Thursday, 29 March 2012
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
C&R Around The World!
Occasionally our customers alert us to a photograph taken of our lovely homespun clothing spotted in exotic climes. How divine to see a tiny piece of England looking so beautiful and glamorous all the way in Bali!!
xC&R
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Thursday, 15 March 2012
March Gardening with Christina
A magical spring day, full of happy coincidences:
Rather than being a bore, a tiny child at your side whilst starting spring sowing, is a blissful and encouraging sight. My tiny grandbaby embraced the washing of the old pots with a solution of vinegar and water with gusto. He was also tasked with watering the seeds once planted into the clean pots - as you can see a job done with ease. It is never too early to teach children the wonder of growing things.
Many times I have planted seeds, tubers, bulbs etc and failed to label them, resulting in strange planting schemes and odd surprises. Important tip to new gardeners, be sure to label all seeds, you wont recognise nor remember what it was you planted in a month's time!
Old bulbs after flowering can be re planted in the garden for continual flowering in years to come, if you dont have a garden, allow the greenery to die down and dry out and give to a friend who does.
Happy gardening!!
xChristina
- Computer and all access to outside world ceases to work.
- Emergency baby sitting duty sprung upon me.
- Sad but efficient plastic greenhouse errected.
- Seed order from the brilliant Sarah Raven arrives (www.sarahraven.com ).
Rather than being a bore, a tiny child at your side whilst starting spring sowing, is a blissful and encouraging sight. My tiny grandbaby embraced the washing of the old pots with a solution of vinegar and water with gusto. He was also tasked with watering the seeds once planted into the clean pots - as you can see a job done with ease. It is never too early to teach children the wonder of growing things.
Many times I have planted seeds, tubers, bulbs etc and failed to label them, resulting in strange planting schemes and odd surprises. Important tip to new gardeners, be sure to label all seeds, you wont recognise nor remember what it was you planted in a month's time!
Old bulbs after flowering can be re planted in the garden for continual flowering in years to come, if you dont have a garden, allow the greenery to die down and dry out and give to a friend who does.
Happy gardening!!
xChristina
Monday, 12 March 2012
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Friday, 2 March 2012
Thank you...
Occasionally, we receive such amazing, kind and thoughtful messages from our customers that we feel we should stop containing our pride and excitement and hiding our lights under bushells. So when they arrive we have decided to share what some of our customers think of us:
"Dear Christina & Cabbages and Roses, now that the winter season feels over, I would like to thank you for making so many lovely clothes. As usual, I overspent but genuinely enjoyed every piece every single day. Every piece is special and I feel special, beautiful, young and myself when wearing them. It's like being in your own skin. One day I'm a princess, the other day a fairy and now and then even a queen :) I twirl everywhere I go, in the kitchen, in the street, and most importantly, in my heart. Thank you so, so much."
We thank you, Lana.
Christina xx
Thursday, 1 March 2012
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