Archive for the ‘homely’ Category
Tweet Spying six fully upholstered dining chairs on the footpath around the corner set me to imagining quilted chairs – some cheerful with scrappy patchwork, maybe some dresden plates, doilies? Oh – I’d talked myself into a right state of excitement – Christmas presents, birthday presents – and all using hard rubbish and fabrics from [...]
Tweet It’s Michaelmas on Thursday … we’ve been preparing for weeks – and today, curled up on the sofa with the girlie, I finished stitching our Michaelmas banner to hang before the fireplace. I’ve used Amanda’s recipe from Handmade Home – this technique with vintage blanket scraps really sings to me and we have several [...]
Tweet My Auntie Cate asked me recently whether I was always on the lookout for good hard rubbish or if I only pulled over and checked other people’s trash on specially earmarked occasions. I had to answer truthfully – always. Rain, hail or shine, a haphazard mound of chaos on someone’s footpath will always tempt [...]
Tweet Shall we call it the Gustavian Piano? ;-0 That’s what I’m calling it. Yep, I did it. I painted the piano. The walnut burr 140 year old piano. Mmhm! Pale bluey-green. And I didn’t even flinch. Well, except for just then, when I downloaded the before photo and thought “Oh no! I seriously cannot [...]
Tweet You know when you are excruciatingly busy, there are so many things you simply MUST do, you have visitors staying, and your back’s already sore, how all you really want to do is move furniture? Huh? You don’t get that urge? Oh! See, Julian would say you are decidedly normal and I am decidedly [...]
Tweet In the far right hand corner of the “under-house”, a faded green trunk crouched hidden beneath a large, higgledy-piggledy pile of wood. The wood had been collected and hoarded by my father many years ago – goodness only knows what he intended to do with it – much of it was less than 2 [...]
Tweet This is our new old dining table. It’s a circle – 118cm diameter – and divides in half with an extension piece that lengthens it to 180cm long. This is good. We are a wee family – there’s just three of us – so we don’t need a huge dining table – but we [...]
Tweet Our home is warm and toasty this evening – filled with the sweet tunes of Coppelia, the lovely fragrance of lemon and thyme roasting in the oven … six fabulous, new-to-us dining chairs … a whole lot of patchwork … and a very silly-lovely doggie who trots through the house, by my side, and [...]
Tweet This is my record player … … sitting atop the first Singer sewing machine Julian gave me for my 27th birthday. And these are my records … … all recently acquired. My old records are at Mum’s – whom we’ll be visiting in a couple of weeks and I intend to bring home as [...]
Tweet Here’s a finished runner. Started earlier this year. Originally measured for the thrifted glass-door fronted bookshelf. Now too big because of the crocheted border. New home – the living room window sill. And how much I have loved sitting at home today adding the final french knots :-) The weather outside is furious – [...]
Tweet Y-e-e-e-s. I’ll REALLY work hard at my anatomy this afternoon – but first, I’ll just finish off this cushion. Then I’ll feel really motivated to study. Yep. I will. When I finish the cushion. Oh, but then, I need to cook dinner. And spend some cosy time with Abby. And … and … and…. [...]
Tweet thank you for all the get well wishes :-) I’m am almost over it, thank goodness, just a hacking cough left. And for those interested, I found a source for the Penguin cups (we got ours at a local bookstore). My thumbs are decidedly black. There, I’ve said it. I would LOVE to be [...]