It's the time of year again when myself and the little one march around the woods gathering up all our fairy doors so that the fairies know that it's time to move inside for the Winter. This year, however, one of the fairies, Tinkerbelle, or Belle as A likes to call her, has a very special door inside the house for her. This door was sent to us by[...]
This is a real first for me to review a skin care product as I am someone who tends to do the minimum skin care routine based on years of problem skin. Let me explain, I am not lazy or dirty, I just realised that the more I put onto my skin topically the more problems I would have with my acne. Years of breakouts meant endless trips to the Doctors a[...]
I feel very fortunate to live in a place where my daughter's imagination and play can go wild. My daughter can live, as I see it, an 'unplugged childhood'. She can explore, play and really throw herself into this place and what it has to offer. If it's a miserable day we play indoors; making something, crafting or baking. It is doing all these things[...]
Last week we took a family road trip to Surrey to see our dogs specialist at the North Downs Specialist Referral and after a long drive we wanted to find somewhere to stop and have a nice cup of tea before our appointment. In the neighbouring village of Nutfield we came across a nice looking place, The Old Post, an old converted post office and thou[...]
I'm going to end this week with another personal post. Anyone who knows me or who follows me on Instagram will have seen that our cocker spaniel suffered a debilitating neck injury a few weeks ago. Yesterday, we travelled back to the North Downs Specialist Referrals to have our final consultation with the neurologist who operated on our boy and to[...]
Pheasants roam our woodland, particularly at this time of year and the sight and sound of them trotting or frantically flapping about I find so entertaining! Earlier this month I decided to go on a hunt for some Pheasant fabric for a future project I have in mind. I was keen to find something that would fit in well in our woodland home. We have s[...]
With lots of scrap timber around the place I decided I'd set about making a few chalkboards for the house. We currently have one I made in our fireplace but I decided to make a few more to put around the house. Most surfaces will need a decent primer, I use white emulsion and paint a few coats on, leaving to dry between coats. Once you hav[...]
Back in 2006, I signed up to Facebook as I had family living all over the World and a friend moving to Austrailia so I thought it would be an excellent way to keep in touch. Gradually old friends from years gone by asked me to be their 'friend' and I accepted; some sort of curiosity made me do it. It rapidly spiraled and became time consuming. I'd[...]
If you follow me on Instagram, you will have seen my post about all the forlorn 'end of Summer' posts I had seen. I do understand, I love nothing more than hot Summer days, however Autumn is such a magical month and not only is there a huge amount going on in the natural world, there is also so much to enjoy ourselves. So, as Autumn begins, I thoug[...]
If you have followed my Instagram account you will see that I planned to launch my blog once I had added all my past projects, however I have now decided that full posts will come in time and what is there will be completed in the fullness of time. Now is the time to launch my blog when I have some public thank yous to take care of. This is a pe[...]