Friday Seedlings
A busy week - tartan coats, podcast chats, an old man's beard hanging globe (or disco ball!) and more...
This week has been a busy one! How has yours been?
We launched our Christmas homewares collection (thank you for the love!); my collaboration with Brora launched - three fringed, tartan blanket coats you will wear and wear (which is your fave?); a podcast chat with the lovely Amanda Wakeley on Style DNA (there’s been some interesting style confessions from me - the pink tracksuit emblazoned with Cool is one I remember with a mix of emotions!); flowering with dahlias and … sweet chestnuts!
In this edition, six things on my mind this week, plus for the paid subscribers, my how-to video and steps to create a mad, whimsical globe or disco ball as I like to think of her, from Old Man’s Beard… absolute heaven for bringing fun indoors this season! I also round up my best of the tartan trend because no Autumn is complete without a pledge to plaid…
Brora x Willow Crossley Collaboration
This week, my new collaboration with Brora dropped - three beautiful tartan-y, fringed, blanket coats - the perfect weight and shape, you’ll want to wear with everything this season and next. So hard to choose - I am wearing the Mulberry one here.
Rivals - out today!
Very excited about Jilly Cooper’s Rivals reimagining in a TV series on Disney+ … dropping tonight! A perfect Friday night in after a busy week if ever there was one. 80’s style dreaming and let’s hope Rupert is as gorgeous as I imagined…
Sweet Chestnut Sprinklings
We had a big celebratory family lunch this weekend - a 70th, a 60th and a 10th birthday - and I did the flowers. We had our first big frost of the year the day before which devastatingly wiped out all the dahlias. Luckily the lovely Andie from Dahlia Beach came to my rescue and let me go picking in her poly tunnel! I love scattering things around the flowers running down the table and spiky sweet chestnuts are perfect for this now. Painful to prise open for the velvety middles but totally worth it I promise!
Our Holiday Collection - A Winter’s Tale!
We’re busy packing orders from our new holiday collection, A Winter’s Tale - for Autumn/Winter - for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah; or for a miserable-weather-joyful-January lunch with friends! The beautiful posie linens are the perfect base - the softest linen and very joyful-making large scale print, a design we loved creating with colours that work all year round. We love to layer with our very smart Christmas large velvet bows and mini velvets, and no table is complete without a twinkly, spinning dove tea light candle holder!
My podcast episode with Amanda Wakeley -
I had such fun recording a Style DNA episode with the wonderful Amanda Wakeley - here we chat my style through the ages, 14 times a bridesmaid, my wedding dress, flower tiaras, the importance of comfort (for me) and much more! Have a listen here.
Red lacquer tray
From John Lewis! Because I am so into red right now, and because one can never have too many lacquer trays to scatter around surfaces at home - pile with books, candles, crystals, bowls of nuts & coloured candy sweets, and top with a corn husk angel decoration…
Time for Tartan