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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.

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November 28, 2013

 

My favourite things at the moment: Anthropologie alphabet plates, vintage Christmas design, Winter on the Southbank, animal memo holders and Elizabeth Bowen.Read More

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Through the aperture…

November 25, 2013

apertureViewed through the aperture: Andy Warhol limited edition soup tins, glass sculpture squid, glitter frosted acorns and figurines.

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November 21, 2013

Kitsch Der Snow person Christmas Figurines

My favourite things at the moment: Yvonne Ellen ceramics, Carluccio’s packaging, the Rotunda stairs at Tate Britain, kitsch Christmas figurines and the French film Goodbye First Love.

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Treasuries in Miniature – Snow Dome Decorations

November 18, 2013

Snow Globe decoration Anthropologie 1 Sometimes, something which you’ve been thinking of suddenly pops up everywhere you look! Either you have unconsciously tapped into a zeitgeist subliminally absorbing a trend, or you are noticing objects because of a connection already articulated in recent memory. Now I’m sure there is a very cynical marketing answer to this, but at the beginning of Autumn I found myself rueing a wonderful collection of snow globes I threw away several years ago.Read More

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Through the aperture…

November 16, 2013

1bViewed through the aperture: Teapot topiary, glorious salt pig colours, decaying structure in Borough.

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