Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
With Easter fast approaching I thought I’d show you, in bite sized chunks, what I’m doing in my home to get ready for this delicious looking celebration. I say delicious looking because I really love the colours that are about at this time of year. I have some hyacinths coming up in my garden that [...]
Friday, March 12th, 2010
It’s Mothering Sunday this weekend in the UK and I’ve put together a gift bundle that may inspire you to wrap your gift to Mum a little differently this year. The usual thing to give on a day such as this is a gift of sorts, a card and some flowers. But you can wrap [...]
Friday, February 5th, 2010
Bright colourful corners are so welcome in my house right now and for the past week I’ve walked past this table and it’s cheered me up no end. Not only can I smell the candy and the sweets wafting up but it’s so cheery that I cant help but be cheered by it. Creating a [...]
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
I’ve decided to create a table full of all things things ‘Valentine’s Day’ and I’ll show you everything that it contains over the next couple of days. But today is the day of these super simple candy favor bags with a Valentine trim. I have used clear cellophane bags to hold various bon-bon’s, chocolate covered [...]
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
The snow has gone (for the time being), the sky is brighter and what’s that??? The nights are drawing out by a few minutes each day! This means that inspiration is flooding in and far be it from me to stop it so I look forward to showing you all of my current projects over the [...]
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
This I like. Seasonal colour. Berries picked from around the garden and hedgerows. Yellow, red, green and deep blue. Plonked in a jam jar that used to contain pasta sauce or jam and tied with odd lengths of ribbon that had been sitting in the drawer. I use this idea on my tables all the [...]
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
I still have a glut, a glut I tell you, of sweet peas. This comes from picking them almost daily and not letting the seed pods develop for too long. They have kept my vases filled for weeks, grown very tall and created a wall of sweet peas along one side of the fence. This [...]
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
I think it’s safe to say that we’re still very much in summertime. Nighttime’s are warm and the duvet is regularly substituted for a cotton sheet. But when you have guests to stay sometimes an old sheet just does not cut the mustard. And you can’t even think about boiling your guests as they sleep in your guest room. [...]
Thursday, July 30th, 2009
I’ve been using the same jug all summer. We’ve put lemonade in to it, Pimms, iced tea, flowers, EVERYTHING! So when I knew that we had some folks coming over to visit I also knew that the jug would make an appearance and I felt it needed a little makeover. Here is the plain jug waiting [...]
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Entertain & Celebrate – Saturday Morning in the Summertime Only two days to go, TWO DAYS! I am loving the weekends at the moment. The house is still usually full of people, which we love, but it takes on an air of casualness. We still potter about over the weekend but as soon as the bell goes [...]
