*****Thank you for your entries. The winner is Charlotte Jones***** Love Orla Kiely? Fancy owning one of her latest bags designed exclusively for Tesco? Read on! You may remember almost a year ago I was really excited about the new range of bags Orla Kiely was designing for Tesco. At the beginning of this year I managed to get my hands on the scribble pear design, and I also have an interesting grey and white geometric patterned one too. Despite being surrounded by Tesco stores only one has ever stocked the Orla Kiely bags (Lee Valley Tesco Extra if you’re…
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I couldn’t resist finding out how some people come across my blog and thought I’d join up with Kate’s latest Listography challenge – top 5 keyword searches on your blog. It’s not surprising given my interests that a lot of people find my blog by searching for variations of gingerbread house so after ignoring those my top 5 keyword searches are: 1. mint chocolate cupcakes – well I did make some rather delicious ones here 2. Cath Kidston cross stitch – despite owning all the Cath Kidston craft books I’ve made very little from them. This was my first, and…
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It’s been a while since I’ve made any gingerbread biscuits and as a playdate was cancelled yesterday I thought I would bake some. I used a gingerbread cookie mix I bought from John Lewis. The mixture smelt delicious and it was lovely to do some easy baking! You all know what an Orla Kiely freak I am so I thought it would be fun to make my favourite stem print into a template for an icing sugar decoration. Simple but effective. You may wonder why I only managed to photograph one biscuit? Let’s just say I discovered my son shares…
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My most recent thrifted find was this lovely little vintage suitcase. I can’t imagine why anyone would make, let along buy, such a small suitcase. Perhaps it’s just me who can’t leave home without the kitchen sink! Anyway, it’s made of cardboard and lined with paper and I thought it would be a perfect backdrop for my photographs which I’m really trying to improve this year. It needed a bit of cheering up though so I purchased some Orla Kiely wrapping paper, featuring my favourite colourful stem print. The paper is reversible – small stem print on one side and…
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Squeeeee! It takes a lot to get me excited in my pregnancy haze but when I heard about the Orla Kiely board books I rubbed my tired eyes to make sure I hadn’t made it up! Yep, in a few short weeks two lovely board books will be available by one of my design crushes, Orla Kiely. I haven’t been able to find out much about them except they feature 32 pages of her famous designs which will help your little ones learn their colours and numbers using many of her trademark famous designs . This is obviously a new…
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As much as I love my iPhone I also love being able to pimp the outisde. I’ve gone through a fair few since I bought my first iPhone in 2007, although always stuck with either Cath Kidston or recently, Orla Kiely, covers. Remember the luscious lacquered shell which didn’t last long as I upgraded and it didn’t fit the later iPhone model. Or the less successful oilcloth cover which I used for a matter of hours before I got fed up of having to pull a chord to access my phone. How about the lovely London cover? I used this…
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I recently won a fabulous Orla Kiely lampshade from The Old Lamp Shed. I was able to pick the design I wanted and went for cars – perfect for Edward’s room. When we were expecting we painted the nursery a neutral colour but now Edward’s coming up to his first birthday we’re trying to give the room a more boyish feel. My photograph doesn’t do it justice as the lampshade is large, fabulous and a really vibrant orange. When we showed Edward the lampshade in his room he had a huge smile on his face so I think he’s…
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Last week I had a cheeky trip to the West End. I say cheeky because since Edward came along I get little time to myself. Given a couple of hours I decided to go shopping even though I needed to catch up on some sleep and the house needed a clean. Anyway, I hopped on the tube to Covent Garden and I visited two shops, spent all the money I didn’t have, and came home. You can probably guess the two shops – Cath Kidston and Orla Kiely! In Cath Kidston I picked up a new phone case for my…
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New Orla Kiely, new Rob Ryan, new shelf