A little something for the weekend.............

My word, it's a while since I last posted on here, time just seems to fly by while you're having fun, or in our case lots of visitors, painting and decorating, trying to tame the jungle outside and get the veggie plot going! Busy, busy, busy..........and of course the little star to keep entertained!

To add to the chaos, I've been helping out my lovely friend Gillian get her exciting venture, Eggshell & Chalk at The Bothy, set up for it's grand opening this weekend (7th & 8th May).  For sale at The Bothy will be a gorgeous range of Hand Painted Furniture which Gillian paints herself and a superb range of vintage homewares which she scours the auctions for.  Also joining her for the weekend will be Katie at Vintage Squirrel, Three Bear Prints and me with my Primrose Hill range.  Tea and cake will be for sale on both days and the Bothy will be open from 10am to 4pm.  The address and directions are as follows:


Eggshell & Chalk
The Bothy
West Balgersho Farm
Coupar Angus
Perthshire
PH13 9LW

Heading from Coupar Angus towards Perth take the first left as you reach Woodside, signposted for Abernyte.  Pass the bus depot on your left hand side, as you come to the corner you'll see the sign for West Balgersho Farm, so instead of continuing round the corner go straight ahead up the farm track.  The bothy is at the top of the road on your right hand side.

So tomorrow and Friday will be busy sewing days, as usual it's the last minute rush to get new stock made, I'm quite enjoying my new swallow design, our first pair arrived back in April, it's so lovely to hear them twittering away on the wire outside the back door.

Hopefully see you over the weekend!

L x

Some sunshine please........

Oh these dreich days are really getting the better of me............the lurgy has been hanging around in our house for weeks now, little star was ill for about 3 weeks, she then had a small spell of jollyness and is now full of coughs and cold again :(

Last week I coughed like I smoked 40 a day and then eventually took to my bed at the weekend, full of the cold and feeling very flu like.........bleurgh.

So, in an attempt to try and cheer myself up, I decided to take a look through some lovely Spring pictures taken in the garden either last Spring or the Spring before that (I'm thinking prob the Spring before that as Stella took up all of my time last year!)

Where is the sunshine of February? The lovely sunny days promising us that Spring is just around the corner? There is nothing nicer than being able to take a cuppa out to the back door and sit and enjoy a bit of early Spring sunshine on your face, it warms the soul out of hibernation, don't you think?

Oh how I long for the yellow burst of little celandine flowers along the bank of the burn, and that sparkle of sunlight off the water as it trickles down to the big burn...........

Fingers crossed Mr. Sunshine arrives back from his long holiday fairly soon. In the meantime, I hope this little burst of Spring has cheered you up, it's certainly given me hope!

L x

Marmalade making

Well, that's January been and gone for another year! I have a bit of a love hate relationship with January, the house looks so bare without the Christmas decorations, but before long the spring bulbs are in, so I just have to fill the house with blooms.

So far we've had few pots of hyacinths blooming away and filling the house with their gorgeous scent, a bunch of tulips and now we're awaiting the burst of sunshine from a little pot of tete a tetes.

January can be such a long dark month, but this year we had a lovely week of sunshine, and the days were noticeably getting longer. Little star and I went out for a few walks with the dogs at about 4pm and Spring was most definitely in the air.

I do love curling up at the fire with a good book though, especially on a Sunday afternoon. I've just finished this book, a very good read, given to me by my Mother-in-law for Christmas.

We've at last almost finished the kitchen, there's still a wood store to build, a shelving unit to get painted up and a few finishing touches, but it is so lovely having the space to live in. Getting the cook books out and having a play in the kitchen has been great fun after a year of no kitchen!

Marmalade making was started last night so the first batch is done.

See you soon!

L x