May 2011
8 posts
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Dean & Deluca
After a weekend of the best of Britishness, Royal Weddings, Rugby for small boys on the Common, and a Barbecue with good chums, the hubbie and I were watching something yesterday and I was reminded of how much I hanker after another visit to New York. I first went with my bezzie Catherine of http://assembling-thoughts.blogspot.com/ fame. That was 15 years ago, my word, we were 19 and oh so...
April 2011
7 posts
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Royal Wedding Tooting Style
DO NOT READ THIS if you are coming to my house tomorrow as it will ruin the moment.
DO READ THIS if you want to see how our gaff tarted up for a bit of a do.
I have only spent about £10 on my red white and blue decorations, I had my gingham checked and striped tablecloths already.
We will be showing the wedding through a projector onto the wall for those who can be bothered to get here at 11....
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Byron - proper hamburgers proper stylish
It was a couple of years ago that I first went to a Byron restaurant. We had just had our little fella and it was our anniversary. The first night out after a new baby is always fraught but we were optimistic. We intended to go for a burger and then the cinema, nothing too flash, but our little man had different ideas and played merry hell with his Grandma. So much so that we had to hot foot it...
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Rose Uniacke's Style
I am one of those people who like to tear out pictures I like from magazines (annoying for my husband when he reads them second). Then I pop them in this lovely Harris & Jones (www.harrisandjones.co.uk) storage box.
This box has a lot of cuttings but there is a special section for Rose Uniacke’s work. You may have driven past her stylish shop on Pimlico Road. This is a fantastic road...
Something's Gotta Give House
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Have you watched this film? If not, you have to. Go and buy it now, it is so old it will probably only be £3 in HMV. Honestly, not only is it one of the funniest films it also features one of my favourite Movie homes. Nancy Meyer’s films always feature great interiors, think It’s Complicated, The Holiday, Father of the Bride, Parent Trap.
Now I am not the first to blog about this...
FT How to spend it
A good article on Colporter here http://www.howtospendit.com/#/articles/4253-e-cquisition-colporter by Charlotte Abrahams.
Charlotte wrote the book Wallpaper and has a fantastic blog http://www.charlotteabrahamsstyleinsider.blogspot.com/
Thanks for featuring us Charlotte.
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Annabel's House
Who is this Annabel and her house? She absolutely must be as lovely as her house. I found it about 18 months ago. Every now and then I check back to see if she is still as beautiful as ever and she always is.
Let me explain how this minor obsession started.
A friend of mine sent me a link to www.1st-option.com and I have never looked back. If you need to lose a couple of hours surfing this...
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The Feast is over (for this month).
Wow, what a great day. The market was buzzing considering it was the first ever Feast. The guys from Diamond Jive made it for me, jiving all around the Retro Village.
I foolishly forgot my Camera but here is one someone tweeted of some of our wares…courtesy of @redidea…
March 2011
6 posts
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West Norwood Feast
Last year Mr Colporter and I spent a week at the Country Living Fair. It was fantastic fun but tiring. We decided then that as we run our little business part time this would be too much to do again this year (as well as pricey!).
Instead we are on a mission to support little fairs and markets.
The first of these we are going to attend this year is the Retro area of the West Norwood Feast on...
Love love love this outfit
I keep seeing this advert and I think that I MUST recreate that outfit the next time I am invited to one of the following:
(a) Wedding
(b) Christening
(c) Races/ Croquet (ha unlikely!)/ Posh Garden Party (hmmm)
No weddings likely (unless my Mum gets a proposal (go ‘ed Mike she makes a cracking Laggy)).
I do have a few pregmundo mates but then a Christening will be ages away. Maybe...
Penguin Books - do judge a book by its cover
It is not that original or ground breaking to love the Penguin Classic books of the 1950s and 60s but I really do find them so satisfying.
Below are three penguin classics that rank very highly in my all time favourite books. If I pass a charity shop it is a compulsion to pop in and see if I can pick any of these up. It is not just how great they look on the shelf, I actually read them. Did you...
Then and Now "Percy Part 1 - The Kitchen"
When looking through some old Photo files I came across a folder full of pictures of Percy Pendle (our pet name for our house SAD) taken on our 3rd viewing after our offer had been accepted. This is back in 2006. Hughie was a teeny weeny baby and Fred was still a twinkle.
As the lovely Heather Lewin took so many nice pics for Ideal Home Magazine (and it will probably never be that tidy again) I...
New York New York
Start spreading the news…we have the most enormous Subway Blind here waiting to be picked up. I would love to have it permanently but even with our highish ceilings we would struggle.
Our customer wanted something over 1.5m high. He has ended up with this beauty, 1.8m high. He must have a loft apartment or something.
Talk about wow factor.
I have warned him to put the seats down in his...
Colporter's Blog
Well what will I write about here…? It is hard enough to fill 150 characters on Twitter.
Well Vintage treasures do not have to be just inside the house. We have a few garden ideas too.
A vintage tin planter and some herbs I planted this weekend. The next project is to plant up a pair of big wooden crates. Any thoughts what to plant? I am thinking some climbers and my favourite, lavender.
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