Until I started looking for one I hadn't realized that the humble duvet cover came in two forms...1) ruinously expensive...and 2) hideously ugly. Yet that seems to be the case, as numerous excursions to bedding departments have left me wondering why...

"If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods" - Ralph Waldo Emerson I...

As yet another plaid shirt worms its way into my affections (and closet) I have to remind myself that there are infinitely worse things to be addicted to than the pattern triumvirate of stripes, florals, and the aforementioned plaids. The latest...

"It was really hard to track snow leopards down due to their nature and habits, since they live at high altitudes and usually only come out after dark." - Ma Ming Somewhat bizarrely (given that I'm a firm believer in natural fabrics being the best...

I think it's just possible that I may be the only child never to have made a macaroni necklace (talk about a mis-spent youth). A missing childhood memory which could be easily rectified thanks to this gold-plated necklace...whose "string", "mac", and...