Everyone started with the same elements yet each doll turned out as different as their makers. Images from our doll-making days at the Cosy Club. Thank you so much to everyone who attended and to Chris for making it possible.

11:50 am  •  28 January 2012

We have started the first test prints of cotton lawn for what we hope will be the first “casualwear” versions of Penelope’s cloth dolls. If successful we hope to be able to produce kits as well as one-off custom dolls.

3:28 pm  •  24 January 2012

Variations on our teacups as new cards & labels for the Rosablue shop. And maybe more …

5:14 pm  •  23 January 2012

Master strokes. Vincent Van Gogh - Self Portrait (1887) detail  [ whistlerian ]

(via cavetocanvas)

5:06 pm  •  23 January 2012

Keeping it simple. The Model T of tea towels if you would. And we can make them in any colour … so long as they are pink and blue. Well … they’ve been in the store for just two days and already I have reports that folks have remarked about the “other” test colourways. Damn. No matter what design pretensions I might have, I can never resist an actual sale.

10:08 am  •  21 January 2012

The first minor miracle is that this linen, which we reckon must be well over a century old, remains in such glorious condition. The second is that the great-grand-daughter of the linen’s original Spanish owner, should walk into our shop last week and ask us to make her a cushion with it. Didn’t it turn out just grand …

12:49 pm  •  20 January 2012

Why “Cadiz”? Because when I visited the dark, narrow lanes of its Moorish quarter I loved it and have wanted to return many times. The image I had was of colourful mosaics, bougainvillea petals and passion fruit scent. Perhaps, I just wanted a name preposterous enough to be worthy of a Steely Dan song …

9:47 am  •  19 January 2012