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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

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

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

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

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

Home & GardenFebruary 8, 2010

We love: The Dog and the Wardrobe

By Jane

We have yet another New Favourite Part of London, the area around Broadway Market in Hackney, where we went this week to visit The Dog and the Wardrobe, a props and furniture store tucked away in Regent Studios on Andrew’s… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 17, 2009

We love: crochetdermy

By The Womens Room

I have been stalking eBay for weeks now, in the quest for a stags head. The teens are disgusted and think I have finally gone completely mad. The swan collection has taken over the mantelpiece and I fear taxidermy… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 16, 2009

We love: Christmas decorations

By The Womens Room

Teenage sons and I hung our Christmas decorations yesterday. Decorations are not surprisingly, my domain and I usually run the show, dictating colour schemes and general style. However, this year I felt a wee bit sidelined due to middle and youngest son… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 11, 2009

Readers kitchens: Adelle from H for Home

By The Womens Room

Who: Adelle & Justin, co-owners of online shop H is for Home – and ‘Fudge’ of course – our 4 year old Weimaraner. Where: Todmorden, a small town situated in the Pennines – on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border. The house was built… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenDecember 9, 2009

Simple pleasures: curated shelves

By The Womens Room

It seems that not everyone spends ages curating their shelves, which seems strange to us! Isn't it just a given that the things around your house need to be arranged into complimentary groups, either by theme and/or colour? I recently realised… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 8, 2009

We love: Japanese stationery

By The Womens Room

Two fabulous bits of stationery picked up this week in Tokyo, where half of TWR was with the day job. No one does stationery like the Japanese, and whenever we are lucky enough to go there we stock up like… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 7, 2009

Readers kitchens: Ms Marmitelover

By The Womens Room

Who: Ms Marmitelover Where: Kilburn What do you do in your kitchen and who with? I cook for The Underground Restaurant, a restaurant I started in my living room. I am one of the pioneers and leading lights of this… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 5, 2009

Simple pleasures: hand written instructions

By The Womens Room

I was clearing out the attic the other day and came across an old cookery book I had bought at a car boot sale. Inside, was a Polaroid taken at a shoot I styled many moons ago (how dated the… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 4, 2009

The Women’s Room guide to: biscuits and chocolate in Brussels.

By The Womens Room

Antique chocolate praline moulds at Planete Chocolat in Brussels You practically fall over chocolate and biscuit shops in Brussels and It’s amazing that everyone who lives there isn’t the size of a house. After a day spent shopping in Brussels I’ve concluded… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 3, 2009

We love: birds for Christmas

By The Womens Room

We came across this amazing window display in Bahasa on Columbia Road recently, and loved their original take on decorating for Christmas. The tiny plastic birds are covered in real feathers and make a bold statement when grouped together, perched… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 29, 2009

We love: make do and mend at 40 Winks

By The Womens Room

We spent a really enjoyable evening last week with Bea and Clarie, the women behind Make Do and Mend. They invited journalists and bloggers along to the amazing 40 Winks Hotel to sample some crafts and launch their creative workshops. We… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 23, 2009

We love: flower arranging

By The Womens Room

As you know we love Columbia Road flower market and love to have fresh flowers in our house. So this Sunday we were delighted to discover artist/flower arranger Rebecca Louise Law, exhibiting at one of our favourite cafes on Columbia Road, The… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 22, 2009

Christmas cooking: making the pudding

By The Womens Room

The most complicated thing about making Christmas pudding is remembering everything that goes in it. For some reason anything to do with Christmas requires twice as many ingredients as a normal food project, so with this recipe I found it was best to… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 20, 2009

Christmas cooking: the shopping list

By The Womens Room

This Sunday we will be doing our Christmas pudding….after the success of last years Christmas cake (recipe here if you want to do that again this year…anyone have good pictures of last year's cake they want to show us?) we've… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenNovember 19, 2009

Shopping with experts: alternative Christmas shopping

By The Womens Room

This year we have two rules regarding Christmas shopping; we are only going to buy really interesting, original presents and we are not going to be shopping on the high street. This doesn't entirely rule out our favourite departments stores… Read More

Health & Happiness, Home & GardenNovember 14, 2009

Simple pleasures: a nice pencil

By The Womens Room

Felissimo's 500 pencils are issued at 25 a month over 20 months Nerdy? Us? Only when it comes to stationery. Our nice friends at Howies pointed out this beautifully presented blog penciltalk.org on all things pencil related and now it's… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 13, 2009

Readers Kitchens: Carol from Stoke Newington

By The Womens Room

Who: Design director, Carol Where: Stoke Newington, North London What do you do in your kitchen and who with? I watch my husband cook and play table tennis with my two children. I love the fact it's big enough to… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutNovember 12, 2009

We love: the Marmite pop up store

By The Womens Room

At the bottom of Regent Street, close to Piccadilly Circus, there is a tiny pop up store dedicated entirely to Marmite. We both love (Amanda) and hate (Jane) Marmite here at The Women's Room, so we'll be sticking labels on both sides… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutNovember 10, 2009

Hanging out with the girls at Tobias and the Angel

By The Womens Room

A selection of the Christmas fairies from Tobias and the Angel A few years ago I spent a rediculous amount of money on a hand made Christmas fairy to hang on our tree. I got it from Tobias and The Angel in… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 30, 2009

We Love: Halloween decorating

By The Womens Room

All images from Martha Stewart We love decorating the house for Halloween almost as much as we do for Christmas. There's a little bit of competition in our community to see who has the most elaborately decorated house and I… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 25, 2009

Martha moments: Pumpkins

By The Womens Room

Dean & Delucca display of giant pumpkins in SoHo New York It's clearly a very US orientated week this week, what with our New New Yorker posts on what it's like to live in the big apple and the arrival… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 23, 2009

We love: Muji crockery

By The Womens Room

Muiji's new crockery ranges include the chic Hasami range and new additions to Hajuki After nearly 30 years of amassing furniture, crockery, art, and other household stuff, Middleagedad would happily sell the lot on ebay and start again. He has… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 19, 2009

The Women’s Room review of: Frieze (part two)

By The Womens Room

So, for us, the two highlights of Frieze were only slightly connected with art. Firstly, the food at this fancy fair is a cut above normal exhibitions, we stopped for a cake at Gail's artisan bakery and were overwhelmed with… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenOctober 15, 2009

We love:Dominic Wilcox

By The Womens Room

One of Dominic Wilcox's lovely modern ink stamps On the eve of the fancy London art fair Frieze, the Women's Room would like to bring you our own top tip on an artist we love. His name is Dominic Wilcox and… Read More