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About Design_Soda_Ruthie

I write Design Soda, a design blog with a focus on interiors. My blog aims to be an unpretentious, stimulating, fun and naturally curious delve into inspirational design and Londoncentric culture. I describe my style as boho-eclectic and am open to most design which doesn’t look too serious or composed. As a design geek with a love of vintage and upcycling, I am passionate about my home and love blogging ideas and looks that I find inspirational. Since the time when my teenage bedroom was an Aladdins cave of upcycled furniture, Cecil Beaton photography and Situationist slogans I have been interested in the way the home environment can make you feel and inspire your inner life. As a new mummy, trying to negotiate my passions with my lovely new baby's schedule can be difficult, but in my spare time you will often find me snapping the things that catch my eye in my wonderful home city London. Or, reading, upcycling, spending longer on Pinterest than I should, baking and watching old movies. I have a lifelong passion for French New Wave cinema.

How to Make simple Pine Cone Christmas Decorations that are sustainable and stylish

December 5, 2020

How to Make simple Pine cone Christmas decorations that are sustainable and stylish

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I’ve gone from feeling we may have been a little early putting up Christmas decs last weekend to wondering how it is already the second Sunday of advent tomorrow(?). I’m sure Christmas will be done and dusted before I have a chance to blink. Read More

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Craft Ideas: Simple Foraged Decorative touches using greenery from the Christmas tree

December 2, 2020

 

Have you bought a real tree this year? Unless you are lucky enough to have one of those gorgeous wispy Scandinavian Christmas trees that you see in magazines and which tend to come with a high price tag, you probably have a standard Norman spruce with its significant circumference. Read More

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Our Home at Christmas: Eclectic Interior Decoration for 2020

December 1, 2020

It’s the 1st December, which I think is actually quite late in blogging terms for a festive post! We decorated for Christmas this weekend, which given it was the end of November is a little early for us, but with 2020 being such a rubbish year I have decided to bring the twinkly lights into our home early.Read More

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Christmas 2020 : Our Kitsch & Colourful Christmas Decorations

November 17, 2020

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Last week I wrote about Xmas decor trends for 2020 – spoiler it’s all about kitsch, colour and playfulness! Read More

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The 60 Best Christmas Decorations for 2020: colour, kitsch, nostalgia, iconoclasm and irreverence

November 8, 2020

 

Are you ready for Christmas?! I know it’s only early November, but I have a confession – I sort of am! We’re a week into November, and we’ve just started another national lockdown, Read More

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