tea & toast & tapas

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  • Design
    • Digital Design
    • Interior Design
    • Artisan Craft Design
  • Inspiration
    • Weddings
      • bouquets
    • artisan craft
      • Christmas
      • colour
      • crochet and knit
      • Easter
      • form
      • Halloween
      • paper
      • textile
      • texture
      • upcycling and renovating
    • Casa
      • balconies
      • bathrooms
      • bedrooms
      • garden
      • Hallways
      • kitchens
      • living rooms
      • terraces
    • Lifestyle
      • clothe
        • accessories
        • bags
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        • shoes
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        • breakfast
        • soups and starters
        • dinners
        • puddings
        • baking
        • chocolate
        • pickles, preserves and sauces
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        • drink
    • Events
    • No 14 – BEACH HOUSE
      • Accommodation
      • Facilities
      • Area
      • Discover
      • Cuisine
    • The Pop-Up Artisan Market
  • Contact
  • blog
  • Design
    • Digital Design
    • Interior Design
    • Artisan Craft Design
  • Inspiration
    • Weddings
      • bouquets
    • artisan craft
      • Christmas
      • colour
      • crochet and knit
      • Easter
      • form
      • Halloween
      • paper
      • textile
      • texture
      • upcycling and renovating
    • Casa
      • balconies
      • bathrooms
      • bedrooms
      • garden
      • Hallways
      • kitchens
      • living rooms
      • terraces
    • Lifestyle
      • clothe
        • accessories
        • bags
        • clothes
        • shoes
      • food
        • breakfast
        • soups and starters
        • dinners
        • puddings
        • baking
        • chocolate
        • pickles, preserves and sauces
        • Veggies
        • drink
    • Events
    • No 14 – BEACH HOUSE
      • Accommodation
      • Facilities
      • Area
      • Discover
      • Cuisine
    • The Pop-Up Artisan Market
  • Contact

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!

Recent Posts

  • 2025
  • Jewelry Design
  • Moody Blues
  • El Raco
  • Spring Cleaning
  • Renovating The Van
  • New Adventures!
  • Garden Parties and Afternoon Tea
  • The Big Reveal
  • Broken cups and pottery throwdowns
  • Normal service is resumed
  • Woollie Weather
  • Christmas Countdown
  • Back to Black
  • Advent Calendars
  • English Breakfast Day
  • Autumn is over, winter is here and soup is on the menu
  • Leopard Print
  • New clobber and winter prep
  • Fires Fireworks!
  • blog,  Halloween,  kitchens,  Lifestyle

    November

    November 6, 2022 /

    Its nuts that it is November already! October seems to have flown by in a flurry of unseasonably warm days with visitors even swimming in the pool, unheard of and probably a bit bonkers, days at the beach, t-shirts and sandals and now suddenly dark nights and woollies.

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  • blog,  colour,  Hallways,  Indoors,  inspirations,  interior design,  interiors,  spaces,  style

    On the hunt – October

    October 17, 2022 /

    It's been a super busy month of reuniting with my lovely family, working with friends and generally preparing for autumn/winter and still looking for the dream (or near as damn it dream) pad waiting for us down Tarragona way. That hasn't stopped me saving ideas for my vision to my Pinterest, ha ha ha......

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  • blog,  digital design,  The Pop-Up Artisan Market

    Branding your products and services

    October 1, 2022 /

    Going back to my roots and adding Digital Design and Online Marketing to my portolio

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  • blog

    Twenty six years

    July 19, 2022 /

    How can a quarter of a century fly by and yet it feels so present? Best times with great people is all you need to make new memories

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  • blog,  dinners,  food

    It’s all Greek to me

    June 29, 2022 /

    When you can't get to Greece bring Greece to you!

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  • blog,  dinners,  food,  inspirations,  puddings

    Southward Bound

    June 10, 2022 /

    As the sun sets on our first day of exploring and house hunting it is time to relax, if you have ever contemplated a move somewhere completely different come and join me on my journey for a while.

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  • blog,  puddings

    Jubilee!

    May 24, 2022 /

    Sweet, sharp with a warming whisky kick - the very British trifle gets a Scottish twist as a modern version of the Whisky Laird.

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  • blog,  dinners,  upcycling and renovating

    On the move?

    May 21, 2022 /

    As the title suggests we are considering a new adventure and moving now that retirement beckons, in other news we've been primping and prepping our home and chalet, entertaining and just enjoying life while we can

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  • blog,  events,  style

    May – my favourite month

    May 7, 2022 /

    From trips to the coast and the cabin, to spring has sprung, Temps de Flor and a bit of home hairdressing with my ma in law who has made her first trip out here since the pandemic had us all locked away.

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  • blog,  branding,  inspirations,  Lifestyle

    Finding your passion – creatively speaking

    April 28, 2022 /

    Being passionate about the things we do makes life a joyous journey, what makes you tick?

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