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Fashion & BeautyNovember 14, 2013

Give a business for Christmas: My Showcase

By Jane

Women empowering other women to run their own businesses is the future; women understand the need for flexibility, can sell convincingly to other women and support each other in a way that men can only dream of. My Showcase is… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 13, 2013

Christmas present wish list: Susannah Hunter and Nikki Tibbles

By Amanda

Two of our favourite designers in flowers and handbags, Susannah Hunter and Nikki Tibbles, have collaborated on a project that might be of interest for your fantasy Christmas present list…should you have a generous budget. Susannah and Nikki got together… Read More

Things We LoveNovember 12, 2013

Harrods Hampers

By Jane

Nothing says Christmas like a hamper, especially a Harrods hamper – so if you are planning your Christmas present list for fussy in-laws, posh aunties, or difficult to buy for Dads, check out the Harrods website, as they pretty much… Read More

Art & CultureNovember 12, 2013

Middle-aged people featuring in films shock!

By Jane

Middle age is the new vampire, as a whole host of films featuring *whispers* older people have hit our screens recently. Enough Said features the late James Gandolfini (I have been working my way through the Sopranos for the last… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingNovember 11, 2013

Cloth by Cassandra Ellis

By Amanda

Another nice sewing projects book by Cassandra Ellis, with more lovely images to help you indulge your inner-domestic seamstress fantasy. There are over 30 good project ideas in here, from dip-dyed wool gauze panel curtains to pet beds, antique silk… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 11, 2013

Middleagemum.com: box-set fever and the lost weekend

By Amanda

I have just lost the weekend to the recently released box set of Mad Men 6. I started watching on Friday night and before I knew it, it was Sunday lunchtime. I tried to stop, really I did, but there… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 8, 2013

John Lewis: TWR Fashion Edit, Winter Luxe

By Jane

When our favourite department store John Lewis asked us if we would do a Womens Room version of their Fashion Edit we were only too happy to help – any excuse to go fantasy shopping and I have been looking… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 7, 2013

Style Icons: Tziporah Salamon and Kansai Yamamoto

By Amanda

I have a terrible middleagegirlcrush on Tziporah Salamon. We’ve mentioned her before on TWR because as a New York based stylist, model and fashion-muse she is featured regularly on Advanced Style and in Bill Cunningham’s fashion reports. She also has… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 6, 2013

This is 50: A positive view of ageing by Kristen Perers

By Jane

I came across Kristen Perers work at the Mirror Mirror conference last week and weirdly, as I was writing this post, she emailed me. Don’t you just love technology! So I took the opportunity to ask a few questions about… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 5, 2013

We love: Emma Shipley scarves

By Amanda

Young Emma Shipley, the tremendously talented textile artist, won the Best Emerging Fashion Brand at the WGSN Global Fashion Awards on Wednesday evening and we’d like to say ‘well done’ with a blog post on her. Actually, we came across… Read More

Things We LoveNovember 5, 2013

Fresh Sugar Face Polish

By Amanda

I read about this on Into the Gloss, as I was developing a crush on the inspiring Catherine Walsh, SVP at Coty and user of Nivea Creme to make her hair looks this good….It is an inspiring interview, Catherine sounds… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingNovember 4, 2013

Creative Family Home: Ashlyn Gibson

By Jane

Ashlyn Gibson is an art director, stylist and writer who also owns a lovely children lifestyle shop, Olive Loves Alfie, in my local high street. Ashlyn has also written her first book, Creative Family Home, which celebrates the zeitgeist in… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Health & HappinessNovember 4, 2013

Mirror Mirror: Representations and Reflections on age and ageing

By Jane

Ageing seems to be front of mind for London’s universities at the moment, with the RCA hosting a symposium titled ‘Dressing the Ageing Demographic’ and last weeks Mirror Mirror: Representations and Reflections on age and ageing’ at the London College… Read More

Art & CultureNovember 1, 2013

Mother and Daughter artists: Michele Deiters and Bibi van der Velden

By Amanda

During Frieze week a while back I got to meet Dutch mother and daughter sculpting team Michele Deiters and Bibi van der Velden, who had a small show at The Couture Lab in London (it’s on until Nov 8th). Both… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 31, 2013

See this: Grenson Lab in Liberty

By Jane

Calling all Brogue lovers, Christmas is officially cancelled this year, as you will be spending all your money on a pair of specially designed Grenson shoes! Actually, in these days of insane footwear prices (when did £500 become the norm… Read More

Things We LoveOctober 31, 2013

Leighton Denny Nail Repair Cream

By Amanda

You know when you take nail polish off and your poor nails dry up like fragile chips of old waxed paper, brittle and flakey and sucked of all moisture? Well, get yourself a tube of Leighton Denny’s nail repair cream… 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

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingOctober 28, 2013

Knit Your Own Zoo (Best In Show) by Sally Muir and Joanna Osbourne

By Amanda

For those of you who loved This and This, now you can move onto giraffes, meerkats and armadillos with Knit Your Own Zoo, by the lovely Sally and Joanna. I mean who wouldn’t want a hand knitted fruit bat with… Read More

Things We LoveOctober 28, 2013

Weleda Calendular Weather Protection Cream

By Amanda

This is good. A honey coloured and nice smelling cream that is a multi purpose mender. It protects skin in cold and windy weather, softens hands, cuticles and skanky-dry feet skin as well as cracked lips and dry elbows. Being… 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

UncategorizedOctober 25, 2013

One for the Christmas list: Illustrator Rosh Shiers

By Jane

Illustrator Ros Shiers creates typographic and illustrative prints, greetings cards and wrapping tapes featuring inspirational quotes and phrases, which make perfect to presents to make you smile, celebrate special occasions, or to show someone how much you care. She made… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 24, 2013

Fashion and Feminist Art at Frieze 2013 #2

By Amanda

Back at Frieze Art Fair, which really is just a big art shop for very rich people, here are a few more shots of some great female-made art and outfits…As an aside, this year I noticed the men were really… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 23, 2013

It’s all about the ankle boot!

By Jane

In spite of the un-seaonally warm weather, (is it just me, or is everyone longing for a spell of properly cold weather?) this month we have been mostly thinking about boots (well work, kids, how ridiculously close Christmas is and… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 22, 2013

Feminist Art and Fashion at Frieze Art Fair 2013

By Amanda

At this year’s Frieze Art Fair, horrified by recent women in art figures, I wanted to find as many women artists as possible to show alongside the stylish women I usually see. You have to look quite hard to find… Read More

Art & CultureOctober 21, 2013

The Grand Budapest Hotel

By Jane

Moonrise Kingdom was one of my favourite films of 2012 and there’s no doubting it’s influence on a whole host of ad campaigns, fashion shoots and colour palettes, with the Orla Keily S/S2014 range featuring Suzy Bishop influenced styling, in… Read More

Art & CultureOctober 19, 2013

Furniture at Frieze Art Fair 2013

By Amanda

Sorting out my Frieze photos for next weeks posts, I realised in a few of the galleries had better furniture than art. I don’t know why the furniture was so good this year, but here are a few of the… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 18, 2013

A few things to buy from MiH Jeans

By Amanda

We have been a little slow in acknowledging the success of Made In Heaven jeans, I can almost see some of you rolling your eyes at our tardiness. But truth is I hadn’t really seen it up close anywhere and… Read More

Health & HappinessOctober 17, 2013

Camp Gyno: “Like Santa for your vagina”

By Jane

We all remember the day we got our first period and feeling like we had become members of some sort of secret, women only club. Huge bulky sanitary towels with loops and belts were smuggled into the house, magazines featured… 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