Robson & Mason - Haberdashery and Home.

Our NEW Haberdashery Store and New Products!

Hello Eveyone.

Well, I am pleased to announce we have a new website coming! It will be a million times more exciting than the current shop.

We also have a huge range of buttons coming. 500+ styles. Kitch buttons, sunglasses buttons , lips buttons, stiletto shoes buttons, bear buttons, cherries buttons, strawberrys buttons, apple buttons, pencil buttons, star buttons, the list is almost endless.

Don't you just love a new haberdashery button range!? Personally I just love the classic fish eye buttons!

Shabby Chic Fabric Book

Fabulous book for all shabby chic fabric lovers. Find it here.

New Handmade Site!

We are so excited, because there is a new handmade website cooking, it is going to be live in the coming months.

Cleverly named, UK Handmade , it will bring us all exciting stories, inspiration and idea in a magazine based website.

But to keep us all from going insane, they have a blog .

Free Burda Sewing Patterns

If you enjoy sewing, like all my readers do, visit, Burda Style for free sewing patterns, a sewing forum and you can upload your creations to show off.

I love this photo in particular, effortless.

 

knit a hat - save a life

"Knitting a hat for a newborn baby can help save its life. Telling politicians to do their bit could save the lives of millions of newborns each year. A newborn baby can't regulate its own body temperature. It loses lots of vital body heat through its head which make it more prone to pneumonia - a disease which still kills around 2 million children each year." -  Save the Children

Please please read this  here for further information and the pattern you can use, to save a childs life.

I would also love to see photo's of the hat's you make, so please email them to me, and I will publish them.

Thank You!!

HOW VERY BRITISH

I saw these, and my oh my, they are so beautiful. I am so pleased that there is more British Flag prints out in the shops.

Both from Emma Bridgewater

And these Boden skirts are rather fun too!

BEAUTIFUL HAND MADE CAKES....

Now, all girls like cakes, especially the cute pastel Cupcake Variety, but look at these creations:

They are all created by Caroline Mackenzie

 

They are all beautifully hand made, and I can't get over the detail of the flowers.

You have to look at Carolyn Mackenzie's  online portfolio-it's so colourful.

(Images belong to Caroline Mackenzie )

JANE PACKER

I always say that, if i weren't a Haberdashery I'd be a Florist.

I like sending flowers to my Mother, my family and men especially. (Although I've only ever done that once. Luckily he liked them!)

If I could spend a day with a florist, it would have to be with Jane Packer. I didn't realise until the other day you can actually book a course to go and learn about flowers in her Flower School, sounds devine doesn't it!

Here are some of my favourites from Jane's site.

I didn't realise that there was a book written by Jane Packer. It's for sale on her website where you can also buy flowers.

(All photo's here belong to Jane Packer- from her website)

we are what we do

I've been a fan and friend of We Are What We Do for a few years now. And I wanted to share a couple of inspirational thoughts with you .

I don't think some people realise, how important it is to encourage children to be creative in their own way.

Most of the time, they do it sporadically but sometimes they need a little help. ( Buy Amanda Soule's book if your stuck for Ideas)

Sometimes I think it'd be nice to capture, or breathe in a child's imagination. It's so easy to forget how great life is.

I really found this childlike drawing powerful, says it all in one picture.

This last picture is purely here, because of two reasons.

Firstly- it looks so quirky and funky.

But plastic carrier bags, are not funky. We all know that.

When we send orders out, we try and send them out as environmentally friendly as possible. We store and sell our buttons and beads in glass jars that are 100% recyclable. We use recycled paper, and we try not to use plastic as much as possible. We try to use ribbon instead of Sticky tape, where possible and brown paper instead of bubble wrap.

If you like books, like us, definitely add We are what we do's books to your mental wishlist.

PERIOD HOUSE

If you like period houses, live in a country cottage or just like the shabby chic look I'm sure you read Period House Magazine.

  Not only is the magazine great but their website is wonderful too. Full of inspiration on every page.

I especially like this link on the left hand side to a vintage company, very Shabby Chic. 

AND......... What's great is that they've written a feature on us in the September Issue  of their wonderful magazine.

I'm sure you'll all love what they  write about if you're a Country Chic lover.

(Images belonging to Period House)