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Health & HappinessDecember 12, 2008

Simple Pleasures: Apronisms

By The Womens Room

Apronisms: Pocket Wisdom for Every Day, by EllenAnne Geisel is full of sayings you may have heard from your Mother or Grandmother. What you once thought of as old fashioned and dull you may now appreciate as wise and increasingly true. You may… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 10, 2008

Trend Watch: Yellow

By The Womens Room

Tell someone at a party you are a trend and colour forecaster for the fashion industry and you can be almost certain what their next question will be, 'What colour will I be wearing next year?' I usually answer, 'whatever colour… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 8, 2008

Style Icon: Jean Muir

By The Womens Room

'She had such style. Real style that you could recognize. I love her for her individuality, her way of seeing a woman.'' Jean Paul Gaultier Strict attention to detail, technical excellence and a passion for the craft of dressmaking… Read More

Middle Aged MumDecember 6, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: Decorating the Tree

By The Womens Room

Chestnuts are not quite roasting on an open fire, but Andy Williams is trying his hardest on the i Pod, the fire is on and baby it's cold outside.This is the weekend when we ‘Do the tree’. Middleagedad.com has… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 6, 2008

We Love: Alternative Christmas Shopping

By The Womens Room

Columbia Road in London's East End is one of our favourite haunts on a Sunday morning, but rarely do we venture there on a weekeday. If you fancy an alternative shopping experience to the heaving nightmare that is shopping in… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 4, 2008

We love: Vintage Academe

By The Womens Room

We figure that buying vintage doesn't count in our quest to de clutter our lives and cut back our over bulging wardrobes. Vintage clothes have a heritage and history and we know we wont see anyone else wearing the same… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 2, 2008

We love: Stylish Blogs

By The Womens Room

If you work in the fashion industry you will probably already be a big fan of The Sartorialist, the amazing street style blog, featuring beautiful photographs of stylish, real people from all over the world. The blog has been listed by Time Magazine… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 30, 2008

We Love: Penguin Naked Titles

By The Womens Room

We love the very clever creative team at Penguin who continue to push the boundaries and think outside the box, while other publishing companies moan and groan about the impact of the internet. In 2007 they launched an experiment… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 28, 2008

Try this Instead

By The Womens Room

It seems the book we recommended in our last Simple Pleasures has become a collectors item since we first bought it and not quite the simple pleasure (in money terms anyway) we intended. So take a look at this one… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 28, 2008

Something for the Weekend: National Buy Nothing Day

By The Womens Room

Today in America and tomorrow in the UK, it's National Buy Nothing Day, an annual protest against consumerism organised by a group called Adbusters. Put simply… 'Saturday November 29th 2008 is Buy Nothing Day, It's a day where you challenge… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 26, 2008

Simple Pleasures: For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness

By The Womens Room

A beautiful portrait of a gentle man in his twilight years, photographer Julian Germain documented the last eight years of Charlie Snellings life. "I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a Saturday in April, 1992. He lived in a typical two up… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 24, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: Let’s hear it for the boys

By The Womens Room

Its 6am and I have woken with the fear. I have a small animal rattling around in my head and I do not dare move as I will almost definitely be sick. When the children were little… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 22, 2008

Radical Craft: Etsy

By The Womens Room

We think there is nothing better than a Sunday spent trawling a car boot sale, flea market or Craft Fair. We love the thrill of the bargain and the unique often quirky indivdual items we find, hold pride of place on our… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 20, 2008

We Love: Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins

By The Womens Room

We have to say we are not usually big fans of Brangelina, personally we think all those children just look like really hard work. But we are loving her look in her new film, The Changeling, due for release in the UK… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 18, 2008

We Love: H is for Home

By The Womens Room

H is for Home specialises in quirky, nostalgic, handmade and vintage items for the home. Like shopping at a curated jumble sale featuring carefully chosen items from the 1950's 60's and 70's, everything is unique and a one off. For us 'women… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 18, 2008

Book Now: Flash pop up restaurant

By The Womens Room

FLASH is a temporary restaurant created by the owners of trendy east end restaurant and bar, Bistrotheque. It opened on the 1st of November and will close on the 19th of January 2009. Last years pop up restaurant The Reindeer,… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 16, 2008

Guilty Pleasures: Perez Hilton

By The Womens Room

Ok, so we realise the Uk's obsession with with celebrity is unhealthy and in danger of turning our teenage daughters into WAGabees. But, admit it, sometimes we just have to know what's going on with Madonna and Guy or David… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 16, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: Is it me or is it hot in here?

By The Womens Room

Its -4 outside and I’m having a personal Summer. I am driving the office mad by opening windows, my husband is sick of sleeping in a room that feels like the Ice Hotel and I look like I should be… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 14, 2008

Something for the weekend: Midcentury.Modern

By The Womens Room

If you love the modernist style of interiors in the 50's and 60's then get yourself over to Dulwich this Sunday. Midcentury.Modern brings together 65 dealers and designers selling furniture and collectables from the last century. The show has established itself as… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 14, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: retail rage

By The Womens Room

I am under pressure, I have to be back at home for a meeting at the kids school by midday and I have work to do. If I set off early enough I can be there and back in two… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 14, 2008

Simple Pleasures: A fish Finger Sandwich and Loose Women

By The Womens Room

It has to be white bread (as cheap as possible). The fish fingers should be crispy to start with but will go soggy as soon as they enter the sandwich (You can almost hear them sigh 'Ahh home at last') and there… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingNovember 12, 2008

Garden People by Ursula Buchan

By The Womens Room

This fabulous book of photographs provides a nostalgic look at the gardening scene of the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. Famous gardeners and less well known dedicated nursery men, plant enthusiasts, designers and artists are pictured in their gardens: wearing the… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 10, 2008

Add to your Favourites: Tartelette

By The Womens Room

Blogs are addictive and once they enter your favourites list, become like a friend you have to visit every day. You connect with the writer and crave small details to enable you to know them a little bit more. When you discover… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 10, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: Mum Tribes

By The Womens Room

When my children were babies, the women from my ante natal group were my lifeline. Endless afternoons (never mornings as it was impossible to get dressed before midday) spent drinking tea, discussing breastfeeding and how much sleep we hadn’t… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 9, 2008

Simple Pleasures: A nice cup of tea and a sit down

By The Womens Room

'Three hundred small pleasures make people happier than one magnificent one.' Daniel Gilbert professor of psychology Harvard University. In these credit crunchy times and as we get a bit older (no-ones come up with a suggestion yet, so older it… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 8, 2008

Save the Date

By The Womens Room

Shirt dress, £199.99, Comme des Garçons for H&M If you love the deconstructed, non fashion style of Comme Des Garcons but cant quite justify the designer price tags, get yourself along to Hennes on November the 13th. Rei Kawakubo has… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 6, 2008

Style Icon: Iris Barrel Apfel

By The Womens Room

The individual, unconventional and eclectic style and taste of Iris Apfel is an inspiration. She and her husband founded the textile firm Old World Weavers in the fifties. They sourced fabrics from all over the world using old original looms… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 5, 2008

God Bless America

By The Womens Room

Congratulations! We love that Barack Obama called his wife Michelle 'his best friend' in his AMAZING victory speech. We also love the Sun headline 'McCain's had his chips'.… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 4, 2008

We Love: Lilian Bellamy

By The Womens Room

The twice-widowed, gin-soaked, chain-smoking,second daughter of Peggy Archer, Lilian returned to Ambridge with Toy Boy Scott in tow after many years as a tax exile in Guernsey. Ok, if you dont know who we are talking about by now skip… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 2, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: Saturday night in

By The Womens Room

The fire is lit, its raining outside and really really cold. The X Factor is about to come on, we’ve made popcorn and 14 year old son is going to a party. ‘Wouldn’t you rather stay in with us and… Read More