A very good friend of ours who is living in London went along to the Rob Ryan open studio a few weekends and just sent me some photos (cause she knows I’m a big fan :) Just look at all the lovely tiles so many to collect!! And the live paper cutting!! Thought the photos were just too good not to share, so enjoy! Lx
We found this great design store in London recently called Skandium on the way to the Natural History Museum in London and couldn’t help but purchase these amazing mugs from Italian brand, iittala I want the whole set but will need to save up for the rest, this great Marimekko tin also had to come home with us. Lx
Well I usually like my animals alive – but so its just not even possible to see unless you travel to the ends of the earth and even then you are not guaranteed to get a glimpse. I would love, love, love love to go to Antarcica and see Emperor Penguins but until I win the lottery I’ll probably have to make do with the stuffed one I saw at the Natural History Museum in London. Another really cool thing we found there was an extinct GIANT SLOTH !!! How amazing, I had no idea they had even existed, and we are very big fans of sloths here at Made by White.
After quite a big search through the museum I found my new favourite animal the Slow Loris, I fell in love after seeing this video and I just want one!! Again better when its alive but hey I don’t think we have these little guys here either, just possums that don’t like being scratched on their bellys.
Some animals we did see alive and well were deers and squirrels, I wanted to keep one of each and take them home, they are much better than possums and kangaroos!! The deers lived on the grounds of a Castle in Knole Park just out of London, they just roam around happily and are quite tame (some of them). The little squirrels we found playing around in the Buckingham Palace Gardens, they were only interested in you if you had some nuts to share with them but were super cute. Lx
I very recently spent 2 weeks in London – I visited nearly every store I could while we were there and I think by far my favourite was Ryantown, the blog obviously does it no justice. I knew of Rob Ryan before I went to London but apon visiting his store I fell in love with everything in there!!
The outside of Ryantown – there is a flower markets in the street on Sundays selling lots of beautiful flowers and plants (for a fiver only a fiver!)
Lovely kids tees, printed glasses, small papercuts, books, cushions, tiles (of which i now have a few) beautiful large framed papercuts (which i couldn’t fit in my luggage to bring home) and other lovely things.
The entrance (to the right of this photo) has a mural on the wall which was just stunning, I am also the proud owner of a “make your own” Rob Ryan screen printed skirt, I’ll have to get help with that one.
After 2 visits to the store – the selected tiles – I so want to tile my whole bathroom with these, they are just beautiful !! Lx
Now I’m not putting shit on London because I know that the Aussies have some of the worst souvenirs there are – but this one caught my attention for being really horrible. As if the quote isn’t bad enough and if my “friend” went to London and bought this “lousy” tshirt for me they would no longer be a friend! But most of all, the worst thing about this tshirt is the fact that it uses COMIC SANS FONT the absolute worst font ever invented !!! Stay tuned for some cool things I’ve found in London. Even Hilter hated this font !!! Lx
