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Home & GardenSeptember 10, 2012

Blog love: The Forest Feast

By Jane

Just when we thought we couldn’t take another fabulous food/lifestyle blog (sometimes all that perfection gets a little wearing!), I came across The Forest Feast. Written by Erin Gleeson an illustrator and food photographer who moved From New York to… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingSeptember 6, 2012

Recycled Home by Rebecca Proctor

By Jane

A guide to making really useful things from your home using salvaged materials, by Rebecca Proctor who also write the Futuristic blog. Recycled Home provides step-by-step illustrations guide you through each project, and no special skills are needed.… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 6, 2012

Blog love: Donna Wilson’s Leaves and Twigs and Futurustic

By Jane

Donna Wilson set up her company in 2003 after making knitted creatures for her final show at the Royal College of Art. The creatures sold out and since then she has built her business designing and making a collection of… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 24, 2012

The Gourmand: A magazine about food and culture

By Jane

While we love nothing more than the latest copy of the Sainsburys magazine (does that make us dull?) food magazines, like fashion magazines can get stuck in a rut when it comes to layout, features, photgraphy etc and it’s refreshing… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 13, 2012

Betty & Walter at Boots, (move over Cath Kidston…..)

By Amanda

We have been getting sneak peaks at autumn beauty and gift ranges this week, since we’re over summer in retail (see Jane’s rant) and everyone’s thinking Christmas (although to be honest, the weather HAS helped get us in the… Read More

Home & GardenJuly 9, 2012

Stationery seduction with Martha Stewart: Home Office is launched through Staples

By Amanda

Break out the bunting again, Martha Stewart has arrived in the UK at last! You know we love craft-queen Martha; ever since we were seduced by the beautiful images in her Martha Stewart Living magazines in the early 90s, we’ve… Read More

Home & GardenJune 28, 2012

Objects For Use

By Jane

Objects for Use is a charming shop hidden away in an alleyway at the bottom of Kingsland Road in the heart of Shoreditch. Having spent half her life in Japan and half in Britain, owner Momoko Mizutani has had to… Read More

Home & GardenJune 4, 2012

Cakespiration; garden cakes

By Jane

These days food seems to have almost as many trends as fashion. Perhaps it’s something to do with the fact we constantly share images on social networking and everywhere you look people are up loading pictures of cocktails in jam… Read More

Home & GardenJune 3, 2012

How to make friends at your Jubilee party

By Amanda

So, if like us, you are heading to your street’s Jubilee party today, you might like a few tips on how to make friends, especially if you are new to your street and don’t know too many of your neighbours.… Read More

Home & GardenMay 30, 2012

A neat idea from JW Walls: custom wallpaper printing

By Amanda

Having spent years recording the work of fashion retail visual merchandisers (the UK has the BEST VM creatives, no question) I have often thought there was potential to take some of the creative skills over to the home. I don’t… Read More

Home & GardenMay 27, 2012

The Chelsea Fringe: A new festival of flowers, gardens and gardening

By Jane

After being inspired by Amanda’s gorgeous posts on Chelsea windows this week, I decided to check out some of the events happening around The Chelsea Fringe. This brand new initiative is entirely volunteer-run and features a mix of public gardens,… Read More

Home & GardenMay 24, 2012

Jubilee cake inspiration

By Jane

If you are planning a cake for the Jubilee weekend, here are a few ideas to get you in the mood. Best buy your food colouring now in case there’s a shortage! You can get ready rolled icing in red… Read More

Home & GardenMay 21, 2012

Some Royal inspiration

By Jane

I’m not normally one for anything Royal or overly patriotic. If I’m honest. Anarchy in the UK is the nearest I’ve ever got to singing God Save the Queen, but never one to pass up the opportunity to dress up,… Read More

Home & GardenMay 17, 2012

Secondhand Rose: Suzanne Lipschutz

By Jane

I’m not sure what I love most about this film from the inspirational daily blog from LVMH, Nowness – the beautiful antique wallpaper, the fascinating stories about New York celebrities, or the wonderfully gravelly voice of Suzanne Lipschutz (what a… Read More

Home & GardenMay 8, 2012

Things to do with excess marmalade: marmalade martinis

By Amanda

You remember I said I had to get reading glasses? And what fun it was going to be to buy new eyewear? Well turns out it was fun, while it lasted. I bought beautiful new Tom Davies glasses, which I… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Home & GardenApril 15, 2012

New magazines: CR Fashion Book and Landscape

By Jane

Since Carine Roitfeld resigned as editor of French Vogue, the media has been awash with speculation as to what her next job would be. Roitfeld has always been revered for her effortless French style and at 57 is seen as… Read More

Home & GardenApril 14, 2012

Martha Moments: lemon skin fire lighters

By Amanda

We are indebted to TWR reader Lindsay Howell, who provided both this fabulously creative way to recycle lemon rinds as well as introducing us to Solva Woollen Mill. Martha Moments, you will remember, are an homage to Martha Stewart, whose… Read More

Home & GardenApril 13, 2012

Winestorm: Jane Brocket’s new blog

By Jane

Yarnstorm was the first blog I ever read and was partly what inspired me to get together with Amanda and write this one. Five years later I am still a huge fan of Jane Brocket’s lovely posts on baking, gardening… Read More

Home & GardenApril 12, 2012

Locally made products: Solva Wool Mill

By Amanda

For the day job I’m in the middle of writing about how locally manufactured product is going to be even more important going forward, as consumers think carefully about buying stuff that helps support locally based factories and craftstmen. So… Read More

Home & GardenApril 11, 2012

Nice wallpaper from House of Hackney and Kate Spade

By Jane

I’m a huge fan of wallpaper, in fact there is hardly a room in my house that doesn’t feature a heavily patterned wall. I particularly like the House of Hackney range and love the latest addition to their collection, Flights… Read More

Home & GardenApril 8, 2012

Happy Easter and things to do with excess chocolate

By Amanda

Happy Easter all from us at TWR. Just incase you end up with an excess of chocolate today, we have a recipe that might be of use. Mint leaves dipped in white chocolate, suggested to me by middleteenson’s lovely girlfriend,… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 25, 2012

We love: John Smedley’s Care Wash by The Laundress

By Amanda

Anyone who has had moths will be interested in this new range of Care Washes from British knitwear designer and manufacturer John Smedley. Designed by The Laundress, the cult New York detergent team, the cotton and wool washes are designed… Read More

Home & Garden, Home & Garden, We Are ReadingMarch 22, 2012

Homespun Style and Dottie Angel

By Jane

We love anything crafty here at TWR, be it books, blogs, magazines, craft fairs or classes. Amanda is a dab hand at quilt/jam/garment making, but I’m more of a ‘collect loads of vintage fabrics, ribbons, antique buttons and interesting haberdashery,… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 17, 2012

More sewing, this time with Chanel (see below post first)

By Amanda

Having posted the below post on Recycle and Sew this morning, some of our Twitter followers pointed out this great video on how to make a Chanel jacket (I’m looking at you @FionaHarkin) The Secret Of The Little Black Jacket,… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 17, 2012

Sewing lessons for grown ups at Recycle and Sew

By Amanda

A couple of weeks back I went to one of Anita Bott’s Vintage Fashion Fairs and got chatting to June Allnutt, above, who was perched in front of her sewing machines, ready to mend or restore any vintage finds that… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 16, 2012

Muji: making more of less

By Jane

I first visited a Muji store on a trip to Tokyo, back in the 80’s when no-one in the UK had heard of them. When I stumbled across the tranquil haven of the first ever shop in Aoyama, I was… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 11, 2012

Final Scandi post this week -I promise: ‘Broen’ (The Bridge) and ‘Those Who Kill’

By Amanda

Because we have such FANTASTIC readers in you all here at TWR, we learn a lot . On Monday I posted that we were missing our weekly intake of Danish murder /mysteries (Borgen, The Killing), quick as a flash, we… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 9, 2012

A Sort Of Coal: more Danish stuff

By Amanda

While we are talking all things Scandinavian (see Monday’s post) we haven’t quite finished with Denmark. Recently the Danish company A Sort Of Coal sent us a very detailed press release on the magical properties of er, sticks. Well White… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 3, 2012

Kate Hackett’s Mesmerise Me: celebrating International Women’s Day with a film

By Amanda

Mesmerize Me from Kate Hackett on Vimeo. We are starting our celebrations for International Women’s Day (8th March) early here at TWR with this lovely little independent film by Kate Hackett. We’ve never put a mini film up on the… Read More

Home & GardenFebruary 25, 2012

Olive Loves Alfie loves paint

By Jane

Olive Loves Alfie is the kind of shop I dreamt of when my children were little, in fact it’s the kind of shop I would like to own, if I’d ever got my act together. Opened in 2006 by former… Read More