Beach Huts

Day 4 - Retro Love
I know summer is now over but you can not help but smile when you see beach huts. These ice cream coloured huts are adorable and day four of Retro Love week is dedicated to all beach huts every where.



Images 1 2 3 4 - Scrumptious photos from James Clarke



Photos from The Guardian

Beach huts in Mudeford, Dorset. You could have bought one in 1982 for £4,250 now you would need £140,000!!! To read the full case study click here for The Telegraph report.
Southwold, Suffolk beach huts form Snailtrail

Check out UK Beach Huts.co.uk to see their great selection of huts to buy.

Sheds on the Seashore

I had to add this book to the Beach Hut day as today I received a lovely email from it's authoress Kathryn Ferry, she told me that for research she had visited some 20,000 huts. I was amazed as I never would have guessed that there were as many in existence in the UK. Kathryn has two other books to look out for and signed copies are available direct from the author at www.beach-huts.com


Thank you for your email Kathryn it was a lovely surprise.

Constance the vintage caravan

Day 3 - Retro Love
Meet Constance a 1957 Sprite 14 caravan....... what more can I say other then I WANT ONE. Stop by Snail Trail for more retro goodies, all for hire. Do you recognise her? She was used in this Spring/Summer Joules catalogue.

Pink Camper Van

Day 2 - Retro Love
I have always wanted a pink VW Camper Van to jollying around the country side in. If I ever get to have another baby I will purchase one and even if it doesn't work I would love to paint and decorate it as a play den. Don't worry if I get to have a little boy I will paint it blue or maybe pale green or how about dove grey, decisions..... decisions. It would be parked in a lovely spot and be filled with squashy cushions and of course a tea set.
Flickr user Foshie
Flickr user Foshie
Photo at here.org.uk
Whilst day dreaming of play den Camper Vans I found the most beautiful paper art below.
Paper Illustration of a Romany Caravan by the incredibly talented Helen Musselwhite

Retro Love

Day1 - Retro Love
A week of retro love, starting with a visit to London.........
Faye and I are completely hooked on retro, be it a camper or a fabric bag. I think we are being stalked by the cutest car, a Nissan Figaro, every where we go there seems to be one. Sunday Christian and I spent the day window shopping and what should appear a pink 'Figaro" ( you have to sing the word Figaro when you see one). It was just off the Kings Road, Chelsea and was so sweet.

Hope & Greenwood a scrumptious candy store full of lollies and sweets in jars.


and of course we just had to stop by a Cath Kidston store, this one was in Covent Garden.




A fabulous airstream which was also in Covent Garden.

Shabby Chic

It's Saturday morning and it's breakfast in bed time, after what has been a very long and busy week. With lots of meetings and some extremely long days in my studio, I have been getting artwork ready for the printers and an extremely exciting licensing partnership with Lesser & Pavey, details of which I will share on a later date.

With the weather being so unusually mild for this time of year, I am torn as wether to go window shopping or do a little craft painting. If I am lucky I might be able to manager both, hope you are having a relaxing weekend too. xxx


A new book is out on the shelves and it looks lovely, I might just have to find myself a copy whilst out and about.
Click for a sneek peek at Rachel Ashwell's Californian home and some hints & tips in her new book Shabby Chic Interiors. I visited Rachel's East Hampton store whilst visiting NY last year and it was full of gorgeous things. The news of half the chain closing earlier this year was a shock and such a shame, good luck Rachel with the new book.

Dots & Stripes

Images
1/2/3 stylist Jane Roarty 2c

Rug by Gandia Blasco



Photo by my favorite- Tim Walker 'A Play of Dots' in Vogue italia

Photo by Keith Scott Morton

photo By Mark Pilal

Autumn Leaves

Autumn is here and the leaves are dropping of the trees faster then you can rake them up. I spent time on Sunday afternoon with the leaf blower trying to get my front garden tidy. Raking a large pile of leaves up and then filling my garden bag for composting, no sooner then finishing my cup of tea I turned around and the very large and very beautiful tree had sprinkled little presents all over my lawn again.





These amazing photos are by Troyt Coburn