Flower Power London

With London in full bloom for the Chelsea Flower Show we can't help but get excited by the wonderful variety of colours and shapes. Although they are hardly considered exotic anymore one of our favourite flowers is the tulip, especially the green and white ones. 

All Things Stripy

We love stripes and we especially love the idea that you can apply them to absolutely anything, even your house, or especially your house. Be it a little cottage, a big town house or a fabulous beech hut we think a bold stripy finnish is the way to go!

Something Fishy!

We are not really sure what these might be useful for but we love them anyway! There's always something charming and interesting about the very ordinary, as long as its not familiar, sardines have never looked so exotic! We always visit foreign supermarkets and vintage fairs when travelling and recommend you do the same, you never know what gems you might stumble upon.

Happy Easter - The Old Fashioned Way!

We love these old fashioned postcards celebrating everything that is lovely about Easter. All the clashing colours, lots of eater eggs and of course the long weekend wouldn't be complete without dancing hares! 

Get me out of the city!

I can't think of anything that could make me want to visit the countryside more than Hockneys paintings of Yorkshire. In glorious technicolor, they really are for adults what Disney is for children, mesmerising! We can wait to use his work as part of our inspiration for the next collection. The show is on at the Royal Academy until the 9th April, tickets are hard to come by but you must go! 
Royal Academy of Arts - www.royalacademy.org.uk

Cafe Chic

I have always loved sitting in Parisian cafes enjoying a drink and a spot of people watching. However on a recent trip I was really attracted to the variety of colours and patterns that are now used on the quintessentially Parisian chic chairs. These are some of our favourites that we will use as part of our next collections design inspiration.

Just Add Stamps

We came across these amazing old stamps while researching the forthcoming MON collection. Far from being a nerdy hobby we think they are beautiful and would love to receive more post and less emails! Oh, and we would like all the stamps to look as good as these ones.