We experienced a taste of celebrity when we attended this years Glamour Women of the Year Awards in Berkeley Square last month. Killer heals and copious amounts of lip gloss were on display among the glitzy folk. We donated a London Type Map to the winner of each category who included Stevie Nicks, Ellie Goulding, Dawn French, Fearne Cotton, Miranda Hart and Jane Goldman.
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So refreshing to see these hand drawn sketches. Rachel Clark has graphite and pastels in her blood, she draws and documents her daily life, as her blog can confirm. I like the way she talks about the environment where she has made the sketches, so it more than just a display of her beautiful compositions.
The man digging his allotment in the images below is my brother Simon, who has been friends with Rachel since school days. Hopefully I’ll have some yellow courgettes from his Brighton patch to pick up when I’m back home this weekend. I can swap you some pumpkins Si, we’ve got hundreds!
The web is a funny old place. We just unearthed some snaps of our prints in Singapore design store Pomelo, courtesy of Bloesem. If you’re not familiar with her blog and have a penchant for design, perhaps wave your lunch break goodbye and spend the hour there.
It was a worrying three days for Hannah our Studio Assistant, her beloved cat ‘Mouse’ went off on her travels and didn’t tell anyone where she’d gone. After dropping flyers into all the neighbours, Mouse returned, all nonchalant and unconcerned – no doubt being fed tuna steaks by someone up the road.
The 7th July is our lucky day – we’re the featured seller on Etsy. This is big news!
We went to Hatfield House purely for the Henry Moore exhibition a few weeks back. I’m never quite sure of sculpture etiquette especially in this outside setting, if I’d made them I’d want them to be touched and I hope Henry wouldn’t have minded us having a feel.
Hatfield House is an ace day out, only a short train ride from London and the entrance is opposite the platform. Lots of pluses, for a start the café is fantastic, great cakes and setting. Wilf and Arlo loved the adventure playground and farm – we splashed out on a pony ride which was ‘a dream come true’ for them. And of course the House & Gardens (the main attraction for most people!) are historically interesting (childhood home of Elizabeth I) and very beautiful too.
These are gorgeous in every way, colour, form, finish. Mmm… lights by Swedish design duo DMOCH, David Ericsson & Marcus Berg.
Had a great time at the Knebworth House Salvo Fair on Saturday. If we didn’t have a couple of hungry three year olds in toe, we’d have come away visually richer and no doubt much financially poorer. So many beautifully crafted pieces, I could have stayed all day. That’ll teach us for telling the bubs that we were going to a fair, they never really got over the lack of merry-go-rounds and dodgem cars.
Thought you might like to see our first interview in the Australian printed press, for the Herald & Sun’s Home magazine.
We can now see the light at the end of the tunnel, after months of building work we now have a fully functioning toilet! And the real silver lining is that the garden has remained oblivious to all the dust and chaos.
