• May

    May

    May you have been a very merry month! With sunny days and bursting hedgerows. To celebrate the season I planned a little Regency-inspired garden tea. I cut and folded into big flouncy bows a lovely pink cotton toile fabric, I then wired the bows onto jars, popped in some sherbet…

  • April

    April

    April has been glorious, watching the trees leaf up and the cherry blossoms bloom (one of my favourites). It’s a great day when dining can begin alfresco with regular lunch and breakfasts in the garden and our first dinner of the season tonight! There are all sorts of flower seeds…

  • March

    March

    March has been a gorgeous month of blue skies and frosty nights, which have marvellously delayed my planting so I can catch up in the garden! And drink tea in the sun. Easter is late this year giving me longer to savour the thought of it, one of my absolute…

  • February

    February

    February has given us some warmer days and the first of the spring blooms, it certainly lifts the spirits and has me reaching for colour charts and vibrant fabric swatches. I’ve been busy with floral quotes for weddings and events taking place both this year and next, its lovely spending…

  • January

    January

    January seems to have flown or more aptly ‘blown’ by, with storm after storm, calling for cosy days working in front of the roaring wood burner interspersed with blustery bouts of winter gardening. I’ve been in London again this month and made a visit to the National Portrait Gallery, I…

  • Happy Christmas

    Happy Christmas

    I was lucky to be in London this week to see the Royal Ballet’s performance of Cinderella, it was utterly breathtaking. I had a behind the scenes tour beforehand to see where the creative magic happens, it was fascinating and a complete inspiration for my own creativity and of course…

  • Welcome back!

    Welcome back!

    Welcome to The Woodland Atelier and my first journal post on my lovely newly designed website. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to create and launch before the year is out, beginning the project when the sun was high in the sky and the days were long and launching…