Latest Blog Posts for my red door cottage

• White paint does it again...
  on Jul 26, 2014 in changing rooms my home painting white paint
  When hubby is away I always grab the opportunity to change a few things here and there, don't you? This time I really was kept busy and part of the updating our cottage was getting rid of the barn red painted beams. It wasn't a bright red l...
• Passionfuit Vine Wreath
  on Jun 15, 2014 in handmade recycling vine wreath
  Apart from the stunning flowers and the bountiful fruit don't you love the curly tendrils from the passion fruit vine? I know I do. There is just something about them...gnarly and twisty. Sadly it was time to cut the passionfruit vine ba...
• Cottage Plate Wall
  on Jun 10, 2014 in cottage decorating cottage style granny chic plate wall
   Having had a plate wall in our previous home I decided to incorporate a similar one in the small hallway of our original cottage.      I have collected a number of plates over the years and I chose these ones for m...
• Bees and Camellias in the garden
  on May 25, 2014 in bees camellias cottage garden
  We have quite a few very old camellia trees in our garden. They delight me everyday. There are so many busy bees buzzing around doing their thing, its almost noisy! A relaxing and very healthy kind of noisy.    Gathering the...
• Painting a small hallway.
  on May 20, 2014 in changing rooms painting
  When were looking at our cottage to buy I knew there would be some feature walls we would have to paint.A dark green one.Two silver grey walls.One gold feature wall.A couple of hallway walls painted mango yellow.These are the last of them.Phew!
• Crochet Foral Blanket
  on May 18, 2014 in cottage style crochet granny chic handmade
  As soon as winter approaches and the temperatures drop I love to sit in front of the fire at night and crochet away. Keeping those hands busy when in front of the TV too! This is my latest work in progress...These blooms are enormous and so very colo...
• Loving Dahlias
  on May 6, 2014 in cottage garden Dahlias
  These past few months I have had so much fun with growing dahlias. I bought my first seedlings from a grower at our local market and have been blown away with these magnificent blooms.   So much colour in the garden and brought into ou...
• Updating with Lazybones Wallpaper
  on May 4, 2014 in changing rooms wallpaper
  I have learnt so much about Euphemia Henderson lately. This is all thanks to Lazybones Australia! So fortunate to win not one roll, but two rolls of their gorgeous wallpaper in an Instagram competition. Not one for entering many competitions, I...
• Cottage Garden Changes
  on Apr 14, 2014 in cottage garden
  Who doesn't love a challenge? Especially in the garden, an over-gown one! When we purchased our old cottage I knew there would be a lot of change that would happen in this garden. That's what I do anyway. Always, always have to put my stamp on i...
• Too much grey.
  on Apr 14, 2014 in cottage garden
  Who doesn't love a challenge? Especially in the garden, an over-gown one! When we purchased our old cottage I knew there would be a lot of change that would happen in this garden. That's what I do anyway. Always, always have to put my stamp on i...

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