Let's Go Glamping!

                                                                                                                 Cath Kidston Floral Tepee Tent

With Glastonbury festival this weekend we are all thinking of going to Festivals and Camping.We love the idea of glamping, it's camping more glamorous twin.So it is out with the leaking tents and tinned food and in with the pretty tepee tents, bunting ,polka dota picnic hampers and yummy cooked meals! who thought camping had to mean roughing it?
So spend your Summer holidays in good old Blighty and glamp it up!
For more inspiration on Glamping take a look at the Happy Glamper blog which has ideas of meals you can cook while glamping!

http://thehappyglamper.blogspot.com/

A Day Out In Hartland

A couple of times a month i like to go for a day trip and act like a tourist for the day in our lovely area i thought it would be fun to share my adventures with you on here. So last Sunday we headed for Hartland and visited Hartland Abbey where Prince William spent his Stag do!

We had a lovely time wandering around the Gardens!

And watching the waves crash at Hartland quay.

Spring Competition Winner!

The Winner!

We couldn't resist theses cute bunnies petal and honey 9 weeks old sent in by Gloryhalleluya congratulation's your prize will be posted to you!

Our other favourites

We love this painting of daffodils painted by Tracy Manning at http://www.bluehoundart.co.uk/

This beautiful photo sent in by Kim Allen Who says For me spring is about everything coming back to life, new lives being sparked and the start of sun dappled lazy days, hopefully my photo shows this, I took it a couple of weeks ago when we were on holiday in the Peak District.


Thank you for all the entries, we will be running more competitions through out the year!

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If you go down to the woods today ...

Spring has sprung!

I love walking in the woods especially at this time of year,so last week we headed for the woods behind Watersmeet to look at the gorgeous Bluebells and what a pretty sight they were,we then walked on to Rockford and stopped of for a yummy pub dinner and some wine!

A Royal Wedding Party!

As it's the week anniversary of the Royal Wedding  and  i have finally got all the photos on my computer i wanted to share with you the Royal Street Party that took place at the bottom of the hill from our shop in Lynton and our own tea party we had in the evening.

Our own Royal Tea Party!

Spring Competition!

We love Spring its when the countryside comes alive with new life and summers is on the way..

For our competition we are asking you to send a photo of what spring means to you!

Don't worry you don't have to be a  expert photographer - Because we sure ain't! anyone can enter it is just a bit of fun to show your favourite things about this time of the year.

We will pick our favourite from the entry's to win a prize from our website.
Simply email your photo to info@willowpatterns.co.uk

As we come from a farming family Spring is the time for Lambing so baby lambs are what spring means to us:

Leannes Zwartbles sheep and baby Claire Lamb!

Sam's Lambs!

Competition will close on the 18th of May.

Looking forward to your entries!