see by the right hand gate? They are the garden waste recycling bags and are currently full of dead leaves. And please just ignore the raised flower bed, everything needs digging over and some serious pruning.
If you would really like to see what my scrapping space looks like, you can see it here, as I blogged about it on 2 November.
From Suburban London, why don’t you pop across to see Deb in Arizona, USA and the view from her window? She loves all sorts of crafting and you should definitely check out her chalk blocks ~ I want some! You can find Deb at the brilliantly named PaperTurtle blog.
Thank you very much for taking part in our Blog Around The World.
This West London Life 
This is so interesting – I've seen beautiful blue skies and scorching heat, highly polished mirrored buildings, and then something that's far closer to what I recognise near my own home 🙂 Thanks for sharing x
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love looking thru the sheers then having them pulled back for me 🙂
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Ruth, I think that you have a lovely view – nice houses in your street – thanks for sharing a snippet of your life!
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cool gates, hope ur enjoying oliver
Jo xxx
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love those houses and how you talk about the details. thanks for being part of the blog party
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Looks like you've been working very hard clearing leaves! Thanks for drawing back the curtains and letting us see outside today. Hope you've had a great day.
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Grey skies too! I love the driveway and gates. Your craft space is good too!
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LOVE..LOVE your date calendar pictures.Great idea.
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What a lovely street. I also like the driveway and gates. Still no blue skies spotted by me so far…
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Can you let me have the link as I thought it might be nice to play along?
Hope you and A had a great day out x
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Love the sheers shot, that is very klever!
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Love the brick!!
Thanks for sharing! :o)
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Oh, your view is lovely! Funny how it's “not very exciting” to you, but when I saw it I gasped. I love it!
:o) Thank you for the very nice intro for my blog too. So sweet of you.
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Love your view. And congratulations of the 20 years. Hope you had a great day.
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I love the bricks out your window, and you did a really nice job “narrating” our view through your window.
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That looks so much like what I remember from my time in London, really took me down memory lane. Great view
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Oh, that is a lovely view, I love those typical English houses on the other side of the street. Have a nice day
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Love the cute English houses, even in suburbia the view is different from place to place.
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I do like your gates and driveway, beats my silly pebbles which drive me mad LOL! Thanks for playing xx
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Ooooh that's pretty! Nicer than my own view across the estate!
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I think that is an absolutely beautiful view, Ruth! England is so charming to me, and your burbs are far more charming than ours are. Loved seeing this. I like your brick drive and pretty gates as well.
XO,
Sheila 🙂
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Love your view!!
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Love the view from your window. The older style houses have so much more character than the 'boxes with windows' they keep building over here in Canada lately.
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