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Health & HappinessNovember 24, 2011

Planet alert: Mercury is in retrograde

By Jane

*WARNING – this post may not make you feel good* I am not usually one for taking too much notice of my horoscope and have no time for people who go see mediums and have their tarot cards read. I… Read More

Food, We Are ReadingNovember 24, 2011

Recipes for Everyday by Jane Cumberbatch

By Amanda

This is a lovely looking cookery and gardening book that would suit a first time house or home maker (probably more girl than boy orientated due to a very feminine feel to the thing). I liked it as soon as… Read More

Art & CultureNovember 23, 2011

We love: Suri’s Burn Book

By Amanda

This is a wickedly un-PC post, it involves innocent children being mercilessly made fun of by another child, which is pretty much bullying, until you realise that the children belong to celebrities who are often hiking their kids around for… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 22, 2011

Green Retail in Japan

By Amanda

Back to Tokyo and a quick look at some of the retail shops around the Shibuya and Omotosando areas, where ‘greening up’ the front of the store is very popular. Again it’s often done with small pots of plants, artfully… Read More

Art & CultureNovember 21, 2011

Pinterest: our new favourite thing!

By Jane

So Twitter is the new Facebook and Tumblr is the new way to blog, are you keeping up? I have lost count of the number of times I have explained the point of Twitter to non believers and quite frankly… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 20, 2011

Suburban Japan

By Amanda

I’ve been in Japan this week, working with World Co as part of the day job. On a walk through suburban Tokyo I was struck by how, despite the small amount of space the average Japanese family has, they still… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingNovember 19, 2011

Londoners by Craig Taylor

By Jane

Londoners: The days and Nights of London Now, As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It and Long for It written by Canadian writer, playwright and journalist, documents the voices of the rich, poor, native… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 19, 2011

Alternative Christmas shopping: Christmas Fairs

By Jane

This year M.A.D and I are attempting to buy all our Christmas presents locally. Hackney is home to more artists than anywhere in Europe and has so many unique and interesting shops and markets popping up all the time, it… Read More

Things We LoveNovember 18, 2011

Vintage style Christmas cards – with glitter!

By Jane

We love these vintage style Christmas cards from Cavallini. Not only do they feature lovely vintage style illustrations of birds and Christmas scenes, they also have real glitter on them – that falls off when you move the card –… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 18, 2011

We love Sally from Undercover notebooks

By Amanda

We are self confessed stationery geeks here at TWR, as you know, so when we stumbled across Sally Leonard-Morgan, who runs Undercover UK, a stationery company that makes fabulous notebooks, paper goods and other wonderful leathery-things, at a press day… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingNovember 17, 2011

Found, Free, and Flea by Tereasa Surratt

By Jane

A book about collecting written by an advertising creative director with a passion for collecting. Also check out her blog.… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 17, 2011

The perfect red lipstick: Lipstick Queen

By Jane

As a serial red lipstick wearer, I am always on the look out for the perfect shade of red. It’s almost impossible to find the right colour and the right exture and it’s very rare to find one that is… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 16, 2011

On the subject of pencil skirts….

By Amanda

Next season it’s all about the pencil skirt, they are everywhere. here’s our favourite two so far from the spring 2012 press days. Above is the sweetest one from Boden in a lovely tangerine slubby linen with this raised ribbon… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 16, 2011

We love Whistles handbags

By Amanda

Last week it was about spring, due to the press days and the general vibe is that clothes are really going ‘modern grown up’, with neat tailoring and gorgeous dresses, so good news for us. So far my favourite press… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 15, 2011

Alternative Christmas shopping: give a skill

By Jane

It’s that time of year when one starts to think, ‘this year I am really going to make an effort to find some interesting and unusual Christmas presents, I might even make some’. Then in four weeks time you find… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingNovember 14, 2011

Vintage Flowers by Vic Brotherson

By Amanda

Scarlet and Violet is one of my favourite florists, I first found it at Tom Dixon’s store last year, as a pop up during the London Design Festival, I went home and tried to make my flower vases look like… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 14, 2011

Frieze extras

By Amanda

We had some nice comments left on the Frieze 2011 posts saying that you really liked to see our ‘street shots’ of what real people are wearing, so I went back through our Frieze photos and sorted out a few… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 13, 2011

Style Icon: Jetsun Pema

By Jane

Last month King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk of Bhutan married 21 year old student Jetsun Pema, in a lavish ceremony in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. The wedding was a huge event in the tiny, remote kingdom, as the… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 12, 2011

Christmas decorations, a quick round up

By Amanda

It’s ok to start thinking about Christmas decorations now, mostly because if you don’t , they will all have sold out. Earlier this year (July in fact, Christmas seems to go on for ever if you are a fashion hack)… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, Fashion, We Are ReadingNovember 11, 2011

100 Years of Active Resistance by Vivienne Westwood

By Amanda

Dame Viv’s been busy recently down at Occupy London, supporting the protesters, but she’s (as always) been ahead of the protest curve for quite a while. This is her timely new book of 100 great images on active resistance, This… Read More

Fashion & BeautyNovember 11, 2011

See this: Ultrasuede – In Search of Halston

By Jane

This week we enjoyed an evening out courtesy of Handpicked Media and One Aldwych. If only every trip to the cinema involved drinking cocktails, eating delicious canapes and sitting in giant comfy seats! If you are a lover of 70’s… Read More

Home & GardenNovember 10, 2011

HRH The Prince of Wales’s pop up Christmas Shop

By Amanda

Should everything go ‘bottoms up’ for our current heir apparent, he could definitely make it as a retailer. I’m not talking about the Duchy Originals brand, although heaven knows that’s been successful enough, I’m talking about the Highgrove range, which… Read More

Things We LoveNovember 9, 2011

Boden’s jewellery

By Amanda

For anyone needing to nudge a partner into Christmas present ideas, please feel free to print off this post and leave it lying around the house (highlighting, obvs, which ones you prefer) , should these Boden fine jewels fit the… Read More

Home & Garden, We Are ReadingNovember 9, 2011

Nomad, bringing your travels home by Sibella Court

By Amanda

Haven’t actually read this yet but it’s Sibella Court and we love her. It would be a nice present for a creative person (big hint family, if you are reading).… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 9, 2011

MiddleagedSingle.com: Are you lonesome tonight?

By Jane

Despite much being written in the press about the increasing numbers of older single people, and the mainstream advertising of internet dating sites (the term ‘lonely hearts’ thankfully being so last century) becoming commonplace with TV adverts for Match.com sandwiched… Read More

Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingNovember 8, 2011

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

By Amanda

Heard this on Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Captivatingly brilliant. We think Winterson is magic.… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 8, 2011

Today’s music crush: The Civil Wars

By Amanda

Do you ever have that thing where you find a new album that you LOVE and you play it over and over because you love it so much and everyone else screams at you to stop? I am currently at… Read More

Things We LoveNovember 7, 2011

Eley Kishimoto notebooks

By Jane

You know how much we love a notebook! So if any of our families are reading and would like to club together, any one of these would be lovely for Christmas – thank you. Noble Macmillan have teamed up with… Read More

Middle Aged MumNovember 7, 2011

Middleagedmum.com: the match

By Jane

Growing up in a family of sports fanatics meant every weekend was either devoted to the playing or watching of various different sports Consequently the theme tune to Match of the Day is enough to make me strop to my… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingNovember 6, 2011

The Twelve Knits of Christmas

By Amanda

Since we are on knitting (see the knit-your-own-cat book on the book home page) why not knit your own Christmas Decorations too? From the author of ‘Knit your own Royal Family’, which is really all you need to know…..… Read More