I like too many pretty things!
I am having an identity crisis of sorts, I mean to say I do know who I am, it tells me on my drivers license and my children frequently call out to me in a volume I could never miss, but my problem is trying to describe what I like or what I do to other people. Of course I know you all 'get' Laura and I but when we try and describe what we do we end up sounding like we have a room in a old house selling granny craft not at all like the glamorous professional women we are! Yeah right! I don't think they can see our sitting out the back of the shop surrounded in Lindt chocolate, coffee, glitter and a bit a fluffy wool from Laura's knitting.
I have no idea how we can say that will make us sound a bit more professional and I hate the term 'Gift Shop' because I don't think that describes us at all. I think we are really a come and see sort of place, because once you have been to Lilly Cottage you know what we 'feel' like. My identity crisis is that I like so many different things, eclectic is a really good word for me I think not to be confused with eccentric. Take all these beautiful pictures for instance, this lovely lady in red was a doll that I had to have and I bought it for myself for my birthday. She is one of those gorgeous stocking dolls that I am sure we all had when we were growing up, I know I had two, one was on a lamp and had this lovely flouncy skirt. Laura said she had one and hated it...oh how we regret those things now. This one has the best red hot pants outfit with feathers on her toosh and on her head piece. I think I have even had hair this colour, no I am sure I have had hair this colour.
These two other ladies are canvas prints that I have embellished with some feathers, sequins and dimensional paint.. they are living at Lilly Cottage now.
She didn't come with the gaudy 40 sparkly thing of course, that was a gift and I tucked it in for the photos. Check out those shapely legs and tights....I can honestly say I have never had legs like that. Though come to think of it maybe I did have stocking filled legs and I wet them too much and they swelled up..yes that is was happened, so glad it wasn't all that chocolate and cake! Speaking of cake I will draw the lucky cake painting winner this afternoon.
Love these wonderful pink roses darling husband bought for my birthday and hid in my daughters room overnight...I am so surprised they survived until morning in there. They are lovely and I have done a huge eBay update and these lovelies feature in most of the pictures.
Above is a little sneak preview of some new arrivals at Lilly Cottage this week ( these pink roses aren't real though), more later and in the meantime I will try and work out how to describe my style, though I am sort of liking eclectic, that covers so much doesn't it? Oh well I better go and pay some eclectic bills and do some eclectic washing and then some eclectic tidying of my 'studio' where I will try not to get distracted by my pretties....TTFN KN Linda Lilly Cottage.