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At Last!
I have so much to blog about, and I write posts all the time in my head, but life seems to have geared up a notch. Consequently I threw in the towel and spent all weekend in bed, apart from dinner with...
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I’m in a Huff
Such a huff Just for the record, the key was to our place in France (don’t worry, we left a copy).
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Wing Chair Cover
After a long lull I am making progress on the wing chair. I had bought the gray flannel fabric and draped it over and sort of got stuck there – it certainly looked better than the original. But then I...
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A Chair takes Wing
Making progress on the wing chair, bought a new box of pins and sat pinning and cutting while Stefan told me tall tales of Las Vegas and the cat rolled in raptures at his feet. Cat hair is part of the...
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Ticking off the List
taking it for granted already...The wing chair is finished, ta-da! I found a fault in the fit while I was tucking it all in, and I WILL go back and repair it, promise, but not now. I am barrelling...
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Odd Sources
I am spending white nights mentally building a box bed in the spare room. I loved the one in my grandmother’s house, curtained, and with mysterious spaces below, so cosy and enticing. The space I have...
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Tantalised
Projects are fizzing in my brain. and I am particularly fond of West Wittering ~ Our house already looks like a row of beach huts, so I have had the bright idea of painting each segment a different...
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Bedroom Makeover
It is almost finished, not quite. I think I need to paint the whole thing with another coat, so boring. When I think of the big things which had to be done, stripping out the ceiling for example, or...
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Color-Blocked Kitchen
My love affair with black and with colour-blocking continues: kitchen too! I should have tidied away the broom. Or painted it black. Counters, kick and small appliances were always black, but now lower...
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Pruning
Since my rosa mutabilis chinensis is top-heavy and leaning on the lemon tree like a drunken sailor, I have decided to prune one branch a week, so I can enjoy the blossom inside. They shall not die...
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An Unlikely Role Model
Hugh Hefner, who’d have thought it? The old chap has been working from his bed since his heyday, way back in the sixties, was it? Before laptops – even before cell phones! I think he had to give...
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