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Christmas Time always brings memories. The box of decorations all strung up with thoughts of all those people who shared times past. It's the hand-me-down pieces with stories that are the best: We bought this decoration in the Bright Summer Boston sunshine or we salvaged this one in a vintage carboot sale in a freezing December in, what seems like, another lifetime.

One of my favorite things, fruit trees growing up red-brick garden walls.Someday the walled garden wall may find its way into my life but in the meantime I can still grow the fruit in a pot on my Balcony.

Rollingstone have an article dated 05 October 2020 all about the Duckbill Style of mask. The breathablity and comfort of this flat face-mask is now openly acknowleged. Wearing a Face-covering or Mask can be uncomfortable.. Wouldn't it be better if you could find on that fits.. This Duckbill comes in 3 Tailored Sizes...

By Lockdown, March 2020, my business in moth-balls, the only thing to do was make myself and close friends some masks.. I'm a Soft-Furnishings Designer by trade with a long background in garment making, so I naturally went about designing one.

A functioning facecovering, where I could breath comfortably meant that the fabric must not touch my nostrils or my mouth so the Duckbill Style was the answer for me. The flat, duckbill, using a single row of elastic easily solved the problem of carrying the mask. It hangs very comfortably away from the chin area down on the upper chest. Because it folds flat on itself, it is not touching off the skin at the throat or any other surface when not in use.

Of course our style is all about the textiles that have been around since Mrs. Delany's time: the velvets and linens and toiles. Toiles were first produced in Ireland in the mid-18th Century due to copper-plate fabric printing being invented here by Francis Nixon in the 1750s so I'm sure she would have been well aware of such things. Toile quickly became popular in Britain and France - as soon as cotton imports became available - there was some politics involved.. Today Toiles are much more associated with the French town of Jouy, near Versailles. Printed patterns in a single colour, on a single background, becoming know as Toile-de-Jouy.