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By Victoria Sullivan - 29 May 2012
Tagged with: baby gift, baby nursery, Double decker bus, kids bedrooms, nursery design, Wallpaper
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By Victoria Sullivan - 17 May 2012
Thanks to its high B vitamin content,Marmite did its bit for the UK in two World Wars.
By the time of the First World War it was included in soldiers ration packs. It also became a staple food in hospitals and schools.
During World War II, Marmite became a dietary supplement in prisoner-of-war camps, and in 1999, it was sent to British peacekeeping forces in Kosovo after we received morale boosting requests from the field.
You can check out more on their website below.
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By Victoria Sullivan - 15 May 2012
Tagged with: Diamond Jubilee, Liberty, scarves, The Queen
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By Victoria Sullivan - 29 November 2011
Most people probably know the fabulous work of Hugo Guinness. I am a huge fan, and have the great pleasure of knowing him, being a local in my neighborhood and a fellow Brit.
He showcases linoleum cut prints of normal objects we find at home.
My favorites are the botanical silhouette flower drawings.
I am lucky to have the underpants– a gift from my husband.
Available from John Derian's devine store in the Bowery NY.
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By Victoria Sullivan - 22 November 2011
I had the great privilege of working with the Vogue photographer Tim Walker pre marriage and children when I had a career doing shoot production.
His pictures always make me smile and just dream about living in Tim Walker Land.
This is one of the prints he gave me from the shoot we worked on.
It was great fun working with him...you never knew which unusual prop or set he was going to need next. So creative.
These are just a few of my favourites.
I had to show the Pastel cats shot!!
Sadly I missed his first major show at the Design Museum in London in 2008 when the publication of his first book 'Pictures' came out. PS. It's on my wish list!!!
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By Victoria Sullivan - 15 November 2011
I met Jess Brown a few years ago at the Bubble kids trade show in NYC.
She makes the most exquisite dolls out of antique fabrics.
Each doll is one of a kind with different skin tones hand dyed in Persian black tea & stuffed with sustainable corn fibre.
Also there is a limited , exclusive series by Atsuyo et Akiko.
She lives in California with her family.
She even makes clothes and accessories for them.
You can find her dolls pretty much all over the World.
Check out her website for stores.
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By Victoria Sullivan - 25 October 2011
Halloween is around the corner and the kids are getting very excited about who they are going to be this year????
But then they asked who our cat, Parsley was going to be?...
I suddenly had a flash back to a show I used to watch as a little girl, Bagpuss.
Bagpuss was a British children's television-show that first came out on the BBC in 1974.
Bagpuss is a large cloth cat with pink stripes who comes to life when little Emily closes down her shop for the night. Accompanied by the little mice inventors and workers 'we will scrub it, we will rub it', and the pompous Professor Yaffel, he has all kinds of adventures.
The Shop front
Madeline the doll
Emilys song.
Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss
Old Fat Furry Catpuss
Wake up and look at this thing that I bring
Wake up, be bright, be golden and light
Bagpuss, oh hear what I sing
Mr Parsely ( mmm not really going to paint stripes on him!! really)
At the end of the programme Bagpuss would start yawning again, and as he fell asleep the narrator would speak as the colour faded to sepia and they all became toys again.
And so their work was done.
Bagpuss gave a big yawn and settled down to sleep
And, of course, when Bagpuss goes to sleep,
All his friends go to sleep too.
The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.
Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
Professor Yaffle was a carved, wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker.
Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat,
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,
But Emily loved him
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By Victoria Sullivan - 6 June 2011
Tagged with: Bravo TV, maternity, Pregnant in heels, Rosie Pope
