tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34505798010575942742024-03-06T05:02:49.370+00:00Bluebells and Lavender Interiors BlogFollow me as I share beautiful interiors and inspirational art and whatever else takes my fancy...Bluebells and Lavenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764606335393224561noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450579801057594274.post-74733489750742489072013-06-28T08:50:00.001+01:002013-06-28T08:50:20.022+01:00Bloglovin!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I see a lot of you are still hopping over to this here blog to read my posts! That's great news, but I would really love you to follow me on my new blog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">so that I have all followers on one blog. The content will remain the same, interiors, art, interesting places to visit and several baking posts - just because I enjoy it so much!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Hi everyone, are you all getting ready for Christmas? I love this time of year. Everyone seems to be extra cheerful, stores look pretty and the giving of gifts is so much fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"> As you know a little while back, I started another blog which links to my website: </span><a href="http://www.sharonjaneinteriors.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">www.sharonjaneinteriors.co.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">I've been trying to keep up blogging on this one as well as blogging on the new one but it's proving a little difficult. It's hard to be creative on two blogs which post more or less the same content, so I'm giving up this blog (boo hoo...) and I'm going to concentrate on my NEW blog:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">and I would LOVE YOU TO JOIN ME THERE. Click on the link above and select the follow buttom on my blog page. If you have any difficulties, please email me to let me know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">I'll be doing similar posts on interiors, art and antiques, and everything else that's interesting in the line of interiors along the way. I do hope you will hop on over to my new blog as we continue our blog friendship! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Some of them I've left white, which are my personal favourites! You'll notice some of them have a different design...I couldn't think what to use which would give me a pretty effect and then I remembered one of my glass plates on a stand has a patterned bottom which is ideal for this, so I turned the plate upside down and rolled and pressed the clay onto the underside of the plate, carefully removed it and then cut out the hearts</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thank you for stopping by, I love reading your comments!</div>Bluebells and Lavenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764606335393224561noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450579801057594274.post-43655305935241134542012-11-04T14:05:00.000+00:002012-11-04T14:05:04.100+00:00Getting Crafty<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Where has this year gone? Am I the only one who feels this year has flown past in a haze?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">It's nearly that time of year again...and now that Halloween is over...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">It's time to start thinking about gifts....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Homemade and handmade gifts are just so special. Whether it's a jar of homemade jam filled with homegrown raspberries lovingly picked from a friend's garden, or a hand sewn tea cosy, the thought and effort behind the gift always warms my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> I recently came across this fabric in a well known Swedish store I thought these would make ideal cushion covers for a special someone who hinted she needed to add some colour into her lounge which is predominantly neutral tones with very little colour. She loves walking in the countryside and I thought this fabric perfect for her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Sharon</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thank you for stopping by, I love reading your comments!</div>Bluebells and Lavenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764606335393224561noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450579801057594274.post-23284575635145384772012-10-29T20:53:00.000+00:002012-10-29T20:53:02.524+00:00Inspiration!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Hi everyone, hope you've all had a good weekend? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I'm always looking for inspiration and I've found a lovely home to share with you. There's an interesting mix of ethnic and traditional pieces which really works and makes the house personal and not too decorated - I just love it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> It has beautiful dark tones with small pockets of colour, and I'm loving the olive green walls!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Virginia Woolf is known the world over as an English writer who is regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century. Virginia was also a member of the well known Bloomsbury group. Her books have been read all over the world and there are several societies dedicated to her works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Although Saturday started off wet with impending rain, we took the chance and headed off east. Monk House lies in the tiny village of Rodmell, just outside of Lewes in East Sussex. We turned right following the sign for Monk House and found ourselves driving down a narrow lane edged with beautiful cottages with stone walls sprouting flowers and apples growing out of hedges...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">We were early of course, and the house was not yet open for public viewing, but that didn't stop me from taking photographs of the outside of the house, all green and wet with dew. After exploring the local church which borders on the back garden of Monk House, and the village, we took ourselves back to the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Monk House is unlike any other house I have ever visited. I first spotted Monk House in Ros Byam Shaw's interior book, Perfect English Cottage, a glimpse of the garden all wild and green was enough to spur me on to visit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> The space is simply decorated with paintings by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. It's a very personal house. All the items in the house seem to have been made or crafted by Virginia and Leonard's family or their close circle of friends. It's a home to live in and be creative in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> Well worn steps up to Monk House. Incidentally, Virginia and Leonard never used the front door and neither did their friends. They all used the back door, straight ahead and left....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">One enters the house from the back door, just like Virginia did 71 years ago, bending low to avoid decapitation and passing on the left, the tiny greenhouse, home to flourishing plants and succulents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">The wood framed chair on the left Virginia bought from Heals. In fact she bought two, but one of them resides in the Charleston residence. The armchair on the right is Virginia's chair. This is where she always sat and many photographs of Virginia were taken of her sitting in this very same chair. The fabric on the chair was designed by Duncan Grant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A bust of Virginia</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">The table and chairs were painted by Vanessa as a gift to Virginia. Vanessa also painted the back of the chairs (part of which I captured in a photo below) which have the initials VW, a sign of the love and friendship the sisters shared. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A corner of the sitting room displaying a tablescape and a painting by Duncan. The lamp shade was made by Angelica, Vanessa's daughter by her lover, Duncan Grant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A close up of the painting by Duncan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A simple writing desk filled to the brim with papers and inks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Trekkie Ritchie did this painting of Leonard, notice how the walls in the painting echo those in the sitting room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The dining room, a small but beautiful space filled with paintings with lots of the light from the large window. The chair backs were embroidered by Leonard's mother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A portrait of Leonard by Trekkie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Personally I think this is one of the most flattering paintings of Virginia - painted by her sister, Vanessa Bell. It hangs in the dining room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">An embroidered mirror frame</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The kitchen, with it's original dresser and filled with well worn and used china. (The screen just to the right hides part of the kitchen which is still used to today by the people who live here)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Virginia's bedroom is not in the main house. One has to leave through the back door and go up the steps and turn left...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Virginia's bedroom, very simply furnished with books (not original) and mantlepiece displaying works of art by Vanessa. Vanessa also hand painted the fire place tiles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Opposite the fireplace, a serpentine chest which might be the envy of anyone who enjoys the shabby chic look...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">These are the only books that are original and belonged to Virginia. She covered them herself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A tranquil spot in the garden - just to the right you can see the bust of Virginia, peeping out from the fig tree</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A bust of Leonard and further along a bust of Virginia </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Apple trees heavy with ripe fruit weigh down on the branches, and the grass dotted with fallen ripe apples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Virginia and Leonard's summer house at the back of the garden. They entertained friends here in good weather</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Virginia's writing desk and a fresh bunch of flowers</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The view from Virginia's desk</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A few posts ago, I promised interiors of a more warmer nature, to complement Autumn and the colours we see in nature. For me, colder months mean I need to bring in more warmth inside, which again for me means <span style="color: #cc0000;">COLOUR</span>, but especially warm colours like mustard, red, orange, a touch of acid yellow, deep chocolatey browns, deep greys and even some turquoise blue for a hint of contrast!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">This is one of my all time favourite table scapes! It's a tad 70s, but I like that - I love the painting, the colours, the zingy yellow and the fruit in the bowl that echoes the fruit in the painting! And the solid dark chest really balances the whole look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">English style is a combination of antique and new furniture, florals and stripes, modern accessories and antique objet d'art. It's a very fine balance. One that Ben does superbly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">It's the kind of book that makes you wish you hadn't sold all your antique oak chests of drawers and dressing tables...</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">hhhmmm yes that might be me... </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Hi everyone, although summer is well and truly over and it's officially Autumn, I thought I would post our visit to the beautiful historical country estate of Hinton Ampner, Arlesford. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> One fine day in August during my mother's visit, we took a drive into the country for a picnic and stopped along the way to explore the vision of Ralph Dutton, the 8th and Last Lord Sherbourne.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Thank you for stopping by, I love reading your comments!</div>Bluebells and Lavenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764606335393224561noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3450579801057594274.post-53849881734182240312012-09-22T10:04:00.000+01:002012-09-22T10:04:59.693+01:00The Autumn look<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>(I love this time of year!) <span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">What I particularly appreciate about English seasons is that you can see the weather changing. One day you're driving in the car and you see a flutter of colourful dry leaves as they drift through the air...a sure sign that autumn is on it's way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">For me, autumn is all about tweeds, rustling dry leaves in spectacular colours; red, orange, yellow, green, ochre, plum, charcoal and black, wet soggy earth and wellington boots, lace up brogues and smart leather pumps. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Autumn seems to bring out the homemaker in me, I want to knit, crochet, sew and bake. It's a time to renew, reinvent and rest, a time to shrug off the old, and prepare for the new....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">I leave you with these beautiful words...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To Autumn by William Blake (From Poetical Sketches 1783)</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d<br />
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit<br />
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest,<br />
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,<br />
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!<br />
Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.<br />
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“The narrow bud opens her beauties to<br />
The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;<br />
Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and<br />
Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,<br />
Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing,<br />
And feather’d clouds strew flowers round her head.<br />
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“The spirits of the air live in the smells<br />
Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round<br />
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”<br />
Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat,<br />
Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak<br />
Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The shadows now so long do grow</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>that brambles like tall cedars grow;</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Molehills seem mountains, and the ant</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Appears a monstrous elephant.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>A very little, little flock</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Shades thrice the ground that it would stock,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Whilst the small stripling following them</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Appears a mighty Polytheme.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Sharon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Hi everyone, we're still enjoying such lovely weather, I can hear the birds tweeting and the bees buzzing away on my Lavender. I've had a full month! In fact, I've had visitors since the beginning of July, and I said goodbye to my last one today. So it's back to our normal routine, and back to school for some.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Leaving you with calm romantic images of life in the country...doing it the pale and interesting and way. I feel like I need some calmness and peace after the frenzy of the last few months!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">P.S I still haven't perfected the mighty macaroon! My third batch was more disappointing that the second! They had little tails... I've had way too much sugar lately, so will wait for a month or two before diving head first into the castor sugar once more...</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> She gives a step by detailed step of how to achieve the perfect French Macaroon! <a href="http://www.thepinkwhisk.co.uk/2011/01/how-to-make-perfect-macaroons.html" target="_blank">here</a> I rushed off to buy proper colouring paste in pale pink and pale green and egg whites in a carton, found at Waitrose! Who would have guessed?? (<i>No wonder children don't know where eggs come from!)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Hi everyone, have you been enjoying the lovely weather we've been having? I hope the weather where you are is as nice as it's been here in the south of England....unfortunately that's about to change over the next few days...but it was lovely while it lasted...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Just one beautiful photo today...I love it....the zebra skin rug, the glass coffee table, the photos and wall art...I could get comfortable in this room couldn't you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Hi everyone, This is not my usual interior post but I thought I would share this with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> As most of you know, I've recently acquired a bicycle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> Since receiving this lovely gift from my husband for my birthday, I've enjoyed several long cycle rides, either alone or with my husband. Cycling has given me a different kind of freedom, and one that I enjoy immensely!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">We have several bicycles at home, but none as lovely as my vintage look bike! Now my daughter gyms and recently asked to use my bicycle. Of course I didn't hesitate but I did mention that if my bicycle was stolen, she would have to replace it. This statement was met with a rolling of the eyes and a flippant laugh! Oh Mum, nobody is going to steal your bicycle!!! You know what's coming next don't you???</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Amidst the celebrations of the Olympic closing ceremony on Sunday night, my iphone rang out desperately. In between sobs my daughter explained my bicycle had been STOLEN!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I was as calm as a sleepy kitten, which for those of you who know me, is extremely unusual in such circumstances! My husband went off to collect her and I waited patiently at home. I knew she was feeling awful at this point. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">I didn't see my daughter that night. She was too upset to talk, and so she slipped away to shower and retreated to her bedroom. The next morning I waited patiently for her to approach me. She was clearly distressed. She apologised and said she would buy me a new bicycle....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">At this point I wanted to crumble and hug her and tell her it's all right, she didn't need to buy me a new bicycle, I would buy it....but something inside told me that this is all part of becoming a wiser human being and if I do this, she loses out on a valuable life lesson. So I thanked her and gave her a mummy hug.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Perhaps at this point I should say that my daughter is 21 years old, a full time uni student and has been working part time since she was 17 years old. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">In our family, we've taught our children that every action has a consequence. If the choice was a good one, the consequences are always pleasant. Sometimes they don't listen to good advice and decide to go ahead anyway and they inevitably have to live with the consequences of that action albeit a minor unpleasant one. This is how we learn about life and these experiences are part of what makes us stronger and wiser...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">So tell me, good people, how do you deal with <b>actions = consequences?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>PS: I've already ordered my new bicycle and hope to pick it up on Saturday, so a bike ride along the beach is on the cards!!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Hi everyone, another one of my 'whatever else' posts and what beautiful weather we are enjoying, blue skies and lots of sun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Saturday we spent the day exploring this beautifully crafted Italian Naval Training ship which was docked in Portsmouth Harbour for a few days. This Italian Naval ship was named after a Florentine nobleman, Amerigo Vespucci, who was born on 9 March 1454, a prominent explorer of the New World, and is the oldest sailing ship in the Italian Navy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Hi everyone, thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post. I thought I would do a recipe post and give you one of my most favourite and foolproof biscuit recipes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The recipes is from a South African Magazine called Food and Home Entertaining, and I remember when I bought the magazine many years ago it was so expensive, but I just had to have the lavender biscuit recipe!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">As I've always grown lavender it was a great way of using the beautiful blue flowers and the fragrance is divine!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">My daughters also love the recipe as it's not as sweet as some biscuits, like chocolate chip..<i>.which incidentally they also love...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">So here's the basic biscuit recipe and you just need to add a few fresh or dried lavender heads (2-3 teaspoons) which you've crumbled between your fingers or pulled off...I've used fresh and dried both successfully and I've yet to meet anyone who doesn't love the fragrance and the taste!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Preheat oven to 180C. Line baking sheets with baking parchment. No need to grease. The recipe says it makes 60-80 biscuits, I've never managed to make that many, but you'll probably get about 40...</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Before the next step is where I usually add the lavender...I probably add about 2-3 teaspoons but feel free to add more if you want a very intense flavour.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">They make a lovely homemade gift, especially when wrapped in a cellophane bag with a ribbon, or a pretty box...they look so pretty they're an absolute scene stealer on a tea tray!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">A few weeks back I found this lovely little six piece coffee set in the small town of Emsworth. Emsworth is a beautiful little seaside town and they have some lovely antique shops and quaint old fashioned pubs and they're usually crowded with locals and their dogs, so it's hard to get a seat! The community centre were having a sale, and a beautiful lady of a certain age, sold me these cups for £2. I couldn't quite believe it. I thought she meant they were £2 for a cup and saucer! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Whatever you're doing, have a great week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">xxx</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Thank you for stopping by, I love reading your comments!</div>Bluebells and Lavenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764606335393224561noreply@blogger.com0