Your Home: Introducing Miranda Berrow Ceramics

Since I first stumbled across one of her beautiful teapots in a small interiors shop in the charming West Dorset town of Beaminster, I have become slighly obsessed with her work! Miranda Berrow has had a fascinating life, spending time in childhood between Canada, Spain and England, she then studied Ancient Civilizations in Paris at the Ecole du Louvre {something I wish I had done too, much more romantic and glamorous than Ancient History in Cardiff!}. She then travelled extensively in the Far East and Africa, before studying at St Martins School of Art in London and then settling in Dorset 14 years ago. The reason for this full explanation of her past is that all these experiences can be seen in her ceramic collection...Indian vegetable dyed cloth and weaving, Byzantine decoration and textiles, Persian lustre work...

She is so talented and I am dreaming of owning a full collection of her work one day - tea and cakes would seem so much more decadent and glamorous if the tea was sipped from one of her beautiful creations! I am hoping to get down to her workshop in Dorset for a visit later this summer, but in the meantime will be heading to a stockist that's closer to London, The Burford Garden Company, I can't wait! It's also one of the only places I've discovered that sells Miranda's work online...that dusty blue teapot is mine!

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{Images via Miranda Berrow)

Making Me Smile This Week...

✿ The Great Gatsby! I adore the decadence and style of 1920s New York and Baz Luhrman really doesn't disappoint in his version of the classic story by F Scott Fitzgerald. Visually stunning with a great soundtrack from Jay-Z, we watched it in 3D and it was brilliant.

✿ The Electric Cinema on Portabello Road has always been one of my favourite places. It was the perfect place to watch The Great Gatsby yesterday. We lay on a velvet bed covered with cashmere blankets, sharing a pot of tea for two - suitably decadent!

✿ Those of your who read the blog regularly will know how much I love flowers of all shapes and sizes, so my visit to The Chelsea Flower Show later this week is really making me smile.

✿ Our new wardrobe arrived on Friday from An Angel At My Table - we are very happy with it, only I wish we could afford two as I don't want to share it with P... it's simply too prettty!

✿ Last but certainly not least is the lovely Coco - she has a small presence on the blog, but I've realised that I don't write about her nearly enough. She's hilarious, a real little madam and so full of character - this week she's been particularly cheeky and really making us giggle!

What's making you smile this week?

LMH
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Our Wedding Part 4: Getting to the Church on Time!

As the afternoon progressed the stormy weather continued and the wind really started to howl! We were relieved that most of our guests had arrived at Babington earlier in the day, as the roads were starting to flood making driving conditions terrible. Nevertheless I managed to get to the church on time, but my entrance wasn't a particularly elegant one...the door was at the end of the Church and the trees behind formed a tunnel for the wind. As I was waiting outside trying to sort my dress, hair and fur wrap I was blown through the doors into the church, not exaclty the entrance I had planned! The service was perfect; a suitably eccentric country vicar, a local choir and string quartet, so many candles and the wind howling outside. As we said our vows witnessed by those closest to us, it felt like a scene from a Brontë novel, a magical time that neither of us will ever forget. 

Have a gorgeous weekend and see you next week!

LMH

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{Images by Caught The Light}

Artist Spotlight: The Fantastic Jessica Zoob

I have a very special Artist Spotlight to share with you today - the incredibly talented Jessica Zoob. I absolutely adore her work and dream of filling our home with her beautiful work. The journey to where she is now is a fascinating one and she has some hugely exciting collaborations in the pipeline, which I can't wait to hear more about! Like me she adores the coast and countryside and you can really see these inspirations come through in her work... 

Did you always want to be a designer/artist and how did you begin working as one?

As a teenager I was lucky enough to work with an amazing costume maker called Suzanna Wilson, I assisted her making the most fantastic costumes for The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera, films and west end musicals. I will never forget passing pins in the fitting room for Darcy Bustle's first ever Juliet costume. I think we were both about 14 at the time. This is a rather long winded way of saying that my first love was Theatre Design and that was what I trained as and was my first career. After the birth of my gorgeous daughters I decided that painting was a better way for me to fulfil my creative passion and not always be in a different city from them. I started painting full time in January 2000 and have never looked back. I really feel that this was what I was meant to do!

Where do you find your inspiration for you work? 

Everywhere I look I see beauty, I am so lucky to live in a really magical part of the country, the sea, sky and downs are constantly inspiring to me. I am also inspired by distressed textures, ancient walls, oil on water, faded fabrics, the list is almost endless!

What is the most exciting project you’ve worked on so far in your career? 

Wow, that is a hard one, hearing the audience gasp when the curtains rose on any of my theatre designs was always heart stoppingly exciting. Filling the Alexandra Palace with a huge party instalation was a very big event. My first solo show on Cork Street I nearly died of nerves! However I think the most exciting project to date is the one I am working on now with my partner sculptor and furniture maker Karl Smith. We are developing an entirely new art form, where painting meets sculpture, meets jewellery, meets architecture, working in collaboration with Swarovski Crystals and we will be launching this product at Decorex this Autumn.

What are your career dreams and aspirations over the next few years?

I am currently working with Romo Fabrics and they will be launching the Jessica Zoob Collection of textiles, wallpapers, cushions and possibly rugs next January so I am very excited about that. I have huge plans and dreams for large scale versions of my new crystal creations so who knows where that might take me. I would love to take my work out to China as that is where I spent a lot of time as a student and it has been a huge influence in my work. I am also keen to show my work in New York and Bernard Jacobson has offered to help me find the right dealer out there so we will see. I am loving my new collaborations with Interior Designers, especially Intarya and Linley and am really looking forward to working with Mary Fox Linton in the near future. 

Who is the most inspirational person you know? 

My wonderful brother the filmmaker Tom Tyrwhitt. He is the bravest man I know.

What is your favourite space in your home?

My beautiful new extension, just a tiny space but full of light and reflections and just under the skylights so I can see and hear the rain falling.

Where is your most inspirational place, home or away? 

Anywhere I can see the sea will always make me happy.

If you could own any home away from home, which would it be?

A tiny little completely remote croft in the middle of a wild dramatic landscape.

What’s your most treasured belonging? 

I have a few, but probably it would have to be a dolls house that Karl made for me with a miniature Zoob Gallery hidden inside.

What’s your favourite way to spend the weekend?

Going on long walks and having picnics on the beach. There is nothing quite like a cup of tea on top of a mountain! Guaranteed to make me smile!

What is your favourite thing about living in the UK?

The countryside, it is unbelievably beautiful.

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Making Me Smile This Week...

This week I've been really enjoying being back at home in London...appreciating the sunshine and all the hope and positivity that  Spring and early Summer bring...

✿ Bluebells have been really making me smile this week - seeing them in the woods and even in our garden where we have some currently in bloom!

✿ Sorting the house and finally unpacking our wedding gifts into our new kitchen {images coming soon!}. This week I'm particularly loving our set of beautiful Le Creuset pots in Coastal Blue.

✿ Planning our bedroom re-decoration, thinking of Cornforth White by Farrow & Ball with this beautiful Designers Guild Madame Butterfly wallpaper either side of the fireplace.

✿ Finally me and one of my closest friends went to see the lovely Leona Lewis perform at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday - she was wonderful and we had a very  Happy evening!

I hope you're having a lovely weekend and do let me know what's making you smile this week...

LMH
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Our Wedding Part 3: The Girls Get Ready!

Following on from last week and the boys preparations, it's time for a bit of glitter and glamour from the girls! We had a gorgeous morning with treatments at the beautiful, cosy Cowshed spa, an amazing breakfast and much relaxing and chatting in the Playroom. I decided to do my own make up, but we did have the lovely Maddy from Melanie Giles there to groom us! It was such a special time - a pause between one part of your life and the next. As the afternoon progressed the wind really picked up outside and there was a lot of rain, which some brides may have found upsetting, but we had chosen a winter wedding for a reason and the view from the room across the blustery parkland outside was moody and magical. I wore the draped Scarlet dress from Temperley London with a fur wrap, also by Alice Temperley and Jimmy Choo Luna peep-toes. 

Have a lovely weekend - I'm planning a quiet one at home as I'm still recovering from jetlag after all the recent travels, but hope to be back to normal by next week!

LMH

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{Images by Caught The Light}

Making Me Smile This Week...

The one thing that's really making me smile this week is the fact that Little Miss Homes is currently listed as number 3 of the up & coming Home Decor Blogs on top blog reader, Bloglovin! I was smiling even more earlier in the week when I was at number 1, so please help me get back there by creating an account if you don't already have one and following me! 

To celebrate I thought that I would share with you the top five blogs that I follow, all of which I love and read every day...

✿ The first is an interiors & lifestyle blog full of loveliness...79 Ideas. I don't really need to say more, just have a look for yourself!

✿ The second is the hugely popular lifestyle blog, The Londoner. A really upbeat blog, full of recipes, travel and fun ideas, it's always such a pleasure to read...what Rosie doesn't know about blogging quite frankly isn't worth knowing. This is also Coco's favourite blog - she particularly loves it when Rosie's dog Custard writes posts!

✿ For my daily fashion fix I love New York's Atlantic Pacific...

✿ And the lovely Will from Bright Bazaar provides me with my daily colour fix!

✿ Finally for some total escapism I visit a lovely little shabby chic Beach Cottage in Australia...

Hope you're having a lovely bank holiday weekend and do let me know what's making you smile this week {and please, please help to keep me at the top by following on Bloglovin!}

LMH
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