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Wednesday Wants: Moustache Moust-haves

By | 31 October 2012

Like the trusty owl, moustaches have become a bit of a design icon. In fact, for the next month, you won’t be able to move for moustaches with the onset [...]

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Wednesday Wants: Trick or Treats for grown ups

By | 24 October 2012

While most of Britain don’t really *get* Halloween, this weekend, I’ll be taking full advantage of the opportunity to don fancy dress and outlandish make up and eat my body [...]

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Wednesday Wants: ‘Let’s get Lost’ print

By | 3 October 2012

When summer’s over and the nights start to draw in, I go into planning overdrive. Planning ahead for the impending party season but also exciting getaways to look forward to [...]

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Wednesday Wants: Special birthday presents

By | 26 September 2012

The arrival of Autumn brings with it the onslaught of September and October birthdays (there’s more births now than at any other time of year). Maybe this is due to [...]

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Wednesday Wants: Getting Organised

By | 19 September 2012

With London Fashion Week and London Design Festival in full swing and a new school term having just begun, it’s a rather busy time of year. In fact, on a [...]

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Wednesday Wants: Interiors you can draw on…

By | 15 August 2012

It doesn’t matter how many Moleskines I buy, when a critical moment of inspiration comes, I can never find a piece of paper to capture it. Yes, iPhones are all [...]

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Wednesday Wants: Novelty Tents

By | 1 August 2012

I’ll start with a confession: I hate camping. But with today’s ‘Wednesday Wants’, I could be persuaded otherwise. Despite the rather stop-start summer we’ve been having, I know lots of [...]

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Wednesday Wants: Support Team GB from home

By | 25 July 2012

With the Olympics finally kicking off in two days, it really is Great Britain’s time to shine (hopefully with actual sunshine). Londoners – put aside your grumbles about commuter chaos, [...]

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Wednesday Wants: Liberty Print Shower Caps

By | 11 July 2012

So, it’s official: last month was the wettest June on record. And looking at this week’s weather forecast, it’s looking likely to continue (Thames Water underestimated the power of tempting [...]

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Wednesday Wants: Wedding Gifts

By | 4 July 2012

Wedding season is now in full swing and if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably left gift buying to the last minute. And now the only thing left on the [...]

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