I’m Anne-Marie Smith – my passion is recycling, upcycling, design and craft. I have a studio (garage) full of vintage (or junk as my husband likes to call it). I’m a whizz at organising events (bossy). Oh and I love food whether that’s cooking, bottling, baking or eating it!

tea & toast & tapas is a lifestyle blog and online shop stuffed full of ideas, inspirations and handmade loveliness.

No 14 is the biggest upcycling and design project I’ve undertaken here. An original wooden chalet restored and updated but still retaining that seaside chalet feel with lots of vintage touches. Available to rent from Easter 2021 subject to campsite opening dates and Covid 19 restrictions (Contact for Details on Bookings)

The Pop-Up Artisan Market is a whole new venture. An online space for creative businesses based here in the Costa Brava to promote and sell their work to a wider audience. Particularly during these difficult times when the usual places like Arts and Crafts Markets and Events are cancelled and people who would normally buy their unique and original pieces for themselves, their friends and their families from independent traders have few means of seeking them out. Its been running since November last year and we are gradually building a following and adding to our traders all the time. Do get in touch if you think this is for you!

I’m Anne-Marie Smith – my passion is recycling, upcycling, design and craft. I have a studio (garage) full of vintage (or junk as my husband likes to call it). I’m a whizz at organising events (bossy). Oh and I love food whether that’s cooking, bottling, baking or eating it!

tea & toast & tapas is a lifestyle blog and online shop stuffed full of ideas, inspirations and handmade loveliness.

No 14 is the biggest upcycling and design project I’ve undertaken here. An original wooden chalet restored and updated but still retaining that seaside chalet feel with lots of vintage touches. Available to rent from Easter 2021 subject to campsite opening dates and Covid 19 restrictions (Contact for Details on Bookings)

The Pop-Up Artisan Market is a whole new venture. An online space for creative businesses based here in the Costa Brava to promote and sell their work to a wider audience. Particularly during these difficult times when the usual places like Arts and Crafts Markets and Events are cancelled and people who would normally buy their unique and original pieces for themselves, their friends and their families from independent traders have few means of seeking them out. Its been running since November last year and we are gradually building a following and adding to our traders all the time. Do get in touch if you think this is for you!

New Year New Me?

January 24, 2019 /

Well that was a rather extended break, sorry but kind of not sorry. I really needed to make some changes in my life. Started off by getting back to my roots and spending time touring the UK staying with my family and doing that whole reconnecting thing which was good for my well being. I also got my hair chopped off which is often the way when you come to the end of something.

Not been so well this last eighteen months which has led to some big lifestyle changes, gave up the evil weed tobacco and alcohol, not that I was a big drinker, just had to stop both for medical reasons. Am very pleased with the former decision, I literally stopped, cold turkey and haven’t had a one in eighteen months. Giving up social drinking has been much harder and with the medication I am taking I have piled on the pounds.

Which is why I have thrown myself heart and soul into a new healthy lifestyle and am pleased to say I have now lost just over 10lbs. For anyone who is also trying to lose weight I have set up a new Instagram so I can track my progress and am following lots of other slimmers who post some great recipes giving me plenty of variety.

Plus words mean a lot to me, hence the occasional inspirational quote. Feel free to follow or DM me on my Stepping Stones at Sixty – 63 and battling the bulge insta account.

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