Ivy Green and White I have always been drawn to ivy green and white, and I have been trying for some time to work out exactly why the combination feels so right to me, so instinctively settled and calm. I think it is something to do with the way the two colours hold each other, the crispness of the white sharpening the green, the green giving the white something warmer and more grounded to lean against. Together they do something that neither quite manages alone. It is a palette I find myself...
14 days ago • 2 min read
Something Sweet, Always I am a firm believer in the small sweet thing, the one that sits on the counter under a cloth or in a tin that gets opened rather more frequently than strictly necessary. The one that was not made for any occasion in particular but simply because the afternoon called for it and the ingredients happened to be there. A tray bake, cut into squares and left somewhere accessible. A batch of biscuits that are slightly too warm when the first one disappears. A handful of...
15 days ago • 2 min read
Floral on Floral Mixing florals can feel, at first, like something that requires a particular kind of confidence, the sort of eye that just knows instinctively what will sit happily alongside what. But I have come to believe that this confidence is far more widely held than most people realise, and that the main thing standing between a perfectly good room and a joyful, layered, abundantly alive one is simply the willingness to try. Tiny blooms alongside large leaves. A delicate pattern next...
16 days ago • 2 min read
A Life Lived at Home Is Not a Small Life There is a quiet assumption that seems to follow us around, the idea that real life happens somewhere else. Out there, in the bustle and the noise and the faraway places. And yet when I sit with that thought honestly, I find myself wondering how much of what I would actually call living has happened right here, in these rooms, at this table, in the particular quality of afternoon light that falls through the sitting room window at a certain time of...
17 days ago • 2 min read
Reader , how are you? I feel like it's been a long time since I emailed you. It's safe to say that Summer is over as we're closer to October than August now. But that does mean that we get to be cosy. For me there's no better place to start than some delicious, easy Autumnal baking. Baking that is guaranteed to make your kitchen smell like heaven. So here are three of my favourite recipes and they all contain that most delicious of fruits...APPLES! First up we have my delicious Apple Cinnamon...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read