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This blog is dedicated to sourcing, enjoying, storing and using all the tidbits of inspiration I can find on the internet that are relevent to our exciting 2011 project of renovating and extending an old cottage in Warwickshire, UK. We never, ever expected to be doing a complete renovation on a cottage that has had NOTHING done to it since the 60's. It is totally out of character to us we are both utterly lacking in the DIY department but fate has played a hand and brought us to this place, I have no doubt about that. I am a children's portrait photographer and plan to create a beautiful outdoor portrait studio in the old, Victorian orchard and wildflower meadow. I have a copy of a photo taken approximately 100 years ago of children playing in the fields here and for me to carry on that tradition and for us as a family to breathe life back in to the place, well, it means the world to me. Lucy x

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Thursday, 13 January 2011

Curiouser and Curiouser...

Anyway, how to begin...????...

I was at the house today and walking around the orchard clearing the odd brick here and there (it seems there are literally hundreds just under the surface of the earth, I think they were just left there in the 1960's) when I noticed this perfect little glass bottle at the entrance to a rabbit hole. No, I absolutely am not joking, it really was there and it most certainly was not there before. The rabbits must have dug it up and flicked it out. I thought it was sweet, then it got me thinking...

The very first project for the house. A tiny little ornament, perhaps for a printers drawer display.

"this time she found a little bottle on it, ("which certainly was not here before," said Alice), and tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on it in large letters."

- from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

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