I’ve been loaning my big fat Farrow & Ball paint card out to various people recently, and spending happy hours chuntering with them about the marked difference between Hardwick and Cornforth White. I was minded then to dig out this, posted by Anna in the comments during the Big Grey Yawn Dilemma. It’s Mrs Blandings, […]
Can you believe it – I’m about to post something off of one of those daisies in a jam-jar, page boys transported to the church in vintage wheelbarrows, bride’s dress first owned by a 1920s showgirl type wedding photography sites. It’s just I like the plate, is all. I’d happily eat my salmon volovants off […]
That’s right, jigsaws folks. It’s The Next Thing. Jigsaws stuck in frames and thus art for your walls, we’re talking. I’m not saying it doesn’t sound stupid, but artist and designer Julie Verhoeven has framed jigsaws on her wall and it looks sort of ace. See that framed Charles and Diana photo? Jigsaw! And the […]
Gosh. I’m back on Lladro watch. If you’re not familiar, Lladro are the Spanish porcelain pedlers that serve up high kitsch figurines, bought by Godknowswho. I often pass their London shop, but I’m too scared to go in, lest I get disorientated and emerge with a £2,000 Venitian gondola sculpture. Or one of these ‘Childhood Vignettes’. But […]
Hmmm. Yes. Certain old objects are lovely, but obsolete, but it’s a shame not to show them off, no? Why not just find another use for them, that sort of works. Does it look too whimsical? An old ladder used as a towel rack, for instance. Or this… I reckon if you’re thinking it might […]