Tuesday 31 October 2017

Taking a break

I've decided to take a break from I Love My Home for a while. There are several other creative areas I want to concentrate on so I won't be posting or selling in the near future. Thank you for reading and following all these years x

Tuesday 15 August 2017

Rustic signs

I often see lots of old tools for sale and love the age and wear on them. 


For a while I've been thinking about a way to use them and so I've been playing around with this idea for rustic signs...


What do you think?


Monday 19 June 2017

More treasures!

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Sunday 11 June 2017

Latest treasure hunt...

Met a couple of contacts yesterday who source brocante from France and look what I came home with…

A gorgeous pair of hand carved sabots, they look child sized but may have been for a very petite woman I suppose...


They really are adorable…


And just so you know you're getting value for money from your reading… here's a little known fact to use at your next dinner party… did you know the words 'saboteur' and sabotage' come from the practice of French workers jamming factory machines by throwing their clogs into the mechanism to stop production?


Next up is this gorgeous and very heavy picture frame. So ornate, I can't decide whether to add a mirror or simply fill it with antique fabric or paper …ideas please?



Then this lovely bottle arrived, very large and heavy and such a beautiful colour


And then, this little key cupboard shaped like a terrace of houses, 
too cute!


All this and a pretty French coffee pot which I can see filled with wild flowers




 
A good morning's work x 





Can't stop quilting…..

I know it's easy to be wise after the event, but why didn't I realise quilting and patching would be so addictive?

Of course I can't be lugging around a whole quilt to work on all the time, but there are always scraps of fabric to use up and no piece is too small to be useful. That's why I'm addicted I think, it appeals to my hate of wasting resources and love of creating something out of nothing.

So here's a little beauty I just made. About 6 by 4 inches and embellished with a scrap of fabric on which I printed the first line of "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier. The quote is about dreaming because the pillow is filled with lavender which I picked and dried from last years garden. I keep it under my pillow to send me off to sleep...




and here's the reverse...



I went on to make a couple more of these for friends to use as sachets for their linen cupboards or as sleep inducing pillows.
For the sleep pillows I also mix dried hops into the filling for their soporific effect.

Hope you like x

Friday 7 April 2017

Bigger and even better!


Well, things have changed yet again, I can hardly keep up!

I Love My Home is still available at Brackley Antique Centre in all its unique, ever-changing, vintage glory but now on an even bigger scale!

We have moved into a new unit (no 82) which is twice the size of our previous home


Loads more room for furniture and easier for customers to see and touch all the beautiful items on display 


Over the winter I've sourced and worked on a whole barn full of wonderful pieces and can't wait to show you more!


If you get a chance to visit I Love My Home at Brackley Antique Centre, you'd be so very welcome - and don't forget we are open 362 days a year (so great for a rainy day!), with plenty of parking and a tea room, not forgetting approximately 190 dealers with a huge variety of items for sale.
Check my SHOP page or the panel on the top right of the HOME page - see you soon !