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Fashion & BeautyFebruary 1, 2009

Shopping with experts: Anthropologie

By The Womens Room

Inside the Anthropologie store in New York's Rockerfeller Centre Be still our beating hearts. At last the wonderful US based Anthropologie brand is coming over to the UK and is opening not one but two shops in London. We have… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 31, 2009

We Love: The Selby

By The Womens Room

If you love looking round other peoples houses (we only joined a book groups for the nose factor) you will love The Selby . It features interesting people and their creative spaces from around the world. Great for inspiration or… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenJanuary 30, 2009

Simple pleasures: making marmalade

By The Womens Room

Ok, marmalade is hardly a simple pleasure exactly, but it is a highly enjoyable one and there are many advantages to indulging in a little preserve making at this time of the year. Firstly, it fills your house with… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 29, 2009

Trend Watch: Hasbeens

By The Womens Room

We love it when established brands are revived by young trendies, who turn them into the latest must have item. Think Timberland, Red Wing, Ray Bans, and Converse. We also particularly love it if it’s a trend we think we might actually be… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 28, 2009

We love: Middleagedad’s blog

By The Womens Room

Middleagedad is something of a wonder, not only is he a great husband and dad, but he also does a good line in quirky photos that he puts up on his blog. Being a London lad, he is a… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 27, 2009

Madonna: Icon or letting the side down?

By The Womens Room

Ok Madonna, enough already. We know you are thin and we can see by your incredibly defined muscles that you work out every day. You're 50 and look more like 35, what are we supposed to think? We wish we looked… Read More

Health & Happiness, We Are ReadingJanuary 26, 2009

Life’s Too F..ing Short by Janet Street Porter

By The Womens Room

Ms Street Porter is a marmite sandwich, you either love her or hate her and we quite often swing between the two emotions, but we do admire her strong point of view and she is definitely redefining what it is… Read More

Out & AboutJanuary 25, 2009

Something to look forward to; i-escape

By The Womens Room

In the dreary months of January and February, we like nothing better to dream about where we might like to go on holiday this year. Despite the doom and gloom of the weather and the economy, we are determined to plan… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 23, 2009

Style Icon: Dame Edna for MAC

By The Womens Room

"Follow my beauty regime, possums, and you'll never be cosmetically challenged," says Dame Edna Everage. Her new limited edition cosmetics range for MAC includes nail varnish, lipstick gloss and eye shadows all in her trademark colours – pink, red, purple and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 21, 2009

We Love: Aretha’s hat

By The Womens Room

We loved Aretha Franklin's over the top hat at yesterdays inauguration ceremony. Apparently, the hat cost $179 and was made by long-time hat maker Mr. Song Millinery in Detroit. We will be talking about Michelle Obama and her style for… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 21, 2009

We Love: Orla Kiely for Target

By The Womens Room

Orla Keily has long been one of our favourite designers. We loved her collection for Heals last Autumn and are still trying to persude middleagedad.com that her wallpaper would not be too feminine for the living room. This February she… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 19, 2009

We Love: Owaboo

By The Womens Room

Having a passion for what you do is a great incentive to get up in the morning. Well, we think so anyway and we are always on the look out for women who feel the same. Former colleague Becky Carr definitely falls… Read More

Middle Aged MumJanuary 17, 2009

Middleagedmum.com: Just another manic morning

By The Womens Room

Lets face it no-one with kids really likes the start or the end of the day and can probably accurately pinpoint the day they entered the 'drinking too many units at home category'. It was the moment they realised that the only way to… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 15, 2009

We Love: Bobbin Bicycles

By The Womens Room

Over the last few years we have noticed more and more people have taken the cycling option as an alternative to the living Hell that is public transport (especially in London). What could be better; an ethical form of transport and… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 13, 2009

Trend Watch: Twitter

By The Womens Room

Here at the Womens Room we love technology. Most of our working lives are spent on our laptops and we really can’t imagine how we managed without Wikipedia, Ocado, Amazon, Facebook etc etc. We get looks of horror, when we tell the… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 11, 2009

We Love: Slow Cooking

By The Womens Room

On a cold winters night what could be better than a hearty home cooked stew. We have long been fans of comfort food and like nothing better than nostalgic nursery food to warm the cockles of our heart. Slow food… Read More

Middle Aged MumJanuary 9, 2009

Middleagedmum.com: You keep me hanging on the telephone

By The Womens Room

One week before important family get together at MAM.com's house Press 1 if your call is about an existing repair, press 2 for our parts department, press 3 if your appliance is under a year old, press 4 if you appliance is… Read More

Health & HappinessJanuary 7, 2009

We Love: The Diary of Anne Frank

By The Womens Room

Watching the latest BBC adaptation of The Dairy of Anne Frank with my 13 year old daughter is both nostalgic and poignant. It brings the memories flooding back. Annes experiences as a girl on the brink of womenhood, her difficult… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 5, 2009

Shopping with Experts: Recession, what recession?

By The Womens Room

The shops in London’s West End this past week have never been so busy. Maybe it’s the promise of amazing bargains, or maybe its denial of the media obsessed impending gloom. One thing that struck us and something… Read More

Middle Aged MumJanuary 1, 2009

Middleagedmum.com: New year resolutions

By The Womens Room

I hereby resolve that from January the 1st 2009 I will: No longer shout and loose my temper, as I realise when hearing daughter shout at son 'why don’t you just f…k off you selfish b……d,’ that perhaps she is copying… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 30, 2008

The Power of the Moon

By The Womens Room

My wise old mum has long held a theory that people’s behaviour is affected by the moon. As a former primary school teacher she claims the children’s behaviour was always worse leading up to a full moon. Where else did the word… Read More

Out & AboutDecember 28, 2008

Growing old gracefully?

By The Womens Room

This photograph of Donatella Versace on holiday in todays Mail on Sunday, makes us realise why we will always remember to wear factor 30 and almost definately say no to cosmetic surgery. It makes us wonder what she thinks when… Read More

Art & CultureDecember 28, 2008

We love: 70’s Dinner party

By The Womens Room

One of our more succesful Christmas presents this year, has been the fabulously nostalgic CD, 70's Dinner Party. A boxed set featuring some of our secret favourites, such as Dean Freidman, Minnie Riperton, Sailor, Tom Jones and Manhatten Transfer, to name… Read More

Health & HappinessDecember 26, 2008

Need we say more!

By The Womens Room

Middle Aged MumDecember 24, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: The Round Robin

By The Womens Room

Apologies for the group letter but things have been a little hectic lately. Since August I have been having an affair and find I simply don’t have time for much else. It’s all been really rather exciting and seems to… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 22, 2008

Simple Pleasures: The Daily Aphorism

By The Womens Room

Our favourite 'chemist for the mind' store The School of Life has launched a new website, The Daily Aphorism. Sign up and a beautifully typeset message is sent to your inbox every day for a month. The Daily Aphorism publishes a original… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 20, 2008

Style Icon: Helen Mirren

By The Womens Room

We love Helen Mirrens portrayal of Great Aunt Elinor in the new children's fantasy film Inkheart. The film is set in no particular time, but Dames Helens look is slighly 1920's. Apparantley, she had a lot of input into her… Read More

Middle Aged MumDecember 18, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: The Vegan Mary

By The Womens Room

Twas the week before Christmas, six years ago. We were driving back from trampolining practice and having one of those car conversations. It’s funny when you are trapped in the car with your kids, it can go either way.… Read More

Out & AboutDecember 16, 2008

Trend Watch: Rough Luxe

By The Womens Room

Are you fed up with the sterile perfection of designer hotels. Do you yearn for " A little bit of rough in a luxurious London, or a little bit of luxury in a rough part of London." Look no further… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 14, 2008

We Love: Bouf

By The Womens Room

Many years in the fashion industry either designing, buying or visual merchandsing have left us a little jaded when it comes to shopping. Often the high street leaves us cold as the whole shopping experience just doesn't do it for us… Read More