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This is definitely my kind of interior.

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I found this house today whilst searching for a way to improve my house.  It belonged to Nancy Fishelson, she is a restorer of houses, and is amazing at turning an old house, sympathetically, into a comfortable modern home. The house is a 1795 clapboard house on 20 acres in Woodbury, Connecticut, New England. This is the house in it's original form.

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Was it warmer outside than in today? Plus music that I love today.

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 had no heating all day today, then the nice gas men came and gave me my warmth back. I wasn't home for long really but I swear it was warmer outside than in. I cleaned to keep warm, I cooked to keep warm, I ironed to keep warm. Then I wrapped myself up in various quilts and found this nice place to stay in Arundel. Any longer without heating and I would have booked myself in! I may do that one day anyway, what do you think, it has a wood burnerVisit Benjamin Cottage to see inside.

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Have you ever been so tired?

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About an hour ago I sat  (ok I lay flat out) on the sofa, my intention was to write a spectacular blog with lots of nice things to please the senses, mainly the eye. In reality I fell asleep, it was one of those wonderful sleeps where you kind of know you are asleep and you dream all lovely things. I was warm (last night our heating broke) so that in itself was wonderful, but I was in the most amazing place relaxing. I'll try and show you my dream as best I can.

Everywhere is awash with pink and red.

Valentines day is only a week away. Some say it's too commercial, some people are only happy with the most enormous bunch of very expensive red roses. My real problem with Valentines day looming is the fact that all sorts of places, from the local corner shop to the Post office on the High Street are awash with pink and red! Who decided that those two colours are pleasing on the eye? So to try to balance things out a bit I've found some more tasteful alternatives. Especially take a good look at the bouquets of flowers, not a red rose in sight, aghhhhhhhhhhhhh!  It's just a personal thing.

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Cushions, how many do you have?

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I am a self confessed cushion collector, in my opinion you just cant have enough! Every chair needs one, all beds need as many as you can possibly stack onto them, and the Sofa well, do you really need to sit on it? My favourites come from Lexington, H&M home, Shops in New England, Warren Kimble, Betsy Jarvis, The Country Carriage and me.

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The Cake, and Indian Runner Duck clip.

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Quite a few of you have asked me for the cake recipe in  mondays blog, called Spiced Apple Cake. As you know we are all going to be snowed in this weekend (I wish!) so you all need to bake one for emergency supplies, or two or three! Obviously if it doesn't snow you can eat all of the cake as a kind of conciliation prize!

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This Weekend

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It's been cold but no snow! A visit to Wickham Mill provided a nice old shaker stool to paint, and  J'adore la maison and Tom supplied some Chalk Board paint, the Chalk board is now up and running if not a little empty at the moment, thank go to you both, I wasn't sure about it but now love it, I'm sure it will make very interesting reading over the coming months!