image: having a practice set up run in the back garden so that I can sleep at night!

image: summer salad

cous cous : cherry tomato : advocado : basil : spring onion : freshly squeezed lemon juice : extra virgin olive oil : black pepper

image: the laundry

this is what happens when sewing becomes your priority – things start to pile up! I’ll just close the door on it. There – gone!

image: new dmc embroidery cotton – perfect or new bird cushions

image: agnes coy pocket book cushions each with a 1940’s true love read

image: Monkey Bay Sauvignon

Doc Martin on the telly, a great opportunity to drool over the small Cornish towns and a glass of cold sauvignon – marvelous!

image: linen + cotton covered jam jars ready for the Martinborough Fair

happy birthday mum! xx

image: reading in bed

I could quite happily have stayed there all morning!

Thank you to those of you who are checking back each day and for your smashing comments. That’s quite a commitment! Well done you!

image: Trumpet at the kitchen sink – he’s obsessed with water!

image: the studio window

We so needed the rain today. It’s 30 degrees and the humidity wraps around you like a warm, damp blanket.