Somehow the downstairs toilet is often the room in the home which gets overlooked; enthusiasm for redecorating is focussed on the flashier rooms, the bigger rooms, which make the most impact. But what I love most about the smaller unassuming rooms like this is that you can really afford to make a big impression without feeling overwhelmed. And so, two…
Launching into the first post of 2020 with a biggie… Turned out my planned one month off was just so delicious I stretched it into two months off and, aside from using that time to get life back on track, it also gave me the luxury of some time to think. To give you a sense of the true me…
Probably the photo says it all… except, in many ways, it doesn’t. What you see is this family of mine, who mean the whole world to me, my two babies and my two dogs; and life with them is wonderful and challenging in ways I never imagined but I am running on empty over here, trying to do it all,…
A couple of new additions to this corner courtesy of Green Gallery in Buchlyvie. I don’t know if I ever mentioned it on here before but I studied painting at The Glasgow School of Art many moons ago and, whilst I don’t practice right now, I still have a deep rooted passion for art. Even working on this post got…
Gave the fireplace a little autumnal update – check out the full post over on the Laura Ashley blog. In the meantime I will just be resting my broken self as much a possible – turns out if you have a really bad chest infection and you cough really hard for a really long time you can separate your ribs from…
