A treasure trove of characters at Puppet Planet on Wandsworth Road
I’m not sure if there is a puppet connection with Wandsworth, but this is the second time I’ve come across a veritable treasure trove of puppets in the area. The first was when I...
Tagged: Shops
Toy food carts
I’ve seen plastic representations of Chinese meals in restaurant windows before, but not little toy food carts…
Cheese, then mouse!
Gah – I’d just written a nice long post about: Swiss Cheese door stops (I have one and love it) Wooden mice door stops (We Made This pointed these out to me) whether it...
Baking ups and downs…
So; Leap Year, St David’s Day and then Mother’s Day – a jam packed weekend that was! and it involved a lot of baking… The Welsh cakes for Offline were a success (after I...
Loose threads
this afternoon whilst in N London I had time to kill before an appointment, and wandered into The London Bead Company. I wasn’t expecting much, but it was one of those shop that seem...
Buttons and babies
Wednesday Partake in the NY ritual that is doing laundry in the basement… quite weird, but quite comforting too.. it’s warm and has clean smells, and some kind people have left lots of books...
Christmas glitter
TuesdayM taking pictures for Sothebys on York Ave.. walk around freezing cold Central Park then meet J for lunch near his work on 6th and 55th. Do a bit of Christmas Shopping at the...
Blue skies
MondayIn the morning make the most of the blue, blue skies and head up to the top of the Rockefeller centre.. walk down to SoHo and visit Pearl Paint for the endless quest for...
old classics….
I looked through this book – Still Open – in Foyles and somehow all that day I came across a bunch of shops, galleries and websites that somehow embody that classic, independent feel. The...
New York Yarn!
The part of the trip M was thrilled by* of course, was visting all the cool yarn shops out here! :) We went to Purl – at last… the previous visit we had a...