Busy Bee Studio

You shopped till you dropped!!

 
It was wonderful to welcome you all . . . . . to the Busy Bee Studio,

this weekend . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 

A Warm Welcome to . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friends old and new . . .

You shopped till you dropped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Carefully selecting . . . . . just the right goodies!!

To take home with you . . . . . . .

We welcomed you with a real fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mulled  wine . . . . . . . . . . .and mince pies . . .

 
and Winston wore his jingle bell collar . . . . . . . . 

 We put out the bran tub . . . . . . . . . . 

Which went down well . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . .

and placed outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

our fine selection of wares for your perusal. . . . . . . . 

We had a wonderful weekend so . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . 

MERRY CHRISTMAS . . . . . . . .and . . . . . . . . . . .

A BIG "THANK-YOU" TO ALL MY GORGEOUS CUSTOMERS xx

I am writing this on Sunday evening, after packing away,

so . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I'am now going to have a glass of wine and put my feet up . . . 

A glass of wine is my one weakness . . . . . . . . . . . . .

P. S. I think it was all a bit much for Gucci . . . . . 

 
 

Christmas "Open Weekend"

 
I am running around, like a headless chicken, making preparations,

for our Busy Bee Christmas Open Event on Sat 7th, and Sun 8th,

of November . . . . . . . . . . . . Christmas comes early round here!!

 
JBC has cut a couple of our Christmas trees . . . . . . . . . . . as you do!!

and they will be twinkling with white fairy lights . . . . . . . . . . . 

I hope to see you all down at the studio, between 10am - 4pm.

Mulled wine and mince pies are complementary.

I have decided to do a "bran tub" for you all . . . . . . .  . . . .

I have a lovely big picnic hamper to put it all in,

It will be £2.00 to have a go, but all the items will be worth,

£2.00 or more . . . . . . . . here are some of the goodies I

have been wrapping for you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Never thought I'd be rapping at my age!!

This living the dream is very hard work sometimes!! 

If you don't fancy a go on the BRAN TUB . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The studio is packed to the rafters with Christmas . . . . . . . .

 
Stuffed with GORGEOUS GOODIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 . . . . and Gucci will be there to charm you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  

And even the bathroom is full!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 
Come on now, where else does a girl keep her cushions?

See you at the weekend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxx

So nice to be asked . . . . . . . . . . . .

 
About a month ago I was thrilled to answer the phone . . . . . . . . . . . .

To a lovely lady who, was a researcher for Chanel 4's,. . . . . . . . . . . .

"KIRSTYS HOMEMADE HOME" . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . T.V. program.

I know, I KNOW,  . . . . . . soooooooh excited was I . . . . . . . . . .

She was thinking they might be visiting, the North- East, and

had seen my website, and thought that KIRSTY may,

come and do a course, with me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 
They ended up doing all the filming in and around Devon . . .

So they didn't come to me after all, but I was thrilled to be asked

in the first place . . . . . . . . . . . . So look out for 4 Christmas Specials

of Kirsty's Homemade Home soon, and apparently she

makes and finishes more of the products this time.

 

Serendipity at Lavender Cottage!!

  
A few weeks ago we booked ourselves a short break at Lavender Cottage

we have to do that now, or otherwise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

we can't get in to our own cottage!!

On our way we stopped off in Saltburn,

as we saw a sign for a farmers market.

It was very busy, and the stalls were excellent.

I bought a lovely cushion to go on the bed at Lavender, which says,

"Always kiss me goodnight" . . . . . . . but I forgot to take a picture

of it . . . . . . . . . . .sorry!

We had a four night stay and one of the days we zoomed off to

Pickering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a lovely market town.

 
We had lunch in the white swan (gorgeous)

but the best bit was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

that the whole town was gearing up for a, "Wartime weekend."

All the shops had got into the spirit of things and dressed the windows,

 
Above is the chocolate shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

And this is one of the charity shops. The charity shops were amazing,

with all kinds of 40's outfits, they had Vera Lynn singing in the background

it was fab!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 

I would love to be there, the actual weekend to see everyone dressed up!

On the way back from Pickering JBC took a detour . . . . .

and it was pure serendipity . . . . . . we found this . . . .

Don't worry I am not a train spotter in any shape or form . . . . . . .

but, this little station was adorable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

and so unexpected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Look at the ticket office . . . . . . . . . . . . so "ickle" and "cute"

Oooooooh look at the buckets! . . . . . . . .

and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

the steam train . . . . . .

Then another steam train . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

JBC said this was a very important steam train . . . . . . . .

I was listening . . . . . . . . . honest . . . . . . but for the life of me,

I can't remember why it's important. . . . . or what it was called!!

 

 

Christmas goodies

 
I've been as busy as a "Santa's elves" putting all the new goodies up on the

website. It's all in the "seasonal collection" section of the busy bee website.

I know that I am probably bias, but there are some lovely goodies,

this year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 
I hope I am still good value . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

This . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Christmas garland is advertised in Decembers,

Country Homes and Interiors magazine for £8.50 . . . . . . . . . . . . 

Ours . . . . is £5.50 . . . . thrifty and gorgeous . . . What a combination!!

 
So when you get five minutes, pour yourself a cup of coffee,

 
sit down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

and have a look at our christmas selection . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Date for your diary . . . . . . . . . . .

the weekend of the 7th and 8th of November . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

is our big " CHRISTMAS OPEN" event, where the studio,

will be open for shopping, between 10am-4pm. we will serve you,

mulled wine and mince pies to put you in the mood for Christmas! 

Last but not least . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

lots of our fresh foliage door wreath courses are now full . . . .

so I have added two new courses on Mon,7th and Tues,8th

of December, these will run on an evening 7-10pm,

so if you fancy a go just email me or give me a ring!

 

Ted is sad . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 
Thirteen years ago, when we moved here,

we got two golden retrievers, two puppies.

Ted and Bertie . . . . . . . from the same litter,  . . . . . brothers . . . . . . . . . . . .

Getting TWO brothers was a big mistake  . . . . . . . . . . . .

For the whole of their lives,

they have looked to each other for guidance and not to us!!

Oooooooooooooooh they have had their moments!!

But they have stuck to each other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

always blaming the other one and saying "It wasn't me" . . . . . . . . .

Last week,  Ted's brother died . . . . . and Ted's been a bit lost.

Gucci has been sitting with him a lot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Do you think he knows?

 

Pumpkin Party . . . . .Open Event, Sunday18th Oct, 10am-4pm

 

I hope to see you all, down at the New Studio,

this Sunday for our Pumpkin Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

We will be open 10am- 4pm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

for the sale of gorgeous goodies and needful things!

Outside I will have lots of Pumpkin and Halloween stock . . . . . . .

but  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 

Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Has . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Arrived . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 
For those of you who can't visit . . . . . . . . . . . .I will start to

put the Christmas goodies onto the website next week . . . . . .

See you Sunday . . . . . . . .I'll have the kettle on!!! 

Gorgeous Builder . . . . leaves me!!

 
I always knew it would happen . . . . . . . . . . .  

one day . . . . . . . . . . Sooner or later

"Gorgeous Builder" would leave me,

and go off with another building job . . . . . . . . . . .

Well it's finally happened and he's up and left . . . . . . . . . . .

AND HE'S FINISHED THE LANDSCAPING!!!

 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .HORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAY!!

 
Oooooooooooh, look at the lovely curved wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

He has done such a lovely job . . . . . . Thank you Gorgeous Builder!! 

It's still not quite finished as "JBC" and I still have quite a lot

to do, I need to paint the outside woodwork, and it needs turfing

along the edge of the slope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

We have made a good start and planted a hedge,

along the top of the wall,

We also have a field gate to move and a fence to put up and paint,

but I feel like it's nearly there. Whoever would have thought,

It would take a year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?

Look out for Fridays post . . . . . . . "CHRISTMAS" has arrived at

BUSY BEE STUDIO and I am going to share it with you all!!

Hope to see you at our "Pumpkin Party" this Sunday 10am-4pm

Lavender Cottage . . . . . . photo shoot

 

Yesterday I got up very early and drove to Lavender Cottage to meet

the photographer, who was going to photograph the cottage for

a magazine shoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . before you ask me I don't know

which magazine yet, but . . . . . . . . . . . .  as soon as I do you will.

The cottage looked beautiful in the autumn sunshine, and their was just time,

for a few tweaks before he arrived . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

with all his stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

JBC thinks I have loads of stuff, but I have nothing on this guy!!

 

Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . .

I had a great time as Jeremy, the photographer let me help him,

a bit with the styling, gosh I would love to do that!

I don't know if it was really a help, but I enjoyed it.

Hazel the lovely journalist called in and interviewed me,

about the story of Lavender Cottage. I had to remember the names

of all the paint colours and where I bought everything!

I was in far too many of the pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . not

at my instigation . . . . . . . . I might add!

I hope you don't see all my wrinkles!! 

I didn't get home again till after nine, so it was a long day,

But a great one . . . . . . . .

and, as one of our guests just reminded me  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  ,

when they wrote in the guest book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,

love . . . love Lavender Cottage . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .!

 

Guess where we've been?

Here's a clue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

 
I have much love for this very special

place in the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Last clue,

It involves a speed boat to get there . . . . . . . . . . .

Guessed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Venice . . . . . . I left a piece of my heart there about 18 years ago,

and I have to go back on a regular basis to look for it!!

I LOVE VENICE x x x x x x x x x x x IT'S GORGEOUS!!

We have just enjoyed 4 days, of culture, coffee, and brilliant blue skies,

We had afternoon tea at "Florians" in St Marks Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Magical!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 
 Soaked up the atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

 and a bit of culture,

 

Cafe culture . . . . . . . . that is . . . . . . . . . . . .

Magical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Oh well! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . back to reality!

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