Ice baby

Hello all,

I trust you are all well? I have had one of those frustrating days- I was supposed to be working on a project that I had put off for a while but my printer has decided it does not like its ink..(weird) and is printing everything in bizarre colours! Frustrating, let me tell you. But that is not what I came here to do today.

Were you as happy to see the cold weather as I was? I resent not being able to wrap up all warm and cozy like in January, frosty mornings and layers of woolen clothing are the best parts of the winter for me so I was pleased to see a return to some proper winter weather. I mean, daffodils in January? Strange! So, the first frost of 2012 meant I finally got to take some frosty pictures and that's exactly what I did...

There is something quite magical about a winter frost, my child like side always thinks it always looks like a dusting of glitter and icing sugar...

Have a lovely Sunday evening my dears, I'm off to have myself a little tea cake while writing a letter to go with a gift I have made for a friend...yes, there is someone in the world that still sends handwritten letters!

Lexie x x x

Creative thinking...

I always think that home design is 90% creativity and improvisation and 10% personal taste. I bare this in mind when I'm trying to come up with ingenious ways of displaying pretty things. Yesterday I took my first pick of sweetpeas from my little wannabe cottage garden. This is exciting because I am a little country gardener, jam making, flower loving loser dressed as a worker type and living in a city suburb!

I don't know about you but in the past I have used a variety of household items as vases..because sometimes the flowers just don't sit right in that pretty spotty jug that is just perfect for floral displays. I've used glasses of differing kinds and designs, tins and tea cups. Let me tell you, they all make great vases.

Today, I used a jam jar...because, why not? It was just perfect for the top heavy, wire like, skinny stems of the sweetpeas and it looks very country...which fills the 10% personal taste quota that I mentioned earlier very well!!

Also, if you've never grown sweetpeas then you must...they smell so sweet and the colours are so pretty! They just need something to support them as they climb...or even better something from them to climb up (Trellis, wire or a sweetpea teepee thing) and a whole lot of water!

I can hear the (blue)bells

Since I got my camera a couple of years ago I have been trying to find the perfect bluebell spot. For two springs I have searched and failed. This year, I succeeded!

We went to Dockey woods in Hertfordshire and all I can say is just...wow! I have never seen such a beautiful bluebell display!

Enjoy some of my favorites below :)