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Fashion & BeautyDecember 8, 2008

Style Icon: Jean Muir

By The Womens Room

'She had such style. Real style that you could recognize. I love her for her individuality, her way of seeing a woman.'' Jean Paul Gaultier Strict attention to detail, technical excellence and a passion for the craft of dressmaking… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 7, 2008

The Women’s Room Christmas cake: ready to ice!

By Amanda

For those of you making the Christmas cake, we are ready to ice! You may have your own preferred Christmas ritual for decorating your cake. Some families have plastic snowmen and Santa figures which are carefully stored away to… Read More

Middle Aged MumDecember 6, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: Decorating the Tree

By The Womens Room

Chestnuts are not quite roasting on an open fire, but Andy Williams is trying his hardest on the i Pod, the fire is on and baby it's cold outside.This is the weekend when we ‘Do the tree’. Middleagedad.com has… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 6, 2008

We Love: Alternative Christmas Shopping

By The Womens Room

Columbia Road in London's East End is one of our favourite haunts on a Sunday morning, but rarely do we venture there on a weekeday. If you fancy an alternative shopping experience to the heaving nightmare that is shopping in… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 5, 2008

The Women’s Room Christmas cake: time for the brandy

By Amanda

If you’re making the Women’s Room Christmas cake, it’s time to feed the Christmas cake with a slug of brandy or rum. Unwrap the base of the cake with care and poke a few holes – five should… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 4, 2008

We love: Vintage Academe

By The Womens Room

We figure that buying vintage doesn't count in our quest to de clutter our lives and cut back our over bulging wardrobes. Vintage clothes have a heritage and history and we know we wont see anyone else wearing the same… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 3, 2008

Cosmetic surgery: just say no?

By Amanda

Picture-fanpix.com Great article in Times2 on Monday by Caitlin Moran, who writes wittily about how, at a recent funeral she was horrified by the amount of eminent 40-plus women who had clearly had cosmetic surgery. Far from looking good,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 2, 2008

We love: Stylish Blogs

By The Womens Room

If you work in the fashion industry you will probably already be a big fan of The Sartorialist, the amazing street style blog, featuring beautiful photographs of stylish, real people from all over the world. The blog has been listed by Time Magazine… Read More

Fashion & BeautyDecember 1, 2008

We love: Marks & Spencer

By Amanda

Our current fav Limited dress from M&S, tops stores only This week The Women’s Room was given a preview of the new Portfolio range from Marks & Spencer, aimed at 40plus women and out in March 2009. Hurrah to M&S… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 30, 2008

We Love: Penguin Naked Titles

By The Womens Room

We love the very clever creative team at Penguin who continue to push the boundaries and think outside the box, while other publishing companies moan and groan about the impact of the internet. In 2007 they launched an experiment… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 29, 2008

The Women’s Room Christmas cake: time to cook

By Amanda

Ok, time to make the cake. Take the fruit out of the fridge an hour before you need it, so it reaches room temperature and turn on the oven to 150c, gas 2. Prepare the cake tin as instructed on previous… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 29, 2008

Simple Pleasures: It’s official, I’m a Simplifier

By Amanda

Thanks to Moschino for this picture of its wIndow display News today from the esteemed Harvard Business School, which states that us boomers (people born between 1945 -1964) are keen to simplify our lives because we have too much… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 28, 2008

Try this Instead

By The Womens Room

It seems the book we recommended in our last Simple Pleasures has become a collectors item since we first bought it and not quite the simple pleasure (in money terms anyway) we intended. So take a look at this one… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 28, 2008

Something for the Weekend: National Buy Nothing Day

By The Womens Room

Today in America and tomorrow in the UK, it's National Buy Nothing Day, an annual protest against consumerism organised by a group called Adbusters. Put simply… 'Saturday November 29th 2008 is Buy Nothing Day, It's a day where you challenge… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

By Amanda

The Women’s Room would like to wish all its American readers a happy Thanksgiving. May all your turkeys and pumpkin pies be large and tasty. Thanksgiving also gives us the chance to talk about one of our favourite… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 26, 2008

Simple Pleasures: For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness

By The Womens Room

A beautiful portrait of a gentle man in his twilight years, photographer Julian Germain documented the last eight years of Charlie Snellings life. "I met Charles Albert Lucien Snelling on a Saturday in April, 1992. He lived in a typical two up… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 25, 2008

The Women’s Room Christmas cake:prepare the tin

By Amanda

Have you remembered to stir the soaking Christmas cake fruit? It should be plumping up nicely by now and smelling faintly Christmasy. The fruit can be used after 24 hours soaking but a superior cake is the result of… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 24, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: Let’s hear it for the boys

By The Womens Room

Its 6am and I have woken with the fear. I have a small animal rattling around in my head and I do not dare move as I will almost definitely be sick. When the children were little… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 23, 2008

Old is Gold, says the Sunday Times

By Amanda

The Sunday Times today is full of stylish women over 40. Really, it is. Amazing eh? Well not to us, obviously, we know how talented and fabulous we are, but it is a pleasant change to see that the leading… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 23, 2008

The Women’s Room Christmas cake: begining

By Amanda

This is our very favourite Christmas cake recipe, picked up from one of those Waitrose recipe cards a few years ago now, but the best one we’ve ever come across. And we know our cake here at the Women’s Room.… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 22, 2008

Radical Craft: Etsy

By The Womens Room

We think there is nothing better than a Sunday spent trawling a car boot sale, flea market or Craft Fair. We love the thrill of the bargain and the unique often quirky indivdual items we find, hold pride of place on our… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 21, 2008

Style Icon (not): Barbie at 50

By Amanda

We’re not quite sure what the opposite of style icon would be, but Barbie is definitely it. Astonishingly, the plastic princess has reached the age of 50 without a wrinkle or fat roll and has taken, according to… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 20, 2008

We Love: Angelina Jolie as Christine Collins

By The Womens Room

We have to say we are not usually big fans of Brangelina, personally we think all those children just look like really hard work. But we are loving her look in her new film, The Changeling, due for release in the UK… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 19, 2008

Middleagemum.com: how do I turn this on again?

By Amanda

In addition to the tribal feelings evoked amongst mothers (see previous posting), there was always a disguised feeling of smugness from mothers of girls. Boys are noisy, fidgety, never do as they are told and always look grubby, at least… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 18, 2008

We Love: H is for Home

By The Womens Room

H is for Home specialises in quirky, nostalgic, handmade and vintage items for the home. Like shopping at a curated jumble sale featuring carefully chosen items from the 1950's 60's and 70's, everything is unique and a one off. For us 'women… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 18, 2008

Book Now: Flash pop up restaurant

By The Womens Room

FLASH is a temporary restaurant created by the owners of trendy east end restaurant and bar, Bistrotheque. It opened on the 1st of November and will close on the 19th of January 2009. Last years pop up restaurant The Reindeer,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 17, 2008

We love: bargain bling

By Amanda

While we’re on jewellery can we point you in the direction of some fabulous credit crunch sparkle that both costs very little and cheers you up? New Look has a range called Limited Edition which is better made and… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 16, 2008

Guilty Pleasures: Perez Hilton

By The Womens Room

Ok, so we realise the Uk's obsession with with celebrity is unhealthy and in danger of turning our teenage daughters into WAGabees. But, admit it, sometimes we just have to know what's going on with Madonna and Guy or David… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 16, 2008

Middleagedmum.com: Is it me or is it hot in here?

By The Womens Room

Its -4 outside and I’m having a personal Summer. I am driving the office mad by opening windows, my husband is sick of sleeping in a room that feels like the Ice Hotel and I look like I should be… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 15, 2008

The perfect pearls

By Amanda

Pearls: Coco Chanel loved them and recommended seven strands, real or costume. Ours are definitely going to have to be fake, but since there are some beautifully made high street alternatives around, that’s ok. Pearls are ageless, in fact,… Read More