Coulson Macleod has been invited to sell via the very hip and trendy mydeco boutique. How lucky are we?

The main site of mydeco is a home décor portal, cre­ated by Brent Hober­man and Martha Lane Fox, of last​minute​.com.  mydeco “brings together the country’s widest range of home fur­nish­ing products from over 700 retail­ers into one place. From high street stores like Heal’s and John Lewis to niche retailers.”

Within the site is mydeco boutique, which “aims to show­case a lim­ited num­ber of lead­ing inde­pend­ent design­ers that mydeco feels rep­res­ent the UK’s innov­at­ive design talent.”

Coulson Macleod will be sold along­side such huge names as Atelier Abi­gail Ahern, Kelly Hop­pen and Celia Birtwell. Swoon!

‘It’s the indi­vidu­al­ity and char­ac­ter you get that make designer pieces spe­cial,’ says says interi­ors expert Rachel Moses from Design Nation. “Most of the beau­ti­ful items you spot in mydeco boutique are hand­made in Bri­tain. They are all bang on trend, ori­ginal in design (no cheap imit­a­tions here), pro­duced in small batches, and well respec­ted in their indus­tries.” Yep! that’s us.

Keen to find some­thing unique that you won’t see on the high street? Then mydeco boutique is for you. An “exclus­ive treas­ure trove of avant-garde, inde­pend­ent design­ers at your fingertips.”

Met a lady a few days ago who was wear­ing a rather eye-catching neck­lace. Turns out she’s a jew­eller and sells her cre­ations online at Car­oline May.

Car­oline only uses ster­ling or hill tribe sil­ver (which is actu­ally purer). She com­bines sil­ver with beads she sources from around the globe, includ­ing Swarovski crys­tal, Czech and Indian glass, and semi-precious stones.

Car­oline also designs bespoke pieces too from her stu­dio in Northamp­ton­shire, and is cur­rently work­ing on a sil­ver neck­lace with faceted emer­ald nug­gets and tourmaline drops. Hope­fully I’ll get a pic­ture of the fin­ished piece for you all to see.

I’ve been want­ing to show­case the amaz­ing hand­made cards by Ruby Wren for awhile now. All of the designs are simple, mod­ern, and totally lovely. Ruby Wren’s cards and envel­opes are 100% recycled and bleach free and are made using ele­phant and rhino poo!  

This small busi­ness, run by Hay­ley Mitchell, also hap­pens to be pretty local to Coulson Macleod — which makes me think that this is rather a cre­at­ive pocket of England.

I’ve just stumbled across a lovely shop called A Little Hut that sells hand­made paper products by Texas-based graphic designer and paper artist, Patricia Zapata.

Patri­cia has been mak­ing hand-crafted cards since 2004, and she designs and pro­duces everything that you can buy from her site.  She has also pub­lished a book on paper craft called Home, Paper, Scis­sors.  All of her work is hand-cut using mainly recycled paper.

I par­tic­u­larly love these gift boxes.  So cute.

We’re sit­ting here admir­ing our first sample of typo­graphic art prin­ted onto wood and feel­ing very pleased with ourselves.

It’s gor­geous.

Dis­tressed typo­graphy, prin­ted onto wood, and then framed in a vintage-looking hand-crafted chunky solid oak frame.

It looks like some­thing only lucky people find in junk shops, which is never usu­ally us.

So we cheated and made our own.