How Product Business Owners Can Overcome Comparison

Welcome to your guide on how product business owners can overcome comparison through meditation and breath work. Running a product business can be deeply rewarding but also challenging. There are defintiley a lot of highs and lows! itel I’m guessing you love to make your products and connect with customers… But then you open Instagram, […]

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Curiosities of the week – Julia Eastwood

Julia Eastwood’s work is just beautiful. Look at it above! Not only is her style of design so pretty but her ideas are brilliant. I love the wedding invite with where it all started on the front. Then the wedding guest book that is a time capsule as well – how sweet is it to […]

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You Me At Six – No One Does it Better

I think I was really late catching onto You Me At Six but I have to say I like them! I went to Thorpe Park earlier this year however didn’t get to go on Swarm the new ride with their song The Swarm attached. It had huge queues, however my friends boyfriend who is 6 […]

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The little details – Venice

I wanted to share some small details from my recent Italian trip, starting with Venice. The first four photos come from St Mark’s Square. I was a bit obsessed with trying to get the rows of windows on the building that lined the square just in shot, in an angle that worked. This was one […]

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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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