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Helen Lang

Helen Lang creates beautiful artwork that is reproduced on greetings cards and mugs. Animals, flowers and birds feature widely in her designs and the subject of love is a recurring theme.
There are stories here too. Helen’s subjects are not just animals, they’re characters with their own secret lives. Pictures[.....]

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Crown Colour Match

This is a nifty little app. When you’re out and about and spot a colour you think would go well in your kitchen, Crown Colour Match enables you to snap it and match it to their colour range.
Here’s how it works. You take your pic and then zoom in on the[.....]

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Juniper and Crow

Juniper and Crow is a fairly new company based in St Andrews, Scotland. Their beautiful vintage furniture is sourced locally and then repaired, restored and refinished.
Materials are selected for their quality. They use Farrow & Ball eco-friendly paint and their upholstery fabrics are tweeds and tartans from the Scottish Borders.
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Kelly Swallow Patchwork Chairs

Remember the scene in ‘My Fair Lady’ where Eliza Doolittle is singing, ‘Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?’ She sings, ‘All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air, with one enormous chair, oh wouldn’t it be loverly . . . .’ Well, I’ve often thought about that chair[.....]

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Collette Costello

That’s the thing about Manchester. You never run out of things to do and see. There’s always a new cafe or a shop opening or someone’s launching an exhibition.
And then there are places that have been around for a while that you’ve never really explored.
Collette Costello first launched in 2008[.....]

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Cake Stands

Who knew that one day I’d be sitting and comparing cake stands? And liking them. My teenage self would’ve been horrified and also more than a little surprised that I’d made the cakes to put on the stand. And that they were presentable enough to be displayed. But as I can[.....]

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Cut

Recently I’ve been getting into cut work. Beautiful pieces of art with intricate patterns, lamps with cut out botanical shapes to allow the light to shine through and laser cut wooden ornaments.
Here are a few of my favourites.

Rob Ryan has become well known for his beautiful intricate paper cuts and[.....]

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Put it Away

I hate clutter. Hate it. I can’t work in a messy room or at a desk that’s a jumble of papers and odds and ends. It’s so distracting. That’s why I’m a bit of a fan of storage solutions. Fancy boxes, pencil tubs, magazine boxes and those teeny tiny drawers that, let’s face it, don’t fit much inside – I have them all. And I’m always on the look out for more.

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