Just back from attending an event at Drink, Shop & Do on the Caledonian Road. The event was Matthew Stinchcomb, Etsy founder, giving a talk about selling your wares online (like I, er, don’t). It was good, but a lack of seating led to some of the audience having to sit at his feet like a load of folky Dylan followers circa 1962. More exciting to me was the venue…

The vintage, crafty decor is housed in an old bath house in King’s Cross, complete with pillars and an ornate domed ceiling. Originally a pop-up shop, it’s now there for the long haul, offering drinks, cakes, talks and craft workshops that actually sound worth going to. They’ve got Mini Robot Wars on Friday. Awooga.

It’s all brought to you by the delightful Kristie and Coralie, friends since secondary school. Ahhh.

Sew cool

Big thanks to one of our readers who, after some research, found out the name behind some pin cushions I talked about a while back. They are by designer Naori Priestly and a quick dash around her website revealed a few I hadn’t seen before. Quite impressed that she chose to shoot the fried egg […]

Things I’m doing for autumn

1. The first being, enjoying what I think will be the last flowers from the garden this year. I say enjoying – since I took this picture I left the rose there till the petals fell off and it had to go in the bin. Sigh. 2. Spending lots of time in charge of a mop […]

Picket fence reveal

Alternative title: My Father the hero. I mentioned a while back that I was planning a fence project, well it took place and I owe an almighty thanks – plus possibly some sort of percentage of this house if we ever sell it – to my Dad. He worked non-stop for days on it. I […]

Shot at home

A quick post today, on a photographer I found via the Guardian’s ‘My Best Shot’ piece yesterday. Molly Landreth travelled the US for two years, photographing people for her project ‘Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life In America.’ The portraits tend to be of people, often couples, in their homes, and the relationship between the […]