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Digital Photography

Cool dSLR camera straps

When you’re lucky enough to get your hands on a brand-spanking new dSLR camera you also get a perfectly good camera strap. Camera manufacturers though, not satisfied with the hundreds of pounds you’ve already shelled out to purchase their…

xmas-gifts
Photography

Christmas 2012 gift guide for photographers

So, how are your holiday preparations going? If they’re anything there’s plenty of good intentions but not a lot going on in the action department. The majority of my efforts have ended in me finding lots of stuff I’d…

tinker tailor soldier spy - mood board
Design Inspiration

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

I went to the cinema last night to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy which I loved a lot! It’s basically a spy film but the opposite of a James Bond film – there’s no glamour, the colour is washed…

tea-cosy
Design Inspiration

Time to get cosy

Yes, it IS autumn now. We have permission to get cosy and purchase the lovely things that appear at this time of year to see us through the cold and darkness that lies ahead……

tape
Design Inspiration

August break XXI

I am hugely in love with stationery. Adore it. My teenage years were spent working in WH Smith’s for a Saturday job where I got to play with the stuff all day and even today I have to hold…

pentax-onions
Film Photography

Just looking, thanks

When I was a kid I love playing ‘shop’ and my toy cash-register was my most prized possession. I still love shops, especially lovely little independent ones that I’ve never been to before. Any sort of shop, I really…

cold-picks
Design Inspiration

Baby, it’s cold outside

Maybe if I had all this lovely stuff I would stand a chance of being warm (and yet cool at the same time)! It is freakin’ cold outside – I am a southern softie and don’t cope well in…

mirrors
Design Inspiration

Mirror, mirror on the wall…

I’ve been hunting around for a nice wall mirror recently and it’s a good job I’m a bit strapped for cash because I could easily spend a fortune and cover the whole house with them! ‘lottery win’ mirror –…

necklace
Design Inspiration

Want

My lustful gaze has fallen upon some wonderful stuff in its time, but at the top of my list currently is this fab necklace from brevity – I’m really into hexagons at the moment and I don’t like my…