Category Archives: Green Plum Design

How to Paint a Wooden House ?

Morning everyone, the sun is out, my windows are open and the beach is calling… This seems like just the right moment to answer the question that I am asked all the time at this time of year. Picture the … Continue reading

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Green Plum Design House Painting

Hi All, Spring is sprung, the daffs are out and the days are getting longer… It feels so very good to be writing a new blog again- it has been a patchy affair in recent years and on this fine … Continue reading

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A Studio of One’s Own

Letterpress artist, Elizabeth Hubbell worked for fifteen years in the garage next to her Berkeley home.  She wasn’t complaining. It did the job…housing her 1905 Chandler and Price letterpress and guillotine, the scrumptious paper on which she prints and the … Continue reading

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Green Plum Design Movie!

Hi Everyone, I hope that you all had a good summer and are getting back into the swing. Personally, I am clinging onto that summer feel with my fingernails and avoiding all shops with “Back to School Supplies” written in … Continue reading

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Spring Cleaning The Mental Clutter

Hi Everyone I am so impressed at all the efforts you have been making to de-clutter and clear out. Fine work my friends, I especially love all the pictures.  Keep them coming! So now that Spring has officially sprung – … Continue reading

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Simplify your Life

My mission this year is to Simplify Life and I have just printed a new card to kick this resolution into 2012 and show you that I mean business! Despite the millions of labor saving devices our ancestors never knew … Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all of you Lovely People! I wish you all a very happy 2012. And just to warn you – I am kicking off a De-clutter special this January – so get ready to roll up your … Continue reading

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WOOL

A beautiful Autumnal day here in the Bay Area – sunny and crispy and perfect for sitting outside with a book, a cup of tea and a blanket… And I do love a wool blanket. Like…a lot… Even in Sunny … Continue reading

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Burlap Love

Hi Everyone, Hope you are all good and back in the swing of things? A beautiful September’s day here in Northern California with the light working it’s usual magic… On what I think is my last hydrangea to blossom this … Continue reading

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A Little Corner of France

Hello Everyone, So I am just about back into the swing of things and now slightly readjusting…ahem…my idyllic vision of Britain with jolly Bobbies on the Beat….to incorporate fully armed police units, frustrated and enraged youths, burning buildings and spluttering … Continue reading

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