These little dresses make me wish I had a girl as well as my wonderful 7yr old son! Made by a German designer-mum, Katrin Arens, who lives in Italy with daughter and hubby, they are the kind of little summer dresses that mums of old would have made. Retro feel and well made, they are [...]
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Little Summer Dresses in search of good homes!
Posted in Design, Parenting on 30 April 2010 | 1 Comment »
Credit crunch tip: Make do & Mend
Posted in Design, Living Home, Musings, tagged credit crunch, mend, wartime thrift on 9 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just got a windfall. No, I don’t have an aged aunt who has bestowed wealth on me in her will. I didn’t even receive any cash. But I felt as giddy as if someone had just given me 1,000 Sterling or Euros (the same these days). The reason: I didn’t, after all, [...]
A last-minute present that lasts the year
Posted in Design, Living Home, Musings, tagged last minute Xmas gifts, magazine subscriptions, Maison Cote Sud, Mediterranean interiors on 22 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s finally arrived. A pristine issue of my Dec-Jan issue of Maisons Cote Sud, a French deco magazine. My husband gave me a subscription to the magazine as a present four years ago. All in all, a magazine subscription is the ultimate 11th hour present solution – quick to buy online, no wrapping required. It’s a hardy perennial [...]
Blankets of warmth not snow for Xmas
Posted in Design, Living Home, tagged Add new tag, designer blankets, heirlooms, hip hotels, lambswool, Malta, Malta electricity bills, Melin Tregwynt, Wales, Welsh blankets on 16 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post follows on from my one of yesterday advocating thrift in Xmas present spending. If you don’t have time to rummage around flea markets in the next 9 days, or find that ideal retro bargain on eBay for under £10 (also euro 10 these days too), you are going to have to go for [...]
The £10 Xmas present and the heirloom
Posted in Design, Musings, tagged Add new tag, antiques, brocante, Christmas presents, DINKYs, flea markets, heirloom on 15 December 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few years back, I had some Australian friends living in London who were a DINKY (double income, no kids) couple. The wife worked for a merchant bank; the husband was riding the dotcom boom in some new media agency. They had plenty of disposable income to splash out with. But, and here’s the rub [...]
