Silent Sunday

Silent Sunday

Weird plant from Cambridge Botanic Gardens

Pretty fabric for a PJ

I love my new pyjama, check out the shocking pink trims and the heart-shaped pocket!
Sorry for not having posted for so long. I haven't been very active craftywise. Happy New Year!

Autumn is coming

Conkers

On a walk around a Cambridge college we found some huge horse chestnuts with a shower of glossy conkers below. I placed them on an oak table in a heart shape, a celebration of autumn and an organic homage to Kettle Yard's stone compositions. Find out more about Kettle Yard, here.

A little stone church

Stone church at Knoll House Hotel

This stone craftwork is by the entrance of Knoll House Hotel, where we had a lovely break in July. It's rather cute and who knows how old it is?

Beautiful and useful.... introducing the 1930s home

A copper pudding mould

William Morris once said: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”. Beautiful and useful, this copper pudding mould was bought from a charity shop for one pound. I used it for a traditional Piedmontese chocolate pudding - I will share the recipe soon, so watch this space!

The 1930s house

I'm also hoping to follow Morris's philosophy in my new project: transforming a 1930s house into a home. 

I have a tight budget, which means doing a lot of work myself, with the help of my partner. I'm going to show you the various stages of transformation, indoor and outdoors through a new blog, called The 1930s home.  If you want to follow my journey, see you  there!