To start off 2016 (!) here are some photos from my recent visit to the Liberty in Fashion exhibition at the Fashion Textile Museum. I highly, highly recommend a visit. I found it super inspiring and particularly liked the Collier [...]
When I was last in Lewes I saw a copy of Virginia lee Burton’s The Little House on display in the window of a charity shop. Intrigued I asked to see it and subsequently bought it for four whole pounds. [...]
Flax & Stone sounds like the name of a brand, maybe one selling homewares? Well you heard it here first. In other words the less exciting sounding beige. A new blog post theme I am going to look at are [...]
As I said in my last post, I’ve been lucky enough to come across a selection of Ladybird books lately. Including the above ‘What to look for in Spring’. Which I am able to follow up with ‘What to look [...]
All images from De La Warr Pavilion website Over the May Day bank holiday weekend I paid a visit to the Ladybird by design exhibition at the Del La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. I only found out about it at [...]
I very much enjoy novels by female writers that take place in and around the 1960-1970s. Cassandra at the wedding by Dorothy Baker fits nicely into this category. Just as with the first entry, this book also has two lead [...]
A slightly surreal 1940s ‘how to’ book on toy making, complete with crazy illustrations in an unusual palette of bright green, purple, yellow and pink. Some quite strange looking and complicated toys they are too. I would love to [...]
I recently discovered Beryl Bainbridge’s book; Another Part of the Wood. I found it whilst browsing through the Penguin Decades series. The decades series contains five key books to represent each decade from the 1950s to the 1980s and celebrates [...]
