POETRY Blue & White Pottery Fourteen tiny pottery piecesall arranged in artful alignment.Remeberence of endless hours,imperceptible strides in mental silence.Of eyes made dry and hands made wet,glistening promise and rewarded faith.My heart swells with these ragged scraps,a palmful of patterns on parts of plates. by Nicki MacRae, January 2022
When you’re feeling a bit poorly there’s nothing like a mega-trawl of Ebay looking for all weird and wonderful things for sale… Here’s today’s round-up of the crazy, beautiful and unexpected! These props from the 1997 film, ‘The Borrowers’ Those who’ve seen the film (or remember the story) will know it centres around tiny-sized people …
I am a charity shop lover! I love a rummage, I love a bargain, I love finding something unique and special that I couldn’t buy elsewhere. My mum taught me the art of charity shopping when I was a kid. I had all sorts of treasures from charity shops… like a set of tiny 1950’s …
I’ve been looking for a vintage dressing table for ages. Last week at Gary Paterson Sales (thanks to Jacqueline for all her help) I struck lucky and found this gorgeous Art Deco dressing table! It has a beautiful sculpted shape with rounded cupboards and sliding tambour doors which house tiny cubby holes for trinkets. The mirror is …
I spotted some Facebook friends cooing over this amazing caravan and just had to share. What an amazing space! The owner of this Coventry Knight 49 (1949 being the year it was made) caravan has listed it on Ebay with starting bid of £8,000. It has a drinks cabinet, writing desk, his and hers wardrobe as …
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Ballone Castle sits out on the wild and windswept Tarbat Peninsula, near the villages of Portmahomack and Rockfield. This far tip of the peninsula projects so out in to the North Sea that it forms a favourite spot for spotting dolphins and whales (and, if you ask my daughters, mermaids). Even though we live only …
On Friday I headed back up the road to the STONEworks Early Architecture Project at Spittal, Caithness to lend a hand with the broch building ( you can read more about brochs and the project here in a previous post). I must say again what a absolutely lovely team there are on site, and thanks …
Last Thursday I was lucky enough to be able to take a trip an hour and a half up the road to Caithness to drop in on an exciting experimental archaeology project. Members of the Caithness Archaeological Trust (CAT), experts from AOC Archaeology, the Archie Sinclair Fossil Centre, and volunteers from the community and further afield are working …