LOST and FOUND in Holmfirth

Holmfirth is a charming teeny tiny town in Yorkshire. Why, one of us Lush Designers spent some of her misspent youth combing the rails of a shop called Platform One looking for the ultimate Stevie Nicks style swirly dress made from vintage scarves.

From the rich soil of the Holmfirth cool vintage tradition a lovely shop called LOST and FOUND has sprung. Hurrah! For it sells Lush Designs home wares alongside the groovily restored furniture.







Look at this bonkers lampshade display! They're mad up North!

Of course its also famous for being the location for Last of the Summer Wine.

...and as a special treat here's a lovely pic of Nora Batty and Compo - two stylish residents of Holmfirth with whom you may be familiar...

LOST and FOUND http://www.facebook.com/LostFoundHolmfirth

Lush designs, Hen and Hammock and a FREE PRIZE DRAW!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hen-and-Hammock/180551188657316
Regular observers of the Lush Designs output will have observed that we simply adore our feathered friends...
NEW!!! Stupendous OWL shade in extry BIG size. Here shown in metallic gold and cream,

Suitable for ladylike types and actual bonafide ladies.

Cats' dinner from Cat Cushion

Pheasants!

Small (legless) bird on our Fox and Cubs shade

Humming bird greetings card

A pigeon on our Foxy lampshade

Bird illustration for The Wine Society

Lush Designs wooden bird decoration

Lush Designs Birdsong tea towel

If you like to feed the dickie birds, visit Hen and Hammock a sweetly named website with lots of tasteful gardeny-homey gifts (they sell Lush Designs tea towels too)http://www.henandhammock.co.uk/

Imagine the magnificently macabre sight of this poor fellow getting pecked away like a corpse hanging outside Newgate jail.

Or this lovely shiny ceramic ball feeder

ANYWAY

Hen and Hammock have a prize draw (HURRAH!) for those who "like" their facebook fan page.

Go to it people! .... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hen-and-Hammock/180551188657316

Beetroot. King o' veg.

People.

Embrace this most delicious of vegetables:

and ignore all those snobby modern types who put about the vile rumour that pickled beetroot is inferior to that which is unvinegrous*. What could be more delicious than a slice or two of pickled beetroot with pie and mash?

Beetroots available in tea towel form from Lush Designs www.lushlampshades.co.uk

(*That which is not vinegary)

Lush Olympics

Tally ho

2012 Olympic Year

You may or may not know that the 2012 Olympic Equestrian Events are taking place in Greenwich Park, within trotting distance of the Lush Designs shop in Greenwich. Unfortunately we have failed to secure tickets for the Dressage which is our FAVOURITE sport.

No matter. We shall climb one of the noble plane trees that grace the perimeter of the park, get out our binoculars and peep at the goings on as is our God-given right.

This is an artists impression of one of the Horse Driving trials. Prince Philip may well be too old/poorly to participate so I imagine some other esteemed Royal will keep the royal end up.

HOME Earl's Court

Trade Shows. All the fun of the slightly unfair.

Actually this year we didn't have a big fuse box on the wall of our stand (for the first time in ten years) and therefore didn't have to inventively paint round it/display an item in front of it/make a feature of it.

There was, however a couple of surprises - who knew there would be a complimentary muslin ceiling on our stand? Some people would cry out for such luxurious additions, but try fixing eight pendant light fittings up with tightly stretched muslin in the way.

Oh yes, and we were expecting a wall where there is an open side, hence the creeping tea towel display which we artfully extended out to the right.

If yesterday was anything to go by its going to be a very successful show. Our new Owl design is melting the stony hearts of buyers, and the new Castles and Cottages lampshades are proving popular with the buyers from shops like Arcadia in Cambridge http://www.arcadiagallery.co.uk/

and Radiance in Hebden Bridge http://www.radiancelighting.co.uk

Prints Charming

Some unwise people have had recessed spotlights fitted in their houses. While we are not against the unwise per se, (see dear little fools depicted above) Where the jiggins are they going to put a Lush Designs lampshade in their unecessarily modernised dwelling places?

What those same people are allergic to cushions?

Eat takeaways and have no need of tea towels?

Only swig from the bottle and drink not from mugs?

How can we at Lush Designs infiltrate their homes?

Ha! A simple print of one of our illustrations, on lovely Hannemuhle rag paper.

We have quite a few to choose from at the Lush Designs Shop in Greenwich...

A cheery beetroot (one of the veg series)



A noble stag



A cottage (in which no recessed spotlights are to be found)