We’re always on the look out for great T-shirts, both in fit and design. Really good ones for men, unless completely plain, seem to be particularly elusive. Thornback and Peel do good ones and Rogues Gallery… Continue reading
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Posts Tagged ‘great gifts’
Online Shopping: Cachette, our favourite new website for gifts and homewares
What a lovely shopping website Cachette is. Put together by an Anglo-French couple with impeccable taste, the site sells useful and really well designed things: objects, stationery, accessories, stuff for your kitchen, bathroom, utility room and garden, food, gifts, toys,… Continue reading
Book: Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies
Bring up the Bodies published 10 May 2012
It’s arrived! Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel’s sequel to Wolf Hall is published today, and if you loved the latter as much as we did, then you’ll be desperate to get your hands on a copy of Bring up the Bodies.
Shopping: children’s clothes by Elfie
We discovered Elfie’s clothes at the wonderful Word Up! festival in Dulwich a few weeks ago. Have a look at their website and check out the sweaters with the little frogs in the pockets, which we can’t
Shopping: Redstone’s annual pop up shop
10 - 24 Dec 2012, 10am - 7pm every day
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How about this, left, for a lovely flyer. If you like it as much as we do, then head to Portobello Road where Redstone Press have set up temporary shop for a couple of weeks until Christmas. (They did it… Continue reading
Shopping & Kids: ilovegorgeous online archive sale with up to 80% off
Till 20 Aug 2012
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The last time girls clothing label ilovegorgeous (for babies and girls aged 0-15) had an archive sale we snapped up two pairs of cashmere leggings for our two year old and a dress for a friend’s five year old
Shopping: Fine Cell Work’s Pop-Up shop & launch of Warner Textile Archive Wallpapers
1 Aug - 30 Sept 2012. Shop open Mon- Sat, 10am - 6pm
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Fine Cell Work is a wonderful thing. It’s a charity that teaches needlework to prisoners, and sells their work, cushions mostly, but also quilts, bags, wall hangings and other things, through a great website and occasional events. Their… Continue reading
Shopping: Ben Pentreath Summer Party and Sale
Thur 28 June 2012. 6.30pm - 8.30pm
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We love Ben Pentreath’s Bloomsbury shop (he writes a great blog too), which is full of lovely things to buy for your house, from the perfect long handled duster to the most exquisite armchair. Great stationary, books, pictures,… Continue reading
Shopping: Mimi Berry sample sale
Fri 30, 5pm - 9pm & Sat 31 March, 11am - 6pm.
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We’re bracing ourselves for this one. It’s the Mimi Berry sample sale and we’ve already reconciled ourselves to spending cash money. If you don’t know Mimi’s bags, have a look at the website, which will give you
Exhibition & Shopping: Ceramic Art London
24 - 26 Feb 2012. Fri & Sat: 10am - 6pm. Sun: 10am - 5pm
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We’re of the view that you can’t have enough ceramics in your kitchen or life. We collect bowls and find vases pretty hard to resist. We like teapots too. And mugs and plates. And anything that has been put into… Continue reading
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