Easy Crafts: Things I got up to in the late stages of pregnancy

February 9, 2015

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Maybe it was the nesting instinct or maybe it was preparation for all the kiddie crafts ahead of me but today I thought I’d share a few of the bits I made for our bedroom none of which are clever or complicated but fun mini attempts at homespun items.Read More

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The Nursery Project – Ted’s Room

January 26, 2015

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The Practical:

Creating Teds nursery was in some ways the biggest design challenge of all our projects as it required hard consideration of the way we used each space within the flat and a budget that was anything but fancy. When I first discovered I was pregnant we had just finished renovating our bedroom, it was the smallest of the three bedrooms in our apartment but always felt the cosiest so had become our logical sleep space. Read More

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Design Crush – Organisation & Calendars

January 19, 2015

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HAPPY 2015! I’m not going to make my first blog post of the new year a navel gazing episode of self advertisement in the form of New Years resolutions or round ups of 2014 but 10 weeks into life as a new parent has got me thinking about design in a whole new way. As life has become more hectic and I start to appreciate the usefulness and functionality of design more than ever before I thought I’d kick off the year by celebrating my favourite examples of design organisation: CalendarsRead More

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Mitford Family Portrait

October 3, 2014

Mitford pub The Swan Inn Oxford

 

Like many young English girls over the past eighty years, Nancy Mitford’s Love in A Cold Climate was a defining novel of my youth. This week the last remaining Mitford sister Debo’s funeral occurred so I thought that I would quickly share one of my favourite Mitford scenes on the blog. This is a snapshot from the pub Debo owned in Oxfordshire, The Swan Inn. A  few years ago I visited the house where the Mitford’s grew up as a part of an open garden scheme and stopped for lunch at the pub Debo owns a stones throwaway from the house in Burford. It is a comfortable old inn, a million miles away from the splendour of Chatsworth House that Debo would call home as the Duchess of Devonshire and is crammed full of paraphernalia of the Mitford family history saga. We had lunch by the fireplace which was adorned with these family portraits of all the sisters in their youth, from the communist to the fascist, the Mitford’s represented an astonishing curio of inter-war aristocratic life with all its pain and eccentricities.

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Istanabul – Through the aperture

May 19, 2014

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So things have been quiet for a very long while whilst I’ve been growing a baby! 15 weeks in I am finally starting to feel more myself so I thought I’d share some snaps from our recent trip to Istanbul. It’s a place that’s been on our list for years and it is truly stunning and otherworldly. It fed my tile and fabric obsessions to beyond brimming and I have come home wide eyed from a smorgasbord of texture and colour.

 

 

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