{Monday: Cote Azur & Provence?}

{Source: Phillip Lowe Photography}

{Inspirational Quote of the Day}

{Burleigh; Love for China made in England}

Some Burleighs China

Today is dedicated to the amazing beautiful and delicate china. Based in Stoke-on-Trent, Burleigh has been making beautiful handcrafted pottery for over 160 years. And for a long time, I’ve admired their blue and white floral jugs.  But it was only recently that I found out that they make such a huge range of crockery and in lots of different floral patterns. You’ll find everything you need for an afternoon tea from teapots and cake plates to sandwich trays, bowls and jugs. Check it my favorites:

1-. Calico Red

2-. Calico Blue

3-. Rosie´s Hen

4-. Victoria Chinz

History of Burleighs Pottery Industry

     Above you can listen to Rosemary Dorling on her love of blue and white ceramics, and watch our the fascinating production process. This video charts the History of this great Victorian Pottery, Stoke on Trent Unique English designs since 1851 using the 200 year old decorating process of underglaze transfer printing famous on Burleighs Blue and White China.

Rosemary Dorling - Co-Owner

Contact Info:

Burleigh Company

Middleport Pottery, Port Street, Burslem,

Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 3PE,

England. UK.

Tel: +44 (0)1782 577866

Email: webshop@burleigh.co.uk

Products available on Amazon

{More related links}:

Burleigh Pottery Official Website

History of China Pottery 

"Ceramic; a Fragile Story" by BBC 4

{This Will be an Amazing Beautiful Year for All}

New Year´s Eve traditional song played by Pink Martini (A Retrospective Album, 2011). For listening first you must stop the blog´s music below. Enjoy it!

{A Dandy Portrait: Mr. Crowley}

Sean Crowley is a neckwear designer for a Major Brand (we can't tell you who, but it's probably the pre-eminent name in menswear in America). He lives in a Brooklyn apartment crammed floor to ceiling with the accoutrements of a gentleman's lifestyle, from rowing paddles to cocktail ingredients to neckties. Thousands and thousands of neckties, which hang on a custom rack he built with his father.

{The Dandy Portraits - Sean Crowley from Rarebit Productions on Vimeo}

{Merry Christmas to All!}

Merry Christmas Eve and Christmas day, my best wishes to all my nice Eaton Square followers and please do not forget the true meaning of this day, the Nativity not the capitalist disease. Humility, Solidarity and Love; Peace on Earth.

 Love,

C.RBM. 

{How to make: Holiday Leaf Crown}

I show you an eassy idea for a nice hairstyle - specially for this season when there´re a lot of parties for being amazing stunning-. Let´s see.

Materials: wire thin enough to shape to the head, wire cutters, greenery clipped from the garden, gold spray paint, straw floral tape

Step 1: Spray paint your leaves at least 24 hours before you intend on making the crown.

Step 2: Measure the wire around the model's head and cut it with 3 extra inches.

Step 3: Form the wire into a circle and wrap the extra inches around to secure it.

Step 4: Break the leaves into 2 1/2" segments.

Step 5: Take your first segment and floral tape it around the wire.

Step 6: Take the next segment of leaves and overlap it with the previous segment and floral tape it around the wire.

Step 7: Repeat until you get to the end. Overlap it with the beginning.

That's it! Voila!

Photography by Amanda Thomsen 

Project by Brittany Watson Jepsen for Brooklyn Bride

Model Cecilie Andersen

Assistant Karen Yip

Jacket by FN 92

Dress by Elefeteria

{I Capture the Castle}

1st Option, the premiere UK property management firm for filming and photography, recently added a Gloucestershire castle to its portfolio of amazing properties. All photos of old castles immediately make me think of the book “I Capture the Castle”, by Dodie Smith. Have a look:

{Source: 1st Option via At English Muse}

{Art for this Christmas}

I love these illustrations by Barbara Szepesi Szucs for they are cute, right into the Christmas spirit and all ages favorable. Such a nice gift to your beloved ones (including yourself).

{Dec 10th, The "International Day for Animal Rights"}

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.  

                                                           ~William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922