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Sugar and spice

So sickly sweet it'll make your tummy hurt.  But obviously, I'm kind of proud of them.  They're my presents for the Coombes handmade mid-winter-actually-now-more-like-spring Christmas this weekend.  Jars of peanut butter brownies for the boys.  Jesus, call me Martha Stewart, what's happened to me...where's my cigarettes and beer? So sickly sweet it'll make your tummy hurt.  But obviously, I'm kind of proud of...

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God of small things

I brought back an Inca God-of-the-Home from Peru.  Actually I bought back two, one for my mum and dad and one for us.  Putting this little god in the home would keep the home-place safe, happy and free from evil.  When I unpacked them from the newspaper after four months of travel, one of them was broken.  I gave my parents the unharmed...

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Stealing Beauty

In the French countryside but it may as well be in another world it's just too perfect.  People actually live these lives?  Perhaps my dreams are too small.  Where I now spend my time dreaming:  www.home-designing.com ...

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