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Round glass vase with green & white roses £99.00

Hello everyone! My apologies for the sporadic blogging over the last week or so, as you can imagine, work has been jolly busy for the last couple of weeks and my spare time, well there hasn't been much spare time, but what little there was, has been nicely spent, watching gentle films or with my head in a novel or in the bath (or both).

I finally finished 'The House at Riverton', which I started ages ago and put to one side as I found other novels that I wanted to read (in a hurry) and have dipped in and out of Riverton over several months. It was one of those books that really didn't grab my attention until I was about half way through it and then (so typical of me) I couldn't put it down.

The photo above, I took yesterday evening of one of my new collection of faux flowers, I adore roses and would be happy to have fresh ones in my house all year round. Sadly the cost of big bunches of fresh roses in the winter is rather high (the big bouquet of roses that I had on my Christmas table was an embarrassing price!), so I decided that I needed to find a source of really convincing and lovely faux flowers. This tapered glass vase with it's collection of big blousey roses will be available in our shop (and online).

Cecily decided to come home for the weekend, so I was delighted to collect her from Hereford train station last night. I thought that she was visiting us so she could be at home with me for Mother's Day until she let slip that all her flat mates had gone away for the weekend and she was feeling a bit lonely ~ oh well, I'm just going to pretend it's because of Mother's Day.

So for all mothers, daughters and even grand-mothers ~ Have a lovely day on Sunday.

Chat soon, Liz

Star Gazers

Do you ever get those days that start out as one thing and somehow evolve into something entirely different?
Dave and I are working on new publicity material to take to the Homebuilding and Renovating Show at the NEC and I wanted to take some new photographs, so... off I went to my friend's shop to buy some fresh flowers for the photos. Most days this task would take me about 8 minutes (Rhayader is not a very big place and it only takes a matter of minutes to walk from one end to the next). Half an hour and a cup of tea or two later, I left her shop with a bunch of flowers for my task.

I set up the scene that I wanted to photograph and merrily snapped away...

then I realised that actually the flowers were stunning and ended up taking lots of pictures of them instead of the whole scene and by the time I had finished the light had faded too much to take more.

I thought that I would share some of the flowers pics with you; so here they are on the floor in a loose bunch,
and on a silk covered gilt chair (nice contrasts of colours and textures)
and in a cream enamel trug.

Well, not the photographic results that I needed from the day, but I certainly enjoyed the half an hour or so that I spent appreciating these gorgeous stargazer lilies and what's more, the shop smells wonderful!

Chat soon, Liz

100th blog Giveaway

Ooh this is exciting... to celebrate my 100th blog entry I am doing my first giveaway! To be included in the draw, just leave a little comment and I will pick the winner's name at random late in the evening of 10th February, so that this little collection of hearts might be with you in time for Valentine's Day.

It's been another great day at work ~ I am so lucky to be able to work doing something I love and with the man I love ~ every day brings new joys and challenges.

I have found the correct link to a bit of info about our stand at the NEC, so here it is... Restoration Pavillion and I have sprung into action with planning and organising and things now seem well under control. Dave has finished creating our new logo which can be seen as our blog picture and will be on the front page of the website shortly.

Louise (of Louise Loves) popped in to see us today; she makes the most gorgeous cushions and things from vintage fabrics and creates her own design fabrics. If you haven't discovered her lovely website yet, it really is worth a view.

And finally, I just wanted to share this picture with you. These beautiful blooms will be cheering up my house for some time ...

... and I like them so much that I have popped them onto the website homepage for a little while. Amazingly, these are faux flowers ~ haven't things moved on since the days of garish coloured plastic tulips? Well, I can hear Dave in the kitchen, so there must be some tea on the way!

Chat soon, Liz

Floriforous gift

I just wanted to share this picture of the beautiful flowers that Dave gave me for my birthday.

Today has been amazing, despite the weather being foul, absolutely everything has gone right! Whooppee! Work has been lovely, the telephone has rung steadily, I finished all the packing that I needed to get done today and the delivery that we thought wouldn't arrive until around 6 pm arrived at 5 instead, so we were able to come home a full hour earlier than we anticipated.

Dave has been working flat out on the websites (even though he is starting to get a rotten cold) and has come home having acheived everything that he planned to do today. We both have a cosy feeling of satisfaction and are planning an evening together curled up on the sofa watching something that requires no imput from the grey matter.

Well as usual, I am off to find the kettle, chat soon, Liz