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It has been a crazy summer, in so many ways! Things were just getting nicely back to some degree of normal...we could see a path in the garage and carriage house, where boxes used to be...furniture piled high, waiting to be allocated a new spot, was finding it's back into the newly renovated spaces.... ....a challenge at times, but taking on a bit of fun, finally! The two " floribundas love seats, recovered in inexpensive cotton duck, and two bedroom chairs, previously covered in yellow damask, now nicely ensconced in the open kitchen/great room, in green pastoral toile...I had the fabric squirrelled away for approximately three years, waiting for my vision of this room to come together...   I am still undecided about a stove back.....so a small, vintage painting of sheep, is softening this space.... Yep....sheep, pigs, cows are on my mind, at the moment!! A little peek in the corner, of a lovely vintage etching of cows on the river Wye....on the end wall of ...

Summer Butterflies. Июль 2013. Рост - 46 см. и 23 см. Не продаются. Материалы - Трикотаж, хлопок, кружева, костюмная полушерсть. Волосы - синтетика. Крылья - вышивка, аппликация.

Roses in trees....   A few weeks ago, I came across a very idyllic photo, which left me with my jaw gaping...it was a photo of Sophie Loren's garden in her Roman villa, photographed in 1964, for Life magazine.....roses growing through gnarled old trees with an understory of grazing sheep... perfection!     This was all the inspiration I needed to trellis my roses....why not tree branches instead of the standard iron tuteurs or cages commonly used to corral arching canes and heavily laden bushes....I was on a mission! Luckily, living in the woods affords an abundance of fallen tree material....I love the look of cherry tree bark and branches....they have just the right texture for the delicate roses....soooo, we drove some reinforcing iron rods into the soil and attached the beautiful cherry branches....there were some very skeptical looks and arguments in the process...but I was not to be swayed!   Here, if you look closely, the iron rod is holding t...