Have you got an old-fashioned Cassette player for your child? Pre-Christmas Shopping
Any child of the 70’s or 80’s will remember these… Oh the hours I’d spend, recording songs off the radio, wearing out tapes as I hit pause/play/pause/play line by line so that I could write down all the lyrics to Rick Astley. I have a couple of precious tapes of my sister and I singing as she practiced her guitar, and the mix tapes… Oh, the memories that are spooled onto those mix tapes! But...
Typhoon Vintage Scales – £20! | Christmas Gift Guide
Oh, I LOVE these. And yes, I know you’re not supposed to enjoy kitchen stuff as a gift – but seriously. LOOK at these babies. That’s not kitchen ‘stuff’. That’s Kitchen Art. No kitchen tool has a right to be quite this pretty, does it? Typhoon have taken inspiration from the characterful kitchen designs of the 1930s, 40s and 50s to create these kitchen scales. The enamel coated steel comes in a...
Dishwashers. Definitely a must-have for my Christmas, but will a cheap one do? | Pre-Christmas Shopping
Back in September my dishwasher broke. It had been on its last legs for a while, and finally our lovely dishwasher-man shook his head sadly and said “its not good. It’s just not worth me fixing it this time – it’d be cheaper for you to buy another”. Oh woe. Being a 70’s child, I hadn’t had the luxury of a dishwasher growing up, and I was a little aghast after dinner that night that my four...
Original Art that you CAN afford – Christmas Gift Guide
This site plopped into my inbox this week – and I fell instantly in love, and have revisited many times since. It’s just… brilliant. Being married to a photographer our walls are filled with images; not just his, but all types of visual art. Sadly, though, much as we love to browse art galleries it’s incredibly rare that we can afford to take hom the art that we fall in love with. So imagine my joy when I saw...
A spare fridge? Why yes, yes you do. | Pre-Christmas Shopping
One of my best ideas a few years ago was to pick up a small second fridge to keep in the conservatory. Now I know not everyone has the space for one, but if you do happen to have a small corner, a spare fridge or freezer can be an absolute godsend at certain times of the year – and when you don’t need them, you just turn them off! We have a small larder fridge that is kept full of cold drinks in the summer – mostly...
Spotted! Amazingly Beautiful measuring cups. *want*
Oh how I LOVE these! I’d be a bit afraid of breaking them… but so pretty. And so useful too! Shaded hand thrown pottery measuring cups. I ADORE them! This Ombré nesting measuring cup set is made from ceramic clay, that has been completely hand painted with a lead free, food safe glossy glaze. The four measuring cups (1 cup, 1/2 cup, 1/3 cup, 1/4 cup) range from light peachy pink to a deep orange in colour. But if...