Pretty Colourful Houses!

I want to spend Christmas here!

Image / zio.paperino

London Markets in a weekend!

If you have the opportunity to visit Columbia Road Market in London then I would highly recommend it. Full of beautiful flowers and plants it's a feast for the eyes...and (ahem) a fright for the wallet...but it is well worth it. Today I took a wonder down there via the famous Spitalfield's, Petticoat Lane and Brick Lane Markets which are great at this time of year with all the festive pop up stalls!

The Handmade Gift Guide - My top picks for homemade Christmas presents

So it's taken some time in the making and after searching high and low I am very excited to bring you my round up of the top Christmas gifts to make yourself!

Continuing with my love affair with macaroons why not try making these gorgeous little treats? Play with the colours and wrap-up in beautiful tissue paper. Yum yum yes please I am going to go mad with the colours!

Make some gorgeous homemade chocolate dipped marshmallows with Katie Goodman. These look so pretty and would look fab wrapped up in a cute paper bag tied with some pretty ribbon. See them here.

Homemade chocolate truffles. Need I say more? My advice would be to follow this recipe exactly and make the 3 different versions as visually they all compliment each other and also go for the blue tissue paper as chocolate brown looks really good with this colour. Tie your box with ribbon and add a handmade tag.

Not everyone has a sweet tooth so why not spend a couple of hours filling your kitchen with Spiced apple chutney aromas! Tie jars with ribbons and 'made with love' hand written tags.

Martha Stewart never fails and with these peppermint candy sticks you won't to!

I love this idea! A pre-made cookie mixture in a jar. In fact I might just make a dozen or so for my own kitchen cupboard for those occasions when only a chocolate biscuit will do!

If you are planning on gifting cookies adorn them with these oh so cute labels from Tangarang. They are free and you just print and go!

Gingerbread caramels! Yum!

White-chocolate and cherry shortbread. I have fallen in love with the colours!










Make an envelope cushion with Kirstie Allsop. After trying this out you will never look back and wonder why cushions cost so much when this is so simple to make! Try to make 2 cushions if you are giving as a gift. I love embroidering words onto my cushions with scraps of fabric. Maybe one cushion could say 'LOVE' and the other 'YOU' or perhaps someones name, their date of birth in sequins or scent the cushion with some lavender from the garden...the list is endless! Take me to Kirstie!

Tea cup candle! Sooo simple yet so effective. Source a beautiful tea cup set from a charity shop, fill with wick and wax and voila! Full instructions here!

Decoration

On my gifting travels I came across some amazing make-your-own decorations. So technically these aren't gifts as by the time you give them it will be too late but anyhow they are lovely!

A spool advent calender. A bit of time and effort but this can be taken out every year and displayed with pride!

This project was posted for Thanksgiving but I don't see why it can't translate into a Christmas decoration. Maybe omit the blue leaf and use more Christmasy colours.

Twinkle Twinkle!

I love this time of year with all the Christmas lights and frosty glitterness!

Images / 1. Pretty Pink Festive Season!, 2. fleurs de lumière, 3. green dream, 4. wheel of nature, 5. full moon light on a light midnight, 6. On the way to the North Pole, 7. Untitled, 8. {oh Christmas tree}, 9. fairy dancer

Food glorious food - part 2

 

Following on from yesterday's post here are some more shots from the food shoot I did.

There is lots of French onion soup and apple pie coming my way!

Images / Styling: Rebecca Newport Photography: Ania Wawrzkowicz

Food glorious food!

Hi everyone!

Hope you had a lovely weekend! I thought I would share some photos from a little test I did last week.

More to come later on.

Enjoy
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Images / Styling: Rebecca Newport Photography: Ania Wawrzkowicz

Feeling Christmasy yet?

Christmas is definately in full swing in London Town. The shops are playing the music and the mince pie tastings in M&S have started! This week I was on a shoot for The Daily Mail wrapping presents and dressing Christmas trees. I still find it fun even though I have been doing festive shoots since May!

Today I have been proping for a job and I thought I would share the mayhem of my house at the moment with you!

Have a merry weekend :)

Shop Love: Anthropologie - Painterly

 

Today I am loving the new Painterly collection from Anthropologie. 

 I heart this apron very much.

Love the idea of this. Beautiful!

Images / Anthropologie

Happy Friday!

 

Happy Friday everyone! Hope you have a lovely weekend!

Image / Rebecca Newport

Trend Alert: The cloche!

Not just for the garden Cloche's are now being brought into the home. Use them to display all manner of objects including cakes, collected wood, flowers, general nik-naks etc  I love this one above from Pale and Interesting.

and this one from The White Company

and this one was a bit of a surprise....La Redoute! (when did they get good?)

Enjoy!

Images / Pale and Interesting / The White Company / La Redoute  

Bath time!

I don't know about you but as the nights get shorter I am dreaming of hot chocolate and long hot baths. Here are a few to give you some inspiration.
 

Images / All about you / Watermonopoly / Brissi via The Daily Mail

Chandeliers with a twist

  

Today I am loving chandeliers. This quirky number is from graham and green. I have to say it's these sorts of things that I look at and think 'yeh sure I could make that'...but I think in theory I think it would be quite hard!

 

SCP have designed this beauty. I love the idea of having my own random bits of paper to attached to a light. 

Check out these beauties from Madeleine Boulesteix (I'm a big fan of hers)

and finally I love this feather chandelier from Haldane Martin. There is something so decadent about it. (I am turning a blind eye to the dusting scenario though).

I sometimes think chandeliers have a bad reputation and just conjure up images of cut glass and fake candlesticks. Did you spot anything you like? 

Images / Haldane Martin via The Modern Home / House to Home / Madeleine Boulesteix

Portobello Market - Colourlicious!

Here are some of my snaps from a weekend trip to Portobello Market in London. I love the colours of the houses and I have visions of neighbourhood meetings where everyone thrashes it out to decide who gets to paint their house which colour so that they all coordinate! I personally would be up there demanding a raspberry pink! What colour would you have?

Clever ideas for your dinning table

Whilst browsing through the new magazine by food stylist Sweet Paul I came across these stunning images. I am in love with the light above that table and think the idea of serving milk with a biscuit attached is genius!

Have a lovely weekend everyone. Hope you have some lovely things planned. I shall mostly be snuggling up with the cats and my new fiancé and pretending that it isn't freezing outside!

Rebecca

Bring some colour into your home!

I love this staircase runner (stitched together carpets would you believe!) and check out the pops of colour in that kitchen.

Images /  Family Living,  Living etc

Flickr finds - Aqua & Pink

Images / 1. dreaming in pink, 2. pink sky delight, 3. Bench Monday -Pink & Pink edition-, 4. pink balloons {Explored}, 5. pink popcorn, 6. Pink Vanilla Meringue, 7. Fair ride in AQUA, 8. pink boots {Explored - thank you so much!}, 9. Pink & Teal, 10. Untitled, 11. Des Façades Bonbons, 12. my mommy's new truck (:, 13. Pink Meringue Kisses, 14. Romantic Pink Roses and Jewels Heart Hanger, 15. Here I said was my everlasting love, 16. E pomeriggio quattro

Beautiful Brighton Patisserie

Following on from yesterday's post about Macaroon's I thought I would continue on the theme today and show you this lovely photo of a Patisserie shop in Brighton, UK. How gorgeous are the colours!

Image / Cassia

Current obsession: Macaroons

Here is my current obsession...Macaroons! I think it's the colours that draw me in. Ever since I did a shoot for Burlington Arcade where we used Laudree macaroons I have become more and more obsessed with them and then Paris just revived it. They are everywhere!

Image / Elena

Butterflies

I thought I would share this snap shot of some butterflies that I found when I visited the shop Deyrolle in Paris. Some would say this is the strangest shop in the city but if you aren't squeamish about this sort of thing then I highly recommend a visit to it's cabinet's of curiosities.

Ahoy there!

Happy Monday everyone!

So after 10 days style assisting on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth ship we docked on Friday morning in Southampton. Check it out here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73F4sSxEPI4

One morning I got up and looked out my window to see Gibraltar rock on one side and Morocco on the other! 

Unfortunately I was a bit too busy to actually take some proper photos but this will give you a small taster!

Rebecca 

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Elle Deco Magazine - 21st Birthday

Hello my lurvlies! Sorry for the lack of blogging lately. I have been tres busy with work dressing Christmas trees for the lovely Selina Lake, building log fires for Barratts shoes and tomorrow I am off to Venice (!) for 10 days to style assist on a luxury cruise liner.

Anyhow I thought I would check in with you (see the sailing puns are coming thick and fast now) to share some photos of a recent project for Elle Decoration Magazine where I assisted the very lovely and hugely talented Suzanne Stankus (Elle Deco's Associate style director) to help organise and decorate the magazines stand at Decorex this year to celebrate the magazines 21st birthday.

On the stand are 21 keys items that represent Elle Decoration. My favs were the light wires that are tied to each product and also the Swan chair from Skandium.

Snaps taken with my iphone....before the public were let in ....before the carpet was put down!

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