Readers, I have a bad habit. Some of you may share it - the compulsion to throw my disposable (and sometimes indisposable) income in the direction of superfluous kitchen items. London enables this addiction - from Columbia Road to Ladbroke Grove there are emporiums of domestic loveliness lurking all over the city. So I'm channeling this addiction into a new series - Friday Finds. Cool, quirky and useful food finds from around the smoke.
First up is the adorable plastic I Love London lunchbox above from Constructive Lives, a homewares store on the corner of Portobello Road and Golborne Road in W10. The typeface and the 60s-y illustrations put an instant smile on my face - the artist isn't credited, but the illustrations reminded me of the sketches in a series of children's books about a bear called Albert who lived in a flat in Marylebone. If someone can tell me who the illustrator is, or even that I didn't dream the ursine bachelor Albert, I'd be very grateful!
You can't miss the shop - just look for the place that looks like an inside-out Rubicks cube...
Check back here next Friday for another find!
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What a cute lunchbox. I always think it makes lunch much more fun to have a nice container. And I'm now looking forward to future Friday finds!
Thanks Nora - got a cracker in mind for next Friday. K x
I want to live with Albert in his Marylebone flat - do you know if he's still single? hee hee hee
x
Ooh that's just adorable! I found this moomin thermos in good old topshop....
http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=40&viewAllFlag=false&catalogId=33057&storeId=12556&categoryId=216497&parent_category_rn=208491&productId=1913985&langId=-1
Sadly it's sold out :(
Rej - WANT a Moomin flask, even if we have to go to Finland to get one...
That is beautiful... I really want to buy some now. PS there is a Moomin shop up in Arsenal on Mountgrove Road (I think). It ONLY sells Moomin stuff. Only. Seriously?! That may be your option...
There's a Moomin shop?! Taxi - N5!...
AND a moomin cookbook out too which no doubt you'll be reviewing!
Lovely - I can see myself spending more money on Fridays already...
I want I want I want I want
cuteness! x shayma
Salty, I think you must mean Albert the Bear by Alison Jezard, illustrations by Margaret Gordon.
Peanuts - thank you!
According to Google Albert actually 'lived in th east End of London and always wore a flat cap' - he was a hipster!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamlepetitoiseau/3729825245/in/photostream/#/
oOoh! LOVE! I think they should do a range to match their shop exterior too!
Oooh I love your blog, its fab!
I'm following you now. :)
x
http://puzzle-fashion.blogspot.com/
Hi Danielle,
Thanks for your kind comments - glad you liked the blog. I will be sure to check yours out.
Best
K x
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