This week we are delighted to be joined by Caro London and Alison Beadnell who talk the importance of beautiful nightwear, life in Bali and the Milan fashion scene...

Babushka Pillows from And Sew to Bed

1.  Can you tell us a little bit about your fashion backgrounds and how your Caro London Range came about?
Caro:  After [...]

 'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' 
F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The roaring 20s is all the rage with the arrival of Baz Luhrmann's long-awaited epic film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic jazz-age novel The Great Gatsby looming on the horizon. With [...]

Steve Jelbert, author of The Iconoclast’s Guide to Music, introduces his new book...

If someone should announce that they don’t like coffee or chocolate or, God forbid, potatoes, you might disagree but you wouldn’t question their sanity. But if a stranger declares that they don’t like music, you’d think them rather weird.
 For music is what separates [...]

Hurrah! It's finally Spring and it's also National Gardening Week so there's no better time to get back in the garden!
With this in mind, we thought we'd share a fabulous project from the recently published 'Teeny Tiny Gardening' and what could be more appropriate than a Spring Garden Basket?

Create a spring garden in a basket [...]

Skinny Jeans? Check. Charity-shop Clothing? Check. Non-prescription glasses? Check. These items have become the uniform for a new breed of young people - hipsters - determined to take over cities with their 'alternative ways' whilst overloading on irony and striving to be original and creative. Here's Kara Simsek, author of 'So You Think You're a [...]