tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13649702581868834292024-03-12T07:46:14.642+00:00gillyflowerLife in the slow lane..........gillyflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410673843788487544noreply@blogger.comBlogger313125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364970258186883429.post-20862570794401018942022-11-13T10:39:00.007+00:002022-11-13T11:11:18.585+00:00Hope Springs Eternal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJYnXZcaZcaYfqRlepxoVmNnggGjVan8-HWIsUmWxCNvbynF1VU25h4ye1G2k2DxuEhIkHjzKDKXCGuCYj3OABC-3m0s16q3h_xJugdUpKc9l9pSLs45mZbUYgfDw0ReMHKdJnas2OW6I3s_RZr4MSd6EcotXFoU2YIzBPy6k7LNs9188LIsuXsN-qg/s3024/26BE8A55-E9FA-41BF-BEF5-A4777927582B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJYnXZcaZcaYfqRlepxoVmNnggGjVan8-HWIsUmWxCNvbynF1VU25h4ye1G2k2DxuEhIkHjzKDKXCGuCYj3OABC-3m0s16q3h_xJugdUpKc9l9pSLs45mZbUYgfDw0ReMHKdJnas2OW6I3s_RZr4MSd6EcotXFoU2YIzBPy6k7LNs9188LIsuXsN-qg/s320/26BE8A55-E9FA-41BF-BEF5-A4777927582B.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Just found this unpublished post written before Covid dominated our lives and thought I’d post it anyway, even if just to provide me with an incentive to attempt to re-establish some regular blogging! It also reminded me of the gloomy winter months that still lie ahead of us before experiencing that glimmer of hope I mention below that happily occurs, occasionally and without warning, during the early months of the new year.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">***</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">(Written a few years ago BC………)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">
Well, I'm not quite sure where the last six months went, but here we are already in mid February and well on the way towards Spring.</div>
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Yesterday I visited an interesting nursery with my friend Jane. Down a narrow lane and set in the grounds of a school, we first discovered The Walled Nursery at Hawkhurst in Kent last summer and it is a little gem.</div>
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Set in a beautiful Victorian walled garden, they are gradually restoring the old Vicotrian glasshouses, melon house etc. As well as a great selection of plants, they serve excellent homemade lunches, coffees and teas set in the old vinery where a huge, gnarled vine of over 100 years old still lives on. Tables and chairs are set out on gravel (clever use of tennis balls prevents your chair sinking!) and the tall brick walls are covered in vintage and antique gardening and agricultural tools.</div>
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We were lucky to visit on a bright and sunny morning and were excited by the sight of honey bees buzzing in and out of the pretty pale yellow primrose-like primulas, mini irises, hellebores and hebes on sale. After the bitter cold dark days of winter this year, the sight and sound of bees filled me with delight, a sudden surge of happiness and hope, that Spring is not far off, that it <i>will </i>get warmer and light and brighter, and there <i>will</i> be flowers!</div>
gillyflowerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410673843788487544noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1364970258186883429.post-68095681825088970782017-08-25T14:47:00.001+01:002017-08-25T14:49:58.108+01:00Etsy Shop Update<div style="text-align: center;">
As I've been super busy with the sewing machine this last week I thought I'd share a quick roundup of new items made and now available in my<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns" target="_blank"> Etsy Shop.</a></div>
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All of the following items have been added in the last few days and are available at the time of writing.</div>
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I've made a couple of new pincushions. The first one is made from pretty blue and white fabrics from the Blue Sky range designed by Edyta Sitar of Laundry basket quilts for Andover Fabrics, backed in a pretty red print.</div>
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Another pincushion, this one in beautiful soft grey blue French General fabrics and the same pretty red print back.</div>
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Both pincushions are plump and pretty, and with a subtle scent of lavender as I can never resist adding a bit of lavender, these are lovely to use when sewing or would make a pretty gift.</div>
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<b>Drinks Coasters</b></div>
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A set of 6 beautiful vintage floral linen coasters with frayed edges and a woven natural checked reverse are now in my shop.</div>
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Another set of coasters in pretty blues and whites from Blue Sky fabrics have been added.</div>
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And another set of the popular French General fabric coasters is now in my shop.</div>
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I made these pretty lavender filled key rings /key fobs from antique fabrics back in May /June and shared<a href="https://gillyflower5.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/such-long-time.html" target="_blank"> here </a>in a post, but have only just got around to adding them to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns" target="_blank">my shop</a>.</div>
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One is made from a lovely antique soft green and white striped French ticking, and the other slightly smaller hexagon is made from a pretty tiny floral antique cotton.</div>
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I've just finished making four pretty linen and blue floral fabric glass cases and they are now in my<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns" target="_blank"> Etsy shop</a>.</div>
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Sorry about all the little collages but I do enjoy making them!</div>
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Thanks for looking!</div>
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It's hard to believe we're past the middle of August now.......why is that the warm months always fly by the quickest?</div>
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It's been a funny old summer here and despite the warm, even hot, days that we've had, the amount of wet days seems to dominate and I'm in the mindset that Autumn is really not far away at all. </div>
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Gathering the first blackberries in July this year was the start of this pre-Autumn feeling. So early, usually we don't pick them until the middle or end of August. It's been a bumper year for blackberries here in Kent and we have stacks in the freezer already and hopefully more to come. </div>
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To me, the mornings smell autumnal, the evenings too when there's the smell of bonfires or wet grass in the air. I've started making warming soups and beany stews, the oil has been delivered in readiness for the chilly mornings (we actually had the heating on for an hour each day when it was wet and chilly - in August!!) so it takes me by surprise when I step outside on a sunny morning and find its actually warm and still summer!</div>
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When the weather was wet I got back into sewing after a longish break. After selling a few patchwork pot stands in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns" target="_blank">Etsy Shop</a> recently, I thought I'd better get sewing again so got out my patchwork books and was inspired to make some more. </div>
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Some of the pot stands below are already sold but there are still a few left in my shop<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns" target="_blank"> here</a></div>
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They are made in traditional block designs, some log cabin Courthouse Steps designs, a Windmill design and a Broken Dishes design. I will be making more.</div>
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Windmill design</div>
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a lucky win of complimentary tickets to the Festival of Quilts at the Birmingham NEC last weekend, courtesy of the generous<a href="http://carolynforster.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Carolyn Forster</a>, quilter, teacher and author of lots of beautiful books including <a href="http://carolynforster.co.uk/books/quilting-on-the-go/" target="_blank">Quilting on the Go</a>, inspired me even more and now there is no stopping me! </div>
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The Festival of Quilts was amazing! I'd wanted to go for years, and being a member of the Quilters Guild I was always aware when it was on through the quarterly magazine articles, but having no sewing friends I never plucked up the courage to go alone. </div>
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A good friend with no sewing interest wanted to go and we both had a brilliant time. She now knows what a fat quarter is and is about to tackle her first patchwork project!</div>
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Here are just a few of the amazing quilts that were on display.</div>
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Inspired by the beautiful quilts, and armed with some gorgeous fabrics, I got busy making something on a slightly smaller scale than the quilts.....some little patchwork coaster sets!</div>
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French General fabric coaster set 1, now sold</div>
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French General fabric Set 2</div>
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Blue Sky fabrics by Edyta Sitar for Andover </div>
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The last two sets of 4 coasters, the French General fabrics Set 2 and the Blue Sky set are available in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns" target="_blank">Etsy Shop</a><br />
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Edited : Blue Sky set now SOLD</div>
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Before the Festival I also made some cushions for home and for sale</div>
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One for the sitting room.......</div>
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......one for my daughters bedroom which sits nicely on her cosy chair</div>
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.......and one for my online shop! An upcycled denim jeans cushion now in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns" target="_blank">Etsy Shop</a></div>
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I've also been making some reversible bandana bibs which are currently being "tested" out by a friends baby granddaughter! If they fit well then I will make some for the shop.</div>
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Enjoy the rest of the summer everyone, may the sun shine long into September (please, pretty please, as I'm off on holiday soon!)<br />
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<b>Edited 21 Aug</b> : As the little Blue Sky Set of Coasters shown earlier in this post has now sold, I have just finished a similar set (see above and below) which is now in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns" target="_blank">Etsy Shop here</a>. These coasters have a definite vintage French feel about them, with the beautiful blue, cream and white fabrics used and the hand quilted finish.<br />
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.........since I've posted on here!!!</div>
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Back in the Spring in fact, and now we're already half way through the summer.</div>
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Not quite sure how I've filled that time but I know I've been busy doing something!</div>
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The garden is looking quite colourful and productive so I know I've been spending a lot of time sowing, potting on, planting, taking cuttings, watering, weeding and yet more weeding and watering!</div>
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We have picked our grown from seed broad beans, and are currently picking the climbing beans and dwarf French, all which have been good this year and surprisingly free from the usual slug/bird/rabbit attacks. The broad beans suffered a lot of black fly this year, which the ants valiantly tried to keep under control, but it didn't seem to hinder the growth of the bean pods.</div>
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For the first time I'm trying soya beans grown from seed and they seem to be doing well. I've also got a fair few runner beans although I've lost one or two plants which seem to have just faded away although I'm not quite sure why as there is no sign of any insect attack.</div>
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I've also grown outdoor cucumbers from seed and they are romping away with the first cucumbers almost ready for picking. The courgettes are a bit slow this year so we haven't yet picked any but there are lots of baby courgettes coming so it won't be long.</div>
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I grew rather too many kale plants, both ordinary (Reflex) and red (Curly Scarlet), and they are looking pretty healthy and growing nicely. So far no sign of caterpillar attack although now I've said that.........</div>
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The swiss chard and spinach which I planted direct came to virtually nothing, so we've re-sown in pots and will plant out another batch in a week or so.</div>
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The tomatoes are just about ready to harvest in the greenhouse, and they are the only vegetable plants I bought as I left it far too late to sow any seeds this year. A kind neighbour topped up the few I'd bought so I have 3 or 4 different varieties ripening, including a golden cherry type.</div>
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I've had a good few days out visiting gardens for inspiration and buying a few new plants. An annual trip to Sissinghurst for my Birthday was brilliant as usual, and a trip to Great Dixter was perfect too. I always take new ideas away from these gardens, whether it be new favourite plants or planting combinations, or a clever way of growing or staking vegetables.</div>
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The following photos are of Great Dixter Gardens, Northiam, East Sussex.</div>
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We had a gloriously peaceful week in Cornwall with the dog back in June, where we walked to pretty Port Isaac in the rain from the holiday cottage, visited numerous beautiful sandy beaches and coves, explored a few National Trust gardens including my all time favourite Trelissick Gardens on the Fowey estuary, and pottered round quaint villages and towns.</div>
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I also had a day out in Arundel a few weeks ago, and whilst there visited Arundel Castle where the gardens were a huge surprise. So much to see and so totally unexpected! Well worth a visit if you are in the area.</div>
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Arundel castle gardens</div>
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an enormous peony flower, so beautiful!</div>
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I have done very little sewing these last few months as the garden has taken over, but I have made a few little things, and I've also added a few new items in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns" target="_blank">Etsy Shop.</a></div>
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dish or pot stands soon to be in my Etsy Shop</div>
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provence lavender filled sachets and hearts are in my Etsy Shop</div>
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lavender filled antique fabric key fobs</div>
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I also have another Etsy shop now, an <a href="https://www.etsystudio.com/shop/gillyflowerdesigns" target="_blank">Etsy Studio</a> shop which has a few supplies for making your own items, mainly pincushions at the moment, but I'm hoping to add a few new items in the coming weeks including upcycled and vintage fabric bundles / patchwork pieces.</div>
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Thank you for your visits and comments on my last post. I look forward to catching up with you on your blog very soon!</div>
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Hello everyone! It's been a month or two since I last posted, and spring is thankfully here!</div>
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New makes this last month include neck scarves that double as headbands and a couple of new cushions. I couldn't resist making Logan his own neckerchief!</div>
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The LOVE cushion with crochet letters is already in my<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/499368474/crochet-love-blue-ticking-cushion-cover?ref=shop_home_active_3" target="_blank"> Etsy Shop here</a> and the Tilda floral cushion will be heading in there soon.</div>
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Soon to be listed in my Etsy Shop are lots of pretty lavender filled hearts pictured below - made from vintage embroidered linens, antique floral linens and cottons, and linen hearts with applique roses. They are all filled with a heavenly scented lavender from Provence.</div>
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Also going into my shop are some more linen glasses cases. </div>
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I only have two left at the moment, both in a pretty duck egg polka dot Rose and Hubble linen, lined with natural linen, but I shall be making more of the pretty floral and polka dot linens that I have made in the past which have now all sold.</div>
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I also have a charcoal grey polka dot linen tea cosy lined in red and white stripes with a heart applique going in to the shop, and a couple more planned.</div>
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Just a quick post to share my latest makes, and to share a quick way of making a cushion back using an old shirt!</div>
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After a bit of a break from creative sewing last year, except for a few commissions, I've finally got back into sewing again and realise how much I've missed it.</div>
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Last year I pieced together this triangles cushion front and hand quilted it, but then never found time to make it into a cushion.</div>
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I've now finished it using an old work shirt as a back. </div>
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I love to use this method as it is both a good way of getting more use out of a shirt no longer fit to be worn, and for making a quick cushion back without the fuss and bother making buttonholes (which I hate) or having to cut out fabric to make an envelope closure.</div>
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Lay out an old (but washed and ironed) shirt and cut along the side and shoulder seams to separate the shirt front. (Remove breast pocket if it has one)</div>
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Using your finished cushion front as a pattern, place it carefully onto the shirt front making sure the button closure is placed centrally, and check the buttons /buttonholes are not where you will cut.</div>
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Once you are happy with your placement, pin the cushion front to the shirt and cut around it. </div>
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Now place the cushion front and shirt back right sides together, making sure to undo two or three buttons to allow for turning it the right way round once sewn up, then stitch together around all four sides. </div>
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Trim seam to within 1/4" of stitching and neaten off either with zig zag stitch, pinking shears or using an overlocker.</div>
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Turn cushion cover to the the right side and press.</div>
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This one is made from vintage linen and vintage lace.</div>
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At the weekend I added some pockets to a reversible apron I made for my Mum a couple of years ago.</div>
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Before, without pockets.......</div>
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And after......now with pockets.....a large one on the floral side....</div>
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.......and a smaller, double pocket on the patchwork side</div>
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The double pocket came about by chance. Attaching a long pocket like the one on the reverse would have covered up a lot of the patchwork design, and having already sewn up the double sided rectangle I just folded it in half, then dropped it down an inch, then attached it to the apron stitching down two sides and the bottom leaving both top sides free. </div>
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Voila! A double pocket.</div>
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I made another one of these reversible patchwork aprons for my daughter.</div>
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One side is a pretty strawberry print on a white background with a contrast waist band and ties in a little red polka dot fabric.</div>
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I came across this photo yesterday of daffodils in my garden flowering at about this time, on 10 February 2014, but I cannot even see the buds yet this year, so Spring is well behind at the moment compared to past years.</div>
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Also from the past, I came across these sweet photos of our Toy Poodle Logan with our beloved Bessie whom we lost a couple of years ago. A bit fuzzy, but so cute lying next to each other and acting in unison with first their sleepy heads up, and then heads down!</div>
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As I raise the blinds and open the curtains revealing yet another frosted white winter scene, I so long for the warmer days of Spring.</div>
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The hoar frosts are beautiful to look at with the skeletal branches of trees and shrubs beautifully draped in a silvery white rime, but I am tired of scraping thick ice off the car, slipping in the icy lanes as I walk the dog, trudging through the fields and orchards on iced mud. The pond we pass in the orchard is thickly covered with ice, and we've discovered the fun of skimming stones across the frozen water to see how far they slide and to try to break the ice with them (as yet unachieved!)</div>
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At the moment life is busy and I seem to be out all the time when I long to be cosied up in the warm house. Today is a rare day at home and I'm taking the opportunity to write a blog post as I was shocked to see I haven't posted since the summer!</div>
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The pretty little floral fabric is a Liberty lawn. It is left over from the sashes of the bridesmaids dresses of the person for whom I was making the items. She wanted it to be incorporated into the bunting and cushion with yellows and pinks.</div>
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I hope you're all enjoying a good summer and making the most of this glorious sunshine we're now having in the UK!<br />
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As I prepare for my summer holiday, as well as packing the sun lotion I make time to go online to check out the best places to visit near where I'm staying, including where to head to pick up a few vintage and antique treasures for my home.<br />
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I rarely come back from holiday without some "new" antique or vintage addition to my home. Whilst having a rummage in a shop or stall I'll spot a little gem amongst all the vintage and antique treasures that I know I can't leave behind!<br />
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<i>vintage china found on holiday in a charity shop in Devon</i><br />
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Seeing a post on <a href="http://www.invaluable.com/blog/roadmap-for-summer-antiquing-in-america/" target="_blank">Summer Antiquing in the US</a> on the online auction site <a href="http://www.invaluable.com/" target="_blank">www.invaluable</a>.com made me think it would be fun, and hopefully useful, to write a similar post about finding antique and vintage treasures here in the UK.<br />
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I know many of my followers are already experienced vintage treasure and bargain hunters, but for those of you new to this (very addictive!) way of life, I hope this post will be of interest!<br />
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<i>vintage and antique linens from charity shops, </i><br />
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Although we are at the tail end of summer now and heading into autumn, holidays and days out all year round are an ideal time to pick up a few special vintage and antique treasures to grace your home, as wherever you go in the UK you will always find a few antique and vintage shops to poke around, as well as charity shops, outdoor and indoor fairs and markets with vintage and antique stalls, large country antique fairs and, of course, boot fairs!<br />
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<i>Whitby, Yorkshire</i><br />
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It's always worthwhile doing a little bit of online research before you head off for a day out or on holiday to discover the best towns and villages for antique and vintage shops and markets whilst away. Holiday homes often have a good selection of leaflets advertising local events, and local papers and notices around towns will advertise any boot fairs or local antique fairs, so it's usually not too difficult to find the best places to stop at for a stroll about and a quick look for anything that catches your eye.<br />
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<i>vintage linens and glassware from charity shop</i><br />
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You might not have room for furniture or large pieces in your car, but there's always room to squeeze in some vintage and antique china, books, linens and laces!<br />
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I've been doing this for decades, searching out special and unique old, beautiful and well made pieces to have in my home, whilst on holiday in Europe ( where I have found beautiful antique soup tureens, china and textiles in France ) and when holidaying nearer to home in England, Scotland and Wales.<br />
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<i>vintage plates found at a charity warehouse</i><br />
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I'll always remember buying some beautiful vintage china at a little antique and bric-a-brac market with a handful of stalls overlooking the Taf estuary in the sleepy and picturesque village of <a href="http://www.visitwales.com/explore/literature/laugharne-famous-attractions" target="_blank">Laugharne</a> in Carmarthenshire, Wales, where Dylan Thomas, famous Welsh poet and writer lived.<br />
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Staying in North Devon on another holiday, three beautiful antique blue and white Asiatic Pheasant bowls (one dated from the late 1800s) and a 1930s cheese dish picked up in an antique shop in Bideford for under £10 made the best type of holiday souvenir for my home. I now use them as fruit bowls and enjoy their faded, chipped and crackled glaze beauty every day.<br />
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<i>antique asiatic pheasant crockery found on holiday</i><br />
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Closer to home there are lots of great places to pick up antique and vintage items from antique shops, antique centres, markets and fairs, and I've listed a few of my favourite places to check out in Kent and Sussex.<br />
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<i>complete vintage tea set from the 50s/60s from chairty shop for under £20</i><br />
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<u>A few favourite antiquing places in Kent and Sussex in no particular order!</u><br />
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Otford - pretty village nestling in the foot of the North Downs near Sevenoaks, Kent, has a good <a href="http://www.otfordshopping.co.uk/shops/otford-antiques-and-collectors-centre" target="_blank">Antiques Centre </a>shared by many sellers, a few other antique shops and a good charity shop with tea room. Free parking in village hall car park nearby.<br />
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Westerham and Brasted - also near Sevenoaks, both have several antiques shops as well as interiors shops with vintage, antique and new items. Pay parking in both places although some street parking, tea and coffee shops in Westerham.<br />
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Nutley - <a href="https://www.bestofengland.com/antique-shops/nutley-antiques/" target="_blank">Nutley Antiques</a> on the A22 near Crowborough and Uckfield, a collective of dealers selling country antiques, shabby chic and vintage items.<br />
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Hadlow - <a href="http://weatheredandworn.me/" target="_blank">Weathered and Worn</a> - lovely vintage and antique furniture and homewares with a country feel, free parking nearby, coffee shop inside for tea, coffee, cakes and light lunches. Small village near Tonbridge.<br />
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Tenterden - attractive small town with several antique shops, charity shops and interiors shops. Pay parking, limited time street parking.<br />
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Ticehurst - <a href="http://theoldhaberdashery.com/" target="_blank">The Old Haberdashery</a> is a wonderful little emporium of all things vintage for the home, run by a lovely and friendly lady who also exhibits regularly at the Decorative Living Fair.<br />
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Tonbridge - weekly antique and flea market on Friday mornings 9 - 1 at the Angel Centre. Great place for vintage jewellery, textiles, china, bric-a-brac, haberdashery and war memorabilia. Pay parking in Sainsburys car park adjacent. Also numerous charity shops.<br />
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Paddock Wood - large village with plenty of charity shops, free parking for up to an hour, coffee shops, large <a href="http://www.bridgerevivals.org.uk/" target="_blank">Bridge Trust charity warehouse</a> on industrial estate near railway excellent for old and vintage furniture.<br />
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<a href="http://www.decorativelivingfair.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Decorative Living Fair</a> - annual fair held in May on the Eridge Park estate between Tunbridge Wells and Crowborough, numerous excellent quality stalls full of vintage and antique English and French furniture and decorative items, including vintage textiles and vintage garden tools and ornaments<br />
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<i>antique fabrics from the Decorative Living fair at Eridge</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.b2bevents.info/detling.html" target="_blank">Detling Antiques, Vintage and Collectors Fair</a> - Detling, near Maidstone, on site of old airfield - huge fair held four or five times a year, mainly outdoor stalls and several covered marquees. Lots of walking involved and can get very muddy out of season so go prepared.<br />
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<i>Victorian chair bought from Detling for £20</i><br />
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<a href="http://www.iacf.co.uk/ardingly" target="_blank">Ardingly Antiques and Collectors Fair</a> - great place to pick up antiques, vintage etc on a huge scale, mostly outdoors. Held regularly several times a year. Held at the South of England Showground near Haywards Heath, West Sussex<br />
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<i>picturesque Rye, East Sussex</i><br />
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Rye - very picturesque and popular town with lots of antique shops near the quay, you'll be bound to find something here!<br />
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Hastings - old town near the fishing boats has lots of antique and vintage shops.<br />
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St. Leonards - just along from Hastings, a few vintagey /antique/junky shops<br />
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Bexhill on Sea - numerous antiques and junk shops<br />
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Lewes - this is a brilliant town for antiquing as there are many antique and vintage shops here as well as a large antiques centre. Pay parking, plenty of places to eat. Lots of antique shops near the river and brewery plus more further up the hill including the antiques centre, which is in a street that runs parallel to the shopping street up the hill.<br />
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The above are just a few of the many places you can find antique and vintage treasures for your home in Kent and Sussex.<br />
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<i>antique serving platters from a charity shop in Kent</i><br />
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I'd love to hear about your favourite places for antiquing and junking in Kent and Sussex if you've visited this area, as well as your favourite places elsewhere in the UK for both me and any readers of this post to check out, so please, please leave a comment and share the best places you've discovered in your neck of the woods or whilst travelling! </div>
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<i>beautiful antique fabrics found at the Decorative Living Fair at Eridge, Kent</i><br />
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There are many potential sources of antiques and vintage items for your home and below<br />
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<i>vintage wood and glass cabinet painted to give new lease of life</i><br />
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Keep a look out for <b>estate sales</b> (look for announcements in local papers or magazines or boards up nearby) as these can be a great place to pick up elegant and high quality antique and vintage items. A few years ago at a local estate sale I picked up an elegant side table, bed side cabinet, old fashioned glass garden cloches, vintage floral linen fabric, old fashioned roller towels, and numerous other items for little more than £20 the lot! The table is now painted and used in my sitting room, the bedside cabinet painted and used as a bedside cabinet. This was an informal estate sale run by family members keen to get rid of a barnful of surplus items, where fixed prices were few and far between, so it all came down to haggling for a price that suited both buyer and seller! Other estate sales may take the form of an auction or fixed prices.<br />
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<i>vintage and antique linens</i><br />
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<b>Boot Fairs</b> are still an excellent place to pick up vintage and antique treasures. Usually only held in the spring and summer months as they usually take place in fields. Best to either get there early to pick up the best and choicest items, or late like an hour or so before it finishes to get the best prices, as sellers will often take a low price just so they don't have to pack an item back in the car to take home. For non-UK readers, a boot fair is where sellers sell their unwanted items from the back of their car or from a stall by their car, usually arranged in rows in a large field or area. Sellers pay for a pitch, buyers pay a small entry fee. Many bargains to be had as people are keen not to have to go home with all the stuff they bought. Ask what the seller wants, say what you're prepared to pay, and be prepared to bargain. You can always say you'll think about and go back later if the price is initially too high, and they are probably more likely to come down in price to make a sale. Take a few bags with you, plenty of cash in low denominations as often sellers are low on change, and a cute dog helps!!! I always like to chat with the seller and find out what I can about the item, a bit of history is always interesting if its been in the family, and can help with working out dates or values, plus you get to meet some interesting people!<br />
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<i>antique flow blue jug found in charity shop</i><br />
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Over the last few years at local boot fairs I have bought beautiful ornate gilt framed mirrors for under £10, vintage kitchenalia for small change, lamp bases, a vintage standard lamp (beware wiring, best to get them rewired or checked by a qualified electrician before using) several chandeliers, china, books, designer curtains for a few pounds and a pair of signed, original Victorian oil paintings in ornate frames for £12!</div>
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<i>vintage typewriter from the 1960s found at a local antique and flea market</i><br />
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<b>Antique and flea markets and fairs</b> are a great place to find treasures, whether it be at small local weekly markets or larger county wide fairs held just a few times a year. I have bought many wonderful antique textiles, vintage haberdashery, vintage and antique jewellery, china and furniture from this sort of fair over the years and always come away with some little gem!<br />
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<i>vintage haberdashery from antique and flea market</i><br />
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An old, unloved piece of dark wood furniture can easily be transformed with a coat or two of paint, although if its obviously a good antique piece then it's best left unpainted and just restored.<br />
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To read about<a href="http://gillyflower5.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/hints-on-painted-furniture.html" target="_blank"> hints on painting furniture click the link here</a>. or see sidebar at top of page for post.<br />
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<i>vintage oak dresser bought from an online general auction website </i><br />
<i>and updated using chalk paints</i><br />
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<b>Charity shops and warehouses</b> are a great place to source antique and vintage furniture and decorative items for the home, and I have bought many chairs, tables and chest of drawers that have been refurbished and given new life and that are now loved and used in my home.<br />
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<i>heavy vintage dark wood chair with a dark satin cover updated and transformed </i><br />
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Be aware that these charity shop sellers now know the value of items (you will see Millers Antiques guides at the till!) and so there are not many bargains to be had now on larger pieces unless they are damaged, but often a slightly wobbly leg can be glued, clamped and made good as new, and tatty fabric can be replaced with new. Avoid anything that shows signs of live woodworm (fresh dust around tiny holes in wood) or is unstable and can't be fixed easily. Also beware wood veneers that are coming away, warped wood or heavily stained wood surfaces unless you are planning to paint the piece or don't mind the shabbiness.<br />
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<b>Antique Centres and Shops</b> - these can be found all over the UK in many towns and villages or out in the countryside. Some are owned by individuals but there are many antique centres with multiple occupation where lots of different sellers cram in as much as they can into their space. These are a great place to browse round as there is so much choice and prices tend to be competitive.<br />
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<b>Specialist Fairs and Markets</b> - there are many fairs and markets held throughout the year specialising in specific items such a s works of art, decorative antiques, textiles etc. There are several specialising in vintage and antique textiles, especially in the south west of the country. Some of the best are <a href="http://thevintagebazaar.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Vintage Bazaar</a> held at Frome, and the <a href="http://www.hysonfairsltd.co.uk/honiton-textile.htm" target="_blank">Textiles Fairs and Rag Market</a> at Honiton, but I know there are others so please shout out in a comment to share details of others that you know of.<br />
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<i>antique tip tilt side table given a new lease of life with chalk paint</i><br />
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<b>Local Auction houses</b> and <b>online auction sites</b> are a brilliant way to pick up antiques of all kinds. Many have online catalogues, and websites will give you viewing days so you can go and look at anything that you particularly fancy. I have attended a few auctions and find it best to leave a commission bid. This means I put down the maximum sum I am prepared to pay against a certain lot, and the auctioneers bid on my behalf up to my maximum - that way I cant get carried away on the day!! Those with firmer resolve than I could enjoy bidding on the day! You need to take into account the buyers premiums and VAT into your calculations, and be prepare to take away any items you have won either on the day or the day after depending on what the auction small print stipulates otherwise you could find yourself being charged storage. Also make sure you can physically fit the item into your vehicle!!!</div>
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<i>painting bought from an auction house by bidding online, viewed in person before auction</i><br />
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Bidding on online auction sites is also an excellent way of controlling what you spend and getting access to an antique you otherwise wouldn't be able to purchase. I have bought a few works of art through online auction houses using this method, having first attended a viewing day to be sure of what I was bidding on.<br />
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<i>vintage jewellery bought from a local antique and flea market</i><br />
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Unless you live close enough it is not often not possible to view in person the items on which you want to bid on with online auctions, take care to look at all photos thoroughly and check sizes, condition, provenance etc before placing a bid. As its a case of "buyer beware" in those cases where you can't view, it pays to do your research and check out the values of similar items when deciding what your maximum bid is going to be, and websites such as invaluable are very useful for this. The excitement when the bidding starts on the lots you have bid on has to be experienced, as you watch the bidding go up and up and then find you are either a winner or loser!!! You usually have to register to bid online and leave bank card details. You need to thoroughly check all the rules and regulations for each site so that you know how to proceed if you win, and can afford to pay for and collect your goods, or pay postage or delivery costs, as well as the premiums, on anything you bid on and win.<br />
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Almost the end of May......another bank holiday .........the white lilac in my garden has bloomed already, the azaleas and rhodedendrons are at their very best, the apple blossom has been and gone as have the bluebells.</div>
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All is lush, verdant, green growth in the greenhouse and vegetable plot although my climbing french beans and runner beans are madly twining around each other as I haven't yet got around to putting them in - hopefully today or tomorrow. The tomato plants are flowering and now need feeding, that too needs to be done, and the courgettes need potting on into large pots as there won't be room in the raised beds for them. The potatoes have been earthed up once again.....am new to growing them in the soil so be interesting to see how they fare.</div>
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Geraniums bought as small plants desperately need planting out and as usual I have failed to put in the sweetpeas which I bought in and are, like the beans, starting to twine their tender tendrils around each other. I only hope its all not too late, but in my garden things take a chance and hopefully they will all rally once in their proper beds and pots.</div>
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May has flown by!</div>
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Introducing a friend to a charity warehouse this week, I just couldn't come away without these vintage treasures. </div>
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Woods china....so 30's with the cream and green edge, the idyllic cottage garden scene with delphiniums and picket fence, the tudor house and red tiled roof, the blossom in colours so evocative of that era......they are all slightly crackle glazed with age and totally charming.</div>
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The other day I visited the Decorative Living Fair at Eridge, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent, which is full of beautiful country French style antiques, textiles and painted furniture etc....real eye candy, and I picked up this practical vintage blue and white enamel colander.</div>
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Our rhubarb has been a bit pathetic this year as it was dug up and dumped in pots whilst my raised beds were being built last spring, and there they sat sulking and miserable all winter until I re-planted the crowns after dividing this spring.</div>
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I left them to recover but did pick a few bits last week and turned them into a cake as there wasn't enough for even a crumble without adding some other fruit.</div>
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I couldnt be bothered to spend hours searching my cookery books for the rhubarb cake recipe that I know is there in one of them so just took the classic cake mix and made it up as I went.</div>
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6 oz sugar ( I used 3 oz dark brown sugar, 1 oz light brown sugar, 2 oz caster sugar )</div>
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6 oz softened butter</div>
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Quantity of washed and chopped rhubarb, enough to generously cover the base of a deep 8" (20cm) cake tin once gently cooked with a little water and sugar to taste until tender and sticky - cook off the water until left with a sticky syrup</div>
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Cook rhubarb as above and pre-heat oven to about 170 C fan</div>
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Grease and baseline a deep cake tin</div>
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Place all the cake batter ingredients into large bowl and mix with a stand mixer, hand mixer or wooden spoon until cake batter is smooth, creamy and light.</div>
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Place cooked rhubarb on base of lined tin</div>
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Sprinkle with ginger powder to taste</div>
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Pour over cake batter spreading evenly</div>
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Bake for 45 mins or until skewer comes out clean.</div>
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Cool in tin for about 10 mins then, gently easing edges away from tin with a spatula first, invert onto plate and leave to cool further, if you can resist!</div>
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It is good on its own, or you could eat it as a dessert with a dollop of greek yoghurt, marscapone, cream or icecream!</div>
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The cake mix was lovely and light and moist on the first day, but as it contained fruit I thought it best kept in the fridge where it became firmer and heavier. </div>
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My lovely blogging friend Mary, who has been with me on this blogging journey from the start, talented teacher and writer of a great US food blog <a href="http://oceanbreezesandcountrysneezes.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Ocean Breezes and Country Sneezes </a>asked for the recipe so Mary, here it is, shared as requested! </div>
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On the subject of the US, after sending one of my cushions across the pond last week, a few more are now heading off to Texas.</div>
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A pretty vintage blue floral linen with denim linen reverse, smoky blue ticking, and antique French ticking cushions are all finding a new home.</div>
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The same lovely customer also wants a chicken scratch embroidered cushion similar to one I sold a while back, so I shall be busy stitching that this weekend too.</div>
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These photos were taken at the time and I obviously enjoyed stitching these al fresco! </div>
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Might well do the same this time as the sun is shining as I type!</div>
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I've started a new page on my blog here, Painted Furniture, (see top of the post under the banner for page) to bring together pieces of furniture I have painted recently. </div>
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As I get lots of hits daily to visit my most popular post Hints on Painting Furniture, which I first published back in 2011, and I have used different paints and techniques since, I thought this may be helpful for those visitors or for anyone new to painting furniture.</div>
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It is currently being written so is far from complete, but here's a taster of what will be there.</div>
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This is a solid old oak wheel back chair that had seen better days ( bought for under £20 at a charity shop) and which I thought would look great painted.</div>
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Hating sanding and preparation, I tend to use chalk paint these days and I mixed my own colour using Annie Sloan Chalk Paints - a bit of duck egg blue, Paris Grey and Original.</div>
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Thanks for visiting me here, I hope you all have a great Bank Holiday weekend and some sunshine, wherever you are!</div>
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charity shop find - vintage bone china tea set</div>
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charity shop find -vintage pyrex</div>
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charity shop find -vintage basket</div>
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apple blossom in Kent</div>
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out and about - tulips at Pashley Manor, Ticehurst, Kent</div>
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black swan and views of Pashley Manor and gardens</div>
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charity shop find - vintage triple mirror from charity shop for £6!</div>
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This find really pleased me as I've been keeping a look out for a reasonably priced vintage mirror for a while now to go with my vintage dressing table. This was salvaged from a friends back garden a few years ago where it was waiting to be taken to the dump. Apart from the top which had warped in the rain, the rest was in good condition and my kind husband replaced the top, then I painted it and gave it some new handles.</div>
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The vintage stool came from a junk shop for under £10. The vintage lamp with original silk shade was a couple of pounds from a charity shop.</div>
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It was my Birthday earlier this month, and my daughter gave me a beautiful bouquet of pink and green flowers which are still hanging in there even though the roses are now past their best.</div>
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My lovely friend Jane gave me this stunning Calla lily which I have manage to keep alive so far...I don't have the best of reputations for keeping indoor plants alive although I am much better at growing seeds for flowers and veggies - the greenhouse is thriving at the moment, full of seedlings waiting to be potted on and out, and there is a lot of work to be done, and being done, in the vegetable garden. The runner bean and climbing bean plants are climbing all over the place and must be put in this weekend!<br />
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I've been busy painting this last week or so....I picked up a few nice pieces from the charity warehouse a while back that I've only just had time to paint.</div>
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I've used Annie Sloan Duck Egg Blue Chalk Paint for all the pieces and its a gorgeous colour. As usual, I've lightly distressed the larger pieces after painting them, then used clear wax to finish. </div>
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I love the rich sheen the Annie Sloan Clear Wax gives after a good buff once its been left for a good few hours to dry. I usually leave it overnight or a good half day to be sure.</div>
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First I transformed a lovely tapestry fire screen that was looking dated with a tatty brown wood frame.</div>
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Then the lovely shaped table above was transformed ( the top was marked despite it looking good from the photo) .......</div>
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and a vintage mirror updated.</div>
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This past week I've had a change from cushions and cross stitch and made a few dresses and tunic tops from what I had in my sewing room.</div>
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First up was using a lovely dark floral dress weight cotton that I bought from the flea market a couple of years ago, and I decided to make a simple tunic from an old Prima pattern. </div>
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I can't say it was a particularly happy experience, as after I'd traced off the pattern and cut out the pieces I found to my horror that right down the centre front (where else!) there were a few tiny moth holes! </div>
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After rushing back into my sewing room and frantically checking lots of my fabric stash (all on open shelves! ) I realised I had probably bought the fabric like that - it was only a few pence and I wouldn't have checked it properly at the time. Thankfully I didn't find any other pieces of fabric with holes, and I do keep plenty of lavender bags stuffed amongst my stash, but it struck fear into me and made me seriously think again about re-housing my stash behind doors and not open shelves where I can see it.</div>
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I decided to go ahead and make up the tunic anyway after all the faff of tracing off and cutting out the pattern pieces, and once I'd made it up I added a few extra tucks, darts and pleats in strategic places to cover the holes. </div>
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I'm not sure its totally successful as the tunic has lost its loose fit look with all the moth-hole-covering shaping, and I still have to hem it as by this stage I had seriously lost interest in the darn thing, but I may revisit it as I don't like to be defeated and I do like the fabric!</div>
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It didn't seem a very good start to getting back into dressmaking after a break of 15 years or so!</div>
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Next up I made a tunic type dress with patch pockets from a dress pattern bought a couple of years ago which I adapted for length then raided another pattern for the pockets. Again I used an old fabric picked up second hand for a song, and checked it closely for any sign of moth before cutting into it!</div>
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This cotton/linen look grey/blue fabric made up really well and I know it'll be a favourite top as its really comfy to wear.</div>
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Next up I found an old favourite dress pattern from the eighties when I used to make lots of my own clothes. I had this dress in a few different fabrics and it was a great casual summer dress. </div>
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I decided to have a bit of fun with the fabrics, and unpicked an old skirt for the lower front and back, then used a combination of old and new fabrics from my stash for the bodice, including a gorgeous Rose and Hubble floral for the two front sides of the top.</div>
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I made it shorter than the pattern so it can be worn as a knee length dress - just the type of dress I like to wear pottering around the garden in the summer, although I do need to add pockets I think.</div>
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A few years ago when I was still fairly new to blogging I came across this brilliant book on someone elses blog. </div>
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I ordered it and blogged about it <a href="http://gillyflower5.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/new-books.html" target="_blank">here </a>way back in 2011! </div>
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At the time I was dead keen to make the skirt but never got round to it.</div>
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It's a great book, with patterns included for three simple basic patterns for a skirt, a dress/tunic and a jacket/coat, but then the creativeness of the author shows you many variations using those few basic patterns.</div>
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It is the tunic / dress that I made up using the above knee length so I can wear it as either a dress or a as a tunic top over skinny jeans.</div>
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I used a large remnant I bought at least 10 years ago from Laura Ashley, a pretty blue floral fine cotton with beautiful drape.</div>
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The pattern made up beautifully, it is definitely one I shall make again, and it fits beautifully.</div>
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One of the things I have found with these dress patterns is that the sizes on the back of the patterns appear to be very different from those for shop bought clothes - I am usually a 10 or 12 but the measurements given for those sizes on the pattern are much smaller than I am, and so with the first couple of patterns I made I tried to use the pattern which was associated with my measurements (a 14!) rather than the size I usually buy ( a 10 or 12). But they came up rather generous, so having said all that for the last two dresses, which were the best fit, I ignored the measurements and just made my usual size 12. I'm not sure whether this will always be the case though so please don't take my word for it and see what works best for you!</div>
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It's hard to see from the photos, but the bodice is gently gathered at the neck and under the bust, empire style, where it joins the flattering smooth fit of the skirt. The sleeves are elasticated on the shoulder so you can adjust for fit, and gathered onto a band and all is top stitched so it looks good.</div>
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In a week I've made four dress / tunics from stash fabrics /old clothes, using patterns I already had, so it feels like dresses for free!!!</div>
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It's been too bitterly cold here to be outside gardening, hence my current obsession with dressmaking! It's my Birthday next week and I am determined this year to ask hubby for an adjustable dress form so I can really get back into making my own clothes. It's a pain having to strip off all the time to try items on for fit, and getting pricked by pins, as I don't have the patience for measuring and adjusting pattern pieces first, nor for making up a muslin.</div>
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I always use to love the ease of making and the excellent fit of Vogue patterns, and I regularly bought the quarterly magazine as well as lots of their patterns back in the late 80s and early 90s, but even the most basic of patterns seem to cost a fortune now hence my ad-libbing with what I already have for the moment!</div>
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We've had the odd few hours of gorgeous weather this week here in Kent, but one minute it feels like summer and the next the chill winds and heavy rain remind you it's still a long way off!</div>
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But on this chilly and dull Spring day I have a ray of sunshine to share in the form of these pretty vintage china plates that I found in the charity shop a little while ago. </div>
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A real taste of summer and summer holidays, with a nostalgic scene of sailing boats on a lake viewed from a pretty lakeside cottage. </div>
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Looks the perfect place to unwind!</div>
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Manufactured by W.H. Grindley, Staffordshire, in the 1950s, the pattern is, not surprisingly, called "Holiday"!</div>
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Photographed with the vintage china are some pretty, springlike vintage fabric drawstring bags, made from a vintage French fabric by Marignan called Daffodils. </div>
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The photo doesn't do the fabric justice as in reality it is a beautiful green with pure white daffodils (they look rather dull and grey in the photo!) and the cotton is very fine and smooth with a soft sheen.</div>
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Continuing the vintage vibe are a few cushions that I've made this week..... the one below is made from a vintage white linen cloth or sheet with a selection of vintage lace and crochet trims.</div>
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It's backed in an upcycled work shirt....I do love upcycling hubbies shirts, so satisfying to give them a new lease of life!</div>
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Not vintage, but with a vintage feel, are these classic blue and white ticking cushions now in The Loft Room and soon to be in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns?ref=hdr_shop_menu" target="_blank">Etsy Shop</a>.</div>
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The pretty pale floral centre panel is upcycled from a vintage pillowcase.</div>
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A selection of vintage and vintage style cushions available from The Loft Room, and some of these are also in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/gillyflowerdesigns?ref=hdr_shop_menu" target="_blank">Etsy Shop</a>.</div>
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In my space at The Loft Room at the moment are some vintage French ticking cushions, a vintage feedsack patchwork cushion with hand quilting, grainsack type cushion, and lots of other designs, some shown here.</div>
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My week in pictures............gardening, sowing seeds, sewing cushions........... but most importantly, the celebrating of my daughter Bella's 21st Birthday!!!!!!</div>
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Hello everybody, I can't believe we're into April already!</div>
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The weeks are flying past as they always do once the gardening year gets under way, and there never seems to be enough hours in the day to get everything done.</div>
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I've managed a few days in the garden, mostly last weekend, when I managed to finally get some seeds sown both under glass and direct into the raised beds.</div>
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A bit late I know, but should be OK for growing outside, I've finally sown my tomato seeds - Gardeners Delight and Sweet 100 F1. I shall have to cheat and buy a few ready grown plants for growing in the greenhouse for earlier tomatoes, but I usually have successful crops from plants grown outside. I've also sown pots of Basil, Coriander and Rosemary in the greenhouse. Last year a pot of basil I started in the Spring lasted most of the summer on the kitchen window sill.</div>
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I've also sown two types of courgettes under glass, an ordinary green courgette and some fancy coloured round ones! You can tell I haven't got the seed packets to hand and I'm blowed if I can remember the variety!</div>
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Outside I've sown half rows of lettuce (Tom Thumb and Little Gem), salad leaves, swiss chard, spinach and beetroot. I can then sow more in a few weeks time.</div>
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This weekend, weather permitting, I am hoping to get my potatoes in and some leeks sown into a seed bed, and some peas and kale too.</div>
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I've just finished an order for two coastal themed cushion covers which I loved making once I'd sourced the fabrics. Two different pale ticking stripes matched with a soft natural linen.</div>
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I've started on the border....little pink flowers with pale blue centres and a blue design in between. This will go all the way round the sampler.</div>
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And a new row of birds and hearts is underway above the still unfinished house....its the most tedious bit!</div>
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The garden is showing more signs of life now we are in April, with the first azalea well out now, although no signs of flowers from any of the other azaleas in the garden.</div>
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a few individual snakeshead fritillaries are up</div>
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the pretty pinky white wood anemones are out along the front, although in these photos it had just finished raining so their flowers are closed against the rain</div>
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the tulips have also shut up shop until the sun comes back out</div>
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bright and fresh new foliage is appearing on the crab apple tree and the variegated weigela</div>
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and the peonies are starting to show signs of life with thick fleshy rhubarb pink growth pushing up.</div>
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I still haven't got around to the Hastings blog post but hope to share that soon. </div>
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Hope all is well with everyone out there. What have you been up to in the vegetable garden? What have you planned to grow or have already got growing? </div>
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A friend I met for coffee this morning mentioned cucamelon plants which are supposed to be coming to Waitrose soon....I think I'll have to give those a whirl! Has anyone tried growing these yet? Any tips or comments???</div>
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Well we're truly into Spring weather now with March winds and April showers, and in between dodging the showers I have managed to get a bit of time in the garden this last week to continue with the tidying, weeding and mowing.</div>
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The camellia continues to be the highlight of the back garden with its beautiful, rich rosy pink blooms and glossy dark green leaves.</div>
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Some of the flowers are turning brown now but there are lots of buds still to open. </div>
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My constant companion in the garden has been enjoying a few rays by the pond with his friend Frog, the battered stone frog.</div>
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Some of the tulips in pots are flowering now</div>
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and I still have a few spring plants to put in....a couple of pretty wind flowers and a sweet smelling dianthus</div>
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We are still eating kale from the garden......after years of growing our own veg I still get a kick and a feeling of satisfaction when I need go no further than the garden for some vegetables for dinner. I think it's because we had a long spell of 10 years or so when we didn't have the space or time to grow any veg other than a few pots of tomatoes and buckets of new potatoes on the patio.</div>
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The little blue scillas are up in the gravel...they seem to naturally prefer the gravel to the border.</div>
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and the first of the azaleas has started to flower...this is a small one with pink flowers.</div>
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The primulas I planted back in February are still going strong and providing some cheerful colour on the porch.</div>
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The wind has been battering the daffodils and other spring flowers, so I always seem to be rescuing a poor flattened bloom to bring indoors...this strongly scented hyacinth is in our bathroom at the moment in a battered vintage marmalade jar.</div>
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On the creative front, I've been stitching away whenever I have a few moments on the cross stitch sampler I'm making for my daughter.</div>
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I've made a start on the roof now, and embroidered most of the wording, although I need to re-do the 21st Birthday bit as the spacing ended up wrong! That's what comes of ad-libbing without having amended the chart first!</div>
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I've also added a row of birds and hearts.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">With family over for tea on Easter Sunday, I spent most of Saturday baking with my daughter and amongst other goodies we made a Passion Cake with marscapone and lemon curd icing ( icing recipe from Annie Bell's Gorgeous Cakes book) and homemade scones to eat with jam and clotted cream! Yum!</span></div>
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Last week my daughter and I had a brilliant trip to Hastings, with fish and chips on the beach and lots of pottering around the little streets and steep, stepped passages of the old town, admiring the beautiful old houses and cottages and views of the sea. </div>
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I shall share a separate post in the next day or so as we took lots of photos of the quaint houses.</div>
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We also poked around the old junk and antique shops although as I'd bought these two little vintage leather suitcases only a few weeks ago I was very good and only bought a couple of vintage blankets.</div>
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I need to give them a bit of tlc but they are full of nostalgia - they might have been children's cases or the larger one may have been a weekend case, but they conjure up all sorts of visions of days gone past.</div>
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I hope you all had a good Easter weekend, and are enjoying the Easter holidays if you have children. Fingers crosses for some warmer days as even though the sun is out intermittently, there's still a chill wind in our part of the world.<br />
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Edited to add we have just got back from a long country walk where we saw our first bluebells of the year!<br />
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March and April are always a time for change. As the new season comes in, I'm wanting to get on and make changes to the garden, the house, the decor, to whatever I'm doing. So it's been a frustrating week for me as I finally succumbed to the many germs that have been around for the last few months, and so spent much of my time stuck indoors snuggled under blankets on the sofa or curled up in the chair, dozing and reading. </div>
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No energy or will to plan or put into action any of the improvements on my list.</div>
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And I missed the Country Living Spring Fair sadly, and had really been looking forward to that.</div>
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I added a spring bunny amongst some grass........</div>
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I stitched away at filling in half of the house.........</div>
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I also crocheted the second little flower for the pink crochet baby slippers I made a few weeks back.</div>
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Despite a gardening free week, the garden carries on quite happily without me. The camellia is in full bloom now, but the odd morning frost has caused many blooms to go brown.</div>
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The rosemary is flowering, sweet little blue flowers.</div>
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This time last year I bought a few new spring plants and summer perennials including a tray of lupins. The muscari and daffodils are all doing well but sadly I lost most of the lupins to the rabbits before they could get established, despite my rigging up a twiggy defence.</div>
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We also had a new picket fence put in along the front between the driveways this time of year, a couple of years ago now.</div>
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And last year it was this corner of the back garden that got revamped with my new raised vegetable beds.</div>
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This years spring improvements include more fencing to the side of the property and hopefully the removal of an old concrete bin shelter at the back, and in its place a new terrace to join up with the existing terrace. </div>
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Also I have a new border to plant up where we had new fencing erected to the side of the front garden in the autumn last year. Apart from a couple of established azaleas, a small hawthorn tree, and a couple of newish roses, the rest is a blank canvas. I need to get my gardening books out, make a plan and visit the nursery!</div>
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So lots of plans in the garden. All I need now is the energy to get things moving!</div>
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It's a glorious, if somewhat chilly, early Spring day today and as usual at this time of year all I can think about is the garden. Working and tidying in the garden, planning the garden, tidying the greenhouse, sowing seeds, putting in plants and looking forward to the odd hour relaxing in the sun once the weather warms up properly.</div>
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I managed the first grass cut of the year on Sunday, so at last the lawn is looking neater and shows off the few border edges that I tidied recently. Still lots to do though and once I've posted this I'll be out in the chilly sunshine cutting back, weeding and generally tidying.</div>
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My daughter will be 21 in April this year, and I'm not even going to think about where the time has gone, but instead I've designed a cross stitch sampler to celebrate her Birthday. I never got round to stitching a birth sampler when she was a baby, so this is a more grown up version! Inspired initially by a beautiful 19th century sampler, and in keeping with other cross stitch designs that I have done along American folk art /British traditional lines which I love, I have started to stitch. And plenty of time with each stitch to think back over the last 22 years, which have been the best and happiest of my life, and to be hugely grateful and thankful for my beautiful daughter.</div>
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Just a few tweaks in the first row that I've stitched....I added Logan our Toy Poodle as one of the dogs, and for good measure threw in a couple of ginger and white cats to remember our lovely Bessie.</div>
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This was typical of Bessie and Logan, Bessie exploring and Logan following and watching! I suspect there was a frog or a mouse behind the barrels!<br />
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I have also finished and framed the simple blue and white lighthouses I was stitching over the last few weeks and am quite pleased how its turned out.</div>
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Sewing and embroidering outside is one of the simple pleasures I love on a sunny day, so am hoping for lots of warm and calm days soon - too much wind is bad news when sewing al fresco!</div>
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Whilst looking for photos for this post I came across projects I'd worked on in March last year and the year before, and it seems I was on a crochet roll. </div>
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A couple of years ago I finished my first crochet blanket, a baby blanket for a friends granddaughter, made up of pink popcorn flower squares.<br />
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I'd also been making lots of cotton crochet wash cloths.</div>
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And I came across this photo of a beautiful vintage dresden plate quilt that I bought at this time of year a couple of years ago.<br />
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Coincidentally it's actually on my bed at the moment as it's such a fresh and pretty spring-like quilt!<br />
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Thanks for all your comments on my last post and for visiting me here, I hope you all had a good weekend.</div>
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I'm off up to London this week to the <a href="http://www.countrylivingfair.com/spring/page.cfm/Link=1/t=m/goSection=1" target="_blank">Country Living Spring Fair</a> with my lovely and BFF Jane from <a href="http://janierob.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">flowerhouse</a> blog, as I was the lucky recipient of a pair of complimentary tickets! We usually go to either the Spring or Christmas Fairs most years but didn't manage either last year, so we're both really looking forward to our visit to see ( and buy!) the wonderful and inspiring goodies! I already have a modest shopping list Jane..... ;)<br />
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Here's wishing you a happy early Spring week full of sunshine!</div>
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Despite the frosty starts and sharp winds during the past week, I have spent every moment I can in the garden. Once the frost has cleared there has been real warmth in the sun drawing me outside once again.</div>
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<i>These miniature daffodils that were only in bud last week are now fully out with all the early spring sunshine we've had.</i><br />
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It's so satisfying clearing away the winter mess and getting things looking neat and ship shape again, and although I still have much to do I feel I've made a good start. </div>
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Thank you for all your comments on my last couple of posts, its good to be back! But I am sad to find that many of the original blogs I followed from when I first started blogging, over 5 years ago, have now come to an end. At the same time though there are many of my favourite bloggers still going strong and it is great to catch up with them!</div>
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<i>The crocuses are finally coming out fully now that I've cleared away some of the dead oak leaves.</i></div>
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This week I tidied more borders and got the rest of the rhubarb in the raised bed, cut back more dead stuff and cleared away yet more dead leaves..... shaped straggly evergreen perennials and pulled out weeds.........pruned and tied in a climbing rose over the new arch put in last year....and made inroads into clearing the patio. It doesn't sound much but the difference it has made visually, together with my aching back, proves testament to my labours.</div>
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A quick trip to the garden centre at the weekend with husband in a rare, and unnaturally generous mood ( he's usually dead mean at the garden centre!) meant that I came away with some beautiful hollyhock plants in scarlet, pink and primrose yellow, a snakeshead fritillary, a pretty creamy white hellebore with purple markings, some snowdrops, and more vegetable seeds.</div>
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Apart from gardening. I repainted this wooden standard lamp in Annie Sloan 'Original' - it was painted in 'Provence' before, which looked gorgeous but when I moved the lamp from family room into sitting room it didn't look right. </div>
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I've also got a prettily shaped table to paint this week if we have a wet day, bought at a local charity shop and just waiting to be transformed, and a vintage wooden fire screen with a beautiful floral tapestry.</div>
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I haven't picked up a hook all week but am hoping to move this crochet project forward as its not too far off being finished. It'll be a cushion as the squares are too tiny for me to have the patience to grow it into a blanket!</div>
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It won't be long 'til the blue bells are out! This photo is from last year, taken in a nearby wood. It is always full of them and the sight and scent is amazing.</div>
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Just around the corner now, and I know that for sure as I've had a couple of springlike gardening sessions this week. Despite cold and frosty starts, both days I was out in the back garden by 10am wearing two fleeces and a scarf, and by coffee time I had peeled off to my long sleeved t-shirt.</div>
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I savour these early season garden tidying sessions as you can see and sense everything starting to come to life again, you can feel real warmth in the sun, and it's so good to get things tidied and ship shape ready for another year. Such a good feeling of well-being working in the sun and fresh air, cutting back old and dead stalks, pruning the roses, sweeping up leaves, weeding, tidying, raking and clearing away the dead leaves in the borders to find hidden treasure beneath such as fresh green growth and a crocus flower.</div>
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Last year I badly neglected the garden as I was too busy setting up shop at my space in The Loft Room, and was on a roll making cushions, bags, aprons, hearts etc. Nearly a year on, and with a well stocked space which I just top up with some new vintage treasures or a new make most weeks, the pressure is off and I'm finding more time to keep up with the other important things I mentioned in my post last week. </div>
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So this week I was able to re-plant the rhubarb that had been taken out of the old vegetable patch to put in the new raised beds that were made last year, and found so many crowns that I've divided them so will hopefully have a good crop of rhubarb this year. </div>
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After last weeks completed cross stitch designs I have become a little obsessed with cross stitch again, and so have unearthed all my cross stitch books and have been planning a few new projects.</div>
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First some simple navy and white designs from a great book called Made in France by various authors. Am stitching a series of three different lighthouses with a New England feel about them. I'm not sure yet whether I'll frame then individually or in one of those triple aperture frames.</div>
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Once those are finished I've got various ideas swirling around in my head for my own designs. Other good books I'm using for ideas and inspiration are the invaluable Jane Greenoff's Cross Stitchers Bible, and the super Embroidery Companion by Alicia Paulson of <a href="http://www.posiegetscozy.com/" target="_blank">Posie Gets Cozy</a>.</div>
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I discovered Alicia's blog nearly 5 years ago when I first started blogging, and then bought her book. I still love to visit her blog for a good dose of stitching and crochet inspiration, and its full of lots of beautiful home and family life photos.</div>
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I have actually made a few cushions this year......</div>
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And have added a few more to my Etsy Shop</div>
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So that about rounds off the week. I am feeling a bit sorry for myself today as my bout of cross stitch yesterday evening resulted in a painful wrist and so after looking forward to a quiet weekend of long dog walks and cross stitch, all my stitching plans for the weekend are on hold. </div>
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If I can't stitch or crochet then I can at least get some inspiration and eye candy from Pinterest and catch up on my backlog of blog reading where I know I'll find even more creative inspiration!</div>
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Oh dear, is it really that long? In my own head I had written a blog post more recently than I really have, so to anyone out there who still stops by I say HELLO, thankyou for visiting and wish you a very belated Happy New Year, a belated Merry Xmas and everything else!</div>
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The end of last year whizzed by with lots of good and happy times, busy fairs and lots and lots of sewing.</div>
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But this year I'm trying to slow things down a little, and get back into doing more of the things that I love to do and that enrich my life but which got sadly neglected last year in the consuming rush to make, make, make! </div>
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In no particular order I miss regular pottering round the garden, tidying it a bit here and there, growing vegetables, a cup of coffee on the bench by the pond whatever the weather, spending time with family and friends, gardening, crocheting whatever takes my fancy, painting furniture, junking, decorating, baking, trips to gardens, trips to London, little things like taking photos with a camera instead of my phone, and last but not least, I miss blogging and the interaction with the lovely, talented and inspiring friends I made in Blogland.</div>
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I have really missed keeping up with my favourite blogs and being inspired by all the colourful posts, the crochet, sewing, plants, gardens, homes, recipes and ideas out there, and so that's something that I'm going to try to remedy. I know some of you are on FB and IG too and I occasionally catch a post on my feed but all too rarely. </div>
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So this year so far, as well as making bags, cushions and other items for my space at the loft Room and my Etsy shop, I've already made inroads into a few neglected areas. Like crochet.</div>
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I find it so relaxing to crochet and missed making things last year, so once the fairs were over I picked up my hook again.</div>
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I've been on a bit of a crochet roll since the last apron and xmas stocking orders were finished before Christmas as I didn't want to stitch another thing for a long time. </div>
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I made a bobble hat for my daughter and have another one on the hook......these are the first crochet things she has ever asked me to make, and she has shied away in the past from anything crocheted, so after I picked myself up off the floor we went yarn shopping and she found a pattern online.</div>
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Its a great pattern, just make a rectangle of rib, gather up one edge and join one end of the strip to the other and add a bobble. Simples!</div>
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I've made a few mats and coasters in spring coloured cotton yarns which I've been using for the almost permanent vases of daffodils that are scattered thorughout the house at the moment as I'm treating myself to a few bunches every week when I do the shopping. At a £1 a bunch who could resist?</div>
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And I'm in the process of making some sweet little baby slippers at the moment, that although I have no one to give them too I just wanted to make as they kept catching my eye in an Erika Knight book. So a "just because" make....</div>
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Just need to make another tiny flower to stitch on the second slipper and thread some satin ribbons through the little loop at the heel. So tiny and sweet! </div>
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I squeezed in a trip to the local flea market the other week and joy of joys, as soon as I walked in the room I spied this little beauty....it was love at first sight and I knew we were meant for each other!</div>
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For £20 this little portable Olympia Splendid with case included was mine, all mine!!! </div>
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One word from my husband when I excitedly told him....."why?"</div>
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Bella and I had a brilliant day out in London this week as she's home for reading week. The National Gallery in the morning, Covent Garden for lunch, and Tate Britain in the afternoon. It was such a special treat to see all those amazing works of art...Leonardo, Canaletto, Turner, Constable, Sargant, Waterhouse, Rossetti, the Pre raphaelites.......a whole room of favourites around the mid 1800s in the Tate, not just placed individually but three paintings high in some places.....almost too much beauty to take in. I can't explain how magic it was to be up close to well known and favourite paintings, mostly painted centuries ago, and discovering new works of art and new artists. </div>
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The whole day was wonderful, but one of the best things was that we did it all on foot once we arrived in London. Usually trips to London are for a specific event, a trip to a concert or a Fair or show, and involve diving straight down into the underground then popping up again wherever I am heading. So no tube, no buses, no taxis, just walking and looking and absorbing.</div>
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So for the first time since I worked in London in Marylebone Road and another time just off Oxford Street, and used to tramp around all over the place over 25 or more years ago, we properly looked around us and walked, marvelled at the buildings, architecture, streets, statues and shops, immersed in the sights, sounds and smells. </div>
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It was brilliant. Trafalgar Square, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Strand. The Mall, Buckingham Palace in the distance, Horseguards Parade, Whitehall, Parliament Square, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and of course the river. We went past the MI5 building and tried to spot spies, and we tramped back to Charing Cross in the evening rain with the sight of the London Eye lit up in red behind the incredible silhouette of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament. We clocked up over 7 miles that day, over 17,000 steps.</div>
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I have finally finished a cross stitch embroidery that I started about two days before a friends daughters wedding and knew it wouldn't be done on time but it is now ready, and as they have just moved into a little cottage I thought the time was right, and only nearly a year late!</div>
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So this year is about trying to get a better balance in my life, and that includes getting back to blogging. I won't try to be over ambitious but will try and blog every week or so instead of rarely, and will try and keep up with my favourite blogs.</div>
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I wish you all a Happy February and may Spring be with us soon!!!</div>
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As usual my good intentions to post fortnightly, or even monthly, seem to have gone to pot and I have no idea how we have got to November so quickly!</div>
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If there's anyone still out there following me, then a big "hello"!!! Hope you are well!</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Life is one big rush at the moment and I seem to exist in a continual state of being surrounded by works in progress, getting ready for festive fairs and keeping my space at The Loft Room in Brenchley, Kent, looking enticing!</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">So today I'm sharing with you some of the goodies I've been making these last few months, and I'm sorry to say they are mostly Christmas things so look away now if you don't want to be reminded yet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Back in September we had a wonderful week in the Yorkshire Dales with lots of walks through the beautiful countryside, and I feel like I could do with another peaceful week there right now after all this sewing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But with only a few weeks to go now until I attend the first of the festive fairs, the three day Wealden Times Midwinter Fair at Bedgebury in Kent, it's back to sewing, sewing and more sewing!</span></div>
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As usual it's been ages since my last post.....once again I don't know where the weeks go, but anyway, here I am!</div>
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I hope everyone is well and enjoying the summer holidays.<br />
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We have been pretty lucky with sunshine and dry days here in our part of Kent for the most part this summer, but we have just had a dark and gloomy morning with torrential downpours accompanied by thunder and lightening - but good for the garden we cry! </div>
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Life for me at the moment revolves around my space at The Loft Room in Brenchley, where I am lucky enough to share studio and showroom space with two lovely creative ladies who have become good friends.<br />
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In between being there several days a week "working", I am as usual struggling to keep the house and garden not looking too neglected, and making sure we at least have clean clothes to wear, food to eat, and a vaguely tidy living room and kitchen even if the rest of the house resembles a tip!</div>
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But if I don't turn my back on it all, I don't get any sewing done!</div>
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I haven't taken so many photos in the garden as usual this year as I've been too busy, but here are a few highlights.<br />
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Despite having some lovely new raised vegetable beds put in I didn't get time to plant anything except one bed of curly kale and cabbages......first time in years without homegrown runner beans and french beans!<br />
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On the sewing front I've been making a few more Cathedral Window pincushions as they have been popular as gifts in The Loft Room and I only have a few remaining. These little ones I sewed by hand.</div>
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I've also started making stock for the big 3 day Midwinter Fair I am doing with the other two ladies at The Loft Room at The Wealden Times Midwinter Fair, Bedgebury in Kent....we'll be having one large stall with all our three products combined. </div>
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I have been making some pocket tissue holders from natural linen with contrast lining and edge for gifts, teachers presents and stocking fillers.</div>
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And I've started making some Christmas decorations in August although I am struggling with getting into the mood!</div>
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I've also been busy sewing childrens aprons which have been in great demand, especially those covered in dinosaurs, pirates and cars! Not my usual style but its good to make something different for a change!<br />
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I hope you enjoy the rest of the summer holidays, lets hope the sun comes back soon. Thank you for visiting me here and thank you for all your comments on my last post!</div>
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Spring Colour at Great Dixter for a grey day!</div>
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A round up of early summer in pictures......</div>
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A holiday</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">A sunny week in north Pembrokeshire in lovely converted coach house with two foot stone walls and poppy red shutters.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">St. Davids Cathedral in the smallest city in the UK....the cathedral and old Palace are sited below the town so your first glimpse is looking down at them, and to visit you go down lots of steps</span></div>
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The charity shops in Pembrokeshire were very reasonably priced, and I bought a load of this beautiful green china, actually two different makes and designs but they match perfectly.</div>
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A trip to a Fair</div>
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Back in May I had a trip with a friend to the Decorative Living Fair at Eridge and came home with some lovely stuff!</div>
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and some full sized bunting from vintage fabric sheets</div>
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added lots more vintage embroidered linens</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">and made a cushion made from a t-shirt...hope to make lots more of these</span></div>
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I now have a little area with childrens aprons, bags and cushions</div>
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In the Garden</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">the summer jasmine is prolific this year and so strongly scented... its lovely to step out of the back door and smell its fragrance</span></div>
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the front garden is colourful with <span style="text-align: center;">yellow loosestrife, campanula glomerata, cistus and erigerons, lavender and geraniums....these photos were taken a few weeks ago before the loosestife was fully out.</span></div>
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some pretty flowering annuals waiting to go in pots and hanging baskets</div>
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Hello everyone and thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post.</div>
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I've been busy out and about these last couple of weeks and the highlight was my daughters 20th Birthday and a day out which included a trip to Emmetts, a National Trust garden high up in the Weald of Kent near Chartwell, Churchill's former home.</div>
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It was a gloriously sunny day with blue sky, and even though the bluebells were barely out there were plenty of colourful blooms. The magnolias and camellias were beautiful and in full flower, and other blossom trees were flowering as were a few early rhodedendrons and azaleas.</div>
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The Birthday Girl!</div>
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And I've hand stitched some little lavender sachets..... this one from vintage feedsacks</div>
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This one hand embroidered with a little Kensitas silk flower on it sent to me by a lovely FB friend Jayne. Between 1933 and 1934 Kensitas included a silk flower with each pack of cigarettes and they are now very collectable. Jayne thought of me as she had one with a Gillyflower on it, the old fashioned name for pinks, which is where I got my name from (as well as being a Gilly!) and she very kindly sent me that flower along with some others. I made this for her as a thankyou.</div>
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And another vintage feedsack lavender filled sachet.</div>
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Hope this horrible weather clears up for the Bank Holiday weekend, its pouring with rain here as I type, and dark, cold and miserable.</div>
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Thankyou for all your comments and best wishes on my last post, it's good to be back even though I am still far, far behind with catching up with you all.</div>
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Hope you're all enjoying this gorgeous Spring weather! </div>
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There's lots happening in the garden now, and today I've had a great day out with my daughter who is fresh back from a long weekend in Paris! Paris in the Springtime, how wonderful!! Next time she visits her friend there I think I shall tag along ;)</div>
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Today we visited Scotney Castle in Lamberhurst, Kent, a National Trust property and only 10 minutes away from us. Rather than tour the house on such a sunny day, we wandered around the gardens and grounds and down to the old, ruined original building. </div>
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My daughter took all of these photos on her iPhone and has taken some lovely shots with the ancient buildings reflected in the moat.</div>
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we loved this colour blue on the garden door with the red camellia!</div>
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steps up from the sunken quarry garden, made where they quarried out the stone to build the new and much large Scotney Castle in the 1830s.</div>
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the original medieval castle, mostly in ruins, but partly intact and there are still a few rooms to explore, and a story of a priest who hid undiscovered in the Priests hole whilst the house was searched!</div>
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Years ago, way before our daughter was born, we saw a Shakespeare play here one summers evening with the backdrop of the ruined castle......so atmospheric!</div>
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Back to the Loft Room tomorrow all day, and hoping to finish a glass cabinet that I started painting on Tuesday in Annie Sloan "Provence", a gorgeous turquoisy teal colour! Just sanding, distressing and waxing tomorrow so should have some photos to share in my next post.</div>
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I have a few items of vintage furniture already in the shop that I've painted recently, including this oak wheelback chair that had seen better days, but with a bit of glueing and a coat or two of my own colour mixed from Annie Sloan Original, Duck Egg and Louis Blue its looking much better.<br />
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