Quelle bonne idee!

Quelle bonne idee!  Ok, that's enough French!  My French is of the 'quite good by the end of a 3 week camping holiday in France' variety - and we haven't been to France for a couple of years.....  When we are in France, I like to buy "Marie Claire idees" mag - always has lovely, fresh projects and pictures.  I recently found that you can order this and many other mags from Newstand - so I got the current issue -

- and it arrived very quickly, and didn't disappoint. Pages of lovely design ideas -

Cute ideas for mini gardens - (some may wince at the sacreligious use of a book!) -



Some stylish flower pages -

How to crochet with fine wire -

And - astonishingly for a French mag - some vegetarian recipes! - might try this one -

And a feature on Madagascar, which I enjoyed, as we went there in 2007.

The mag pics - and mine -

Fantastic place!

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And Tilly has been exploring her arty side (though some of those hand prints look quite large ;) )

Hope you're having a good week!

The shrinking shelves

Bought an old pine bookcase from eBay this week - it seemed huge when we finally got it in the kitchen to paint -

 

I was pleased with it once I'd painted it though -

 

It was to go in the alcove in the sitting room, to balance out the shelves on the other side. Once in place, though, it seemed to shrink!  I'd forgotten how tall the ceilings tend to be in Victorian houses - until a few years ago we'd always lived in old cottages.

 

 

Bought a pine shelf unit to paint for my unit in the shop, too - (forgot a before pic!) -

 

 

Found some very pretty china today -

 

 

And Tilly found a friend ;-)   -

 

 

Hope you have a lovely time over Easter!

 

 







Invisible Tilly in a Gallery.......

Went to The Shell House Gallery in Ledbury, near Hereford HERE this week to see an exhibition by Nicky Arscott NICKY , who went to college with our youngest daughter and had done a painting of her when she was pregnant with Tilly. So, of course, we had to see it.

The painting, with Tilly -

 

The painting, with Rosie -

 

I thought Nicky's work was excellent. This one was featured in Tatler recently -

 

No visit to Ledbury complete without calling in to Hus and Hem HERE - I love their candle displays -

 

 

Took advantage of the 20% off day sale at White Stuff this week and bought this top and cardigan -

 

 

Not to be outdone, here's Tilly wearing her Stella McCartney romper suit!!  (a present from friend who worked in her London shop) -

 

 

Have a good week!