Walking The High Line

I've had The High Line on my Pinterest board as a 'one day' destination for quite some time.

The idea of a historic freight line being turned into a public garden that you can walk along appealed to me immediately.

It was a lovely thing to do on my first day in New York.

From it's elevated position you can take in the streets and buildings of Manhatten's West Side

whilst strolling past pretty flowers and luscious greenery. It was surprisingly peaceful. 

It's a beautiful mix of urban grunge and organic beauty

with so many photo opportunities along the way.

I bet the people living in these buildings never thought they would one day be looking out at a garden or that they would have quite so many people pass by their windows each day!

It's nice how they have left the old railways tracks exposed

and grown flowers among them.

There are sun loungers and seating areas with good viewing points so you can take it all in and stay as long as you want. Check out some of these photos so you can get an idea of where The High Line sits in the city. I wish I could have had an aerial view somehow as it looks so great cutting through the city.

 I didn't want it to end. Next time I go to New York I'll be going again for sure!

New York New York

New York was so special. I pretty much had a grin from ear to ear the whole time I was there. I have seen the sights (some of them anyway), worked my trade fair, done some great yoga and spent some fabulously fun time with some very special people. I was fit to burst with gratitude and excitement by the end.

Even though I'm most at home in the peace of the woods I loved the buzz of this incredible city. It felt like stepping into a movie. It was so familiar even though I'd never been there before.

Over the next week or two I'll be re-living my adventures by blogging about them. I hope you'll join me.

Yorkshire heritage showcase event in Paris

Hello, it's Suzi here!  As Hannah is off on her travels in NYC launching herself into the US market, I thought I’d nip in and do a little blog post on my recent trip to Paris.  I was delighted when Hannah asked me if I wanted to go to Paris to represent her at an event to showcase Yorkshire Heritage products at the British Ambassador's Residence and as Hannah was a busy bee preparing for New York and Harrogate, I jumped at the chance.  And what an amazing experience this was.  The lovely people at UKTI Yorkshire had put on this wonderful event to showcase the fabulous Yorkshire products we have on offer.  It was held at the British Ambassador's Residence in Paris which was absolutely stunning and the Ambassador and his wife were so very welcoming.  Here are some of my photos. 

The display which was shared with the lovely Claire Murray - beautiful wallpapers
and lampshades a plenty

Before the event, I had given myself a day to explore a little bit of Paris - I loved it!

There was even blue sky!

 

  

What an experience never to be forgotten - thank you Hannah.  Looking forward to hearing your New York tales and seeing lots of photos. 

Suzi x

Limited Edition Lamps

  This is the first of one of my new 'limited edition' lamps.

 It features a few of the motifs I've been working on lately and brings them all together in a delicate meadow.

 The Quaking Grass is so pretty and delicate. The stems have been engraved with a laser cutter. 

The Hairgrass looks so lovely among the other grasses.

This is a limited run of only twenty-five lamps and they are all signed (in paper cut form) and numbered.

 The finished lamp is 42 cm high and 18 cm in diameter.

 You can find it for sale here on my website.

Giveaway Time at Radiance

Fancy winning this lovely tall neadowgrass lamp? Well you just might. This time the giveaway is not on here on my blog - it's over on the Radiance Facebook page. Come on over and join in. You might be the lucky one!

Salad Day

My friend Helen at Dixon Hill inspires me with her glowing health and her cupboard full of weird and wonderful  ingredients. When I went for lunch once she rustled up the most beautifully zingy lentil salad, apparently one that everyone wants to know how to make. So Helen being the creative that she is put together a salad workshop and invited a group of people to her beautiful home to learn how it's done.

Helen has eaten a predominantly raw diet for many years and is a wealth of knowledge about eating this way. She showed us how to make five salads, all beautiful to look and bursting with nutrition.

Let me see if I can remember what went in them. This green salad had lettuce and rocket as a base with goji berries, currants, fresh basil, mint and parsley, hemp seeds, sea salad (a mix of dried sea weeds) and a macadamia nut oil dressing. Not forgetting the marigold on the top of course..

Helen would normally pick edible flowers from her garden in season but for the purpose of the workshop she bought us some to play with. What a pretty thing. I didn't know you could eat pansies.

This was rocket, apple, fennel, sunflower seeds and an incredible olive oil and cider vinegar dressing with a drop of orange essential oil in. Amazing. She finished it off with roasted sweet potato chunks.

Raw cauliflower is the base of this one. She calls it cauliflower couscous because that's what it looks like. It was so fresh.

I can't say I liked the thought if the 'sea spaghetti' much but it was surprisingly good. It looked a bit like tagliatelle. Helen mixed it up with potatoes, spring onions, rocket and sun dried tomatoes, a dressing I can't remember and some borage flowers.

Time to dig in.

It was possibly the healthiest meal I've eaten, ever and it was so, so tasty.

Helen sent us home with a goody bag too (lime green of course to match her kitchen) with some ingredients to experiment with and some seeds to plant. It was an absolutely gorgeous and inspiring afternoon.

Thanks Helen x