• Lifestyle

    Hello!

    Hi, I’m Kim. Welcome to my website. This is a place where I can show you the very special cottage I live in, created with a lot of love and a little magic. One of the things I wanted to do was keep its cosy, even old-fashioned feel Somehow, to modernise it and treat it with a minimal style, even though that was how my last home was, seemed wrong. I felt that would be disrespectful to the cottage and its previous occupants. I wanted to keep the cosy feeling like that portrayed in the ‘The Holiday’ movie, and add comfortable furniture, nice country pictures, cushions, and have loads of…

  • Lifestyle

    The Beginning

    The Penchanted Cottage and garden didn’t always look this way. When we first bought the cottage it was in quite a bad state and needed a lot doing to it, little did we know then but, that was just the beginning of huge problems and years of battling and work to get it right. There’s much more to see about the cottage on our siuster website Curious Cottage where you can see the cootage and its transformation, but this website is all about the magic and charm of the cottage now. Later, I’m going to share my antique and vintage items for you to purchase if you wish, including my…

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    Put a Little Bit of Magic into Your Life

    Over the last few years I’ve been on a journey and one of the things I learned from my therapist was to embrace the child within me. This has been by far the most rewarding thing I’ve done. But I had to do it in stages in order to fully accept the child me inmto the adult me. It’s a sad state of affaris that we live in today. The child part of us is beaten down and told to shut up and behave and we do it because we fear looking silly. To bring that part of us back into our lives is very difficult but if we remember…