I am the first to admit about my obsessions with ceramics. My Nana's Crown Lynn swan was always my favourite thing when I was younger. I used to cut all sorts of things out of the garden to place in it. I purchased my first swan almost 15 years to ago, which sits proudly on my china cabinet right next to Nana's swan.

In store I have always sold the odd item of Crown Lynn & also as above 'Blue Mountain Pottery' if I come across them.

We have 4 swans in store at the moment & the colours are beautiful.

Here at Woodstock we love anything NZ. So when I saw these I loved them & now we have them in store. Yay!. Made by NZer Caroline Mitchell they are just so cute.

happy 2011, can't believe it was eleven years ago we were camping with friends in a very remote part of NZ, to celebrate the new millemium, wondering whether Y2K had caused the world to go into a spin. We had simple tents, lots of food & beverage & no children.

Eleven years on we still love camping. We now have our 2 gorgeous boys, still take lots of food & beverage, push bikes for all, portable toilet & the kitchen sink, All in our wonderful little caravan. Yes, 3 years ago we purchased our little gem on wheels & have never looked back. Yesterday we got back from our wee summer trip. There was lots of sun, swimming, biking & new memories made. I just love it. So I though I would celebrate the good old kiwi summer with some classic caravan photos.