If you’re local to South East London, put these dates in your diaries! Book onto our fantastic workshops and join us for the return of our Micro Christmas Market…shop local and independent this Christmas.
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Our Simple Shape Studio is going to be a mass of felt, embroidery thread, beads and sequins for our Christmas Decoration Workshop. Author & presenter, Christine Leech, founder of SewYeah will be passing on her skills. We asked her 6 questions about her creative roots.
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Trapping heat and effectively insulating yourself is a successful and time-worn way to stay warm when the weather turns bleak. And a wool blanket is a simple and excellent way to do that.
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Saturday 19 November | 2pm-4pm. We have joined forces with SewYeah to present a Christmas Decoration Workshop. Join us and make an embroidered, beaded Gingerbread House or a Babushka Doll.
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The gift of some carving tools prompted Ewen Brown, founder of the Norfolk based workshop Slow Made Goods, to start experimenting with wood. Now just a handful of years later, he is turning a living from it. We posed 10 questions…
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We are really excited to be hosting print artist Anna Ruiz for the Brockley Open Studios, Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd July. Walk through the streets of Brockley and find local artists and makers and seize this special opportunity to buy unique works. Read on for details and a Q&A with Anna.
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I know football is a little ‘off topic’ for a homewares shop but bear with me. Inspiration comes from many different sources; music, art, theatre, sport. So, we went to see Designing The Beautiful Game at the London Design Museum. And I was rewarded, it’s full of stories…
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Bleakhouse Flowers are taking over the Simple Shape Studio for an afternoon. Founder, Tobby Wu is fascinated by the strange and curious. Her style is absolutely unique. Here is her 5 question Q&A.
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Saturday 23rd April | 2pm-4pm. We are bursting with excitement to be hosting a Spring Flower Bouquet Workshop here in the Simple Shape Studio taught by Tobby Wu of Bleak House
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Get outside, clear the cobwebs away, keep moving. January and February will give way to Spring soon enough. Photo story from Camber Sands.
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The food and the people are the focus, the table is the landscape. We have all the things to help you create a great landscape for your food and guests.
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Here are the details of what Simple Shape is up to in the run up to the Christmas break and when you need to order to be sure your gifts arrive in plenty of time.
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A celebration of the work of the Japanese-American sculptor, Isamu Noguchi and the inter-play of light and dark, shape and space, materials and texture, art, craft, sculpture, product.
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It's not news that soft lighting and scents can create an atmosphere but don't wait for an occasion to do this, autumn-winter nights are occasion enough.
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We do argue about egg timing but, fortunately, we generally agree about egg cups, wooden plates, jugs of flowers, the nicest accoutrements to accompany said boiled egg. Here they are, all the nice things.
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Blue Monday, the so named most depressing day of the year, got me thinking. It got me thinking about ‘the blues’. But rather than focus on the darkness that the 'Winter Blues’ elicits this is my personal version of Blue Sky Thinking…
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We thought it might be helpful to pull together all the lovely gifts that we have that are under £50. And, of course, if you’re on our mailing list then POSTAGE IS FREE (always).
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The black and white of it is that we’re resolutely refusing to fall into the ‘For Him / For Her’ approach to seasonal shopping. Instead we’ve organised the collection into colour groups. In our Monochrome Edit we have things that are black, white and a good few shades of grey.
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If a natural tone is what you’re after in your homewares shopping then our Natural Selection Gift Guide including alpaca wool throws, wooden boards, copper watering cans, walnut coffee scoops and jute twine…all designed and made on these shores is a good starting place.
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All of our gifts are handmade, crafted things that have ALL, without exception, been made in the UK and Ireland and that each support a designer, maker, small business or unique industry. If this is what you’re looking for, then this is the gift guide for you. Here is our Colour Injection edit.
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