Pippins Colour Confident Furniture Collection

Annie Sloan - Antibes Green Chalk Paint

We are very pleased with the array of Annie Sloan paints we have selected from our local stockist Les Jolies Choses to use on our furniture, it looks amazing! We decided against the usual soft pastel colours and went for bright and vibrant.

The first colour we chose was Antibes Green chalk paint, wow what a lovely colour! We opened the pot and found the paint to be a little thick and followed the instructions on Annie Sloan's website to add a little water, simple!

 

We distressed the edges of the heart trays and stool and then added a clear wax. The paint is so easy to apply, some darker pieces of furniture did need 2 coats.

Images of the completed furniture will follow shortly!

Ladies Who Love Life!

                                                     

We really enjoy having Berni Parker's wonderful card ranges in our collection, they always bring a smile and are perfect birthday cards for friends and family.

   

Berni lives and works from her home studio in Worcestershire surrounded by beautiful countryside. She has a degree in graphic arts with illustration as her speciality. She has a successful greetings cards company publishing her own designs with her work selling in over thirty different countries. She regularly exhibits in the UK, New York and Japan. Berni exhibited her work for the first time at the Autumn Fair NEC eight years ago and has had huge international success with her gift card range, becoming a finalist at ‘Gift of the Year” She has developed her own individual style using multi layered handmade papers sourced from all over the world. The results are magical pieces of art which have a delicate soft three dimensional quality and texture. This special hand crafted and charming style is said to be unique and that “the picture can be touched with your eyes”.

We stock many of Berni's ' Ladies Who Love Life ' cards all with FREE UK Delivery.

   

 

Which one is your favourite? 

Make your purchase from our website at www.pippins.co.uk.

My English Summer Strawberry Lip Balm - REVIEW

We have now been a stockist of My English Summer bath and body products for over a year, their vintage inspired products have been our best seller and many customers have left positive reviews. We decided at Pippins HQ although we know the products look and smell beautiful are they as fabulous as our customers claim?

After some consideration we decided to review the most popular item which is a strawberry lip balm in a tin with an Edwardian lady and cute pink rose detail. Does it really do what it says on the tin?

         

Michelle's Opinion

I decided to pop this in my handbag so it was readily available and have been trialling it for the last 2 months. I have applied the balm as and when I found my lips to be dry and as its in a tin it stayed fresh, did not dry out and still smells of strawberries, not over powering just refreshing. I expected the rose to have fallen off, but no still intact, just a little tatty, maybe I should of kept it in the little organza bag provided! I was thrilled with this lip balm and will recommend these as wedding favours when my best friend gets married this Summer.

We also stock a parma violet lip balm which is not as popular but is still fairly new. Would love to hear what you think about this one.

Keep those lips nice and soft this Valentines!