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Celebrating Garden Day UK with the help of Gardenesque
Garden day is the time to “Reap the rewards of your labour. No matter how big or small your garden” (https://www.gardenday.co.uk/) so you will find me reclining here, reaping my rewards…actually if it wasn’t for Gardenesque coming to my rescue, there wouldn’t be many rewards to reap. I managed to kill off all my Geraniums this winter (they have never suffered before from remaining outside..they liked it..they were use…ok, totally…
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Posterlounge
Bring spring inside and wave goodbye to the cold, grey winter This is a collaboration that has been months in the making. It marks my new foray into making a real life job of work from writing and it heralds the beginning of spring decorating. Posterlounge got in touch with me last year to ask if I would like to work with them on highlighting their incredible products. I looked…
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My English Country Cottage at Christmas
Well it’s mainly about the magazine shoot but lots of Christmas photos – ok? Naturally I was over the moon when Interiors writer and Stylist Naomi Jones contacted me to ask if I was interested in a Christmas magazine shoot, I immediately had images of me reclining in red velvet, sipping probably a whisky to look cool – even though I don’t actually like whisky (unless it’s Baileys). Then reality…
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Interview with Tori Murphy Textile Designer
As a child Tori Murphy wanted to be a fashion designer but as she grew up her dreams progressed to becoming an artist yet it wasn’t until her mid twenties that she realised she could have a career in textiles. Textiles is an area that allows me to be fluid as it is very creative but can then be applied across many different areas, including homeware, accessories, and elements of…
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Escape To The Country Necessities
When we first moved to this cottage we knew that there was a tick list of items that we would need to buy to achieve our country idyll. Aga – tick. Logburner – tick. Large scrubbed pine table – tick (would prefer French oak refectory table but my our kitchen table has stuck by us for years so I couldn’t betray the poor love, especially not after a big move,…
