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Home & GardenNovember 12, 2014

Boden and Bloom & Wild

By Amanda

Last week at the Boden Press day, it was all beautiful British blooms as the summer 2015 range is full to bursting with lovely floral prints and cheerful colour. Boden’s press day sets always look lovely, not having a chain… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 3, 2014

Botany E5

By Jane

Remember way back in 2013 I posted about the house plant revival – now everywhere you look there are cheese and rubber plants, catus’s and succulents. Well in London there are for sure and last week in New York I… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 14, 2014

HAY Vintage Pop Up: Rugspiration

By Jane

As I mentioned last week, Danish furniture brand HAY is my new favourite place. Their blend of original design and affordable prices is refreshing and something we could with more of in the UK. They are also excellent at staging… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 8, 2014

The Great Women’s Room Bake Off

By Jane

When we put together our White Company edit, we came up with the idea of a Women’s Room Bake off to showcase the rather lovely White Company cake stand. At the time it seems like a good idea and… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 6, 2014

Colour my weekend with the White Company

By Jane

When The White Company.asked us to take over their Blog last weekend I was a little thrown. While I love their minimal (white) approach, anyone who knows me in real life knows I love colour and vitally nothing in my… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 26, 2014

Hear this: Stay Gold, First Aid Kit

By Jane

One of the things I love about having teenagers around is swapping favourite new music. Teen son (who from now on will be known as TSS, – twenty something son) and I have have very similar taste – apart from… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 19, 2014

The Women’s Room’s best dinner party gifts

By Amanda

I’ve been meaning to write a post on dinner party gifts for ages, but because I don’t go/give that many (middleagedad has an ‘aversion’ you may remember…) I keep forgetting the level of sweat-inducing panic you can get into trying… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 18, 2014

Marni Flower Market pops up at Milan Fashion Week

By Jane

This month Marni starts a year long series of events to celebrate their 20th anniversary with a specially curated flower market during Milan Fashion week. The collaboration between Marni’s founder Consuelo Castiglioni, her daughter Carolina and curator Stefano Rabolli Pansera,… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 16, 2014

Hemsley Hemsley, The Art of Eating Well: a new way to cook

By Jane

When it comes to cooking I am always suspicious of two things. 1. A sweet snack/pudding that is offered up as “healthy” – as in my mind the two do not go together. If something is sweet and covered in… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 28, 2014

Summer harvest recipe: apple cake, using lots of apples

By Amanda

It’s been an amazing summer for fruit in my garden, I am staggering under mini mountains of plums, damsons, pears and apples. And our cherry tree gave us so much fruit we stopped weighing how much at 50lbs. Now what?… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 26, 2014

Readers Kitchens: Blending, Brewing and Blessing with Kristin Perers

By Amanda

We haven’t done a Readers Kitchens for ages, but when we visited the inspiring kitchen of photographer and This Is 50 blogger Kristin Perers, it was a no-brainer, it just HAD to go on the blog. Kristin is a vicar’s… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 22, 2014

Pattern Makers, Thinkers and Being Kind, with Starch Green

By Amanda

Today’s guest post is by our regular contributor and intrepid explorer of interesting people and crafts, Julia Little. Whether it’s a marriage or partnership, being together for half a lifetime or more is a challenge. I’m not sure what the… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 14, 2014

Rachel Vosper, candle chandler

By Amanda

This week I think I’m going to give everything up and become a candle chandler, and it’s all Rachel Vosper’s fault (above) Rachel invited us to a morning of candle making at her cute Kinnerton Street artisan workshop and store… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 9, 2014

Weekend Woman: Jenny Eclair

By Amanda

Jenny Eclair makes us laugh like drains on twitter and any other medium she makes a noise on. She’s a joyously realistic, super-observant, occasionally grumpy voice being properly funny about what it is to be a woman today. Nothing makes… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 6, 2014

A special treat for stationery geeks, the extraordinary Paul Antonio, scribe

By Amanda

Today’s post is for the stationery geeks and anyone who yearns for the scratchy sound of pen on paper and whose heart beats a little faster when they receive a beautiful hand written letter. Have you noticed how little you… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 4, 2014

The total joy of fabulous smelling linen, with the White Company

By Amanda

My love of fragrance is not restricted to the perfume you spray on yourself, I am equally obsessed with smell in the home and in particular, making everything tediously domestic such as washing liquids, floor cleaners and bedlinen smell delicious… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 18, 2014

Garden Inspiration for a sunny weekend

By Jane

Remember Amanda’s post on the wonderful house and gardens at Great Dixter. If like me you still haven’t managed to make the trip there, you might enjoy this lovely film from Nowness. The master of English horticulture, gardener Christopher Lloyd’s… Read More

Home & GardenJune 27, 2014

Badges to wear when you’re proud to be a knitter or crocheter, from True Brit Knits

By Amanda

I love these old school badges from True Brit Knits, they remind me of the ones I used to wear on my old school tie. Those badges were a weird thing, weren’t they? in some ways they were a a… Read More

Home & GardenJune 13, 2014

We love: organic edible flowers from Maddocks Farm

By Amanda

Middleagedad will only allow me to have one dinner party a year as he is not a fan of them. I think I might have put him off them right back when our sons were younger and we were busy… Read More

Home & GardenJune 2, 2014

Read this: Anthology, Style at Every Age

By Jane

Anthology is a refreshingly good read, in a magazine market saturated with celebrity obsessed trash and beautiful but “samey” lifestyle publications. Stunning images, nice paper and contemporary design doesn’t always make for really interesting features with people you’d actually like… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutMay 30, 2014

The Cocktail Gardener talks plant powered cocktails with The Women’s Room

By Amanda

Cocktails mixed with flowers and gardening? Does that sound like the perfect combination in our quest to learn how to mix an interesting cocktail? The delightfully grown up Lottie Muir is the Cocktail Gardener and we caught five minutes of… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenMay 26, 2014

Talking cashmere and moths with Angela Bell from Queene & Belle

By Amanda

I’ve all but given up buying cashmere due to moth issues here at the Barnes division of TWR, which is a shame because there are lovely sweaters around to tempt me, such as these delicious ones (below) from cashmere expert… Read More

Home & GardenMay 22, 2014

Messing about with flowers at Designers Guild with Thoughtful Flowers

By Amanda

I met two very stylish women at the Designer’s Guild store in The King’s Road this week, founder Tricia Guild (left above) and Juliet Glaves (right) of Thoughtful Flowers. Both are brilliant with colour and form and as a sort… Read More

Home & GardenMay 14, 2014

Partying away in A Pea Green Boat

By Amanda

It’s definitely party week here at TWR, or party prep anyway…. A lovely and very useful website has come to our attention from TWR reader Julia (did you read the excellent feature she wrote recently on Womenomics, using, ahem, us?).… Read More

Home & GardenMay 12, 2014

Summer decorating ideas

By Jane

There’s nothing I love more than a special occasion that requires major house decoration. In fact sometimes I think I enjoy the preparation more than the party itself. I’m always on the look out for interesting ideas and new companies,… Read More

Home & GardenMay 5, 2014

Succulents are having a moment!

By Jane

Succulents have long been firm favourites of mine. I love their weird almost Jurassic shapes and colours and the fact they need little or no attention. They grow like wildfire and are easy to divide up and re-distribute into a… Read More

Home & GardenApril 18, 2014

Mixing Easter cocktails with The Women’s Room

By Amanda

Forget chocolate, people, this Easter, we’re going to tell you how to make a couple of delicious gin based cocktails that will make the weekend go with a delightful sense of stylish merriment. Our recipes also give you an excuse… Read More

Home & GardenApril 16, 2014

The new BBC Antiques Roadshow Magazine, a cracking read

By Amanda

We know we have wonderful readers here at TWR, many of you do amazingly interesting jobs too. So when Anna Lambert, deputy editor of the new BBC Antiques Roadshow Magazine, wrote recently asking about the newsletter (yes we will be… Read More

Home & GardenApril 8, 2014

Trying to tie bouquets, with Jamie Aston and Benetton

By Amanda

Sometimes we get to do lovely things on TWR and being invited to florist workshops is one of the best, there’s just something really fab about being in a flower shop surrounded by all those fragrant blooms. But regardless of… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 28, 2014

Fashion & Gardens at The Garden Museum

By Jane

So who knew there was a garden museum in London? Not me, that’s for sure, but apparently there is. A self-funded museum which relies entirely on its visitors, the Museum’s garden was created in 1980 and is filled with flowers… Read More