I spent the first month of lockdown designing, filming and editing the How Pattern Works online workshop, which launches today. I developed the course out of my teaching experience with Ace Camps in Portugal, where I was using the amazing tile heritage of Lisbon as my teaching tool. While teaching, I noticed how the energy …
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How Pattern Works
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Making Friday: My Apartment Safari
“What if our real problem was not so much that we are not allowed to go anywhere – but that we don’t how to make the most of what is already to hand?” -Alain de Botton
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Lisbon Square for Cloud9 Fabrics
The latest textile collection for Cloud9 Fabrics called Lisbon Square is a textile reminiscence of my 2016 visit to Lisbon.
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Decorating with Scissors: Jo’s House
Here’s what we came up with for Jo Glover, one of our lovely customers who sent in some pics of a couple of rooms that needed a bit of a Skinny infusion.
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Decorating with Scissors: How can we help?
We know that buying pillows online is tricky, but our aim is to help you feel as confident shopping online as you would if you came into our Bree Street shop. So what’s the solution? Well, let us do some decorating with scissors for you, so we can show you exactly what your new pillows …
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Decorating with Scissors again
I’ve been redecorating strangers’ houses with nothing but a pair of scissors!
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Liyabona Library See Saw Do
We spent a special Saturday morning at Holy Cross Convent in Distric 6, attending the joyful opening of Liyabona library. We donated fabric, which the genius See Saw Do put to brilliant use as part of this beautiful, safe, well-stocked library, all orchestrated and fundraised by the Otto Foundation. How inspiring to see a headmistress …
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Colour Yum: Persimmon and Sand
I know, I know, they say it’s all about blue this year, but we’ve started the year hot to trot with our new favourite colour combo, Sand and Persimmon. While they may not make good ingredients for a smoothie, they do make for a yummy colour palette, in both fashion and interiors. Clockwise above : Burda magazine ++ Paloma Wool ++ Nanamica ++ Verloop x Peanuts …
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India with Expedition Curiosity
Bev Missing is the founder of body and bath product company Rain Africa, and is now the organising force behind Expedition Curiosity – her travel company specialising in immersive and authentic journeys to lesser-known places. Bev loves travel, but can’t bear the usual tourist packaged experience, so her mission with Expedition Curiosity is to travel …
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