The Scottish Home

Welcome to The Scottish Home. Add this site to your favourites, to read about traditional Scottish homes and gardens, and the joys and frustrations of country living and freelance working. Visit our shop at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Scottish-Home for antique textiles,collectables, and artworks with a Scottish or Irish provenance. All articles are copyright © 2012 Catherine Czerkawska. All rights reserved.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Goodbye and Hello. (I Hope!)

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I've been writing this blog - a companion to my eBay shop of the same name - for some time now. But things change. I'm still c...
Monday, January 07, 2013

My Dolls' House At Christmas - And A New Project

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The house with the dolls going about their business! The nursemaid at her sewing machine.  There's been a very long silence o...
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Friday, November 16, 2012

A Scottish Village Renaissance

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It's been a long time since I posted on here, mainly because I've been concentrating on finishing a brand new novel called Ice Dan...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Brave Textiles

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Went to see Disney Pixar's Brave in the cinema the other day with a couple of friends. We thought the cinema would be reasonably quie...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

Embroidering Lives - Researching Costume History for Novels

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When I'm not buying and selling antique and vintage textiles (or deciding to hang onto them, because I love them so much!) I'm a p...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Rocking Horse Man

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The horse that came home again. Years ago, when our son was born, my professional yacht skipper husband, Alan Lees, decided that he no l...
Monday, May 07, 2012

Antique Textiles, Scottish Islands and eBooks on Amazon Kindle

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When the gorse is in bloom, kissing's in season. As many readers of this blog probably know by now, I have two jobs although I'd...
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Catherine Czerkawska
I write historical and contemporary novels, short stories, plays and non-fiction. I live in a Scottish country cottage with my artist husband. I love gardening and I also collect and deal in the fascinating antique textiles that sometimes find their way into my fiction.
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