Wishing you a very happy Christmas and new year season. It's the end of the working year here, so I'm signing off for a few weeks.  Thank you for visiting my blog this year. See you in 2018. Melissa X X X X X X X X 

It feels like life has sped up over the past few weeks, and now both kids have finished school for the year and all the events that came with that are done and dusted. Hooray! Tom planted a small native daisy when we first moved into this house, and over those years it's sat on…

Hello! It's most definitely flowering season here, but there hasn't been much rain to keep everything thriving. I hope this finds you well and keeping warm (or cool, depending on your hemisphere). Last week I found an old wooden flower press in a second-hand shop and cleaned it up for a friend who has been…

Hi there, I hope this finds you well. It's December already! Despite having a thousand things on my 'to-do' list this weekend, I found myself sewing together all the scraps of fabric that were stacked in piles on worktable (to be fair, 'tidy up worktable' was on my list) which took the good part of…