Tag: lifestyle
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Get to know me!
Having a good working relationship with your interior designer is vital. Here’s how you can get to know me more before we work together! Some regular readers of this blog may know that as well as running my interior design studio, I am also an assistant stylist in the interior magazine world. What does this…
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Family Kitchen
Open plan kitchen/diner for a family of four The brief for this project was to transform a tired family kitchen into a modern, functional space. Grey cabinets were chosen throughout and complimented with a stone splash back and sideboards. This lightened the space effectively and meant that the room had a neutral palette. This is…
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A few days in France…
Well hello my friends, how are you? I write this post from France as T and I are spending a few days here in order to rest up and catch our breath a bit from a particularly busy season. I’m very fortunate to have a generous brother who owns a house in Normandy and is…
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Sunday night feeling
Hello there friends, how are you? We’ve been enjoying some amazingly sunny weather in England the past few days and I’ve been taking advantage of it as much as possible by sitting in the garden. We didn’t really sit out much in our previous garden as we were under the Heathrow flight path and had…
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Friday links
Time for three more links to things that I’ve used/liked/admired from around the globe this week. I used this talk in my PSHE lecture with my students this week. Well worth a watch. A simple weekend sewing project via the My Hands Made It blog. 37 ‘gifts in a jar’ ideas from my pinterest account…
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Sunday night feeling
Eeek, it’s been a whole week since I last posted. My apologies to regular readers, my excuse is that I’ve been marking fourth year dissertations and other assignments which quickly adds up to several tens of thousands of words so I’m sure you will understand when I tell you that I’ve been buried under…
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Sunday night feeling
Twilight is fast becoming my favourite time of the day – especially as spring is starting to arrive and the evenings are becoming just a tiny bit longer. I took this snap with my camera phone yesterday as part of my 365 day photo journal project. I think I may have to rebrand it ‘almost’ 365…
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Sunday night feeling
Good evening, how are you? Hope your weekend has been enjoyable and relaxing. Mine has been super busy and for some reason i’ve been more tired than usual – think I’m fighting off a cold or something and so I’m grateful for the time to be in right now cuddled up on the sofa…
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Sunday night feeling
It’s been a busy (and slightly stressful) week around here. There’s been illness and some work stress – not mine but my Mr. It’s been challenging thinking about the best ways to support him and advise him. Knowing when to listen and be silent and when to offer possible solutions. Still, things are looking…
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Sunday night feeling
This weekend has been spent with my husband’s family – we’ve been celebrating my mother in law’s 60th birthday and had dinner at the very sophisticated Petersham hotel in Richmond and were thoroughly spoilt. (The second image is from the bathroom there. We were laughing at how huge it is – possibly bigger than…
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