Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Welcome to Friday and welcome to St. George’s Day here in the UK. It’s a beautiful day already in West Sussex and the weekend is set to be warmer than it has been so far this year. My condolences to all the runners taking part in the London Marathon, I know you like a bit [...]
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
The dining room sees a lot of action over any sort or holiday and this year is no exception. I’ve designed a brand new tablecloth with two stunning runners using some delicious fabric I picked up at my new favourite fabric store. I left the taffeta bows on the backs of the chairs from Christmas [...]
Friday, March 26th, 2010
I’ve been fiddling about this week and decorating certain areas of the house for Easter. Starting with the Entrance Hall. Do you remember how it looked at Christmastime? Well it’s a lot brighter now thanks to the distinct change in temperature and we’ve even seen the sun shining in through the windows at certain times [...]
Friday, March 19th, 2010
The birds are back. They wake us before the alarm goes off and I have to say it’s the most delicious way to start the day. I think perhaps Robert and I are consciously listening out for any signs of Spring as that means the babies are getting closer to being air-born. The arrival of [...]
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Good morning to you all from a very sunny West Sussex. We have been doing a lot of de-cluttering here at the house since the sun has come out. There is still a lot to do but I think this sudden rash of tidiness has something to do with the imminent arrival of two more [...]
Monday, February 15th, 2010
A week ago this corner looked like this! But it was time for a change and time to bring Spring into the house with some flowers. With pink and green being one of my favourite colour combinations I found this corner easy to fix up. And with the Ranunculus and Tulips doing most of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
