cornish cream

As you may have guessed if you’ve caught any of my Instagram pictures this week, we have been in Dorset and Cornwall to celebrate my birthday.

I confess, I didn’t actually have a cream tea in Cornwall.

Much as I would have loved to, there simply weren’t enough hours in the day to work up sufficient appetite to fit one in between the meals I have been consuming at our fantastic bed & breakfast, Bangors Organic, near Bude.

Neil and Gill grow all of their own produce (apart from what’s wild-caught or locally reared) and it was just too good to be restrained about eating it.

We walked under blue skies to rocky coves.

We puffed up endless steps and gasped at endless views at Tintagel Castle.

We fed Neil’s chickens (and then ate their wonderfully orange-yolked eggs for breakfast).

We dined and slept in luxury and came home the better for it.

It wasn’t as hard as I had feared to live without either my hair straighteners (my fringe had a curly time of it) or my laptop (I forgot the charging cable).

My actual birthday was spent mainly in the car, travelling home. But no matter.

Batteries have been recharged. The family’s, and the laptop’s.

And there’s still a week of the Easter holidays left.

Now we just need a bit of warmer weather to enjoy it.

I hope you had an equally fantastic week, however and wherever you spent it. ♥

tea break

A little round up of my favourite images, recently-discovered via pinterest.

So, put the kettle on, make yourself a brew, put your feet up and enjoy!

Click on each photo to visit its source and see more. x

There… doesn’t that feel better?

card carrying

I’ve always wanted to be able to whip out my business card with a flourish and say “my card!”

Well, now I can!

This small, sturdy, unassuming little white box arrived the other day. My new business cards from moo!

I am quite pleased with them. Much prettier than my old ones.

And more professional than the ones I made myself.

I went for pictures of a selection of some of my favourite fabrics.

Because that’s what I like to look at. The cards double-up as mounts for my birdie brooches.

But their real purpose is to spread the modflowers word.

I have already whipped one or two out and handed them over.

I couldn’t stop smiling as I walked away

style envy: debi treloar

This is the home of photographer Debi Treloar.

I have admired her photography and her home for a very long time now.

I even displayed geekily fan-girlish behaviour once, by asking her where her living room rug was from.

She very graciously told me. But as anticipated, it was not something I was able to just pop down and pick up from Ikea. (It was by Nathalie Lete and from Caravan).

If I could choose to be blessed with one person’s style, it would be Debi’s.

(OK. I’ll stop gushing now).

adventures in advertising

During my lovely midweek break at my friends’ house out in the countryside, there were no technological distractions.

No internet (broadband service out of order). No mobile phone (no network coverage).

Very relaxing, if just a tad inconvenient.

Conversation flowed and the browsing of books was enjoyed.

I did, however, have my camera.

So I thought I’d share some fabulous images from their lovely old book on 1960s American advertising.

Enjoy!

picture perfect: beth retro

Beth Retro is a photographer who knows how to capture a mood.

For me, these images perfectly capture high summer.

They certainly captured my heart when I stumbled across them via the wonderful Candy Pop.

You can see more of Beth’s work here and here, and buy her prints here.