Drink Shop & Do

Drink Shop & Do is somewhere I have been meaning to go for ages!  It's a design shop and cafe bar where everything is for sale, so the interior is changing all the time. The space is so inspiring, it's in an old Victorian bathhouse in King's Cross and is soooo pretty & the cake is good too! I feel like I'm the last person to visit this place, but if you haven't discovered it yet, go! I went with my mum and sister (in the pic below...)

Travel Photographer of the Year 2013

My dad was in town last week and took me to see this Travel Photography exhibition at the Royal Geographic Society. Pictures above by Timothy Allen, Andrew Newey & Carlos Esteves. It's well worth a visit!

Stop the Water While Using Me!

I came across this  brand the other day and think it's brilliant. I love the not so subtle message,  the packaging, the website, all of it! I bought the lemon and honey hand soap, it's really good!

Seafoam Come Home

It's been an exciting Summer at The Plate Rack. We've been working on adding some colour to our racks and the first one is here!

It's a beautiful aquamarine dream that we're calling 'Seafoam'. We're aiming to get it on our website by the end of August.  T H E  P L A T E   R A C K

coming at the end of August from  T H E  P L A T E   R A C K

coming at the end of August from  T H E  P L A T E   R A C K

 Other loveliness in this colour....

image sources: 1,  2,  3,  4

Wonky Lolly

I made ice lollies for my Sister & her man last weekend.  I had to improvise a bit as I'd left making these till the last minute and couldn't find any ice lolly sticks,  so I used 3 wooden skewers ( cut the spikes off !)  which seemed to work ok. I used a combination of rum and coconut milk, pineapple juice,  apple juice, peach smoothie and cherry juice. I poured the first layer into the lolly mould with the sticks held in place stuck through a piece of cardboard. I put it into the freezer tilted at an angle for a couple of hours, took it out, poured in another colour and repeated tilting it the opposite way each time. So simple, but I think they look really pretty! 

Our colourful indian bedspread came in handy as a picnic blanket.  

Anna bought me peonies that opened up in about 30 seconds, so beautiful!

 

Love Letters

I got crafty with the cardboard a couple of months ago, to make giant letters for my sister in law's wedding. Here are some images to show how simple they are to make.

1:Hand drawn letters cut out from a cardboard box ( all bottom edges are flat so they don't roll!)

 

2: Rough cardboard bases, held together with brown tape.

3: paper mache layer

4: Finally a layer of polyfilla and white paint.

& Others.....

Table numbers made for my wedding using the same process.

A present for my sister at the polyfilla stage.

and below all moved in.

 

Plate Racks Stacked in Good Homes Magazine

We're so excited to be in the July issue of Good Homes magazine!  It's always interesting to see them filled up with other people's stuff - We think they look brilliant here!

Christmas Bits and Bobs

We put our Christmas tree up last week. We are a bit short on decorations, so I made a garland that I had seen a while ago on Oh Happy Day. It gets a bit addictive! I really wanted to go to bed, but couldn't stop !

Rainbow Cake

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I made this rainbow cake for my sister's joint birthday meal. As it was a double wammy, I felt like making a super show off cake! This was the first cake I have ever made, I followed the brilliant instructions for the sponge on the Whisk Kid Blog , borrowed all the equipment and watched a video on how to make it, so there was no way it could go wrong! I was inspired by the sprinkles on the Half Baked blog for the icing which also had ace fool proof instructions!

Surely not Already?

I've been designing shop windows for years, but it always takes me by surprise when I have to start  designing the Christmas windows in September! This is the very beginning of my thoughts..... I love everything about these tassels. these are all by the amaaaaazing Confetti System.