Monthly Archives: June 2018
Colour Experts
Helen Gilbert, Luxe 39: My Colourful World
Helen Gilbert is the brains behind luxury velvet cushion company Luxe 39. Here, she tells [...]
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Colour stories
5 ways colour helped me cope with coronavirus lockdown
I don’t know about you but I couldn’t have done without colour during the various [...]
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Colour stories
How to paint a mini-mural in 15 minutes
I love painting things. Every stage thrills me, starting from leafing through paint cards, comparing [...]
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Colour stories
Where to find colour in London: Liberty’s
Where do you head to when you’re feeling flat, melancholy or in need of recalibrating [...]
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10 books about colour
As a colour-lover, I’m often asked colour questions like, ‘What’s your favourite colour?’ The other [...]
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Colour Experts
Quirk & Rescue’s Ms Pink: My Colourful World
From incredible wallpaper, cushions and prints through to bespoke hand-painted furniture, the signature prints of [...]
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Shelfies
How to ‘shelfie’ your way to mindfulness
Can creating ‘shelfies’ help as a form of mindful activity? Martha Roberts asks the experts… [...]
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Colour stories
How to create the perfect (colourful) freelance space
When I worked on a national newspaper, we did long hours (news never sleeps, even [...]
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Colour stories
The psychology of pink
One of the things I’ve learned is that colour isn’t just something we see: the [...]
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Colour Experts
Lisa Dawson: My Colourful World
Lisa Dawson is an interiors blogger, writer and presenter whose weekly blog inspires fans on Instagram and [...]
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Colour stories
5 colourful holiday destinations
Someone recently asked me what my ideal holiday destination is. On a general level, the [...]
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Shelfies
14 May 18: ‘Shelfie’ is on its way!
BOOK NEWS!!!!!! OK, so I’m seriously excited. Some of you know (because you’ve been an [...]
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30 April 18: Picking ice cream by colour
I’ve never quite seen ice cream in the same way since, as a teenager, I [...]
Jun
29 April 18: Yellow Thames plastic
Morning, my colour-loving friends. Now, I don’t know what it is but there’s something about [...]
Jun
28 April 18: Pink Thames plastic
Hope you’re having a great weekend, folks. Much as I adore second-in-command, parenting is winding [...]
Jun
27 April 18: The many colours of chemistry
A while back, I once wrote about the excitement I felt when I discovered in [...]
Jun
26 April 18: Colours of rebellion
Morning, folks. I’ve loved turquoise ever since I bought a pair of turquoise pointed flats [...]
Jun
25 April 18: Light blue Thames plastic
Hello, folks. Here’s light blue in the ‘Thames rubbish’ series. Again, I’m enjoying the ‘disappearing’ [...]
Jun
24 April 18: Navy Thames plastic
One of my favourite things in nature is the whole business of camouflage. And, of [...]
Jun
23 April 18: Don’t give a (colourful) damn
Hello folks. Maybe it’s something to do with the fact that I’m just a year [...]
Jun
22 April 18: Cerise Thames plastic
Here you go, folks: the result of today’s Thames mudlarking. As you’ll see from my [...]
Jun
21 April 18: Colourful mudlarking plans
Ah, hello, Sun. How lovely it is to see you again. Folks, aren’t you just loving [...]
Jun
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