Available Light - My Cottage

When I am doing a photoshoot for Ghost Furniture I always use the available light setting on the camera. It gives me dark, medium and light images to choose from.

Yesterday the sun was shining on a vase of multi-coloured tulips on my dining table so I photographed them wth the same format. I love the results.

Living etc Loves Ghost Furniture

I bought a copy of Living etc yesterday and sat down with a cup of coffee to enjoy it and came across our Cafe Table featured in their Edited Choice section. Thank you Living etc much appreciated.

If Ghost Furniture Had a TV Ad This Would be It

I live in a forest, I paint vintage furniture and this how I would see a TV ad if I had produced it and could afford it. This French ad is for Nina l'Elixir by Nina Ricci. Florrie singing Sunday Girl is the icing on the cake. Take a look on You Tube you'll love it, promise.

GHOST FURNITURE IN 2012 - PLANS ARE AFOOT

I have never known a year like 2011. Apart from some awful personal stuff going on in our lives business has been dire. I don't believe anyone who says it hasn't been for them. I have never seen so many sales before Christmas, it was certainly a buyers market.


Onto 2012 with new plans to beat the recession. Ghost Furniture will be spending longer periods of time in France scouring those fabulous brocantes to not only bring back pieces and breath new life into them but we are going to start to bring back those pieces we have spent years bypassing, those pieces that need to stay just as they are. We are determined to put the chic back into shabby in 2012.


We are also in the throes of organising Furniture Workshops for 2012 to be held in this gorgeous place I call home - The Northumberland National Park. They will be 3 day courses with the most amazing accommodations available which include - luxury apartments, traditional country inns and even luxury yurts and Indian tepees. Our guests will be treated to wonderful local fayre and will be taken to the places that inspire us and will have a tour of our cottage that sits in a tiny hamlet overlooking the Tyne Valley. All our guests have to do is turn up with a small piece of furniture they want to restyle and the rest will be provided by us.

We will be appearing at Vintage Fairs all over the UK. All that's left to say is WATCH THIS SPACE.

Make This Christmas Unique

Vintage Spoon Frame * Ticking Telephone Seat * 1920s Patchwork Seat

Fish Soup * Two Candlesticks * Blue Retro Phone * Dark Secret Goblets * Cherub Candelabra

Eiffel Tower Frame * Marie Antoinette Table * Marie Antoinette Blackboard * Bistro Blackboard

Birds Cage * French Document Table * French Buttoned Boudoir Chair * Tilting Table

Antique Lace Mirror * Black Lace Console Table * Antique Lace Candlesticks
Antique Lace Frames * Antique Lace Urn * Red Lace Table

Twiggy * Brando * Chanel * Bardot * Madonna * Audrey * Marilyn

I'm Off Again - The Deco Affair

Up bright and early, well maybe not bright but certainly early. Off to London to show off our Ghost Furniture to a VIP list of Press, Bloggers and Celebrities at The Deco Affair. Checked the traffic reports and the M1 is shut Southbound. Changed route to A1 which will be hugely busy now.

I am looking forward to hopefully meeting Melanie Porter and

Zoe Murphy both like minded people. I have no idea who else I will meet but I will let you know on my return. If you are a Blogger and are attending please come and say hello.

Off To London Again

Well I am off down to London again today to pick up my Ghost Furniture pieces from the Pop Up Shop - The Revenous Belle & Don in Spitalfields. It's the last day today so if you haven't visited yet - GO. I and some of the other designers are offering 10% off everything just for today and between 6 and 8pm there are free drinks and a chance to meet the designers.

Ditto

Weird how the same ideas creep across all aspects of design. One of my Ghost Furniture Chairs and Shoes from La Plume Ethere at Etsy both using vintage lace.

Icon Backboards at Ghost Furniture

TWIGGY
Having discovered our paints are chalk and wipe friendly we came up with this idea. You can chalk over the silhouette and wipe it off with a wet or dry cloth as you can with the background. So then we had to find a novel way of using our discovery, the result is a range of Icon Blackboards each one featuring Icons of the 20th century each placed in a unique vintage frame.
More to come and yes there will be blokes. Available at Ghost Furniture

AUDREY

MADONNA

CHANEL

MARILYN

Ghost Furniture June Newsletter - OUT NOW!

Go on take a look. This months contents listed below

Concrete and Blackboards

I love concrete and I love blackboards both of which appear in my Ghost Furniture ranges. When the two are put together it seems like heaven to me. Images found at Living Agency

Our May Newsletter

I am away for the day today but rather than leave you with nothing to read I thought I would lead you to our Newsletter. From Paris to the British Seaside and everything in between. ENJOY!

Ghost Furniture on Living Etc's Editor's Page

Your can imagine how I felt when Suzanne Imre, the Editor of Living etc emailed me to say she would be featuring Ghost Furniture on her Editor's Page in the June 2011 issue. Ecstatic doesn't even begin to describe it.

Grey and Gold - Never Fails

There is nothing quite like Grey and Gold when out together. I use that combination quite a lot when creating Ghost Furniture pieces and it never fails. These gorgeous images prove it, by Carl Bengtsson