Category Archives: Shopping

Shona’s Goodbye To 2020

Well what a year 2020 has been. Not the best for any of us, I expect. But if you’re anything like me, you try to forget the bad bits and just remember the good bits. Here are a few of them. January Planning ahead for a sustainable year in terms of packaging (we moved to…

A Bespoke Design, Free Stuff and A Request for Your Ideas

Following my last post about my workshop in rural India and the plight of the ladies who work there, I’ve been thinking of more ideas about how to raise money to pay their wages while they are unable to work (due to Coronavirus lock-down). Free Stuff In the next few weeks, I’ll be offering some…

No More Plastic Packaging

I’ve been looking for ages to find a suitable replacement for the mailing bags I used to use and finally I found it. I’m so excited with my new eco friendly packaging that I just had to take a picture of it and share it with you here. The paper mailing bags are made from…

Fashion Revolution Day 2018

It’s five years today, since the tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. And all this week it’s Fashion Revolution Week, when we remember the 1000’s who died and were injured because they worked in an unsafe building. It’s scary how inexpensive garments can be – surely we must all wonder how is that possible?…

Want a Blue Bag? I bet you have one already!

This is the best thing I’ve seen for ages. Top brand, Balenciaga, have made a blue tote bag with more than a little inspiration from our favourite Swedish retailer. The bag is made of lambskin but it even looks crinkly, just like the Ikea one! It was a fabulous article in Vogue, saying that apparently Ikea…

Exposed: A Counterfeit Design

I’ve been in a bit of a daze for a week now; ever since I realised that a company that I actually know, has stolen two of my designs and is passing them off as their own. It’s bad practice, bad business and to say that I’m livid is an understatement. I make my living…

Saturday Shopping: Yellow is the colour of Summer

Victoria Beckham’s been seen in yellow. So too has the Duchess of Cambridge. It must be the new colour of summer, writes Lisa Armstrong in The Daily Telegraph. If you think that yellow isn’t for you, (my skin looks awful in it) you can still get your yellow fix in the accessories you choose. Lisa Armstrong…

100 Years of Vogue: part 2

Following my earlier post about Vogue’s 100th anniversary, I did indeed manage to locate my archive old Vogue magazines from the 1980s. It’s so funny to look back through them and think that this was the height of fashion in those days. It looks so dated now! Here’s this month’s cover and one from 1985….

100 Years of Vogue: part 1

Vogue is 100 years old and the June issue of the UK magazine is a bumper edition with the most fascinating articles and reports inside. If fashion and it’s history interest you, it’s well worth investing in a copy to keep. HRH The Duchess of Cambridge is on the cover so I couldn’t resist taking a photo…

Become a VIP, don’t be an April Fool

Hello! I don’t normally put out a sales offer here on my blog but I’m making an exception for this very exciting deal. I launched my VIP Designer Club earlier this month on March 17th.  Here’s some more about it, in case you don’t get my emails. My VIP Designer Club is for anyone who…

Category Archives: Shopping

Shona’s Goodbye To 2020

Well what a year 2020 has been. Not the best for any of us, I expect. But if you’re anything like me, you try to forget the bad bits and just remember the good bits. Here are a few of them. January Planning ahead for a sustainable year in terms of packaging (we moved to…

A Bespoke Design, Free Stuff and A Request for Your Ideas

Following my last post about my workshop in rural India and the plight of the ladies who work there, I’ve been thinking of more ideas about how to raise money to pay their wages while they are unable to work (due to Coronavirus lock-down). Free Stuff In the next few weeks, I’ll be offering some…

No More Plastic Packaging

I’ve been looking for ages to find a suitable replacement for the mailing bags I used to use and finally I found it. I’m so excited with my new eco friendly packaging that I just had to take a picture of it and share it with you here. The paper mailing bags are made from…

Fashion Revolution Day 2018

It’s five years today, since the tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh. And all this week it’s Fashion Revolution Week, when we remember the 1000’s who died and were injured because they worked in an unsafe building. It’s scary how inexpensive garments can be – surely we must all wonder how is that possible?…

Want a Blue Bag? I bet you have one already!

This is the best thing I’ve seen for ages. Top brand, Balenciaga, have made a blue tote bag with more than a little inspiration from our favourite Swedish retailer. The bag is made of lambskin but it even looks crinkly, just like the Ikea one! It was a fabulous article in Vogue, saying that apparently Ikea…

Exposed: A Counterfeit Design

I’ve been in a bit of a daze for a week now; ever since I realised that a company that I actually know, has stolen two of my designs and is passing them off as their own. It’s bad practice, bad business and to say that I’m livid is an understatement. I make my living…

Saturday Shopping: Yellow is the colour of Summer

Victoria Beckham’s been seen in yellow. So too has the Duchess of Cambridge. It must be the new colour of summer, writes Lisa Armstrong in The Daily Telegraph. If you think that yellow isn’t for you, (my skin looks awful in it) you can still get your yellow fix in the accessories you choose. Lisa Armstrong…

100 Years of Vogue: part 2

Following my earlier post about Vogue’s 100th anniversary, I did indeed manage to locate my archive old Vogue magazines from the 1980s. It’s so funny to look back through them and think that this was the height of fashion in those days. It looks so dated now! Here’s this month’s cover and one from 1985….

100 Years of Vogue: part 1

Vogue is 100 years old and the June issue of the UK magazine is a bumper edition with the most fascinating articles and reports inside. If fashion and it’s history interest you, it’s well worth investing in a copy to keep. HRH The Duchess of Cambridge is on the cover so I couldn’t resist taking a photo…

Become a VIP, don’t be an April Fool

Hello! I don’t normally put out a sales offer here on my blog but I’m making an exception for this very exciting deal. I launched my VIP Designer Club earlier this month on March 17th.  Here’s some more about it, in case you don’t get my emails. My VIP Designer Club is for anyone who…