Ooooh. A parcel was waiting for me at home yesterday. All the way from Poland, wrapped in baby blue tissue paper, was this…

The note from Mrs Jones inside said she’d been back to the flea market she’d taken me to a year ago, on an early morning pencil run. Here’s a close up of the embossed ends. Ah, vintage stationery.

What do you think? Too nice to sharpen? I also Googled Polish for ‘pencil’. The results? Nearly as many words as the Inuits have for snow. Try it…

Finally I use that damn parasol

I’ve carried this from house to house for 15 years. Bought, on weird impulse, when I was 22. I’m not even sure I had a garden at the time. It was the height of boho-chic, and all that very girlie, exotic, Portobello interiors stuff was well in. The awful smell of glue from the waxed-paper […]

Anja Niemi

Somewhere between art, fashion and performance, photographer Anja Niemi features in her own work not once, but often twice, doubled up in post-production as her own twin. There’s lots I find engaging in these claustrophobic, surreal and funny photographs, but for our purposes I’ve chosen a selection that catch my attention for the interiors too. […]

Heal’s Reveals

Today is an exciting day for us at My Friend’s House. Why? We have been invited to be the official guest bloggers for Heal’s, and its blog, Heal’s Reveals. We’re thrilled to be involved – Heal’s paved the way for an appreciation of Modern British and European design and quality craftsmanship on the UK high street, and […]

My desk: Tamsin & Emma from Beldi Rugs

My son threw up on his rug the other night, enough to render it dead. So while I’ve been meaning to blog about this company for ages, turns out this week is timely. Please allow us to introduce the wonderful company Beldi Rugs, run by Tamsin Flower, from her London home, and Emma Wilson, from […]