Stunning inspiration

We saw this on Etsy...made by Katie Blair Designs. We just love this note book. For us blogs are our way of sharing the things that inspire us...but sometimes something as beautiful as this, is inspiration all on its own...what would you fill it with?

Knit a village

We love what these women have done! What dedication to knitting!

Each house we think would make a lovely tea cosy...what else can we say apart from enjoy the pictures. 

A new life for books

Falling into books

We have always loved old books but sometimes they get too old to be read anymore. The pages fray, they take on an elderly musty smell, but we can't bare to get rid of them. 


We discovered these artists who have given old books a new and fabulous life...so inspiring and a way to remind us that the oldest, worn out possessions can still be turned back into treasures. 

Turning the old inside out to make something wonderful

Cold winter days

Frosty

It has been a cold, cold weekend. Heavy frosts and the need to curl up under a blanket to drink tea and eat spiced biscuits. We love the Winter as it marks the change of season; plants sleep and it makes us look forward to the Spring. But when the skies are grey, grey, grey...we wish that Spring would show us a bit of leg and let us know that she is truly on her way! 

Holidays

Judy and the parrots 

We have been thinking about holidays today. It is cold and the sky is so grey it seems to blend into the buildings, like a cool, heavy, blanket.


We had a look at old holiday photos to cheer ourselves up and this one made me laugh the most. Judy looks so proud to have three birds posing on her arms, when all that I could think of was that they might poo on her and dig their claws in! 


I love Judy's shoes in this picture...we thought that they were red...I would love to have them now. We love Martin Parr's book about British holidays....made us remember the ones in Brighton before it became trendy! Click below for a link to the book.
The Last Resort