Do you remember Kizzy? I googled it this morning and can you believe it the BBC first aired it in 1976! My curiosity was sparked because I found this gorgeous card yesterday. I loved that series and ever since I have had a hankering for my very own little caravan hidden away in a remote corner of the garden.
This image is from my favourite childhood story and I would gaze at this for hours imagining what it would be like inside the caravans. My Mum always bought me such beautifully illustrated books and I have kept most of them.
The first time I went to Sarah Raven's garden at Perch Hill I was stunned and green with envy when I saw her wonderful Caravan. I think technically this one is a shepherd's hut. I love the green paint. I am just as desperate to see inside this one as I was my illustrated ones!
I couldn't resist this card from the same range. I know, I know, quit the sweet pea obsession! How gorgeous is the paint on the stool, all scuffed and worn and dont even get me started on the cushion, I wish I was clever enough to embroider with knots and ribbons.
I love this interior, I kept it from a magazine article about hideaways. This was actually inside one of those 1950's motorhomes. I am just going to throw myself face down onto those cushions!
All very good incentive to save my pennies!One day..............
Ah ooo stunning, we go to a farm sale every year and they always have a few little gypsy caravans for sale, i think too small for adults but my little girls would have loved them, they went for about 250 each, not alout at all, i was really surprised...maybe i should invest next year. Love the photos youve used in this post, very inspirring! Kirsty x
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you have heard of the enterprising Roskilly family from the Lizard Cornwall... Once upon a time they had three authentic Romany caravans permanently moored in a field.. they were rented as a holiday home.. and were beautifully furnished with traditional trappings..
ReplyDeleteI would love to know if they are still there...
Michele
Oh golly, a woman after my own heart, it has always been my dream to have a gypsy caravan, bit of a standing joke in my family. We stayed at a B&B in Dorset a few years ago and they had a gypsy caravan in their gardens which you could stay in. In fact, our little dream once the other half gives up the city is to have a place in the country with its own cottages to rent out supplemented by a few gypsy caravans (OH wants a railway coach too, not so sure about that one!)
ReplyDeleteMy sister and I write each other letters in pretty cards just like the one above. We have quite a collection now.
So glad to have discovered your blog, v pretty indeed.
Hen x
Hello Sarah!
ReplyDeleteMay all your dreams come true!
I've just found you through Henhouse, your blog is lovely!
Greetings from Venice...sorry, not from Florence!
Lots more beautiful photos!
ReplyDeleteI love the cards you bought.
I've always loved those little caravans too as a hideaway, bunting and long cool drinks in the summer, blankets and hot chocolate in the winter. Dreaming I can do!
Lisa x
My mum used to sing this song (when she was hoovering you understand...) Called 'raggeled taggeled gypsy..' for the life of me, I can't remember how it goes, but seeing the caravan above & the name Kizzy bought it all back... thank god am no longer wearing those hideous flares I wore back then...!!!!
ReplyDeleteP.s my hubby finished restoring his morris last year, must upload pics of it to share...
Marion ;0)
Great thoughts you got there, believe I may possibly try just some of it throughout my daily life.
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My cousin recommended this blog and she was totally right keep up the fantastic work!
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i have a gypsy caravan in my garden, I wanted one but did not have money so I built one over two years. Have now got a horse so come summer hope to hit the road all the best Treeman
ReplyDeletenice and refreshing im part gypsie love open roads and meadows
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely lovely ...
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