An Analogued Life - A Lesson In Simplicity

Nobody does it like the Japanese. Their skill in keeping it simple yet functional is unsurpassed. I take my English designer's hat off to them. These gorgeous pieces are from Analogue Life.
Great News: they ship worldwide and the shipping costs are really easy to understand. If you don't go and take a look then on your head be it.

Homes and Property Top 100

Do you ever wander around the web looking for stuff for your home and get totally confused. Here's a lovely website that lists the Top 100 sites for Homes and Property - The H&P One Hundred

An overview of the shops all placed in their relevant sections,

with an overview of their products.

With companies such as Squint, Roost Living, Mint, Brissi and Liberty, oh the list goes on but you get the idea that these are the Top 100 indeed.
Note: Ghost Furniture is included

WANTED!

This packaging tape for my parcels. By Mmiinn

Claire Coles

Love these photographs of collages from Claire Cole's website. Famous for her embroidered wallpapers she shows here another talent to add to her long list.

On My Doorstep - Kielder Water

Just down the road from my cottage sits Kielder Water surrounded by interactive artworks such as these. Above is Freya's Hut which sits on the opposite side of the lake to

Robin's Hut - read their story here, it's enchanting. My friend Gavin Tremble built Robin's Hut and he was asked to build something else of great importance which is again at Kielder Water.

Due to us having the darkest skies in the UK Gavin was asked to build an Observatory to house a huge telescope.

Didn't he do a grand job?
A very handy friend to have as he is a carpenter and repairs all my broken pieces of Ghost Furniture.

Decoupage by John Derian

Hard to believe these plates aren't real. From a range of decoupage multi-piece wall hangings by John Derian

Pssst - Want To Buy Some Vintage

Two new additions to my Ghost Furniture website. All the stuff I collect then don't use just takes up too much space so I have set up a new page called Little Leftovers selling all those little treasures from my journeys around the Flea Markets of France. Also

a new section called The Making Of... showing some of the pieces before and after they were revamped.

Being 59

Today is my birthday and I am now in the last year of my fifties. Celebrate with me, have some

cake.

The year I was born, 1951, people looked like this but

in the 1960s things started to change, thankfully. I have been fortunate enough to have lived through some of the most important decades in history. Not everything in my personal life or the World has been good during my time here but it's certainly been interesting and

being in the company of these ladies, all of whom I can call peers isn't so bad.

So here's to another 59 which will make me 118. To think, next year I will get a bus pass.