tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post8391180808742428662..comments2023-09-09T11:19:07.533+01:00Comments on The Barefoot Crofter: Just a couple of bits of unfinished businessJacquihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-34049330286354213952014-01-11T16:45:47.741+00:002014-01-11T16:45:47.741+00:00The chair is delightful! such a warm and golden sh...The chair is delightful! such a warm and golden shade too. I really like the renovation of the corner unit, it's as if it should have been lighter all along and looks super in your kitchenAnnie Bananiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02898832157103683982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-72519154500153411212014-01-09T19:02:34.426+00:002014-01-09T19:02:34.426+00:00Wow, love the shelf! What a difference!
Wow, love the shelf! What a difference!<br /><br />Mama G @ bigcraftyblog.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13370591988909898527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-7046427975536365902014-01-08T23:45:52.407+00:002014-01-08T23:45:52.407+00:00Love, love the makeovers, so light and cheery.
Th...Love, love the makeovers, so light and cheery.<br /><br />Thanks for your good wishes for Sara<br /><br />XxSandra Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16260644073051470011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-59162948539591557652014-01-08T19:03:02.631+00:002014-01-08T19:03:02.631+00:00Hi Lisa - i have another couple of things not yet ...Hi Lisa - i have another couple of things not yet started, as well as all my WIPs, so i am going to finish those first too xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-34397650511598128512014-01-08T19:02:05.579+00:002014-01-08T19:02:05.579+00:00Thanks Liz - i am happy with the cupboard xThanks Liz - i am happy with the cupboard xJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-24432081859418873412014-01-08T19:01:39.573+00:002014-01-08T19:01:39.573+00:00Hi - that is fascinating. I love the old expressio...Hi - that is fascinating. I love the old expressions too - there are lots of Gaelic and Scots weather phrases too, whose meaning goes way back.<br />We have had a very wet Winter so far here - hardly any snow, and very mild too xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-3329945544988237792014-01-08T18:47:34.509+00:002014-01-08T18:47:34.509+00:00Thanks Dawn - they are quite fun xxThanks Dawn - they are quite fun xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-18032759831868277292014-01-08T18:47:14.978+00:002014-01-08T18:47:14.978+00:00Hello Primrose - thanks for your lovely comment. y...Hello Primrose - thanks for your lovely comment. yes, we seem to imagine that things will be immune to the winter weather, but I have lost many a table and chairs too. xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-71058271720730583872014-01-08T18:45:20.788+00:002014-01-08T18:45:20.788+00:00Thanks Alison - yes it is nice to settle back and ...Thanks Alison - yes it is nice to settle back and enjoy the routine again xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-40594407387182579702014-01-08T18:44:36.867+00:002014-01-08T18:44:36.867+00:00Thanks Frances, i am glad you enjoyed them. The ch...Thanks Frances, i am glad you enjoyed them. The chair cost £10, - they often come up in the charity shop too. I hope you find one someday xx Jacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-26694519776635840932014-01-08T18:41:59.325+00:002014-01-08T18:41:59.325+00:00Hi Claire - I gave it a rough sand down, then a co...Hi Claire - I gave it a rough sand down, then a couple of coats of magnolia emulsion paint as an undercoat,, and then two coats of ivory satin gloss. the finish isn't perfect, but then i was aiming at a more "distressed" look lol xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-34344258066580708042014-01-08T18:38:27.239+00:002014-01-08T18:38:27.239+00:00Hi Susan - yes I have another Lloyd Loom chair tha...Hi Susan - yes I have another Lloyd Loom chair that was my mother's, but I don't need to paint it, thankfully xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-83098355242484350282014-01-08T18:36:26.531+00:002014-01-08T18:36:26.531+00:00Hi tracey - it was very worth it xxHi tracey - it was very worth it xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-9134566560362365262014-01-08T18:35:47.843+00:002014-01-08T18:35:47.843+00:00It was very satisfying, Julie - I keep admiring th...It was very satisfying, Julie - I keep admiring them myself xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-27918669293288370592014-01-08T18:34:18.918+00:002014-01-08T18:34:18.918+00:00thank you karen :-)thank you karen :-)Jacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-24358429015791141492014-01-08T18:32:23.575+00:002014-01-08T18:32:23.575+00:00Thanks Mo xxThanks Mo xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-50577834686364146932014-01-08T18:32:07.592+00:002014-01-08T18:32:07.592+00:00Hello Frances - thank you for dropping in - I love...Hello Frances - thank you for dropping in - I love Norman Wyrzba's writing. Thanks for your comment xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-58115149541747103772014-01-08T18:30:31.998+00:002014-01-08T18:30:31.998+00:00Lol - mel, my head is full of ideas, but sometimes...Lol - mel, my head is full of ideas, but sometimes the reality is not quite the same xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-6393798066513279452014-01-08T18:29:39.179+00:002014-01-08T18:29:39.179+00:00Yes - it did worked - eventually xxYes - it did worked - eventually xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-3361603586240460982014-01-08T18:28:54.605+00:002014-01-08T18:28:54.605+00:00Thank you - and the same to you xxThank you - and the same to you xxJacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01659012917888444554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-74204861345141070222014-01-08T14:08:41.121+00:002014-01-08T14:08:41.121+00:00So glad you were able to finish your projects; I&#...So glad you were able to finish your projects; I'm on a spree with that sort of as a new years' resolution of sorts. It's my motto this year: Finish what you started! <br /><br />Love your corner cabinet and chair, especially the cheerful fabric! :)Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760735212107263086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-24813447871197429602014-01-08T13:12:13.313+00:002014-01-08T13:12:13.313+00:00Fabulous makeovers - especially the cupboard!
Liz ...Fabulous makeovers - especially the cupboard!<br />Liz @ Shortbread & GingerShortbread and Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07356668729131346750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-78016991324488363192014-01-08T12:37:53.121+00:002014-01-08T12:37:53.121+00:00Hi, beautifully light corner it is now. Have a goo...Hi, beautifully light corner it is now. Have a good and healthy 2014, I love reading your blog. I wish to comment on the first day of Christmas, the partridge in the peartree. I know it is and has been an open questian in the Britisch Isles, because pheasants are shy ground as low by the ground birds and would never sit in a pear tree at some heigth. But, watching many wildlife on TV this Christmas time and the Medieval farmingseries, I think I fnally cracked it. At Christmas people ate more then normally, knowing after that hard times could come.With very much snow it would have been hard to hunt for birds and hares and deer and the likes. But with yards high of snow wildbirds would also have a hard time scratching together enough food from under the snow. Experience must have made them know that farms and villages made that scratching just a little easier, orchards might have forgotten to harvest pears and apples and so even the most shy birds might have entered occasionally the orchards next to houses. So, an early snowy winter might bring pheasants and partridges close to homes and so an expression for such winters might have been: I have even seen partridges in the orchard, which in the song sounded better as : a partridge in a pear tree. I am heavly into language and olden times and there are expressions in my country (the Netherlands) that we now do not inderstand anymore, until someone comes upon the explanatation in an old book. For instance: "the sparrows drop dead from the roof " in my country means it is an extremely hot and dry summer. I have never seen t happen, but I can imagine strawdecked roofs, which normally keep the inside of the houses cool, can in a hot summer become so sunwarmed that they do not exume any coolness anymore. Or an extreme long and cold winter: the frogs are lying dead on the botom of the ditches" which means the water is frozen to beneath 2/3 of a yard, that being mostly the depth frost will go intio the ground, the winter has reached the equivalent of permafrost. So, I hope my explanation of shy partridges coming to the orchard near houses just means: it is really winter now. But now, are we having an Indian winter, an Indian spring or just an old wives winter? It is 13 C right now, ridiculous, but I will enjoy it as long as it lastes, better then the snowdunes etc. England and Wales have recently "enjoyed".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-42751982045412797362014-01-08T11:16:39.273+00:002014-01-08T11:16:39.273+00:00Love your upcycled projects xxLove your upcycled projects xxDawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16121342298237870670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3318018466733912574.post-60636127262865894802014-01-08T10:09:51.687+00:002014-01-08T10:09:51.687+00:00I love your Lloyd loom chair makeover. It's a ...I love your Lloyd loom chair makeover. It's a really nice colour you've chosen. I had some chairs a bit like that but stupidly left them outside in the Scottish winter and they rotted. Looking at your lovely chair reminded me of them. I must have a wee hunt for some more.<br /><br />Best Wishes<br />Prim xxPrimrose Beresfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02427864226663260749noreply@blogger.com