Categories / Food and Drink

Personalised pick and mix sweet jars

New_large_and_med_no_bgRemember when you used to save up your pennies and head to the newsagents to splash out on 100 fried egg sweets or red lips? Now with these personalised pick and mix sweet jars you can recreate the feeling with the sweets you want.

This time you can pick the size of the jar, the type of sweets and the message on the outside creating a wonderful gift to someone (or to yourself). Dependent on how much of a sweet tooth you are, there's three sizes of jars to choose from and if you're being really angelic, you can fill one with healthy fruit and nut treats.

Get yours from posh pick and mix online.

Categories / Art and Photography, Homeware

Vintage Style Wooden Photobox

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In these days of digital photography and looking at images on screens and mobile phones, we’ve lost some of the joy of browsing photographs that you would get if your photographs were stored in something like this Vintage Style Wooden Photobox.

The box has four drawers containing plastic wallets, which take 12 photographs each (or 24 if you put them in back to back). The drawers have metal label tabs so that you can label your photographs.

The box costs £15 from shabby chic specialists The Orchard.

Categories / Homeware

God Save the Queen Cushion

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Rockett St George have come over all monarchist thinking about the upcoming royal nuptials when they are promoting the latest Barbara Coupe design, but her God Save the Queen cushion, could just as easily be a reference to the old punk song.

The cushion is made from jute hessian, giving it a coarse and decidedly not regal texture, with the slogan hand printed across it in a rather DIY looking font. It is stuffed with a duck feather cushion pad and measures 48 cm by 32 cm.

The cushion costs £46 from Rockett St George.

Categories / Women's Fashion

‘Her birds fill the skies’ cameo necklace

300 Representing true, elegant nostalgia, this her birds fill the skies cameo necklace defines retro beauty.

A wedgewood blue cameo sits below a flock of swooping birds on a vintage 18 inch gold plated chain. It's quirky and different and we love it.

Get yours (before we buy them out) for £16.50 from Eclectic Eccentricity. The website is full of a delightful selection of similar crafted retro beauties.

 

Categories / Books, Men's Fashion

The Day of the Peacock: Style for Men 1963-73 book

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If you fancy yourself as a modern-day 'dandy ', you might want to see how it was done in its heyday. Luckily for you, a book has just been published by the V&A showing that very thing – The Day of the Peacock: Style for Men 1963-73 by Geoffrey Aquilina Ross.

Geoffrey Aquilina Ross was the men's editor for Vogue in the 1960s and in this book, he recalls the era’s most dashing figures, including Tommy Nutter, Mick Jagger and Patrick Lichfield, as well as discussing iconic shops and tailors such as Granny takes a Trip, Blades, Hung on You and Mr Fish. Christopher Breward’s introduction throws in some social and cultural context too.

Packed with colour illustrations too (150 in total), the hardback book is available now, with Amazon discounting it to £19.99. If you're into vintage clobber, it looks like a must-buy. Some black and white images over the page.

Find out more about the book at the Amazon website

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Categories / Women's Fashion

Cream Bow Heels from Marks and Spencer

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White high heels have come to have a terrible reputation in recent years, but it only takes one shade of difference to turn a pair into a classic vintage-look option. These Demi Wedge Bow Heels from Marks and Spencer are a cutesy retro pair that will pair with a great variety of looks from fifties to eighties.

The fabric uppers take away any hint of tackiness that might be present with faux leather, while keeping them affordable. With a rich cream shade, the bow detail adds just enough retro kitsch, while a simple rounded toe shape keeps things classic. Sweet and stylish, this pair will see you through a very vintage Summer.

They're now available from Marks and Spencer for just £25.

Find out more from the website