what i wore: a howies summer
What I Wore: Skirt- Howies £30 Top- Howies £10 Cardigan- old, from TESCO £3 Shoes- Vans £5 (purchased from Bicester Village Outlet – now sadly closed) Necklace- the Affordable Vintage Fair, Leeds £4...
View Articleweekend wanderings: Pembrokeshire coast
Last Friday, I hurried out of work at 4:30 on the dot and we jumped in the car to head off for a weekend in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park (the only coastal National Park, you know…). After...
View Articlethe first five
Today is our fifth anniversary. Five years ago today, I was sat at home, dressed to the nines, anxiously waiting for a blue Citroen Saxo to pull up, marking the start of my first date with the new guy...
View Articleweekend wanderings: Southwold
As promised, here are some snaps from our fifth anniversary day out to Southwold. Unfortunately, Chris had altered the camera settings to photograph these peas in a pod I had given him (cos he says we...
View Articlelife, lately…flowers, filming and an update on 'the move'
Apologies for my distant tone over the last week. After re-reading my last few posts I realised I’d been happily barking away about things I’d been doing with my bouquet from the Cut Flower Workshop,...
View Articlebedtime reading: july 2012
Happy Yorkshire Day! Ok, I admit, I didn’t realise it actually was Yorkshire Day until twitter informed me this morning…does this make me a bad Yorkshire person? When I used to live in Saddleworth,...
View Articlecoastal living – revenge beach house
We don’t watch much TV here at Little House in Town HQ, and I’m guessing we’ll be watching even less once we are shacked up in our seaside bolthole, but there is one show I do watch religiously at the...
View Articleweekend wanderings: Solva Woollen Mill, Neyland Marina and swimming in the...
Last weekend was our first proper weekend in Pembrokeshire, and boy did we get around! We seem to have gone for the ‘whistlestop’ tour approach to our new county, and we definitely need to do a proper...
View Articlehome DIY: basic curtain tutorial + sneak peek of our bedroom!
My homemade curtains are now complete and in-situ, replacing the horrendous blackout curtains that hung there previously. I chose my yarn-dyed cotton fabric (from IKEA) to keep in with the...
View Articlefairtrade fortnight
There’s a lot going on round here at the moment, and I seem to find that between managing the online shop, coordinating two bricks and mortar stores, doing my editorial work, re-furbishing our spare...
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