Saturday 25 January 2014

Magic!

We've had this lovely little print from the local Two Pipe Problem Letterpress for a while now but not really been able to decide where to put it. But now we have the nursery, this is the obvious place.

Tuesday 21 January 2014

William Morris, Jesus Palomino, Jeremy Deller and Grayson Perry (one of these is NOT in my house)

Hi. Jon here. I don't write many of these because I've been busy with other things. We've been expanding our hall picture wall, which it seems we last touched just over a year ago.



When I saw that our old friend Jenny was selling digital prints made from her William Morris portraits I really, really wanted one. Hannah was all like, "but isn't a bit of a cliché having a picture of William Morris in our house in #awesomestow" (fuck you Grayson Perry), but I was like, "but I want it". She was worried we'd look like a stereotypical Walthamstow middle-class gentrifying couple appropriating Socialist icons without fulling understanding their ideology. But I was like; "but I want to buy it". (Currently deciding where to hang the Lenin banner I bought on a school trip to the former USSR when I was 16, yah).






While we were at it, we re-hung my Jesus Palomino "Stop TV" poster. Hannah wanted to iron out the creases some more, but I was like "no! They represent its journey to our home!?".

Last weekend, we also went to the William Morris Gallery to see Jeremy Deller's Venice Biennale exhibition and made an ink-stamped print of Godzilla Morris and Abramovitch's yacht (according to the exhibition guide; a true story!). Not sure where to hang it yet. Probably also on this wall.






Sunday 19 January 2014

Alphabet

James and Katie Lloyd bought us a nice alphabet. This is the first picture we've put up in the nursery.  

Observent readers will also notice a rather smashing fringe hanging from the bookcase - thank you to Tamilla for making this for my party last weekend; hope you don't mind I've swiped it for the nursery.

I like the Zig-Zag Zebra.


Saturday 18 January 2014

Wardrobe organising

I'm not even going to show you what a state my wardrobe was in before I started clearing it out - too embarrassing even for a girl who posts publicly about every minor change she makes in her house. Suffice to say that big space under the hanging clothes wasn't really being used in a very sensible way.

But now it is! With bags where I can see them, gloves, hats and belts with their own individual boxes and the most expensive footwear I ever bought (some purple suede knee high boots you will probably never see me wear) somewhere I can actually access them.

Sunday 12 January 2014

Cot


Getting all my bits sorted

COT! It's already looking like a proper nursery. Just need to put up some pictures and stuff now.

Oh and here's the baby's first toy - a lovely fabric rat that Jon's Mum made for her.