Tagged: quality

Tara x

Tara Button and her website Buymeonce are a blast of fresh, spring air.

Tara’s concept is simple – our lives have been stuffed full of things we’re told we need that lets us down so she has been on a mission to track down the best quality and investment pieces that every house actually needs.

 

 

 

 

This resonates so much it almost hurts: I too am tired of this modern life that believes it can tell me who I am through the purchase of a skin cream, what I need: permanent upgrades and who I should be: spending lots of money, constantly implying that the real me isn’t good enough.


Just open your eyes to the insistent message of the season: Spring clean your wardrobes/house/family/life  – it’s time to refresh!…The underlying, insidious message being that we will make you insecure to make you buy more.

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Is it norm corm in the extreme? I don’t know. But what I do know is that we can’t spend our way to happiness and something needs to change. This seems a very good place to start.

 

Laters, Kate x

Penelope Chilvers x

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Penelope Chilvers is an independent shoe shop based in Notting Hill offering some seriously lovely kicks to swoon over..

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020402070002_107_Z1Founded in 2005 from the front room of her house, Penelope Chilvers, the driving force and Designer,  passionately supports dying crafts and traditional methods for manufacturing in the twenty first Century.  She believes this is the beating heart of the Brand and what keeps it authentic..

 

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Her shoes are always impeccably crafted  – she endeavours to source each and every component in a design which is then crafted by hand..the result is the addition of that intrinsic quality that’s impossible to fake: Love.

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Each shoe is designed to walk into your life.  And stay there.

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Quietly rocking inspiration.

Me likey..

Laters, Kate x