It's been a little busy here at karenbarclay.com but today I am having a little time to myself. Happy Bank Holiday Weekend.
For all the Mums
This weekend brings us Mother's Day and a chance to show all hard working Mums how much they are appreciated.
This can be done with beautiful flowers.
By baking a beautiful cake to share.
Making a lovely coffee, or tea.
But the best thing of all we can give our Mum's is time. It costs nothing but it can mean the world.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Karen and Julie
Lighting Up For Valentines
We thought this was an appropriate photograph to share with you this weekend. It is called light painting and its done with torches and technical wizardry with the camera. You also need a very dark place to do it. This is not always possible as there are too many street lights so this was done at lowermargate in Devon.
Hope you have a lovely weekend whatever you are doing or whoever you are sharing it with.
Karen and Julie
Spring Flowers in All Their Glory
Our Blogging Style
Hello everyone!
We are lucky to have a lot of new people looking at our website and Facebook posts so we thought that we would introduce all you lovely people to our blog. Obviously we write about quilts and cushions as they are the core of our business but we also love to tell you about nice places we visit and the beautiful walks we take.
A Quilting Break at Lower Margate
All In A Name
10 of the best from Beacon Hill Halloween
Mill Falls New Hampshire
Snow in Stowe
Fall foliage in Stowe Vermont today.
Two Creek Hill Stowe Vermont
We have been fortunate enough to stay in Stowe Vermont New England USA four times, staying at the Stoweflake Inn and the Green Mountain Inn. This time we wanted to stay in a home to see what it felt like to actually live in the area, and cook our own food some of the time. We were lucky enough to find Two Creek Hill to rent for the week, the owner David Brownstein was incredibly helpful from our first contact with him, even showing us other properties that were smaller and lower in price than his own, in his words 'he just wanted us to stay in Vermont and have an amazing time'.
New England so far
Thought I would just share with you what we have seen in New England so far, the weather has been unseasonably warm for the time of year with plenty of sun and a few hours of torrential rain. The last few days have flown past as we get used to the time difference and a different way of life. Boston has been lovely and now we are looking forward to tomorrow and the more gentle side of Vermont.
Running, who'd have thought.
There's nothing like a good auction
Bristol Balloon Festival
New web site
Our new web site www.alittlebitofnice.com is now up and running, it has taken far longer than we expected which accounts for some of the lack of blogs over the last few months.