From lean-to to cafe/bar a before and after makeover with Atelier Ellis Paint. The only interior project we managed to find time for in 2022 was this little number in Totara Green. I wanted to share the before and afters here as the chaos deserves its day online and this is the usual state of play here, more often than not. The Instagram squares are reserved for my best days as a portfolio, but no one lives that perfectly. Below is just a snippet and some pictures, but you can read the full piece over on the beautiful Atelier Ellis page here, while visiting you’ll hopefully have time to read a ..read more

Some last pictures – December 2022 – the end to another strange year, but a beautiful one at least. We wrapped and shipped orders for the store most days but managed to fit lots of festive things in between. We decorated our tree by dressing it all in gold, found Paperwhites for the table, attended the beautiful and heartwarming ‘Winter Song’ concert in a church with no electricity hidden in the marshes, enjoyed the glow of candles on the tree, reflected in the bottom of glasses and all along our windowsills, found time to make paper chains and gilded decorations, wrapped presents for each oth ..read more

Pictures from ‘Create’ – another eclectic interiors book gem by Emily Henson. In this colourful and inspiring book, stylist and set designer Emily shows us how to create a home with style and personality, without relying on acquiring yet more disposable ‘stuff’. Learn about the ‘The Power of Paint’ and how to Reuse/reclaim/reinvent – three words we love here in our house. Then be inspired to switch things up and add personal touches and memories by making some of your own decor pieces. The homes featured are all unique and interesting, with so many details to study in each beautiful photo by C ..read more

Dreamy and calming interiors here today, Oldtown and new town, moody and light, peek inside two beautiful homes that double up as holiday accommodation in Hastings and St Leonards. Nicola Helgesen and German-born Photographer Andreas Bleckmann are the creators of Oldtownhaus – an online store and guest accommodation housed in a late Georgian building in Hastings Old Town and now a newly renovated apartment with amazing views across to the sea in St Leonards. Both properties have been restored and designed with great care in Nicola’s calming but rustic style, using traditional materials in natu ..read more

Hello, hello it’s been a while again, but I am back with some images we created for the Bergs Potter anniversary book. Such an honor to be asked to capture their beautiful Simona pots in our home and garden a while ago now, but you know me – always behind schedule. We have been selling these pots over in our lifestyle store The Future Kept for a few years now and after styling them for our own site the wonderful team at Bergs asked us to create some more photos for them. We jumped at the chance, of course, to work with all of our favourite elements, soil, bulbs, flowers, beautiful vintage-styl ..read more

Creating our cottage garden the 1 year anniversary. A full year of growing with our Rhino greenhouse and turning a neglected lawn into and garden. These last two seasons I’ve been spending time with my camera again, documenting the creation of our cottage garden, and here is a first-year update. Keeping on top of everything with our mental health intact has been a challenge these last two years and I finally feel a little more normal, but only a little. As the World has crept back towards a more frantic pace, slowing down has felt more important than ever, and I try my best through small pract ..read more

Flower days and things that grew in may. A shelfie to share all the best blooms that were in the garden this late spring. From fragile poppies with tissue paper petals to tough pom poms of chive flowers. Bladder campion on wiry stems and sweetly scented sweet peas, there is calendula in abundance and an explosion of sweet rocket, arcs of campanula and trails of custard coloured nasturtiums, vanilla scented Nemesia, autumn-sown snapdragons in apple blossom pink and a handful of rattling brizia to top it all off. The growing space we created last year is full of green leaves and new shoots, so m ..read more

**AD – PR GIFT ** After a long hunt for an air purifier for our home and no purchase yet made, we were kindly gifted the new briiv air filter. briiv is designed to return to the Earth once no longer needed. It’s clever and eco-conscious design is effective at cleaning the air we breathe, without a high environmental impact. I really wanted to try briiv as we have an open plan living, dining and cooking space (regularly cooking both at lunchtime and in the evening), we are usually both working from home – with cats prowling around and me packing orders in the studio (cardboard, string fibres an ..read more

AD – Popping in with a quick post to say hello and happy December from our sparkling lean-to, and share our beautiful eco-friendly wreath gifted to me by The Real Flower Company – plus a Discount code for you. Pop on over here to view their magical Christmas Collection, where you’ll find Christmas flowers, wreaths, candles, and more. To save 10% on all Christmas flowers from The Real Flower Company with the code JESKA10. Every Christmas and birthday I send my grandma the most beautiful flowers from my favorites @therealflowerco so if you’d like you can use to send some floral joy to your ..read more

That’s it! All over for another year. I gathered together all the blooms left in the garden for a warm autumn flower parade on the lean-to windowsills. A party of living fireworks – reds, yellows, golds, apricots and deep purples, all in one place for a final floral flourish. A fruit punch of colour and shape, dahlias, scabious, chrysanthemums and hydrangeas with saved and dried petals from last springs tulips filling glass jars and a few sprigs of millet, their seeds spilling out all over the floor and beyond. Now I’ll be spending my time outdoors nursing the soil and encouraging bare root ro ..read more