We've received so many emails wondering what Jacqueline's "Toadstool Farm" is like, and what her working space consists of, so we thought we'd bring you this mini tour of Jacqueline's fairytale cottage in the middle of the city, and her studio.

This page was made many years ago now,  and the world has continued to turn and unbenownst to her fans, Jacqueline moved in 2004 from the original Toadstool Farm to a new version not far away. While her heart broke to leave her beloved cottage, the choice was made to move in order to allow Jacqueline closer access to her horses.  The house she and husband Dean bought used to belong to Eva Gardner and had fallen into very bad repair. It as essentially a huge fire waiting to happen.  It has taken most of the last four years to get the house up to a level that Jacqueline felt it was ready to share with you all.   We finally broke out the camera and got some shots for you.  Enjoy!

...Oh, and yes, Jacqueline did the redesign of the house and garden herself. 

Here is the old backyard....trash, weeds and broken glass everywhere.  And you could not see the house or guesthouse at all from the back gate.

Now, standing at the same spot, the house is visible, there is grass ( albeit a bit dry from the hot Summer weather when this photo was taken), and there are french doors and flowers. There is still lots of work to be done to get this garden up to the standards Jacqueline likes, but it's well on it's way!

The Family Room during demolition. We were shocked to find all that lovely brick buried underneath awful fake wood paneling.  The doorway leads to the kitchen. 

Here it is now, from the same spot.  We've raised the ceiling, left the brick exposed, added built in bookshelves and opened the doorway to the kitchen as well as adding a view through in the wall. The kitchen was completely redone with new cabinets, appliances, counters and a total redesigned layout which included tearing down and rebuilding walls. Thats one of the dogs, Nepal there on the dog bed with his toy, and you can barely see the hamster, Peanut in her cage atop the TV.

Here is one view of the Living Room as it was. Thats the Dining Room also there at the far end. Notice the glass blocks?  It was literally everywhere. Any spot that could hold a glass block had it.  Outside on fence posts, inside along walls, under windows, in the floor, you name it, it had it.
And yes, that IS a clock growing out of the mirrored wall above the fireplace mantle.

Here it is now from about the same spot.  We changed the archway to match the rest of the house, and got rid of any glass block we could find. We also added all new windows to the entire house.  It  really needed it.

Heres another view of the Living Room from the other side. You can see the framing being done to all the arches, and the demo of the old fireplace.

Here is the room now from that same spot. New fireplace, lovely wide arched doorways and gorgeous hardwood floors. Jacqueline did the faux finish on the walls. In fact, every room in the house was painted by Jacqueline.

 
We dont have a before picture of the room that eventually became Jacqueline's studio. But here are two views of it as it is now. Rest assured it was as bad as the rest of the house. This view is standing in the doorway to the room.  There is Jacqueline's painting desk under the big window on the left. Other things of interest would be the small table next to the chair. Thats where Jacqueline has her heat press for mugs and mousepads and things.  The printer she uses for most of her prints is under the window on the right and her desk is at the far right.

Here is a second view of the Studio itself.  Thats little Whisper in the front, Jacqueline's Goffin Cockatoo. Behind him is her desk with bookshelves on one side and a small cabinet on the other. The window there looks out over the backyard. And if you look close you can see a picture of Jacqueline's husband pinned to the corkboard on the front of the cabinet.