There must be disadvantages of living in the country, but as I write this I cannot think of them! We have lots of visitors to the area and I thought you would like to see a picture of some of them. We live in Fairford which is in the Cotswolds and is a lovely part of England. My office is at the far end so it is simply stitcher's bliss! Visitors to the Studio This is our new green oak barn where we hold our linen classes - I can seat 10 students with a bit of jiggling and a big table. You can see my dear old dog, Bumble keeping an eye just behind me. The stork scissor weather vane was from my husband as a 50th birthday gift. It opens on the the courtyard garden one side and our lovely oak barn on the other - now it could not be better. This was built as a double garage, but was converted in to the Studio when we made the final decision to move all parts of the business under the one roof. When the hole was knocked through the stone walls (which are three feet thick) we had three steel props holding up the front wall! The dust was beyond belief! Now I can sit and stitch and look out on to the garden - Just bliss! The window at the front is a recent addition and you cannot imagine the improvement this has made. I was warned that I would end up working all the time and turn in to a workaholic but who was kidding who? I was doing that already and often late at night in a cold and creepy warehouse! As I am really scared of the dark, this is a much nicer place to work and if I want I can go to work in my PJs! Pinks Barn in Fairford, Gloucestershire Some things just concentrate the mind, don't they? We coverted space at Pinks Barn so that everything was under the one roof. When Bill was diagnosed with cancer and my office manager told me she was emigrating the time had come to make changes. This is now all part of the same thing: The Cross Stitch Guild I do like a project! When I started my cross stitch business, we lived in a cottage called Inglestone which is how we came up with the original name for our wholesale company, The Inglestone Collection. We have lived in Pinks Barn for 17 years and have almost finished the work on the house.
The west window recently restored has been featured on the television - this is the only complete set in the country and they are very beautiful. This is our world famous 15th century church- famous because of the remarkable set of stained glass windows. This is one of our village swans who nests next to the road every year. If you look at the far end of the bridge you can see a light coloured mound. Bill was moved by Lloyds Bank and we found our little cottage just before my birthday - I thought we had won a million! To move from Reading to what was then a sleepy village was a dream come true. Bill and I moved to Fairford when our son James was under a year old and he is now thirty three and a married man! We are almost locals after all this time.
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