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Tote of the Week: Dream A Little Dream of Me Tote by Ilana McMorran via Totes Amazed
Totes Amazed is an online shop showcasing the very best tote bags there are around, all carefully curated by designers, Rachael Griffiths and Gill McColl – girls after my own heart. Because of our mutual appreciation for a fine tote bag, they have kindly offered Mathilde heart Manech readers a 10% discount on all bags in their shop from now until the end of July – hurrah! Simply choose your poison, then enter MATHILDE at the checkout. If you need a little help, my favourites (if…
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Inspiration: Blog Love
I’ve been reading some wonderful new (to me) blogs lately, the type where you lose an afternoon pouring through their archives – ah Sunday afternoon bliss. I’m a sucker for great photography, personal style and home inspiration, in which the following blogs all deliver. My Creative // Hilda Grahnat // Charlestown Vintage // Skunkboy Blog // PeaSoup Cardboard Cities // Nishaantishu //Secondhand Sundays // Seit What are you reading? ♥
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Tote Of The Week: Embroidered Daily News Tote Bag via Sew Lomax
Sew Lomax is a London based embroidery canvas bag company making the best quality bags I’ve ever owned. FACT. Shall I leave it at that? Oh OK, I shall continue. I appreciate a good tote bag don’t you know (ahem) so I was pleased as punch when Emma Lomax, the designer of the eco-friendly bags, kindly sent me the Embroidered Daily News Tote and Makeup Brushes Bag to feature on the blog. All the bags are eco-friendly, hand finished and treated…
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Room For Improvement Challenge
You may have seen a few entries across the blogging community and Twitter for the Room For Improvement challenge hosted by Money Supermarket? Well, I was also asked to take part in the challenge – to improve a room in my house for £50 or less. I like a challenge with a deadline and I like it even better when your spending someone else pennies, oh yes! So I happily took part and began scribbling in my notebook. I chose to…
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Tote of the Week: Treacle Toffee Tote via Betty & Walter
Lisa Levis knows how to design beautiful bags. In fact, she’s pretty darn talented in creating all types of pretty things. Her accessories, bags and kitchen textiles make up the delightful lifestyle brand that is Betty & Walter, a place full of fabulous floral designs and contemporary awesomeness inspired by mid 20th century design. It should be called Swoonville – I’d totally live there. The tote in question, named Treacle Toffee, is destined to live a long and happy life with its chunky…
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Best British Designer-Makers: Catherine Tough
I like knitted goods. In fact I would rather wear a snug pair of lambswool socks and curl up on the sofa with my blanket than wear a pair of sandals soaking up the sun – draughty houses have accustomed me to such quirks, my friends. So imagine my delight when I stumbled across the cosy accessories and homewares of the London based brand, Catherine Tough, over my morning cup of English Breakfast. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in…
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Tote of the Week: Blue Q Wildflower Shopper via ASOS
This Wildflower Shopper from ASOS would make a perfect picnic bag to stuff your blanket, book and food in, and only £10. Blue Q’s shopper bags and pouches are all made from 95% recycled materials featuring vintage inspired prints and graphic patterns. Isn’t it pretty? Happy Friday! ♥ P.S Feel free to take a gander of the previous tote bags featured!
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10 UK Art and Craft Classes
It’s never too late to start afresh, learn new skills and be inspired, especially as this year seems to be passing us by so quickly – how is it May already, folks? Inspired by my friend who has recently started a Surface Pattern Design course I thought I’d share some art and craft classes throughout the UK for the creative so-and-so’s that read my blog (and to kick me up the bottom to learn something new). I’ve been in two minds about going…
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Best British Designer-Makers: Nancy Straughan
Nancy Straughan is a textile designer specialising in eco-friendly homewares and accessories crafted from her own range of printed fabrics. Inspired by Scandinavian and 1950s textiles and influenced heavily by her creative northern upbringing, she now lives and works in London, with keen interests including illustration, printmaking, bookbinding, and photography. Look at her beautifully styled product shots… For more inspiration visit Nancy Straughan’s website or shop online at Etsy and Not on the High Street . Enjoy! ♥ P.S Explore the blog for more UK…
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Best British Designer-Makers: Lovely Pigeon
It seems only natural, being an avid admirer of contemporary craft and working at the beautiful Heart Gallery, that I begin a new series on the blog celebrating the best designer-makers in the UK. From jewellery, ceramics and textiles to beauty, stationery and art – there is so much to discover on this little island of ours. If I can help a little by promoting these artists/makers of awesomeness, then that makes me happy. Plus I get to discover pretty…
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Home Accessories: Wilkinsons Home Range
Tripod Lamp // Chevron Vase // Steel Folding Chair Dandelion Design Mug // Wooden Frame Clock //Wire Yellow Storage Basket // Storage Jar I am most impressed with the new homeware range from Wilkinsons. A place I used to shop in, when I lived in the city, for toiletries and pickled onion Space Raiders, is now full with Mid Century Modern interiors, chevron prints and vintage inspired loveliness. If you’re starting out with your first home, I think it’s a…
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Design Delights: Brit-Stitch
Today is all about introductions. An old friend who I haven’t paid attention to for a long time and a new one who I can’t get enough of – always the way, huh? First up, let’s meet Mathilde, my Dutch bike that I received for my 30th birthday. To celebrate the beginning of Summer, I thought it would be a super idea to bring her out of storage and take her for a stroll. As soon as I clasped my…
