I can't believe how fast the month of July has trickled thru my fingers! Where did it go? I also can't believe that a whole month has past here at West Cottage. Sometimes I wish I could make the time stand
As I was rushing thru the Painters marquee to get to the first practical class I booked myself in to. I saw loads of artists busily painting away or chatting to people in the middle of their stalls filled with
Hey you!!! It's Art in Action time!!!! :D Time to discover new things, learn new techniques. Have I got your attention? Are you sitting up in anticipation now? Good, then follow me
Today Robert and I went to the lovely village of Aston Tirrold to help R's sister Catherine prepare for her house move. She took us out to lunch at the local pub The Crown. Do you know English village pubs? If you
EDIT: Winner of the chickadee/bluetit painting is number 3 Patricia and Winner of the towhee painting is number 37 Marion It's been an exciting few days of trying to figure out exactly what where home for the summer is. I sat in my
So, figuring that we can't actually work all day, we decided to go have lunch at the Burford Garden Centre. You'd love it here. Walking into the huge, multi-layered, multi-spaced complex and hitting this wall of jasmine was just magical,
Junk shops + vintage shops + thrift shops = Happy! Because the one thing I absolutely love doing is finding one-of-a-kind, unusual things for my children (and me). And thank goodness for my iPhone. Happy little iPhone; clandestine little photo
Robert bought a new boot lid, (trunk lid), for his new experimental mini on Ebay.UK. So we jumped into the mini, (what else would we drive to another mini enthusiast's?), and we drove 42 miles away to Old Stratford to
The thing about our birthdays is that we're usually always together for mine in July and 50/50 for Robert's in November, so we make up for it when we can. Eleven am Robert said, "let's have my birthday day at
Yesterday my dear friend Elaine and I went to visit a private house. This is Sezincote House, a stately English house, which was built in 1795 by Colonel John Cockerrell (grandson of Samuel Pepy's) in a Neo-clasical, Neo-Mughal architecture. However, the