Another hot day here, so K and I are staying inside this afternoon to escape the sunburn. I've enjoyed taking some pictures around the house where it is somewhat cooler. I've included some photos of things I made for today's shop update, including some new hairbands with tiny handsewn hydrangea petals.…

    A confession: I much prefer second-hand bedding to new.

I had a small piece of vintage rayon/cotton fabric- it has a nice drape and slightly 80's print and I love it. (after all, it has old-fashioned flowers with a background of orange splattered paint. They don't make fabrics like that anymore!) So I made it into a very simple skirt to wear this summer.…

    I received my copy of The 2010 Kiwi Diary recently, and have really enjoyed flipping through it, checking out the great artwork, photography and poetry within. My friend Freda is co-founder of this lovely publication, and I've used one pretty much every year since 2004… I think. Last year I was excited to…

        The small pieces i've been working on this week for today's shop update have been inspired by the colour in the garden- especially pink. The tangle of poppies in the vegetable garden have nearly finished flowering, and this papery-thin baby poppy was the only one left this morning. I had a…

    I saw some beautiful paintings of vegetables in the book 'In the Kitchen' by Yuko Yamamoto the other day. (I saw them here, at Hanna's blog.) They were so simple and evocative. They made me think of the two zucchini (courgette) plants in our front garden, which at the moment are growing so…

  We've had a series of very hot and beautiful summer days here, so we've been enjoying going on trips and swimming and hanging out on the beach. Two days ago, we went swimming in the sea at midnight, under the full moon. It was the best thing I've done all summer. I finally got…