Friday, January 29th, 2010
If you’ve been reading my site for any length of time you’ll know that my Autumn project was to give my pantry a little makeover. Well, Christmas kind of took us over a little bit so it’s now been transferred to a Spring project. And we’re making great progress.
Yesterday I finished the design for the [...]
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Collections of things scare me somewhat. Collections usually mean something that I have inadvertently collected not something that I have consciously collected. You know the thing - piles of magazines, heaps of clothes that I no longer wear, hotel samples, boiled sweets at the bottom of my bag. They are the sorts of collections I [...]
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
At this time of year the emphasis can very much be on the dining table; the colour of the table cloth, the size of the place-mats, the font you use to write the name cards, it goes on… but what about the chairs?
They are equally as important as the table and often overlooked in the [...]
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
First of all may I take this opportunity to wish all of my American friends a wonderful Thanksgiving. Have a fabulous day one and all.
Second of all may I take this opportunity to show off my Christmas Chair for this year. Inadvertently I always seem to end up with a Christmas Chair in my home [...]
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
So here it is, my Gingerbread House for 2009. I’ve made it early for two reasons.
1, Because I’m obsessed with Christmas
2, Because I like to give you, the reader, a chance to decide whether or not you’d like to make one. There’s nothing worse than being presented with an idea that you would have loved [...]
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
When we moved in to this house the room that is now my walk-in pantry was an office and the boxes on the wall were used for filing etc.. The boxes are awfully sweet and really quite useful but as I was going to be using them for ‘food stuffs’ I felt I wanted to [...]
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
I’m all about creating corners at the moment. Little spaces filled with magic and a lack of cynicism that inhabitants and guests alike can pop into when the urge takes them. I believe this is because Christmas is fast approaching and I always want the house to have the feel of a cosy nook around [...]
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
My mum occasionally comes out with statements that you can tell have just that second entered her head and promptly left her mouth. Actually, I say that my mum does that, WE ALL do that in this family.
It saves time.
My Mum’s last statement was, fortunately, a statement that I agreed with and had actually thought [...]
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
When Making Over a Room, Where Does One Start? With the Blanket Cupboard Of Course!!
The weekend that just past started off so rainy. It came down steadily for several hours at the start of Saturday so as Robert was busy tiling something wonderful for behind the Aga I set about making mischief in one of [...]
Thursday, October 8th, 2009
How To Make Simple Kitchen Curtains
Yesterday was the first day that ‘it’ was felt in the air. Rain fell in sheets, the radio played ever so gently in the background and the kitchen was filled with the smell of baking. We were officially cosy and will stay that way for many weeks to come. We haven’t had a fire [...]