In the shop today

We've got a few new designs in the shop this week.

This is a snap I took today (blame the camera)

The very large shade hanging on the left which comes in a lovely Ribena colour (plus a few others) depicts a panorama of a condensed version of London as seen from the South side of the Thames.
For those of you who like boats there's two of them on it.
For those of you who like the macabre there is a secret drowned person lurking in the water.
For those of you who have a very big house its actually ideal, being fully 57cm in diameter.

HURRAH!


If you squeeze your eyeballs very hard you'll be able to see the lovely new Centaur design pillow cases displayed therein.

LUSHLOBES

What in God's name is this selection of outlandish objects????!!!!

You may be interested to know that we Lush Designers have had many incarnations. Why, for a great many years in the 1980s we made costume jewellery. In them far off days we were called LUSHLOBES. When we stopped making earrings we changed it to Lush Designs.

Some of you may note with interest that a certain soapy bath-bomb company chose a rather similar name. Not many people get us mixed up though.

Anyway; thanks to lovely Jackie Elliman who has been a customer for all these years and sent us this photo of her ancient Lushlobe artifacts.

Tattoos R Us

Now,

An interesting thing happened the other day. I found our old pal Terry Datson on facebook whom we haven't seen for over twenty years. Terry lives in Ireland and has a band called The Taxmen (www.thetaxmencork.com) Check out their swingin' grooves.

Many years have come and gone and his once flaming red hair is now snowy white.
In the olden days Terry had a marvellous band called Fatz Datz and the Kool Katz. We designed this cheery poster for them in about 1832 when Margaret Thatcher was in power and we all needed cheering up.

ANYWAY - we now discover that Tel's only been and gone and had the Kat from that old poster indelibly depicted on his manly (freckly) arm.

Bet he never thought we'd find him on facebook and demand a design fee!

Not really, Tel. We love being immortalised on your arm. XXX


Eeech! Ouch! Ooch!
Et Voila!

love of lace

This is some lace we made using bobbins and ancient folky know - how.

Not really! We drew it with a pen and then made it pink in photoshop!

...and this is a lacewing.

"They say romance is back in style...

...well I say it never went out."

Remember this TV advertisement for Le Jardin De Max Factor?




Anyway, here's a picture of NOTRE jardin.

If Jane Seymour had tried any of her shenanigans in our garden she'd have to crouch down REALLY low to smell these here fleurs. However the very smell of them would inform her that spring is truly here (as spookily predicted in an earlier post.)

Ashy descent

Mark my words - its all going to look like this when the Icelandic ash comes down

Jolly Green Giant

We've designed this lampshade specially for people with big houses. Its big enough for your edwardian drawing room and wont clash with your priceless antiques.

So you can get an indication of its bold scale we have photographed it next to the head of a genuine goblin.

Available at the Lush Designs shop in Greenwich and SOON from www.lushlampshades.co.uk