the BOYS!

Well the first week of 2012 is over, I am off this weekend and I will be spending it removing xmas from the cottage... it is time!

I have great news, I was featured on "Better After" by lovely Lindsey AND I was featured too at Stardust Decor & Style... WOW! Thank you so much. And all your comments are really blowing me away!!! REALLY!

I can tell that from these two features I have alot of new readers and followers!!! I hope you stay, and I hope I dont dissapoint you all.

Some of you had questions, I always reply to questions via mail (if you include it in the comment) or by commenting on your blog! So if you asked something, check your comments please!

Also, you requested and update on my boys, Hokus and Pokus... So I have some for you now... They are a handfull, really! Hokus keeps climbing the tree! All the way to the top, and Pokus' new favorite past time is removing decor from my table! Sigh... but I love them so much I just cant stay angry. Pokus will be going to his new home towards the end of January... I'm sure he'll have a good life there, but I will be a wreck of course.

 Pokus and Hokus... my wee boys!

And here... you see my new atlier addition! Yes... it's a bit messy... Alot of my naturalia curios are set there, these will however go in the library, eventually! I also keeps my paint, tools ect. I LOVE IT! It goes with my desk, which my sister gave me, and my chair...

Yeh, this picture isnt the greatest. It's too much mess on that table... Sorry. I will try and style better and call my sister back for a re-shoot. ha ha

See that strange three headed woman? I think she's called a Pachamama... or "mother earth". A friend of mine brought it back from the Andes. She is weird, but I love her!!! As I am pagan, it was the perfect gift!

I'll be back soon ;)

the year that was....

2011 is now old news... and what happend here at the cottage this year?

Lets take a walk throught it shall we....

January

a new years table was decorated.

I read 29 books in 2011, fewer than what I read in 2010...hmmm

My diningroom looked fresh without any christmas left overs

Febuary

I enjoyed fresh farm eggs from mum's chickens.

I was really into equestrian decor and inspiration for my mudroom/hallway

 

And we were so waiting for spring tofinally happen

March

I kept buying spring baulbs....

We made loads of muffins, in every flavour!

 I finally found the perfectly cute alarm clock.

April

My dining room wasa featured at HGTV... I felt super proud.

Easter happend....

we had guest from Germany that brought me gifts! :)

May

The hallway was finnished and decorated!

Pixie won Youngstock Champion as well as Reserve Best in Show at her 2nd show ever...

I fell in love with striped paper straws... :)

June

It was summer, but didnt feel alot like it... it was simply WET.

Finally painted my deck chair in light aqua, as well as alot of other things...

The stairs landing upstairs became my atlier

July

My sister graduated from 4 years of photography school!

I finally got a hold of the "Romantic Prarie Style" book... Loved it!

I dragged this huge cage back from the UK....

August

My Beswick Collection in the hallway grew...

Butterfly magnets....

A new wooden box for use as a table.

September

My home made message blackboard.

Pixie won some more ribbons.

And Pixie's stable git finnished.

October

Autumn arrived in full... and it was fleamarket time. I painted these from dark brown.

I attended an outdoors theatre, it was COLD.

 Got me some pretty new bowls...

November

I turned 30!!! Oh my!

Hokus arrived

And so did Pokus. My two kittens.

December

I decorated for Yule early in December.

Dad had a heartattack and survived.... and was through surgery and home before xmas!

Celebrated a quiet yule season with friends and family.

Hope to see you all still in 2012

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a good celebration, big or small. Ours was peaceful and fun. We had dad's most amazing turkey dinner and then playde games for hours and drank ALOT of wine :) It was great!

I decided that I wanted to begin the new year with a link-up-party at the Polo House. This month's theme was "collections"... so here are a FEW of my collections...

Old green or blue hued bottles. I have them everywhere, but my majority is in the kitchen window.

  I also collect old nutbrown and skyline utensils, in... you guessed it... green or blue... It used to hang over my stove, but outgrew the area and moved to a better place.

 Well I have alot more collections... like skeleton keys, old green/blue books, old suitcases, old equine postcards... but I cant show them ALL now can I :)

Enjoy January... SPRING is not that far off now... and soon I will strip my cottage for christmas... but NOT just yet... no...not yet