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Home & GardenMarch 25, 2014

Cocktail shakers: the Mother’s Day present for grown up mums

By Amanda

Enough with the scented candles. As an alternative present for Mother’s Day, can I suggest you encourage your offspring to treat you to some really classy cocktail equipment? Regular readers will know that this year I aim to get you… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 14, 2014

Flowers for Mothers Day

By Jane

Whether you agree with Mothers Day or not (I veer between thinking it’s a commercial nonsense, to feeling hurt if no-one makes a fuss – contrary me?!) it’s tricky to think of original presents for 80 year old mums who… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 7, 2014

A burst of spring from Scented Narcissi and the Blue Box Flower Company

By Amanda

Spring landed firmly on my doorstep this week with a giant bunch of heavenly scented narcissi, from the nice people over at The Blue Box Flower Company, who are based on The Scilly Isles. Narcissi must be some of the… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 22, 2014

We love: The Secret Linen Store

By Amanda

This is interesting, The Secret Linen Store, a new bedlinen company launching entirely on line and aiming to produce top quality, nicely designed bedlinen at very good prices. We get daily emails here at TWR on new start ups and… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 17, 2014

Apartment Therapy House Tour

By Jane

Apartment Therapy is one of my favourite blogs for nosing around stylish peoples homes and picking up tips for my own interior decor. I recently agreed to have my house photographed as my friend and ex colleague Rebecca (of the … Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 6, 2014

More cocktails in 2014! Let’s start with Tipplesworth Travelling Cocktail Cases

By Amanda

We’re back! Happy New Year to you all, may it be a fun and full one. Regular readers will know we don’t do New Year’s Resolutions here on TWR, who has the time? And as someone older once said to… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 10, 2013

Christmas wreath inspiration: this year it’s all about green

By Amanda

I was working in New York last week and got the chance to look at some stores and what their clever visual merchandisers had done for holiday decorations. This year, it really is all about layered greens, with some really… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 29, 2013

Present wrapping inspiration with Helen Musselwhite and The White Company

By Amanda

When we attended The White Company’s Christmas press day, we met super-talented paper illustrator Helen Musselwhite, who had created an extraordinary world of fabulous paper pictures, sculptures and present wrapping decoration for the company. Her work is beautifully detailed and… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingNovember 28, 2013

The Kinfolk Table, Hole & Corner and the aged issue

By Jane

After my post (rant) earlier in the week about re-branding feminism and women’s magazines, I thought it might be time to highlight some magazines that are doing things differently. Kinfolk Magazine calls itself “a blueprint for a balanced, intentional lifestyle”… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 30, 2013

Advent Calendars For Grown Up Girls

By Amanda

Sod the children, advent calendars are a great way for grown up girls to get through the painful, never ending-ly social month of December. Forget chocolate-filled windows excitingly opened daily by tiny fingers (or as happened in our house, the… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 29, 2013

Halloween food inspiration

By Jane

British consumers are spending more on Halloween merchandise than ever and it’s contending with Valentine’s Day to be the biggest event after Christmas and Easter. A decade ago, consumer spending on Halloween in the UK amounted to £12m, but it… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 28, 2013

We Love: Food 52

By Amanda

Last week my half of TWR was celebrating our last autumn half term ever (youngestson’s last year at school) by taking a short holiday in New York. As well as eating ourselves two sizes fatter, I got the chance to… Read More

Home & GardenOctober 16, 2013

We are Five! Happy Birthday everyone!

By Amanda

Blimey, time goes fast in the blogging world….Happy Birthday to us because we are five years old this week! Our first blogpost went up on October 13 2008, sounding positively upbeat just as the economic world crashed around our ears… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 27, 2013

New Paint ranges from Mr & Mrs Smith and Liberty

By Jane

As someone who predicts colour for a living I find looking for colours to paint my house surprisingly confusing. Not only do you have to please “other halves” (although I have trained mine over the years to concede to my… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 17, 2013

Witches are the new Vampires

By Jane

If you are already worrying about what you are going to do when Breaking Bad finally ends for ever (how good was it last night? I actually gasped – twice!), you might want to take a look at American Horror… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 16, 2013

Buy this: Sugru

By Amanda

A quick post this morning to ensure you all know about the marvellous multi-fixing thing that is Sugru. I could have you all wrong and you may all have loads of it in your cupboards already. My hunch is that… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 22, 2013

Alastair Hendy’s Homestore in Hastings, experential retail at its best

By Amanda

What is it with the Hastings/Rye area that encourages such wonderful stores? Last week it was Merchant & Mills from Rye, and while there Carolyn tipped me off about Alastair Hendy’s amazing Homestore in Hastings. It was another ‘bucket of… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenAugust 14, 2013

A visit to Merchant & Mills in Rye

By Amanda

We’ve written about the wonderful haberdashery and sewing brand Merchant & Mills before, but last week while on a trip to Rye I got to visit the shop and readers, Middleagedad nearly had to throw a bucket of cold water… Read More

Home & GardenAugust 13, 2013

We love: The Meringue Girls

By Jane

Pavlova has become my signature dish for special occasions – I just adore that sweet combo of sugar, cream and fruit – and given the choice, would always choose a meringue over an eclair Ottolenghi championed the return of the… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 23, 2013

Smartening up your outside living at Gudrun Sjödén

By Amanda

The weather is making me look at areas of my house and home that I’ve been able to cheerfully neglect over the last few dismal summers. I’ve got garden chairs on the brink of collapse and plastic plates bought at… Read More

Home & GardenJune 21, 2013

Bedlinen care with The White Company

By Amanda

Last week we talked to Vanessa Hurley-Perera, head buyer for bedlinen at The White Company and discovered that she has slightly OCD tendencies when it comes to bedlinen…which only endeared us too her more and of course, makes her a… Read More

Home & GardenJune 15, 2013

Happy World Gin Day!

By Amanda

We couldn’t let World Gin Day go by without a comment. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve switched to gin from wine, which has been making me feel a bit poisoned of late (I’m blaming the menopause). Gin is definitely having… Read More

Home & GardenJune 13, 2013

Learning about Bedlinen with The White Company

By Amanda

Continuing our mini theme of finding the best bedlinen out there, I got the chance last week to interview the fabulously knowledgable Vanessa Hurley-Perera, The White Company’s bedlinen buyer and all round fabric geek. She demonstrated a nerdy OCD-ness about… Read More

Home & GardenMay 30, 2013

Washed linen bedlinen, the one time wrinkles are chic

By Amanda

I need to buy some new bed linen for my household (you might remember there are four men and me) which is always a challenge if I’m to keep everyone happy. It was fine when all three sons had Thomas… Read More

Home & GardenMay 27, 2013

More Mid Century influenced style from Bark

By Jane

Bark is a British furniture company run by husband and wife team, Jonathan Walter and Lakshmi Bhaskaran, both of whom are trained bespoke cabinetmakers with a passion for modern design. Having developed their craft creating one-off pieces for individual clients,… Read More

Home & GardenMay 24, 2013

How to tie a bunch of flowers with That Flower Shop and Ally Capellino

By Amanda

As part of Chelsea Fringe Ally Capellino and That Flower Shop got together to offer a flower workshop for some of their customers and we were invited along. I am rubbish at arranging flowers, I stick to putting all of… Read More

Home & GardenMay 23, 2013

Fantasy Modernist homes

By Jane

As a huge Mad Men fan and lover of Modernist interiors, The Modern House has long been one of my favourite property websites. Sadly most of the houses are beyond my wildest dreams, but it doesn’t stop me from fantasising… Read More

Home & GardenMay 21, 2013

The Chelsea Fringe

By Jane

The wonderful Chelsea Flower Show starts today and if you didn’t manage to get tickets, or find it all a little bit ‘shampoo and set from the Home Counties.’ it might be worth checking out the Chelsea Fringe, which takes… Read More

Home & GardenMay 17, 2013

Wooden chopping boards

By Jane

I have been searching for the perfect wooden shopping board, since my first visit to Story Deli. Their super thin pizzas are not only delicious, they are beautifully displayed on wooden boards. Having moved a couple of times since they… Read More

Home & GardenMay 12, 2013

Modern Art Desserts

By Jane

There’s nothing like a bit of cakespiration for a Monday morning. I love this video about pastry chef pastry chef Caitlin Williams Freeman and the work she is doing at The Blue Bottom Cafe, at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern… Read More