It was a particularly lovely sunrise this morning and the sky was clear so I took a quick ten minutes to do a reshoot of my knitmas, with the sun behind the scene and a reflector in front to cancel out the heavy shadows. I changed the angle a bit so that I’d get more […]

I’ve had this wee plan forming in my head for at least a couple of months now, but finally at the knit & stitch show i managed to get my hands on some little wooden letters of the right size and today, I sat down with them, and some double sided tape, and some scraps […]

I particularly had this tree in mind to visit in the Japanese Garden part of the Powerscourt estate, but i don’t think i was prepared for just how amazingly red it would be. There were actualy a few of them, of slightly different varieties – if i was a bit more of a nature geek […]

It’s almost a real halloweeny pumpkin, compared to the elven-inspired designs I usually do!

Since I’d already had my visit to glasgow on the way in, i suggested we visit Edinburgh on mum’s birthday, for a change of scenery. We didn’t rush too much and didn’t manage to get through until the afternoon but it was still enough time for a visit to anthropologie (where i could happily have […]

I’ve been working with the lovely Clare from Puddleduck Produce on some tasty tasty product shots of her fantastic jams and other preserves, and it’s been So Much Fun. I even used it as an excuse to buy a glass cakestand, and a couple of vintage silver plated spoons :) I played around with the […]

Now that’s a staircase. You know when you see ‘french country style’ in a magazine and you wonder if anything in real life actually looks like that? It really, actually does. And not in a twee, unlivable way either. It was slightly spooky in the dark, but when the light was streaming through those windows […]