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Fashion & BeautyApril 22, 2010

Streetstyle: Italian older women

By The Womens Room

Both halves of the Womens Room have been traveling this week, Amanda on holiday, somewhere impossibly glamorous (Mustique, if you must know) and I have been in Milan at Saloni (formerly known as the Milan Furniture Fair). In between perusing… Read More

Home & GardenApril 21, 2010

Shopping with experts: more clever gadgets…

By The Womens Room

While we are on the subject of clever gadgets such as underwater cameras (Monday), this is pretty nifty too, It's a USB stick with a space in the side to stick in a digital camera memory card. It's official techie… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 20, 2010

Hot news from the beach: cowboy hats

By The Womens Room

One half of TWR has been stranded on a beach this week and at the moment it looks as if it might be a while before we get off it and back to real life. But ever vigilante, we… Read More

Out & AboutApril 19, 2010

Shopping with experts: the Vivitar underwater camera

By The Womens Room

A brilliant buy for our holiday this month has been the Vivitar Vivicam 5399 underwater digital camera, organised by Middleagedad (who is officially 'in charge' of gadgets like this). It's a normal digital camera capeable of taking very good quality hi resolution pics… Read More

Health & HappinessApril 18, 2010

We love: ooh.com

By The Womens Room

We are well aware that we can be a little London centric at times. We have lots of readers all over the Uk and in fact the world, so it might be frustrating at times when we draw attention to… Read More

Art & CultureApril 17, 2010

We love: Anais Mitchell

By The Womens Room

A long time ago we got to know a struggling but utterly charming young musician called Anais, who on one of her tours around the UK (she's from Vermont in the US) detoured to our house and gave a concert… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 16, 2010

We love: nail art

By The Womens Room

It's really easy as one gets older to get stuck in somewhat of a rut, regarding hair and make up. Its easy to stick to what you think suits you and what you feel comfortable with. But sometimes trying something… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 15, 2010

My favourite dress: Amanda’s Jaeger kimono shift

By The Womens Room

A week or so ago we were reading comments from TWR reader Cathy about her favourite Ally Capellino dress. Jane thought it would be a great idea to feature our favourite dresses, and get our readers to send us in their's… Read More

Out & AboutApril 14, 2010

Shopping with experts: Bicester Village

By The Womens Room

Bicester Village on the edge of the Cotswolds is a discount shopping mall with a difference. It's like a mini Bond St meets The Trueman Show, chocked full of wood clad, designer shops, set in a pedestrian street that wouldn't… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutApril 13, 2010

We love: Wonderful Workshops in Jaipur

By The Womens Room

Our freshly made mung bean dumplings and chapattis drying in the sun on old saris. A couple of years ago, I treated myself to a trip to Jaipur with the Wonderful Workshops crew. We had a magical week of learning… Read More

Home & GardenApril 12, 2010

We love: The School of Stuff

By The Womens Room

We love anything that takes us outside of our comfort zone and helps us learn a new skill, especially if it's craft related. Remember we told you a while ago about The School of Life? Well here is another interesting… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 11, 2010

We love: Miss Rae Jones, now available to buy online

By The Womens Room

We’ve talked about our friend Rachel before, she designs lovely shoes, which until now you’ve had to work quite hard to buy. Now she’s got her act together and launched the website, everyone can play. Amanda has bought these baby… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 10, 2010

Style icon: Vera Neumann

By The Womens Room

We came across a lovely book about print designer Vera Neumann recently and have been intrigued by her ever since. Described as an unlikely revolutionary, Vera's print designs were everywhere in the 1960's and her influence is still very much… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 9, 2010

Simple pleasures: a bit of wicker

By The Womens Room

The sun is out, we are thinking about summer clothes and naturally all thoughts turn to wicker. We are total suckers for a bit of wicker here at TWR and we were rather taken with this sweet woven handbag at… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 8, 2010

OK I admit it: I like Boden!

By The Womens Room

In the fickle world of fashion there is a strict code of conduct when it comes to acceptable brands. It used to be ok to like Primark, when it was an undiscovered, fashion insiders secret. ‘Yes it was only £2… Read More

Home & GardenApril 7, 2010

We love: Dr. Beckmann’s emergency services for botched washing

By The Womens Room

Proof comes this week that the washing instruction labels retailers manage to put in REALLY ANNOYING places on clothes are a total waste of time. According to cleaning specialist Dr. Beckmann research shows that 73% of the population never read the labels before… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 6, 2010

We love: 30 years of Ally Capellino

By The Womens Room

Ally Capellino is one of our favourite accessory designers. Her beautiful leather bags and accessories are ageless, design classics that get better and better with age and are well worth every penny (they are not cheap). This month the company… Read More

Home & GardenApril 5, 2010

Martha moments: jelly eggs for Easter (or perhaps not….)

By The Womens Room

As regular readers will know, we're keen on craft stuff here at TWR and worship at the alter of ex jailbird Martha Stewart's home idea-stuffed website. So much so that we have named our Martha Moments feature after her.… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutApril 4, 2010

We love: Sketchbook pop up shop

By The Womens Room

Sketchbook is a quarterly magazine which showcases established and emerging creative talents in fashion, design and culture. The editor, Wafa Alobaidat, describes the magazine as 'part portfolio, part character sketch and filled with lots of fashion/art/culture tidbits in between'. We… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 3, 2010

TWR Streetshot: Kate in Las Vegas

By The Womens Room

Kate is someone we see a couple of times a year when we're visiting trade shows in the US with the day job and whenever we see her she always looks great. Here she's wearing an Anthropologie cardigan from last… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 2, 2010

Style Icon: Grace Kelly

By The Womens Room

It goes without saying that Grace Kelly is a style icon. Once labeled by Vogue as 'remote as a snow Queen', there is no doubt her timeless style and natural glamour is as aspirational now, as it ever was. The… Read More

Middle Aged MumApril 1, 2010

Middleagemum.com: no I can’t remember my f***ing password

By The Womens Room

I am on the phone, being an efficient and well organised soul and letting my credit card company know that I will be going abroad, spending dollars rather than pounds, so please don't stop the card, I am not a… Read More

Middle Aged MumMarch 31, 2010

Middleagedmum.com: What’s it all about?

By The Womens Room

The news last week was full of the hideous story of the 15 year old boy stabbed to death at Victoria Station at 4pm. The fact it was so early and so public, made everyone sit up and take notice.… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 30, 2010

Quilt envy 2: The V&A exhibition

By The Womens Room

Ok, promise this is the last post for a while on quilts, but we're finishing on a high with the V&A exhibition Quilts 1700-2010. TWR went to this with our mate Belinda (who is a knitting guru and therefore knowledgeable… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 29, 2010

R.I.P Elspeth Thompson

By The Womens Room

We are really sad to hear that one of our favourite writers and bloggers, Elspeth Thompson has died at the age of 48. We have followed Elspeth's work for years, sharing her experiences of cultivating two unruly London allotments and… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutMarch 28, 2010

Shopping with experts: Liberty and Target

By The Womens Room

The trees on the wall have tiny stuffed birds stuck to them, which look like they are about to burst into song We love both Liberty and Target, the US based mass market value retailer, so when the two announced… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMarch 27, 2010

WR streetstyle: Sarah

By The Womens Room

We love street style blogs and reference them all the time for our day jobs, but we're a little bit tired of rarely spotting anyone over 25 on them. Apart from Advanced Style, Mr Mort and The Sartorialist, older stylish… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutMarch 26, 2010

Quilt envy: The Jen Jones Welsh Quilt Centre

By The Womens Room

So, as we mentioned previously, it's an exciting time for us nerdy quilters, what with the V&A exhibition breaking all box office records for advanced sales and fab new books on the subject springing up all over the place (see… Read More

Art & CultureMarch 25, 2010

We love: Unhappy hipsters

By The Womens Room

While we are big fans of fabulously stylish interiors, we are also aware that perfection in our homes is more of an aspiration than a reality, as annoying things like work, family, pets and real life sometimes get in… Read More

UncategorizedMarch 19, 2010

Middleagedmum.com: Where are the role models?

By Jane

A whole day on the sofa with teen daughter (she’s sick too) and virtually no energy to argue about viewing choices, means I have spent a day in the world of the 21st century teenager. Well, a day in the… Read More