Natural History: bird notebooks

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These are lovely hummingbird notebooks (£30) with stylish covers that might appeal to other stationery lovers like us. For bird appreciators you can pick from a variety of birds or bugs, if entomology is more your thing. They are from… Read More

We love: Suri’s Burn Book

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This is a wickedly un-PC post, it involves innocent children being mercilessly made fun of by another child, which is pretty much bullying, until you realise that the children belong to celebrities who are often hiking their kids around for… Read More

Green Retail in Japan

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Back to Tokyo and a quick look at some of the retail shops around the Shibuya and Omotosando areas, where ‘greening up’ the front of the store is very popular. Again it’s often done with small pots of plants, artfully… Read More

Suburban Japan

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I’ve been in Japan this week, working with  World Co as part of the day job. On a walk through suburban Tokyo I was struck by how, despite the small amount of space the average Japanese family has, they still… Read More

We love Whistles handbags

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Last week it was about spring, due to the press days and the general vibe is that clothes are really going ‘modern grown up’, with neat tailoring and gorgeous dresses, so good news for us. So far my favourite press… Read More

Frieze extras

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We had some nice comments left on the Frieze 2011 posts saying that you really liked to see our ‘street shots’ of  what real people are wearing, so I went back through our Frieze photos and sorted out a few… Read More

Boden’s jewellery

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For anyone needing to nudge a partner into Christmas present ideas, please feel free to print off this post and leave it lying around the house (highlighting, obvs, which ones you prefer) , should these Boden fine jewels fit the… Read More

Notions from Merchant & Mills

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Since we’re on Christmas present watch, we can speak very highly of the Notions Box from Merchant & Mills, which comes beautifully wrapped and contains little jewel boxes of treasure -well made haberdashery things- if you are a sewer. Non… Read More