Striped Polkas

Yesterday we were featured (along with Amy Ruppel's lunch set seen above) in a lovely little design blog across the pond called Striped Polkas. And boy are we glad! We've been looking to add more British designers to our store and thanks to Striped Polkas, we've found a ton more items from the UK that we're not sure we can live without!

Striped Polkas focuses mostly on British design (although exceptions are made for particularly charming items no matter where they're from) and is run by Mags L Halliday who's taste, she admits, is rather eclectic. "I grew up with a lot of stuff from earlier periods rather than the kind of perfect rooms you see in lifestyle magazines. My own house is 18th century but filled with a shambolic mix of stuff. So there's a set of red velvet theatre curtains closing off the kitchen from the rest of the house, a 1950's Ercol chair in the bedroom and an IKEA daybed in the attic."

Mags keeps things simple by limiting the blog to one post a day and features a quick peek at the latest item to catch her eye. In her own lovely, British accented words, "I want to provide a daily dollop that people can enjoy looking at elevenses." Sort of makes you wish you were British, doesn't it?