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

Orders on Ebay

Over the past few weeks i have been busy .
I have had some very romantic guys order Roses for their wives for the 1st anniversary .
I have made Red Roses bouquet. Ivory Blue and Brown bouquet. Ivory. and some Pink
How sweet of them....
I hope they were a lovely surprise.

Hamstreet Country Fair

On Saturday we went to a fair at Hamstreet Kent.
There were lots of traditional stalls and lovely things to eat.

One of the displays was a old fashioned apple press, i have seen it before and had spoken to the gentleman who owned the machine once before.
This time i noticed a bucket full of wooden flowers that had been handmade , i asked the lady on the stall if i could buy a few.

We started talking and she told me her husband had made the flowers and that he was a Romany Gypsy, i mentioned that some of my family were as well and that we came from Erith.
She couldn't believe it and took me over to see her husband.
Isaiah Jackson
We quickly discovered that we were related . Amazing.

What a small world i am going to see them again at The Kent County show at Detling Maidstone which is coming up soon.

They still go fruit picking and i had a lovely time talking to them,

Some garden pictures

Today the weather is lovely took some pictures of how green everything is.

Single Stem Ivory Rose

I have been asked to make some single roses to use for a wedding table setting