September 15, 2009 – 8:36 pm
Well, the laundry is not quite under control yet, but I am making inroads. Between that, Nicco starting at his new school (so far so good) and Caterina starting to be looked after by a childminder (not so good, as she cries desperately when I leave her) I haven’t made so much as a scrap [...]
August 30, 2009 – 7:38 am
Wow, what a trip. Gentle hills covered in tidy vineyards rose and fell in the embrace of a soft, cool mist in Burgundy. Each vine groaned under the weight of fat and green grapes, on the verge of turning purple and ripe.
Every now and again a turreted chateau soared over the landscape, a vigilant sentinel [...]
We spent the Bank Holiday weekend on the Ligurian Riviera, and what a visual treat it was. Spring is in full bloom, carpeting the hills in white and blue, and giving the air a vague hint of garlic (the white flowers being the blossoms of Allium triquetrum, or three-cornered garlic).
The sea is a thousand shades [...]
Children’s cabinet cards, old books, Victorian trade cards, maps and old family letters are great sources of collage inspiration
Inspiring me today…
Don’t you just love the colours of Spring flowers?
UPDATED: Jamie Ridler is having a Wishcasting Wednesday today. Well, my ultimate wish is that my new, very exciting but somewhat uncertain business project will succeed. Which, in terms of steps, translates into me having the gumption and the guts to make it work.
April 15, 2009 – 12:58 pm
I have just returned from the most luxuriant Spring I have ever experienced. After a mild, wet winter, north-eastern Sardinia was in full bloom, and what a bloom. The colours were dazzling—the vivid yellow of mimosa and gorse, the pale purple of topped lavender, the candid white of rock rose, against tall verdant grasses, deep [...]
February 4, 2009 – 1:29 pm
The best find of my snowy flea market trawl was a Victorian-style metal box.
When I was younger, I used to dismiss Victorian imagery as cloyingly sweet. Age has changed me. I find that now I respond a lot more to oh-so-pretty colours and pictures, and have grown tired of edgy and bold—in the same way [...]
