Our long-awaited building materials for the agricultural barn landed in Duncan MacGregor’s field while Yorick and I waxed lyrical about applique in Paris. We did ask the hauliers to wait until our return but alas, instruction blew softly into one ear and swiftly out the other as seems so often to be the case…
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Yorick and I are to be married next August, and to celebrate we will build a barn…in three days! We’ve never really been the marrying type. The whole concept has always mystified me and, to be honest, the perceived freedom of not being married has suited us both very well. We’re with each other because…
Read MoreAnd now… for something completely different!
I was having a conversation with a friend at our craft night/excuse for a lot of red wine, chocolate and tongue wagging, about what sells on etsy. Ann and I thought it had to be something useful: knitting bags, car rubbish bags, toy bags, (why bags I’m not so sure). But then I did a…
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I love this. It reminds me of my friend Collette’s little girl Orla, who was only ever interested in sucking the labels on her soft toys. Strange but true. It’s obviously a more common phenomenon than I had thought. This great blanket was made by a designer I have just stumbled upon in etsy called…
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