I need another child’s bed. I’m all over Pinterest looking at the dozens of great ideas around. Except, force your eye past the nice cushions, cute quilts and quirky soft toys and it turns out there is a lot to weird bed to be found. I’m calling this one The Parent Nightmare-Giver. Don’t get me […]
Hold on to your hats – I’ve just started a new collection. Admittedly it’s only a collection of one, as yet. But it’s going to be great. Want to meet it? Yes, swan vases. Jill and I have been discussing collecting these babies for years. When we went shopping to Ardingly Antiques Fair we were […]
I’ve been living without a coffee table. Part of me is delighted by this – I hated the old one, it makes the living room look bigger – but when I had some friend’s over lately for an evening of wine and cheese (really) I had to bodge together a temporary solution that involved some […]
That’s The Poundshop founders George Wu and Sara Melin, and you read right, I said The Poundshop. Together with another Sarah (Gottlieb) the duo set up their concept back in 2010, hoping to harness their love of shopping with a greater aim of making design accessible to the masses. They achieved the latter by selling […]
Woah. I’ve just stumbled upon the work of textiles artist Maryrose Watson and had one of those in-the-gut ‘I love that’ moments. A scoot around her website reveals that the London-and-Norfolk based artist works off loom, warping and wefting hand-dyed yarns around frames to create her individual pieces. I’m using phrases like ‘warping’, ‘wefting’ and […]