I was looking for a clock for our spare bedroom and found this animal clock from Graham and Green.
I think it’s meant for kids. The white metal and chic animal silhouettes are quite grown-up, but then the bright red swinging monkey pendulum and the playschool shape screams kiddie.
Maybe it’s for sophisticated kids? I’m sure I could just about fit into that bracket.
I think it would go well with our cow wallpaper. What do you think?
…but look at me now! Well, that’s what I imagine Silvana would shout if she had a voice.
She’s graduated from wash drum to statement lamp and side table all in one. I love the pattern created from the light shining through the holes in the sides.
Silvana has been lovingly restored by Reestore and costs £350.
The girl done good.
Following on from my post on sewing, this Giant Scissor Cushion is quite fitting.
It’s not that giant at half a metre long but certainly big enough and I really like it, it’s a nice simple design but I bet it could be used in loads of ways. It’s £45 and available from Roost who suggest you use it as a pin cushion or of course an actual cushion, but I also think it would make a pretty good breastfeeding cushion.
How would you use it?
My new zig zag lights didn’t quell my hankering for zig zags, I wanted some more to finish off our bedroom and found this set of two cushion covers from Etsy seller Say It With Pillows.
Along with these John Lewis value cushions in red and blue for £5 each, I now have enough zig zags and cushions in my life.
I like that the zig zags on the cushions and lights are a bit different and don’t match exactly, do you?
There are loads of owl homewares about, be they lamps, vases, cushions or chalkboards. I hadn’t found myself particularly hankering after them, but ever since I saw Mr Wild Owl from Graham and Green I want them all.
At almost half a metre high, he’s ceramic and his flat head can be used to sit on or to put things on. I’m thinking a pair of bedside tables or one as a stool in front of a dressing table maybe.
You won’t get much change from £100 but I think he’s gorgeous. Do you like him?
What do you do with your favourite things? Do you display them in cabinets, shelves or on mantlepieces? I have a couple of favourite things under a bell jar in my hall.
But now I’m hankering after this pendant-lamp-come-illuminated-display-case that is especially made to show off your favourite things.
It’s a pretty good-looking lamp.
But when you put a favourite thing inside it is transformed.
It’s available in white, black and mustard.
I think it would look great hung low over a dining table as a talking point.
At £235 each from Cow & Co one would be a favourite thing in its own right.
What would you display in it?
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls please take your seats, Lydia Meiying‘s Circus is about to begin…
Da da dadadada da da da da, da da dadadada da da da da…
Our first performer for your entertainment is the Strongman, prepare to be amazed by his superhuman strength!
Watch the Lion Tamer turn this ferocious lion into a purring pussy cat.
How many Hula Hoops can this pretty girl keep up? Watch and see!
Please give a round of applause for the Performing Seal and he will clap back!
Here is the full cast of entertainers around the back.
All the circus cushion covers are available in three sizes at €19.99, €22.99 and €24.99 with free shipping worldwide. There are also placemats and oven gloves in the same design.
The new range of fabrics by Andrew Martin at Rockett St George has me hankering. They’re really unusual and I think would like really striking on a bed head, ottoman or cushions.
I love playing cards but as it’s one of the few games I can win at, it’s difficult to stop me once I’ve started. This croupier fabric would cheer me up when no-one will play cards with me.
This vintage style comic book fabric is all about what young ladies want to be when they grow up, I think I wanted to be at least four of them in my younger days…
The Naughty Nurse vintage style comic book fabric is probably not one for your kid’s room, from the photos I can’t make out the text but the design is great, if a little raunchy.
All three fabrics are 133cm wide and sold in 1 metre lengths at £59.50 per metre.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
These melamine plates are so happy and sunny I thought they might brighten your rainy Friday afternoon.
Plan to take them on your first summer picnic or get them for your kids.
You’d better eat your dinner quick before Mr Lion gobbles it up. He looks like he’s eyeing up your neighbours food too.
Reenact The Tiger Who Came To Tea with this Tiger plate. I love his bewildered expression.
Their cousin the Cat has requested you have something fish-based please.
The designs aren’t all animals, there is a happy clown, a sun and this apple plate which unfortunately won’t count toward your 5 a day.
The plates are designed by Swedish illustrator Ingela P Arrhenius and are available from Lagom Design for £8 each.
Which is your favourite?
It seems I’m always on the hunt for a bookshelf of some description. I don’t like boring shelves, I want something clever and unusual.
This clever leather book shelf fits the bill beautifully and would be great for awkward spaces where you don’t really have enough wall space for a full set of shelves. The two tiers of leather straps can hold books or bottles. I’m thinking of hanging a couple as bedside tables for the books I’ve got piling up by my bed or to hold my recipe books or wine in the kitchen. It’s £89 from Rockett St George.
Also big on cleverness is this industrial style shelving unit that turns into a table. The wooden shelves can be used straight or angled and they fold out flat to form a table top. Available as a cream side table at £375 or a black dining table at £700 from Rockett St George.
I don’t know whether you’d end up using it more in its table form than its shelf form, but it would be great to clear a room by folding the table up against the wall as shelves. Do you like multi-use furniture or do you think it’s better to get two different items?
