We have searched long and hard for some items to go in our shop alongside our quilts and cushions. Our criteria was a company that wouldn't let us down and liked small business's, the items had to be of good quality, handmade, ethical and eco friendly, and, here is the biggy, something we would love in our own homes (we are a bit on the fussy side!)
Happy Halloween from the UK
10 more of the best from Beacon Hill Boston
As promised here is ten more of the best from Beacon Hill Boston.
I think Halloween may be a little crazy in Boston. As we left the city to come home they were queuing out of the party store and down the block, with security guarding the doors!
We have experienced Halloween in Vermont before, which was good fun, quite spectacular, and was all wrapped up by 8pm with the state police joining in the festivities as well.
10 of the best from Beacon Hill Halloween
Keepsake Quilting New Hampshire
A few of you have asked to see inside Keepsake Quilting on Center Harbor New Hampshire USA.
Rattlesnake Mountain New Hampshire
Things we have discovered today in Vermont
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.
Check lists and leaving alittlebitofnice because New England beckons.
Clifton revisited
Escape
Running, who'd have thought.
There's nothing like a good auction
Bristol Balloon Festival
Cornwall
The Oak and the Holly
At the moment I am reading a book called Sissinghurst an unfinished history by Adam Nicholson, who is the grandson of Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicolson, who made the garden at Sissinghurst.