More IKEA envy Last year I was sent the IKEA catalogue, and look what happened as a result. Now dear Michelle from Cicada Studios, fearing a dip in my IKEA lust levels, has sent me the 2010 catalogue, just to top me up. No new tea towel design has sprung to mind yet, but spreads …
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More IKEA envy
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Making Friday
Making Friday Did lots of boring folding, checking, packing, stitching and dusting on Making Friday, which isn’t really the point, is it? So I gathered myself towards myself and got some paper cutting done too.
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Enormous doily
Did I mention that I’ve been making an enormous doily? Well, it’s not enormous yet, but it will be, and it’s certainly bigger than the person who wrote the pattern anticipated. I’ve stalled though, as I’ve run out of jute. It’s on the shopping list.
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Paul’s show
Paul’s showOn 1 October, Paul‘s first exhibition at Michael Stevenson will open (he’s my husband – Paul, not Michael). In the lead up to his show, Paul’s writing the diary for ArtThrob, posting occasional tantalising pics of the beautiful work he’s been making. I’m getting very excited about it all. See some of Paul’s work …
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More on Morandi
Yesterday’s post elicited some really top-class comments and sent me off on a whole lot more exploration of the work of Giorgio Morandi. I wanted to thank all of you who took the time to hunt down quotes and links, and I thought it’d be nice to share them here with everyone, so here goes: …
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Books and bottles
Books and bottlesI tend to be a greedy reader, gobbling up the story as I race through the pages, often guiltily because I know I’m not doing justice to the writer’s painstaking work. But the book I’m reading now is one I keep putting aside because it is so beautifully written, I can hardly bear …
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Focus on the fabric please
I do so wish I could say my blog holiday was necessitated by the pressures of my parallel career as a nymph-like fashion model, but sadly this is not a photo of me, it’s of a nymph-like model wearing a dress made with fabric I designed. The dress, and the rather lovely silk shortie pants …
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Thanks
ThanksPopping my head out from my little blog holiday to say thanks to The Design Boards for posting a little interview with me (read it here)… … and also to True Up for showing off my yummy fabric stash (take a look here). … and ALSO, I took part in an interview with Jen Searle …
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Blog holiday
Blog holidayI’m taking a few days out, as I’m anticipating a very busy week indeed. But please check in at the ELLE DECORATION site, where I’ll be posting about the brand new Spring issue all week long. Look out for the freebies that’ll be coming up associated with this gorgeous image from the magazine.
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