Tray, tray nice, n’est ce pas?This Worcester Ware tray was a recent find at Charles’ marvellous stall at the Neighbourgoods Market, and that’s where I’ll be on Saturday, hawking my wares for all I’m worth. So if you’ve forgotten to get your mum a Mothers’ Day gift, redeem yourself by popping over to the DesignGoods …
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Tray, tray nice n’est ce pas?
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Perfection from Bookhou
Not long ago, I was lucky enough to win a prize from that extraordinary company Bookhou, and it arrived in the mail last week. It’s difficult to express how I feel about Bookhou’s things, but the word that comes to mind is “humbled”. Their work is just so beautifully considered, constructed from such fine materials, …
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A weekend in KwaZulu Natal
A weekend in KwaZulu NatalThings grow like mad in KwaZulu Natal, and winter doesn’t look or feel like winter at all. The pavements in Durban were covered with lichens, wonderful mad bright flowers and enormous leaves, and also with people selling giant-sized avocados (or butter pears). We had a good time indoors too, visiting Durban …
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Ooh, this woke me up!
Ooh, this woke me up!I was lazily catching up with my Bloglines in a half-hearted attempt to get up to speed with this week after such a nice weekend, when I saw this pic on Design*Sponge. There’s my Borrowed Spoons tea towel doing a great job helping to illustrate a recipe (for yummy artichoke cassarole!) …
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Giveaway there, nod off here…
Giveaway there, nod off here…I’ve just got back from a glorious weekend away, which has opened my eyes to the fact that I’m utterly unsuited to a life of work and toil, and do much better on a diet of naps, coffee shops and subtropical winter weather. Even a full on blog post is too …
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X marks the spot
X marks the spotFrom our place, it looked like the rainbow was pointing to the Mount Nelson, but I reckon the people living behind our apartments saw it beaming straight into our flat, and rightly so, cos I feel I’ve been riding a multicoloured streak of luck lately. My Sevilla Rock upholstery fabrics have had …
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Keys and worms
Yesterday’s posts about Beryl, the keys and worm farms got a lot of interest and, as happens so marvellously in the bloggy world, caused some spin-off posting too. Here are some links to follow for key-related posts. **Chakra Pennywhistle showed us a tiny corner of her massive Vera scarf collection – the ones featuring keys. …
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Meet Beryl
Meet BerylLast month, one of my blog readers got hold of me to tell me she had something interesting for me (more on that later). Intruiged, I went to meet Beryl, and found one busy lady, with countless embroidery projects on the go , including these little pincushions… …and also beautiful embroidered pictures, like the …
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Keys from Beryl
Keys from Beryl The interesting thing Beryl had for me was a whole drawerful of keys that she’d accumulated over the past almost-80 years of her life. She didn’t want to just throw them out, and she thought I might like to make a design with them. I haven’t done anything designey with them yet …
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