I know you were all thinking Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and with those amazing sleeves frankly who wouldn’t be thinking of him but Jam and I did some changing rooms of our own here at chateau Rose over the extended bank holiday weekend. This room used to be cream and have a couple of single beds in it (after gravy Read more about Changing rooms[…]
I’m in a bit of a blog quandary this week as I’m working on lots of things bur they are mostly presents which I can’t show on here for fear their intended recipients may be reading! This isn’t too bad however as I realise a hen update is well overdue. (a few weekends ago in Read more about Chicken progress[…]
Sorry it’s been so quiet on here of late, it wasn’t an intentional lapse but we suddenly found ourselves quite busy. I will update the archives shortly so you can catch up on exactly what we have been doing but the big news of the moment is that we are engaged! I kind of knew Read more about We’re engaged![…]
For Age UK, they asked and I knitted, but alas not quite fast enough, so an emergency day off was needed to sew all the bits together and stuff it. I got there in the end however and headed into town to hand my beautiful crofters cottage in. This is the picture it was based Read more about I knitted a house[…]
… magical pixies came and redid our bathroom (well it was a builder, but still it was pretty magical!). We weren’t sure what to do while the bathroom was being done as all the water had to be turned off and stuff taken out for the tiling to be done. As its our only bathroom Read more about And when we were away…[…]
It is my sad duty to report the passing of Helena, top chicken and undisputed beauty of the coop, and best friend of Myrtle. On a particularly cold winters morning when going to give the girls their breakfast and let them out for the day we found Helena still seemingly asleep in the nesty box, we Read more about Farewell Helena[…]
You may remember a couple of weeks ago I headed to Ardington School of arts and crafts to complete a stained glass panel. The actual panel as seen below used copper foil for the dragonflies and then set them into the leading/a traditional stained glass leaded frame to complete the piece. While I was really pleased with how Read more about Experimenting with copper foil[…]
I took Friday off to have a good look round Abingdon Crafts for Christmas. I go every year but this year I knew that Vikki Lafford (now Vikki Lafford Garside) and her amazing machine embroidery creations would be there. I had to find her! I first came across Vikki’s work in the Cornerstone in Didcot, we were Read more about Abingdon Crafts for Christmas Fair[…]
We are off to a wedding on Friday as Jam’s cousin Adam marries his Fiancée Vicki (all the best people are called Vikki you see 🙂 ). Nanna O.B (Jam’s nanna) has picked a very sparkly outfit for the occasion and mentioned to me a while ago that she would quite like a fascinator to Read more about My first foray into facinators[…]
Over the bank holiday we headed over to Newbury to help Jam’s mum tidy out a few things. She has bought a house in Malta and so quite a few of her lovely things were up for grabs. Having admired the chestnut roaster and toasting fork as well as the fireside tools for some time Read more about Some things old some things new[…]