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Home & GardenMarch 25, 2009

Shopping with experts: Cocomaya

By The Womens Room

Not quite fashion,we know, but with Easter around the corner we thought you might like to hear about Cocomaya, a charming little chocolate store in London. Not your average sweet shop this, there is a resident chocolatier Jonathan Deddis,… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenMarch 19, 2009

Simple pleasures: stitching and bitching

By The Womens Room

The Women’s Room has a knitwear guru (Belinda) as a friend and she has been helping us revisit knitting as means of stress relief this week. Knitting has had something of a renaissance recently, particularly in the USA, where it… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 15, 2009

We love: Emergency Chocolate

By The Womens Room

Sometimes, after a hard night out or a tough week or a particularly trying time with the children, the only thing that really works is a mix of cocoa, milk fat and sugar. We found this wonderful bar of… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenMarch 14, 2009

Simple Pleasures: The Style Inside

By The Womens Room

The Style Inside combines personal stories and beautiful things with a gentle simplicity and a stylish aesthetic. Writer Stephanie moved with her family to live in Ticino,Switzerland over three years ago and writes about her new life there and the simple… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 17, 2009

We love: Copenhagen Cycle Chic blog

By The Womens Room

What is it about sport that makes people think they can forget what they are wearing? The marathon is coming up, and consequently the number of runners out along the Thames tow path has increased and the stuff they… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 10, 2009

Simple Pleasures: stay Golden

By The Womens Room

One of our dearest friends brought us this T shirt back from a recent trip to New York and it reminded us how much we love the Golden girls. You can still catch re-runs on You Tube or cable. We love the… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 4, 2009

Simple Pleasures: Come dine with me

By The Womens Room

Probably more of a guilty pleasure as we shouldn't really be watching TV at 5.30 in the evening, but Come dine with me, is essential viewing. Five Amateur chefs attempt to wow each other with their culinary skills in order to… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 3, 2009

We Love: London and The Big Picture blog

By The Womens Room

St Pauls from the air by Jason Hawkes The Women’s Room is proudly based in London, which even after nearly a quarter of a century of crowded tube travel, the congestion charge, complicated recycling rules, extortionate cappuccino prices,… 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

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

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

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

Home & GardenJanuary 4, 2009

Don’t spend, Sow!

By Amanda

Gardening, said a mate, is just like John Lewis, something you really only appreciate when you reach 40. Gardeners know just how fabulous it feels to grow flowers and veg from seed, it teaches us patience and an afternoon spent… 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

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

Home & GardenDecember 13, 2008

Martha moments: drying roses in the Aga

By Amanda

An impossibly smug posting here for all Aga owners (sorry). I discovered today that the warming (or simmering in the two door version) oven on my Aga dries roses to perfection. Cut the rose heads off the stems before… Read More

Food, Home & Garden, We Are ReadingDecember 9, 2008

The Kitchen Revolution

By Amanda

Being busy working women with families to feed, we are always looking for short cuts to brilliant meals here at The Women’s Room and consequently got very excited when one of our readers from deepest darkest Wales (thanks Lindsey)… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 7, 2008

The Women’s Room Christmas cake: ready to ice!

By Amanda

For those of you making the Christmas cake, we are ready to ice! You may have your own preferred Christmas ritual for decorating your cake. Some families have plastic snowmen and Santa figures which are carefully stored away to… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 5, 2008

The Women’s Room Christmas cake: time for the brandy

By Amanda

If you’re making the Women’s Room Christmas cake, it’s time to feed the Christmas cake with a slug of brandy or rum. Unwrap the base of the cake with care and poke a few holes – five should… 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 29, 2008

The Women’s Room Christmas cake: time to cook

By Amanda

Ok, time to make the cake. Take the fruit out of the fridge an hour before you need it, so it reaches room temperature and turn on the oven to 150c, gas 2. Prepare the cake tin as instructed on previous… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 29, 2008

Simple Pleasures: It’s official, I’m a Simplifier

By Amanda

Thanks to Moschino for this picture of its wIndow display News today from the esteemed Harvard Business School, which states that us boomers (people born between 1945 -1964) are keen to simplify our lives because we have too much… 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

Home & GardenNovember 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

By Amanda

The Women’s Room would like to wish all its American readers a happy Thanksgiving. May all your turkeys and pumpkin pies be large and tasty. Thanksgiving also gives us the chance to talk about one of our favourite… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 25, 2008

The Women’s Room Christmas cake:prepare the tin

By Amanda

Have you remembered to stir the soaking Christmas cake fruit? It should be plumping up nicely by now and smelling faintly Christmasy. The fruit can be used after 24 hours soaking but a superior cake is the result of… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 23, 2008

The Women’s Room Christmas cake: begining

By Amanda

This is our very favourite Christmas cake recipe, picked up from one of those Waitrose recipe cards a few years ago now, but the best one we’ve ever come across. And we know our cake here at the Women’s Room.… 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

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