Monthly Archives: February 2011

on my desk + travel plans

First off I bought this today for Simon and I to share. I picked it up mainly because of its packaging, it’s quite a mild mint and mild dark chocolate. If it’s going to be mint I think I prefer something stronger, like an After Eight :) But secondly what I have been spending a [...]

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knitted brooches

My sister made these for me at Christmas. She makes such cool knitted things!

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from the charity shop

Table mats from the charity shop, I like the box they came in :)

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Show & tell: Two good things

This china mug. It’s from the Tate St Ives shop, I’m having trouble finding anything about it online but underneath it says the design was done for Tate St Ives by Alex Higlett. The drawings are of St Ives landmarks and it says “shoo, cloud shoo!”. Very cheering. (The drink in the picture is a [...]

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St Ives, grey skies

It weather looks gloomy doesn’t it, it was very February, but it didn’t rain other than a light mist as we were leaving. There was an amazingly strong wind that you could lean right into, the telephone wires in the little streets would hum a little tune, and the sea really cracked on the shore. [...]

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