tent london

Images from this years Tent London show, Lucy in the press office, copper dishes and textiles on the 100% Norway stand and beautiful handmade rugs at Node. The rugs are made in fair trade workshops in Nepal where all the proceeds go to teach the employees literacy and craft skills and support a school and orphanage. And on the subject of thoughtful products, the lovely chaps at MiniModerns launched their new range of paint, containing 90% recycled paint gathered from the leftover cans we take to the dump, brilliant!

local colour

This region of Spain is rich in colour, houses that are not built of local stone are painted in a patchwork of earthy tones. This shop in our local market town sells loose pigment by the scoopful in dusty plums through to terracottas and brights that remind me of the powdered paint we used in primary school.

p.s. it's my birthday today, I am always in Spain for my birthday which means I don't have to celebrate it at home so it appears that I am not getting any older, which is fine by me!