The Ultimate Startup Checklist for New Retail Business Foundations

The ultimate startup checklist for new retail business foundations. These are the business fundamentals that all small businesses need to know when starting out. Strong business foundations protect you legally, keep your finances organised and make your brand look professional and trustworthy This ultimate startup checklist covers the essential business fundamentals every small retail business […]

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September WI meeting – Dangerous Women

In September we had the authors of Dangerous Women, The Guide to Modern life read extract from their book. The book centers around offering advice from over 600 entries. Each entry is alphabetical and entitled with a different heading. There are lots of pieces of practical advice in the book and all of the entries […]

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Curiosities of the week – customising clothing

I really want to customise some clothing at the moment. I have been searching on Pinterest and blogs for ideas and the two above really appeal to me. I love the simplicity of the bleach t-shirt from A Beautiful Mess. The idea of using bleach to write words or images looks so good and you […]

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The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby/Julia

Ok so this might be a bit of a guilty pleasure. My dad is a huge Beatles fan, as well as Band on The Run. The reason this is a guilty pleasure however is because it always reminds me of Mark Ramprakash’s tango from Strictly Come Dancing! I used to play the song a lot […]

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Design – Room 211

I love this paper installation by Lisa Keophila, Jon Margono, Fiona Lim Tug and Kristen Lim Tung for Room 211 in Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel for this year’s edition of Come Up To My Room. It is so pretty, delicate and intricate and completely changes the feel of the room. It also reminds me of Tord Boontje work […]

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Italian signs mood board

Mood board – Italian signs

I was (slightly obsessed) with taking photos in Venice and Rome of all of the signs they had. From the street signs (loved all of these) to signs for shops, door numbers, on buildings… The list goes on. While I was in Italy I felt it would be a perfect material to create a mood […]

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Curiosities of the week – pigeons

Italy last week was amazing. So many beautiful sights and amazing food. We did a lot of walking as well. I have always wanted to go and it didn’t disappoint. I have thrown my coin in the Trevi fountain in Rome as well so will hopefully return one day too! I took my new SLR and […]

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Back from Italy!

Just a few snapshots from my trip before more small details next week. Images: Walking back to the hotel in Rome as the sun sets before our flight home. Shadows of Jemma, Julie and I in Rome  

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Off to Italy!

I am off to Venice and Rome on Thursday so will be taking a little break for a while. So excited for Italy as I have never been! Image sources: Venice Rome Fiat  

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SUCRÉ – When We Were Young

This is a lovely song. I love the softness to it as well as when the music builds. It is a beautiful video as well, very fantasy like with the lighting, the dress, the wings and the old videos being played over Stacy as she sings. Elsie from A Beautiful Mess (one of my favourite blogs!) designed […]

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Curiosities of the week – Mulberry Advert

This weeks curiosity comes courtesy of an advert in the Stylist issues dedicated to London Fashion. It had a lot of adverts in it, which normally I gloss over but the Mulberry on caught my eye. The reason – the outfit the model wears I just love! Simple really, however I love the softly feathered […]

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