Wedding shop

What a beautiful weekend, the weather was so lovely it was like August down in Kent.
We took a drive through the country lanes, i love getting lost and just arriving at a place that you would never have seen otherwise....
I saw a sign for The secret garden, of course with a name like that you have to take a look.
Turning into the gravel driveway i wondered what we would find.
The secret garden was a restaurant, which was not open, on closer inspection around a pretty courtyard was a tiny doorway, well i had to see what was behind that door....a lovely wedding dress shop, i had a look at all the wonderful dresses and shoes tiaras and flowers, speaking to the owner i told her about my roses and the commissions i have had for wedding bouquets and venue decorating.

Well the outcome could be promising, i am going to make up samples to take along in a couple of weeks, as the owner is moving to a larger unit on the same site she said she may be interested in decorating her shop with my roses...i will do my best and see what comes.

Spent some time at Rye again, the Mermaid inn is so magical.... i will never tire of walking up the cobbled road to see the hotel and peer through the windows, maybe one day i will get to stay in the four poster room.
Debbie.x

Give Away

Today i am going to host a free give away.. my first one.
The lucky winner will recieve an autumn wreath made from wicker with Orange paper roses.

Just leave a note to say you would like to be included.

Debbie

New website

Over the last few weeks i have been organising a website as a different way to reach more customers... also a proper site to advertise my Paper Roses on.

The name i have chosen is paperrosesonline.co.uk

I am going to try to email magazines and see if they will be able to use the roses in the feature displays.

This weekend i spent a lovely day in Hythe in Kent.
Beautiful church with a difference...under the church there are hundreds of skulls all piled up leaving a small aisle to walk through.
So many different shapes and sizes of skulls.

I made sure to visit all the antique and secondhand shops along the high street, brought lots of lovely old books most of them costing a pound or less, farmhouse kitchen cook book was one.

The weather was perfect for a stroll along the beach at Littlestone
Lovely weather and a great weekend.

Debbie.

Walk around Rye

On Saturday i had the chance to spend some time in Rye in Sussex
The streets were packed with shoppers and a wedding was taking place.
The church has a very special feature, the chance to climb up and take a look across the rooftops above the lovely houses and surrounding fields.

I had a look in all the lovely shops, a favorite of mine is called Forget me not Rye.
Couldn't resist their Lavender pillow mist and Lavender soap also some serviettes with lovely roses on them.
The haberdashery shop.... had to get pretty ric rac and ribbon, another lovely shop.
Halloween is almost here so i brought Black and Orange card to make into trick or treat cones, ready to fill with sweets.
This week i have orders to make and will be adding some wreaths and Christmas decorations to my Ebay and notonthehighstreet shop, so must get on......
Debbie.

Cotton Roses

More roses...this time Cotton ones 2nd year anniversary.

Lace Roses

I have been experimenting lately and have made a new rose to add to my collection.
13th wedding anniversary it is traditional to give a lace gift.
I painted these yellow with pink edges.

The last rose of summer

'Tis the last rose of summer,
Left blooming all alone,
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone.
No flower of her kindred,
No rose bud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes,
Or give sigh for sigh.

I'll not leave thee, thou lone one,
To pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go sleep thou with them;
'Thus kindly I scatter
Thy leaves o'er the bed
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.

So soon may I follow
When friendships decay,
And from love's shining circle
The gems drop away!
When true hearts lie withered
And fond ones are flown
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?

Thomas Moore







I have always loved this poem...

Notonthehighstreet

Well i have branched out and joined a lovely new online shopping website called notonthehighstreet .
I love buying home and craft magazines and i was always seeing beautiful items advertised from this website, i thought that i would give it a go and try my Paper Roses with them.
I have just finished off my product lists and i will be crafting like mad to build up some stock please take a look at this great website...

notonthehighstreet.com you can find them by typing in prettypaperroses in the search box.


Debbie.x

Summer is here

I have been very busy making my roses

January

A new year is always exciting, lots of plans to look forward too.My chickens are laying eggs and i have decided to grow lots of vegetables for us to eat.

Christmas

Yesterday i went to pick up my daughter from university.

Driving home was lovely, i enjoyed all her stories of the last few months.

How the years fly.

Pink and White Anniversary Bouquet

Today i will be posting off a lovely bouquet,

Hope they like it.

Pretty Paper Roses

Debbie.x

Pink Chicken House

Today we have sold our first chicken house on Ebay.

It was a beautiful pink chicken house.

in fact we sold two, one of the ladies who didn't win ordered one as well

Dungeness Again

Hope your weekend was as good as mine,we had a lovely weekend away at the seaside.
I don't know why i am so drawn to the sea, i stand and look at the waves for ages and feel so fantastic afterwards.
The place i love more than any where in the world is dungeness.... near the power station!! i go there every week if i can and i would love to live there, but sadly the prices of the little houses that are lovely wooden huts are way beyond my reach.
Who knows though what the future will hold, i dream of my life on the beach making my Paper Roses from my little wooden house with a vintage airstream caravan outside and living happily ever after.
I will just have to dream for now.
Debbie

My new banner

Over the weekend i was very lucky to win my new autumn banner from isabellascloset blog competition , i am so pleased and surprised. i have changed my colours to match,she is so clever please take a look at her blog.

We had a good weekend and even went to the beach at Camber Sands on Saturday had a paddle and collected some seashells too.

I really do miss taking the children its so different now that they are all grown up.
We rang them from the beach,they know how much we miss it.

My chickens are still alive and well, i feed them and and look at them they look back they seem happy.... i am going to put a mirror in so they can have a look at their selves.
Have a lovely week.
Debbie

My chickens are really here.

I am so excited, at last i have 3 little chicken's they are only about 10 week's old so are a bit shy,we picked them up yesterday from the son of a good friend of my husband he breed's the chickens for showing and he was so kind to give us them as a gift.
I think he realised how spoilt they were going to be.
As i was taking them away i mentioned how i wanted to make their home heated for the winter and maybe put in sheepskin beds to keep them nice and cosy ....
Well when we put them in their run my husband had made. they ate some food and lettuce drank some water then hopped into the chicken hut and lay on the straw.
i can't stop looking at them they are so lovely.
They do go to the toilet a lot though so maybe no sheepskin beds just lots of clean straw.
I have to keep them in the run for a few weeks to get used to where they will live.

Must go and make some Rose's now i keep getting distracted.
Debbie

Hay wagon

Recently we went to Pluckley summer fair.
This is a beautiful village in Kent very near where The darling buds of may was filmed.
While we were there my lovely husband Ed brought me the most fantastic Hay wagon for our garden .
He isn't what you would call the most romantic of men but he gave me this present out of the blue to display my Paper Roses on .It was such a lovely and unexpected surprise.
I love this so much it was made in France in the 1920's.

My chickens will be here soon.

My lovely husband Eddie has made me a fantastic chicken house ,
I have been looking at old magazines and some lovely chicken huts and wishing i could have a pet, i came up with an idea... a couple of chickens.
Perfect,so i brought some wood and asked Ed if he could build me a chicken hut like the ones in the books .
He made such a good job that i think he's little house was even better than the ones we saw in those magazines.He is so clever.
All ready now for the chickens which are coming later in the week.
I am so excited.

Lovely Anniversay Bouquet

I have been so busy since the last post.
My daughter is home from uni so i have been spending a lot of time with her.
My Roses have been doing well, i love making each bouquet different to send a romantic gift