I actually went to Scriptum, the most beautiful fantasy shop that any lover of paper products and all things writing could ever imagine to shop in, but look what I found around the corner! A brand new shop! :) Objects of Use,
Thursday is Vintage Market day in Oxford. It takes place between 9am and 4pm on the Gloucester Green, which isn't actually a green in the normal green in the middle of town sort of way, it's more like a Gloucester
Come with me for a tour of my friend Susanna's Tudor cottage and garden. When I think of an English home, this is what I think of. I could even say this home and garden is an English Masterpiece. :) There is
I love paper and paper products. I love to design, craft, save, collage, draw on and collect all sorts of papers. Imagine my delight at being able to learn how to emboss paper. This was a very quick and very fun experiment at
I made this beautiful, complicated pendant in a practical class at Art in Action. I went into the class not knowing a thing about enamelling techniques and came out wearing this lovely piece of original wearable art and best of
It's been a while since I declared Sunday Race Day! Saturday morning we were sort of thinking of getting up and heading down to the weekend open races at Avon Park and then our friend Simon texted to say he's coming
There is a new feeling in the air around here. A fresh new perspective about art, my art, any art in a way which the Wordpress weekly photo challenge has asked for. These are the days of Art in Action; a
Come see what I found at RGB Kew. A 40 place setting tea party in celebration of The Great British Tea. Here is the story of this project. This project was created by Kirsti Davies, a London artist, and realised by
It's been tradition for the past decade that on each birthday I get a visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. I love it here. This year my birthday fell on the hottest day of the year so far, but
Oh my gosh I'd so redecorate! I completely have to stay out of the Burford Garden Centre. Here is just a tiny corner of this fantastic place, only about 1/50 of the space that you can see here, I could live