A quick update to yesterday’s post about my grandma’s birthday that I just had to share… I was telling the girl next to me in the office that it would have been my grandma’s 100th birthday, and about the post featuring her things (see below) when another girl opposite looked up from her phone, puzzled. […]
Today would have been my grandma’s 100th birthday. Inspired by the online project The Grandma Museum I decided to document all the things she gave to me while she was alive, to mark the fact. She had wonderful taste, was a lover of the sale room, the auction house and an avid noser around property […]
We started the Broken Crockery Support here, and very quickly branched out into fridges. So if it’s ok by you, can I quickly air my regret over an incident last night involving all my cushions, my two-year-old and some felt tip pens? It happened while I was making dinner, innocently – selflessly, even – in the […]
Story taken from the Daily Mail. But the sexism is all my own. Here is a shot of Margherita Missoni’s home, as featured in the Mail today, which proves why wise women tend to ‘give’ their man a whole room to themselves in the house. The caption reads: “Margherita’s home décor is often influenced by […]
At first, I had to walk past it quickly, eyes in the other direction. Any other direction. But, after a few weeks of ignoring what I feared to be a pretty large-scale decorating blunder, I can exclusively reveal that… I’m pleased with my upcycled linen cabinet! And its weird curtain front. Wanna see? That thing […]