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Fashion & BeautyAugust 22, 2012

We love: Susannah Hunter bags

By Amanda

Tucked away at the top of Lamb’s Conduit Street, which is fast becoming my favourite shopping destinations in London, is the Susannah Hunter handbag store. As you walk passed the doorway an irresistible waft of rich, leathery perfume drifts out… Read More

Things We LoveAugust 22, 2012

Herb scissors by Mastrad

By Amanda

Genius scissors with five blades for cutting up herbs, work brilliantly and reasonably priced at £9.95. Available from Amazon here… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 21, 2012

The Women’s Room at Pure London

By Amanda

We are back from our holidays tomorrow, but if you are visiting Pure London’s fashion event today, do look us up at 2.15 when Amanda is hosting a panel discussion on how to reach out to the 40 plus fashionable… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 7, 2012

The Women’s Room live! at Pure London

By Amanda

The Women’s Room has been asked by those nice people at Pure London to host a panel discussion on Reaching Out To Fashionable 40plus Women Online, exciting eh? We have an extremely interesting group of panelists to talk with; Karen… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 6, 2012

Style Icons: Laurie Anderson

By Amanda

I am (once again) slow to the party, this time on loving Laurie Anderson, where have I been? Middleagedad took me to see her Dirtday! performance at the South Bank on Friday, as part of Anthony’s Meltdown. Apart from O… Read More

Out & AboutAugust 4, 2012

Shop love: Objects of Use

By Amanda

We are indebted to TWR reader Ros Hough for her heads up on this lovely shop in Oxford, Objects of Use (not to be confused with this one we wrote about earlier) . It’s a beautiful shop selling posh basics,… Read More

Things We LoveAugust 2, 2012

Notebook round up, the V&A and Letts

By Amanda

We’ve seen some rather lovely notebooks over the last week worth mentioning. Starting with the beautiful, textile inspired V&A notebooks above. Not only do these notebooks have beautiful covers, but the paper is a good quality too. We spoke to… Read More

Fashion & BeautyAugust 2, 2012

We love: illustrated and signed product

By Amanda

So this is an interesting mini trend, illustrating and signing beauty products to make them that little bit more special. I first noticed this earlier this year when customers queued up to get Jo Malone to sign the bottles of… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingAugust 2, 2012

The Perfume Lover by Denyse Beaulieu

By Amanda

Fessing up, I haven’t actually read this, but I met the charming Ms Beaulieu and heard a bit about the story featured in this book at the launch of (sort-of) her L’Artisan Parfumeur perfume Seville a L’Aube in the London… Read More

Middle Aged MumJuly 31, 2012

Middleagemum.com: changes to home services during the Olympics

By Amanda

Due to unexpected enthusiasm for watching The Olympics by the household management, usual home rules are being updated for the duration. It is hoped that normal services will be resumed after the Paralympics, but only if they don’t interfere with… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 29, 2012

Vintage love: Skinny Rich Fairies

By Amanda

We met Julia Craig at the Hammersmith Vintage Fair recently and were pretty wowed by her customised vintage clothing for her new range Skinny Rich Fairies, a collection Stevie Nicks might get excited about. Julia is a regular stall holder… Read More

Things We LoveJuly 27, 2012

Clinique’s Chubby lip colour balm

By Amanda

I’m very slow to the party on this product, you probably all know about this little super-mosturising lip colour balm stick ( knowledgable beauty people rave about them) but just in case you don’t…. Clinique’s chubby range is lipstick perfection… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 27, 2012

We love: The knitted Olympics

By Amanda

We are full of excitement here at TWR about tonight’s opening ceremony and wish Team GB the very best as the Olympics kick off this evening. London’s retail store windows have been amazingly creative with their Olympic displays, but frankly… Read More

Fashion, We Are ReadingJuly 25, 2012

The Ambassador Magazine by Breward & Wilcox

By Amanda

One for the fashion crew, particularly any one who is interested in the history of British magazine and textile publishing, this is what the V&A says about the book, “The Ambassador has been described as ‘probably the most daring and… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 25, 2012

The Women’s Room fantasy store design

By Amanda

So, as well as designing the clothes for our fantasy TWR range, we thought it would be good to show you what the fantasy store might look like too, after all we have had many moans about who’s doing it… Read More

Things We LoveJuly 23, 2012

Blackwing pencils at Pedlars

By Amanda

Just checking that all you stationery enthusiasts know that the iconic Blackwing 602 pencil is now back from the brink of disappearing and is available to buy from Pedlars? You will all know of course that the original 602 pencil… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 23, 2012

Street shot style: Forte dei Marmi

By Amanda

OK ladies, last of the Italian street style shots comes from possibly the most glamourous Italian beach resort ever, Forte dei Marmi, where everyone is gorgeous and quite rich (it’s a stonkingly expensive place to visit) so we’re in a… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 21, 2012

Street style shots: Lucca Italy

By Amanda

Back on the streets of Lucca….today’s post looks at the way Italian women can rock an elegant sundress…..such as the two ladies above. I am tempted by those flat tan loafers on the right, there are lots of shops selling… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 19, 2012

Street style shots: Lucca, Italy

By Amanda

So, back in Lucca at the flea market. Both stall holders and visitors were a fantastic source of style inspiration, over the next couple of posts I’ll show you a few of my favourites. We’ve had a number of emails… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJuly 17, 2012

Style icons: Dame Vivienne Westwood and me at the Lucca flea market, sort of…

By Amanda

Nothing excites a fashion girl more than discovering that by coincidence or (ahem) good judgement you happen to be scouring the same flea market as one of your sartorial heros. Particularly if you’re in another country. So when Middleagedad nudged… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 15, 2012

This month I have mostly been instagraming….

By Amanda

We hope you are following us on Instagram (we’re The Women’s Room) we’re loving it’s uplifting visual photo-flow of images, admittedly there’s a lot of pictures of dogs and cakes, but really that’s what makes us smile. You might like… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 13, 2012

Betty & Walter at Boots, (move over Cath Kidston…..)

By Amanda

We have been getting sneak peaks at autumn beauty and gift ranges this week, since we’re over summer in retail (see Jane’s rant) and everyone’s thinking Christmas (although to be honest, the weather HAS helped get us in the… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 11, 2012

Jo Malone and Thrive’s Old English Garden in Battersea Park

By Amanda

Jo Malone Limited and the gardening charity Thrive’s Old English Garden in Battersea Park is a newly refurbished, fragrant floral retreat waiting to be discovered. You must go if you are a garden fan. The fragrance company has funded the… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 9, 2012

Stationery seduction with Martha Stewart: Home Office is launched through Staples

By Amanda

Break out the bunting again, Martha Stewart has arrived in the UK at last! You know we love craft-queen Martha; ever since we were seduced by the beautiful images in her Martha Stewart Living magazines in the early 90s, we’ve… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 7, 2012

The best of RHS Hampton Court Flower Show

By Amanda

Here’s a quick overview of other beautiful gardens and plants I saw at RHS Hampton Court Flower Show on Tuesday, including the perfect office for a freelancer, above. Trends spotted included plants for damp places….ferns, tree ferns and mosses which… Read More

Things We LoveJuly 5, 2012

Bobbi Brown Desert Twilight eye palette

By Amanda

In terms of eye shades, I buy a new colour about once a decade, and it’s almost always shades of neutral. I watch in wonder as others do amazing things with cornflower blue, smokey purples and even neons, but… Read More

Out & AboutJuly 5, 2012

Gold stars for the Edible Bus Stop at Hampton Court Flower Show

By Amanda

A while ago we wrote about the enthusiastic Mak Gilchrist and The Edible Bus Stop scheme, an idea for brightening up her street and getting her community to garden with her around their local bus stop. A year (and those… Read More

Health & HappinessJuly 3, 2012

Suffering for beautiful skin: the Philips ReAura again

By Amanda

You may remember I tried the new Philips ReAura laser recently, and wrote about it here. A funny thing happened after I finished, despite me writing about how much it hurt and how I didn’t think I looked that different,… Read More

Things We LoveJuly 1, 2012

Crane scissors for sewers

By Amanda

I found these elegant little gold crane scissors when wandering around the V&A shop, which is one of my favourite places to potter in the museum. They are so pretty, and chic, they’d make a great present for any… Read More

Art & CultureJuly 1, 2012

Finding something good from something sad: Lists Of Note

By Amanda

For me this week was a lot about being sad, due to the departure of the wonderful writer Nora Ephron, she who wrote the screenplay of When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and books you never want to end… Read More