Category Archives: Blog

BLOG: Chocolate Hearts

I don’t eat chocolates, but like the empty trays. Got a big collection now…just don’t know what to make with them yet?  

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BLOG: Baking Hearts

I just needed to bake yesterday…Cardamon shortbread and Shrewsbury biscuits…

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BLOG: Little Love Cakes

My niece sent me these cakes through the post in a cardboard tube…they made me smile.

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BLOG: Small Food Finds

Looking through my boxes…  

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BLOG: Studio Sorting

Now there’ll be a lot of things to show as I sort my studio shelves…  

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BLOG: Rhubarb Pie Dish

Time to make Rhubarb Pie; inspired after coming across my American Fruit Cards, seeing this vibrant pink Early Rhubarb in London, and receiving this fabulous Pie Set for Christmas. FALCON Enamelware established 1920. A classic product thoughtfully represented with seductive … Continue reading

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BLOG: A Toft in The British Museum!

Just in London…saw Grayson Perry: The Tomb of a Craftsman at The British Museum…one of the most fascinating exhibitions I’ve seen in a while. A good marketing idea for the BM…more than the expected Egypt. Perry had selected his objects … Continue reading

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BLOG: Dutch Design: Vegetables

You have to look closely at these vegetables…produced in extraordinary textiles, designed by Dutch Designers Scholten & Baijings…

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BLOG: Seed Packets Collection

I’ve been collecting vegetable seed packets for years because I love the illustration and colours, thing is, they were in storage for 15 years and all went mouldy…

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BLOG: pink in green!

Just had to show you this…I was podding the late and too stringy runner beans on another rainy day to experiment with drying my own seed. Joy oh joy to find another colour other than stormy grey…it cheered me up … Continue reading

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