At long last we have moved! After months of living out of boxes in a cramped rental.. we now have space, space, space..... A typical Northumbrian farm...and...with a big barn for storage......
Hello! It has been a very long time since I last did a blog post. The reasons being that half of me has fallen out of love with blogging and the other half has been so busy moving house after...
We have had a few foggy, frosty mornings here in Northumberland And some fabulous sunsets, But today has been a sunny one... Warm enough for Miss Ottie to cool down on her mo...
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It has been a very long time since I showed you some Cloth Shed purchases... Miss Ottie and The Bastle seem to have featured more often in recent posts rather than my stock. So, first up ... a ...
Miss Ottie is now a much bigger girl than she was this time last year. We have had lots of chewing.... Destroying of garden..... Lots of play.... Lots of running.... ...
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The significant lack of blogging at the cloth shed has been due to work, Miss Ottie and the above. Big apologies... Safe to say though, we are finally done after 4 years of extremely hard ...
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Take a pair of sturdy, old chairs with 'lovely' pink dralon seat pads.... The sabre legs and scroll arms however, give them a nice Frenchy/Swedish feel. So, purchase a tin of Autentico......
http://theclothshed.blogspot.com/2014/07/autentico-or-annie.html
Gorgeous wedding flowers in our church this weekend. Summer flowers...alchemilla, sweetpeas, roses, scabious around the church door. The font... And the pews...beautiful xx ...
http://theclothshed.blogspot.com/2014/07/summer-in-village.html
You may remember the Bastle kitchen as it was over 3 years ago.... A little pod in the 18th century side extension to the original 16th century Bastle building. Well after a " little...
http://theclothshed.blogspot.com/2014/06/new-bastle-kitchen.html
I bought this king size, ex Barker and Stonehouse, mahogany bed frame from a local secondhand warehouse the other day. It has had a bit of a hard life I think, judging by the scratches an...
A trip to God's own County... Yorkshire. Ripley near Harrogate to be precise, which yielded a little bit of France for me at the weekend. Stall after stall of salvaged and decorative piec...
http://theclothshed.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-grand-day-out.html
This unusual French dress, hand made from lace curtain panels, tablecloth edging, and lace border dyed blue/grey ( no, not by me...) has found its way recently to the cloth shed emporium. ...
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Latest acquisition for the bastle kitchen...another large,white jug...only this one is more cream darkening to beige because of heat and use over time. Pretty ordinairy you think.... S...
http://theclothshed.blogspot.com/2014/04/toast-and-water.html
Not to be outdone by the arrival of Miss Ottie to Northumberland... Monsieur Oscar from Paris has sent me some poses to show everyone how handsome he still is. This is the cat that delibera...
When I go to Grandma's house, she feeds the birds... Cutey little ones who eat seeds from feeders and from a huge fat ball which incidentally I don't like... In fact, I bark at it because it...
Old, worn, pottery eggs in a hand blown glass jar.... Random shapes, glazes and sizes... Used to encourage hens to lay or for dealing with temperamental, broody hens who won't get ...
http://theclothshed.blogspot.com/2014/02/sure-as-eggs-is-eggs.html
OK... I am in love. With my gorgeous girl... Ottie. Happy to travel to the shops in her cage, Enjoying a bit of playtime on the newly sealed flagstone floor in the Bastle 14 we...
I am sure you all know by now how diverse the rural county of Northumberland is thanks to the recent publicity on the TV from local lad... Robson Green. For those living here it is indeed a spe...
I think I am all done. The Christmas tree was decorated in record time this year.... Lights and decorations thrown on with one eye on pup playing with the empty boxes. The Trumpeting angel...
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At the moment. Because a chance meeting and conversation with a friend in TKMaxx resulted in a life changing decision for us... "Do you know anyone who wants a labrador puppy? " Fatal... ...
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These arrived one Friday evening in the dark, on two enormous pallets....all the way from Farmhouse Flagstones in Gloucestershire. They are authentic reproductions of old flagstones, the mou...
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A new piece of furniture for the kitchen arrived yesterday... Unpolished, water stained feet from the washing of floors, old ring marks and rusty hinges, but I love it! An unusual Victori...
Not one for hiding my light under the proverbial bushel... This full size bushel barrel (19 ins diameter ) and its heavy roller have found a new home here at Cloth Shed Towers and are pro...
The Bastle landing is more or less finished now.... Just need to put the iron thumb latches back on the doors. Natty LED lights in the wall to guide you down to the staircase, ...
As you probably know, Monsieur Oscar lives in a bijou apartment in Paris with his doting human parent.... My daughter. Beautiful tabby, totally spoiled and in her eyes, can do no wrong. ...