Gloria's Hallelujah Homewares

This is it HouseKeepers: the week we work our fingers to the bone and hope there’s a bucket of champagne at the end of it! If you are not already signed up to the Seasonal Scrub: it isn’t too late to declare yourself a Vintage HouseKeeper, so sign up here, get your pinny ready, and…

***Update: Since this post was written this morning the Avoca site has been taken down for an update! So apologies that the links below aren’t working at the moment!*** When a company combines scrumptious design with cute slogans I cannot help myself but want to drown a little in their brand. And so it is…

Seasonal Scrub Sooooo excited I could crush a grape! For yes m’dears,  The Autumn 2015 Seasonal scrub is upon us and over on The Vintage Housekeepers Circle we are tying our work-a-day aprons on, and getting ready to spend the next seven days scrubbing the house from top to bottom. I am in fact having…

Happiness wouldn’t be happiness without a violin playing goat,  once said a wiser woman than I. But dear, smiley Julia Roberts was wrong. Happiness is a sunny Monday in February. Doilleys handwashed in lavender scented water, and an hour spent by myself in a steamy coffee shop, with only  The Faber Book of 20th Century…

Life isn’t as lovely as it should be. Yesterday the man I adored as a teenager made a game out of spotting the grey hairs on my head and  taking an irrational amount of pleasure  in yanking them out like a flea-picking monkey.   (It was probably the defining moment of my romantic life but don’t…