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Home & GardenOctober 6, 2011

Feel good TV: The Great British Bake off

By Jane

A programme that makes you feel tense and gives you goose bumps has to be must see tv and if it involves cake, then even better. Over the last eight weeks, Tuesdays have all been all about the Great British… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 1, 2011

More about Moths: Angela Flanders Moth repellent

By Amanda

When we were at the wonderful Fashion Fantasia last week, we met Angela Flanders (who is Kate’s mum), purveyor of gorgeous perfumes and….moth repellent. Now, you know how we feel about moths, so when we spotted the above notice in… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 27, 2011

We love: Falcon enamelware in Christmas red

By Amanda

Anyone who went to the London Design Festival this weekend might have visited the Falcon enamelware pop up shop in The Tramshed. We are rather fond of this bakeware in a retro-fabulous way, I have a number of the baking… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 25, 2011

What a difference a year makes: student friendly chocolate cake

By Amanda

Goodness what a difference an academic year makes. This time last year we were learning to let go of middleteen as he went nervously on his way to university. This year he is driving himself back, has stripped our house… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 18, 2011

John Lewis: nostalgia for our generation

By Jane

John Lewis get it right yet again, as they target their core customers, us fortysomethings for whom sophisticated technology meant a eight track and a Sony Walkman! Just the right combination of emotion and nostalgia (that Black Beauty theme tune… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 11, 2011

Westfield/Eastfield Stratford

By Jane

So the new Westield shopping centre opens in Stratford on Tuesday and if you are an Eastender like me this may or may not be good news, depending on what you think of shopping malls. Personally I am not a… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 30, 2011

Martha Moments: Patchwork quilts from old jumpers

By Amanda

While we are talking about sewing and craft (see posts below) I thought you might like to see how the quilt made from redundant shirts, felted up jumpers and old T shirts came out. I talked about how I intended… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 23, 2011

Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple

By Jane

Having spent the weekend eating delicious meals made by my sister in law, I have come to the conclusion I have to up my game on the cooking front. Having become lazy and uninterested, largely due to having a vegetarian… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 18, 2011

We love: The Catorialist

By Amanda

In our frequent talk of dogs on TWR we could be accused of ignoring the feline world, which we don’t want to do as both Jane and I own beautiful cats (Jane’s two colour co -ordinate with her decking and… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 11, 2011

Sew yourself an iPhone cover!

By Jane

Amanda and I love our iPhones and are always on the look out for nice covers. I love this one I spotted on the great design blog, Design Milk, as it combine technology and craft, two of our favourite things!… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 8, 2011

Layer Cake, Cake Pops and Dr Oetker

By Amanda

Last week the very nice people from Dr Oetker sent us a pile of baking treats to play with and youngest teen got excited about our blog for the very first time (he is a very keen baker)… “What. you… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 6, 2011

A field of dreams at Barcroft Hall

By Amanda

Wild flower planting at its most creative at Barcroft Hall in Somerset, where over 57 varieties of seed have been sown on a disused two acre field on the estate of Denise and Brian Herrick, resulting in this beautiful mass… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 3, 2011

Horrockses bed linen

By Jane

The Horrockses exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum last year, was one of our all time favourites. The 40’s and 50’s bright cotton prints inspired many of this Spring Summers fashion ranges including the Wallis 1923 dress collection. We… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 23, 2011

Sainsbury’s fabulous knives and shears

By Amanda

So, Sainsbury’s. Not perhaps the first name that comes to mind when considering brilliant kitchen knives. We thought that too, until we saw these fabulous examples of knives and shears from the Cooks Collection at the Sainsbury’s Christmas press day… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 21, 2011

Fedor van der Valk’s String Gardens

By Amanda

Cool gardens now hang, or grow up walls, it appears. I am a big fan of ‘green wall’ gardens, such as you can see in the Anthropologie store in Regent Street, which still looks lovely some 18 months after being… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 16, 2011

Gojee: recipes curated for you

By Jane

Since having children and a husband who’s idea of a meal is a bowl of Weetabix (he does do washing though, so I forgive him) I have lost my interest in cooking. Day to day cooking for kids can… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 15, 2011

Martha Moments: the fluffy ribbon bow

By Amanda

Continuing our Martha Stewart inspired craft lessons, we bring you the fluffy present bow. We learnt this at a Harrods masterclass on wrapping presents (yes, we’re still doing Christmas in July) and as TWR reader @cesca_muston, who was also at… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 13, 2011

Christmas trends: the knitted nativity

By Amanda

This week and last, Jane and I have been viewing Christmas themes from retailers, I know that sounds mad (it’s because of the lead times for magazines) and normally we wouldn’t start posting about what we’d seen until about October… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 6, 2011

Book reviewers wanted

By Jane

Since we decided to add more books to our We Are Reading, section of the site, we have been inundated with publishers sending us books to review. Much as we love reading, there are only so many hours in the… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 3, 2011

Scoff this: Rococo cat & dog chocolates

By Amanda

Last week Jane and I got to meet the original queen of chocolate, Chantal Coady, who started Rococo Chocolates, her artisan chocolate store on the Kings Road way back in 1983, years before all the other chocolate-Johnny-come-latelys got in on… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 1, 2011

Moth frenzy update: Vacu-packed clothes

By Amanda

Since it is now officially summer in the UK it is time to think anti-moth storage strategies. Oh you may mock, but those with experience of moth infestations will know this is DANGER TIME, when the little pests increase their… Read More

Home & GardenJune 24, 2011

We love: Miette Bakery

By Jane

If this charming film doesn’t have you reaching for the ingredients to make a cake, nothing will. Thanks to food writer Debora Robertson for alerting us to the wonderful world of Miette, San Franciscos most charming cake shop. Owner Meg… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutJune 6, 2011

We love: All things Scandi

By Jane

I have had a crush on all things Scandinavian for some time now, particularly Scandi food. It started with a visit to Copenhagen some time ago, where I was very taken with the amazing outdoor lifestyle, beautiful people and delicious… Read More

Home & GardenJune 4, 2011

Simple Pleasures: Beet cake

By Jane

The internet is changing the way we do almost everything, including cooking. It’s so easy to Google a recipe, one wonders about the future of the cook book. I recently bought an iPad and find it indispensable in the kitchen… Read More

Home & GardenMay 30, 2011

More garden snooping: Chiswick Mall open gardens.

By Amanda

Chiswick Mall is one of the most beautiful, hidden bits of residential London, with The Thames on one side (most of the gardens have a riverside section) and the M4 on the other. Many of the houses were built in… Read More

Home & GardenMay 14, 2011

Brilliant Blogs: Edible Geography

By The Womens Room

Photo from Ediblegeography.com Here at TWR we are getting excited about our imminent relaunch (yes, we know it's been a long time in the talking, we've been busy, right?) when we will be presenting a whole new look blog. Basically… Read More

Home & GardenMay 8, 2011

We love: Heal’s Reveals blog

By The Womens Room

The nice people over at Heal’s have kindly put us on the blogroll of their new blog, called Heal’s Reveals. We are very grateful as we are amongst good company (it’s a ‘carefully edited list that will inspire Heal’s… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & Garden, Out & AboutMay 6, 2011

Charity watch: Kids of Kathmandu

By The Womens Room

This seems a very stylish way to raise money for a worth while cause (and a little more up-market than the tea cosies, although we loved those too). The Kids of Kathmandu charity has organised a bunch of smart designers… Read More

Home & GardenMay 3, 2011

We love: Mel Made This

By The Womens Room

Using traditional upholstery techniques and vintage fabrics, Mel takes unwanted furniture and lamps and turns them into unique objects of desire. She started collecting vintage fabrics when she was a textiles student and started Mel Made This, after moving to… Read More

Home & GardenApril 30, 2011

Camera review: The Polaroid and The Bloggie

By The Womens Room

Do you think Kate and William have packed a good camera for their honeymoon? If they haven't yet, I can recommend the Polaroid camera I bought recently with my eBay stash. At £79 for the camera and about £9… Read More