Saturday 23rd April | 2pm-4pm. We are bursting with excitement to be hosting a Spring Flower Bouquet Workshop here in the Simple Shape Studio taught by Tobby Wu of Bleak House

Blue Monday, the so named most depressing day of the year, got me thinking. It got me thinking about ‘the blues’. But rather than focus on the darkness that the 'Winter Blues’ elicits this is my personal version of Blue Sky Thinking…

The black and white of it is that we’re resolutely refusing to fall into the ‘For Him / For Her’ approach to seasonal shopping. Instead we’ve organised the collection into colour groups. In our Monochrome Edit we have things that are black, white and a good few shades of grey.

If a natural tone is what you’re after in your homewares shopping then our Natural Selection Gift Guide including alpaca wool throws, wooden boards, copper watering cans, walnut coffee scoops and jute twine…all designed and made on these shores is a good starting place.

All of our gifts are handmade, crafted things that have ALL, without exception, been made in the UK and Ireland and that each support a designer, maker, small business or unique industry. If this is what you’re looking for, then this is the gift guide for you. Here is our Colour Injection edit.

This is going to be a winter like no other isn’t it. A winter where we will find ourselves collectively hibernating. We have gathered up some of the most lovely blankets and cushions for you to squash yourselves into until spring.

This is going to be the most British of summers for most of us. Seems like the best time to celebrate our island, make for the coast and turn a picnic into an occasion, you might as well!

The upside of being at home more is being around to pick the blackberries from the brambles that cascade over the wall by my studio from the next-door neighbours garden. This recipe for Blackberry Ice Cream is really worth the effort. Find yourself a patch of brambles and get going.