Real Reveal: Black not bleak
Hiya all and Happy New Year – I’m just emerging from a ‘heavy winter cold’, just like the Queen. Having had family over for Christmas I’m finally feeling well enough to enjoy the fruits of my labours before they arrived – i.e. an epic (for me) decorating project.
A Christmas Hovel
No-ho-ho! Not my gaff. I’m sharing with you this amazing Hastings home owned by Alastair Hendy, restored by him to something like its original Tudor glory. We’ve visited here before, of course, when I was mooning over stone-floored bothies with tin baths. But this time, well it’s decorated for the season.
My Other Friend’s House
When Jill and I set up this blog it was – as the name suggests – partly about the two of us sharing with each other what we were doing to our respective houses, just a few miles away from each other in south London. Now I’ve moved to a different house in a little […]
F*ck You art
Remember how much we hated slogans when we started this blog (in 2009!)? Well I’ve found a few to get behind that – celebrate? rebel in the face of? – the close of 2016. The first is a set of Christmas cards by Babak Ganjei.
Eley Kishimoto studio closing, sample sale
Two years ago, Ros reported on a lovely tour she took of Eley Kishimoto‘s studio, in an unassuming building right next door to the prison in Brixton.