This week I’m so excited to bring you the start of my new Christmas mini series; My Handmade Gifts for Friends which has been in the making for a while now. Each week I aim to bring you a simple and beautiful idea for Christmas presents. As always I will recycle where I can, use […]
It has long been decided by my lot that my epitaph shall read “Oh I love that song!” It’s a phrase I apparently declare every time a favourite tune can be heard on the radio or television. And so too with our changing seasons. “This is definitely my favourite season” I cry depending on where […]
Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower – Albert Camus, French philosopher, author and journalist. I must agree as I watch the hardworking flowers from my garden slowly die back allowing leaves from the surrounding trees to lay down their dense and colourful carpet. And not for the first time I […]
I have been both surprised and delighted by my garden this spring and summer. The newly planted Wildflower Garden has provided daily colourful pickings and I hope it will go on to offer continuous colour until the first frosts. And I am keen on preserving flowers from the garden as much as I can to […]
I promise you the following conversation actually took place. “You do know that ones got a huge split in the wood don’t you” said Mr M. He was addressing an off-cut of scaffolding board which I was turning into a pot stand for hot dishes on the patio table. “I’ve got better ones you could […]
It is not in my nature to over promise and under deliver. I’m not a great fan of living life that way however I have to come clean right away. There is no secondary craft as promised here last week. I couldn’t do it… quite simply I could not carve up the pink tablecloth. I […]
Recently, on one of those warm and balmy summer evenings we are currently delighting in, I was setting the garden table for a supper party and found myself spoilt for choice for a white tablecloth. I appear to have a fair few. Six infact. A cotton tablecloth for every occasion it seems and all of […]
Hello everyone, welcome back and welcome also to many new readers visiting Whitewood and Linen for the first time. If you are new and you’d like to know a little more about us this page is a must and I hope that as you become a little more acquainted with my stories, you’ll stay a […]
“Why don’t you put the paste table up and then you can paint them all in one go” said Mr M, in that exasperated tone when he caught me wandering around the garden with arms full of half painted objects and no where to dry them. The trouble is, when I get a creative idea, […]
I’ve been dreaming again. Of weekends that begin outdoors on a Friday evening when Mr M comes home from his long working week and don’t end until the last bit of sunlight has faded on Sunday. Of sipping ice cold blush wine with crushed ice and preparing easy barbeques and simple suppers of salads created […]
