MMM: Harlequin print = great alternative to stripes
Spots, stripes, stars and chevrons. They’re the prints that get me going interiors-wise. My daughter’s room is such a printed mish-mash, I do occasionally worry I may have overdone it and she’ll become...
View ArticleMMM: WOWMUM, the most useful APP you can download
New Apps are launched every day, with loads helping busy mums out in various ways – whether it’s a game to keep the kids amused in the car or an app to help mums lose the baby weight. Now a free App...
View ArticleMMM: Swooning over Boden’s press day
Boden has long been a go-to site for the kids (so cute), but for a long time it hasn’t been a destination for fashionistas – unless you loved a floral frock. But in the past few seasons the brand has...
View ArticleMMM: A REALLY Beautiful Mess, new app alert
Instagram is brilliant isn’t it? I mean really brilliant. This week I spent hours visiting all the high street Press Days to see what we will all be buying for AW13. And because it is positively...
View ArticleMMM: Leopard print carpet. Oh yes.
I SO would. The question is, would my husband let me? The answer to that is – while he does tend to let me get on with it decor-wise – I think he would put his foot down if it was about leopard print...
View ArticleMMM: Insta-glam (my favourite beauty buys this month)
I am officially what can only be described as a saleman’s dream when it comes to beauty products. Give me a department store or airport packed with new, beautifully packaged make up and skincare...
View ArticleMMM: Cocobaci, a gorgeous new gift site for babies
Luxury online boutique Cocobaci is a lovely new find. Specialising in clothing and gifts for babies and toddlers aged 0-2 years, the Italian translation is ‘chocolate kisses’ – cute! Cocobaci Launched...
View ArticleMMM: Dreaming about stylish, child-friendly gardens
So in that imaginary game we play once a week (at least) where we spend thousands of pounds we don’t actually have, at the moment it’s all about the garden. Specifically what we would do to the garden....
View ArticleMMM: A good drinks cabinet
I don’t want to sound like I need intervention, but I do understand why they call gin ‘mother’s ruin.’ I mean, at the end of a particularly stressful day with the kids, is there anything better than a...
View ArticleMMM: Meets Richard Harris, the new design guru behind Mamas & Papas
I have always been partial to Mamas & Papas but haven’t really been an active shopper there. I bought a cot and baby-change table when I was pregnant with Charlie (the cot has now been inherited by...
View ArticleMMM: Talking in bumper stickers (and making sense)
I have a great love affair with Pinterest, but people’s joy at pinning cutesy, twee, life-affirming mottos really makes me want to hurl. But then I noticed certain people I follow started pinning some...
View ArticleMMM: Beatrix New York, the A-list’s favourite lunch boxes
As well as an appreciation for all sizes of Tupperware (so handy), I do love a good bag. And I don’t just mean Mulberry. When it comes to heading out on any kind of excursion with the kids, be it to...
View ArticleMMM: Yoni Alter’s lovely wallpaper designs
I stumbled across the work of London-based artist Yoni Alter during a recent wallaper trawl. A good wallpaper trawl happens quite often at the moment, as I am trying to find the perfect mural / print /...
View ArticleMMM: Poolside
Has everyone been on holiday yet? We had a wet week in the Dordogne last month – it was fab, but spent mainly running around after the kids accompanied by a French wine hangover. Holidays ain’t quite...
View ArticleMMM: Quite an exciting project for BBC Children in Need
Way back at the beginning of the year I had quite an exciting email from Debenhams. They wanted to know whether MMM would be interested in teaming up with them to design a special T-shirt for their...
View ArticleMMM: Lego really is everywhere
I LOVE this Tumblr. Basically, this is my life. Also, substitute Lego for bits of banana, parts of a shopping game, pretend money…yada yada yada, you get it. Random head in art suppliesImage: Lego’s...
View ArticleMMM: How not to lose my jewellery
Hmmm. My favourite Monica Vinader ‘nugget’ ring has disappeared. I know it hasn’t been stolen which leaves two possibilities. Either my brain is becoming more sieve-like by the day, or ‘someone’ has...
View ArticleMMM: Bee-utiful things
Three and a half is a really cute age. OK, so I have probably said that about every age so far (apart from 18-months, which is – in my experience – knackering), but my son is being particularly...
View ArticleMMM: Looks at Superdrug’s latest addition, My Little Star
This is a sponsored post When I had my first child I spent months in an organic, purée-making blur where the most expensive things were obviously the best, right? Wrong. Child number two came along and...
View ArticleMMM: Win tickets to Big Fish Little Fish baby rave
On a very, very hot July afternoon this year I went raving…with the kids.You can read all about it in the piece I wrote for the Evening Standard here. Big Fish Little Fish events organiser – and...
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