The other day, I attended an origami workshop and realized two things. One: Sadly I’m no good at it, and two: some people really are super talented, creative and have a lot of patience! Origami (Japanese for “paper folding”) is the art of transforming a flat sheet of paper into a sculpture through folding and […]
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Ah jewellery…the blitz and bling that everyone loves and for good reason! Wearing jewellery has been a thing since the Stone Age, when people wore feathers, shells, gems and well…stones. Nowadays, our selection has expanded to include a larger number of precious metals, gems and fancy stones and fortunately so. Wearing jewellery can immediately spruce […]
A country town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is located in the East Midlands of England. For well over 900 years, Northampton has been recognized as the shoe capital of the world and why is that you ask? Quite simple really- they’ve got a plentiful supply of oak bark and water for tanning, an abundance of leather […]
Leather. Most of us probably own something made out of this stuff, but how many of us really know all that much about it? We might sniff and feel up the leather as if we had a doctorate in the material, but secretly, most of us just hope that we look savvy doing it and […]