Category Archives: Finding things
Recycled Home- Garden room make over
CRUMBS! Who has had quite enough of babies, eh?! Not of actual babies, Juno is continuing to rock our worlds (in a good way) but, blimey, has this blog gone all babyville or what? Here is a bit of reprieve- … Continue reading
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Tagged home, makeover, recycled, thrifty
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Truly Spring and recent street finds
*sings* “Spring is in the air! Every time I look around, ba, ba, ba, ba” *Does old school Uncle-At-Wedding-Dance-and-Clap* So, SPRING eh?! You sneaky old devil, you. (Actually, stop. I’m not going to start talking to Spring. Personifying my breasts … Continue reading
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Tagged home, living, recycled, thrifty
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Recycled home – happy imperfection
We shift things around a fair bit in our house. We are so often picking up new bits of furniture from street corners (poor, neglected things) and little trinkets from charity shops that we kind of have to wriggle the … Continue reading
Campervan thrifting and the inauguration of Betty
We always owned a VW camper when I was a kid, we’d scamp off from school a bit early and spend the whole summer trekking around Europe, hitting up spots as distant and exotic as Hungry, the Czech Republic and … Continue reading
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Tagged campervan, car boot, fair, magpie monday, sales, vanagon, vw, west sussex, westfalia
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Seasonal rituals – welcoming autumn
Since becoming a mother I have had a much greater desire to ritualise life. Not in an oppressive, unflexible, establishment kind of a way but as an opportunity to celebrate and add significance to moments that might just pass us … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, decorations, family, ritual, season, seasonally, shrine
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Charity Shopping in the Cotswolds
Our second holiday this summer was to the beautiful lands of Gloustershire, where we wiled the days away charity shopping and hiking the hills. Really, truly, my ideal week. The only thing that could have topped it would have been … Continue reading
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Tagged charity shopping, charity shops, cotswolds, dursley, gloucestershire, guide, nailsworth, stroud, tewkesbury, wotton-under-edge
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A butterdish, a bin, books and a brooch
Home from the holidays, and what a cracking time. Ramona and I spent the first week with a friend and her tiddlywinks camping on a farm in Weymouth. The combination of roaming animals, mountains of haybales to climb, eco credentials, … Continue reading
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Tagged bin, books, brooch, car boots, charity shops, retro, vintage
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