As the Summer holidays draw near, I’ve been making my eco Summer getaway wish list of products from towels, to hats to cosmetics. Some items I’ve tried and tested, but others I LONG to have!

Whats more, I’ll buy them to last so they won’t be ‘written in the sand’…

Last night I attended an event where Patrick Grant (aka The Sewing Bee Judge) sat down in conversation with Lizzie Heffer about the crisis of consumption and quality in fashion, how valuing craftsmanship and local manufacturing matters for all our futures and how we might make ourselves happier by rediscovering the joy of living with fewer, better quality things.

Would you agree that less…is more?

Sometimes I recieve items that I can’t forsee how I can ever do anything with…and then sometimes the most amazing stories unfurl…find out what happened when I recieved some old boots that looked like they were doomed…