Shopping

Packing style

I have a yellow suitcase, I introduced it here once before. It’s ancient, part of the furniture and although I now have a grown up person’s suitcase – with compartments and working zips – I  will never get rid of it. Here’s the only other suitcase I can imagine looking as magic on top of […]

Bespoke family print poster

I’m so pleased for you

Charming bespoke graphic for memorializing your lovely life? Or smug interiors version of the boastful Christmas round robin letter? Answers on an embroidered ‘LOVE’ cushion please.

Hang it all

If I had a pound for every time I’d predicted an interiors trend I’d probably have a tenner by now. As anyone who tuned into my shed angst will know, I was fantasizing about a super-organised perforated panel solution for hanging up gardening tools. Well, stone the crows, if it isn’t a snazzy feature of […]

grey and yellow rug

Still cutting the mustard

Mustard and grey still in? Maybe it’s working – and now not working – on a monthly interiors mag. I just can’t get used to how long trends hang around in the real world, away from ‘Trend of the Month’ and all that. But I’m not complaining, because it’ll give me time to save up […]

blue milk pan

French fancies

Just to recap, I spent the weekend in Lille’s one-yearly city-wide flea market. It’s part car boot sale, part festival, with every cafe and bar setting up tables outside to feed hungry shoppers the traditional moules frites. Imagine if you will the temptations on offer when every street in the city centre is lined with […]