A FEW MORE LOVELY BUBBLY IMAGES OF INSPIRATION TO CHEER ANOTHER GREY DAY

...come on the Summer!!

SCREEN SHOTS

OH my..I have just discovered this nifty little trick where you can cut things off websites - its called  screen shot - am I the last to know?? Anyway, I have taken screenshotting ?!? to the extreme!! I cant stop....here are some of the delights I have now captured on my computer..

MBD FABRIC LINE?

I have resolutely decided that I absolutely must stick to printing paper...so what on earth happened this weekend as I seem to have come home from my parents house with two rather super new designs and pieces of linen!!  Mum and I got stupidly overexcited and immediately whipped the linen into an ipad bag for her and an i-phone case for me (if only I had had one earlier I might have avoided the broken screen!!!)  Take a look - what do you think???

should one reveal ones secrets?

I have always kept this guy to myself, or so I thought...I now see that he is appearing everywhere so he is no longer my little secret!!  So, let me introduce to one my serious inspirations....I get more excited about a new fabric from John Robshaw than I do when the new addition of Country Living comes out (yikes, I am really sad arent I !?!?)  Let me share with you some of his works....then go on - get the bug - visit www.johnrobshaw.com

OFFHAM HOUSE

This amazingly beautiful house and garden is open to the public for 2 days of the year, so when this day matched a free day in our diary we were off!!  We had my sister Em (who took all these wonderful photos http://www.emmalewisphotography.co.uk/) staying and Rollos brother, James here too, so we all squeezed into the Land Cruiser and made our first stop Bills in Lewes.  Its a vibrant colourful cafe, with friendly staff and great food.  You cant not avoid a delicious and happy meal here!  http://www.bills-website.co.uk/ Fuelled and ready for action we then headed to Offham House...for me it was with great excitement as I have had some pictures of this house stuck on my walls for years.  And it certainly did not let us down...it was stunning, every element, every corner you turned there was more excitement, the colours were stunning and the cake and tea just topped it off to make it all in all one of my most favourite days in a long time.  The children ran around happily on the enormous manicured lawn and followed the dog Paddy who lives at the house down each little cut path to screams and giggles. And what really made it was that even though it rained through the UK, here at Offham (yes I am a little bit smug) it was glorious sunshine....happy happy days.