We featured Holland Esquire in last week’s Wednesday Wish blog post, but we just had to give them a revisit. Just look at this multi-coloured jacket lining – exquisite!
Posts Tagged ‘colour’
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Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
I have Draw Pilgrim! to thank for this week’s Wednesday Wish. She blogged recently about Bonnie & Buttermilk who sell ladies and children’s fashion on DaWanda.
Bonnie & Buttermilk is a Berlin-based design duo. They’re inspired by modern, urban and a passion for retro design. They design their own patterns & fabrics used in their collection. I love all colours & patterns they use and all the contrasting brights… totally my taste!
And the way they style their photo shoots… with vintage homewares, handbags and those contrasting tights! I just can’t decide which outfit is my fave – which one’s yours?
Darn it!
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
In our last post we talked about a pleasant little surprise we had when we opened an old tin… well it’s just happened again. We saw this lovely, vintage Christmas biscuit tin in our local Picture House Antiques today.
We’d already decided to snap it up for the tin alone. However, the price tag said that contents were included.
What a lovely surprise to find all this inside…
…everything you might need for a bit of darning…
…including tools and lovely old yarns.
Almost looking forward to getting holes in our socks!!!
Summer Lovin’
Friday, May 7th, 2010
We picked up this fab 60s/70s lounger at a market recently.
The metal frame and period fabric are both in great condition.
We also bought a couple of striped deckchairs from the same stall.
We’ve been stocking up on outdoor items for our shop, ready for the summer.
Here’s just a selection – and what a blast of colour!
Y is for…
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Yellow – like orange – is another one of our favourite accent colours…
…a more gentle effect than the high impact of fiery orange, but perfect in some situations.
It has connotations of sunshine, freshness and spring. It was much used in 1950s design as countries emerged from the austere war years.
The mosaic at the top is made up of objects available from the H is for Home website.
Here’s a lovely little poem we came across recently… very fitting for today’s blog!
An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly
And, here and there, a passer-by
Shows like a little restless midge.
Big barges full of yellow hay
Are moored against the shadowy wharf,
And, like a yellow silken scarf,
The thick fog hangs along the quay.
The yellow leaves begin to fade
And flutter from the Temple elms,
And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade.
Symphony In Yellow, Oscar Wilde
