Mad About Flowers- In Conversation With Paper Bea
With April in full swing and florals brightening the home and garden, we have decided to share a bit more about one of our favourite stockists. We have been lucky enough to stock Paper Bea since almost day one, her lovely products form part of our BBCT charity gift boxes. While the bee seed packets help flowers flourish in the garden, her beautiful paper flowers bring beauty and colour into the home. At a busy time of year for Paper Bea (Wedding Season!), we managed to have a quick chat with the lovely Helen about how she started and her passion for everything floral Read more
Easter Making- How to make edible, sugar coated flowers and what to do with them.
We at Home of Juniper have a passion for food. This passion usually revolves around eating… but when we do have time to get in the kitchen the creativity that can go into cooking can be pretty wonderful.
Perfect for this time of year, and great to do with children, is making sugar-coated flowers.
Keeping Mum
Our sterling silver ballerina necklace, by our lovely jewellery producing mummy, Vicky
Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday of Lent. Historically Mother’s Day in the UK was a day when children who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mothers and other family members. Some were even allowed to make a cake to bring to their family, this is where the tradition of cake making for Mother’s Day comes from. Everyone we know has different traditions for Mothers’ Day. I remember picking Daffodils in the cold March air….
With Mothering Sunday this month we have decided to tell you about some of our lovely producers who mix creating beautiful things for us with bringing up the children.
National Fair Trade Fortnight- UK
As it is Fair Trade Fortnight in the UK, we have decided to tell you a little more about some of our wonderful Fair Trade makers and the companies and organisations that work with them. Fair Trade is synonymous with conscientious consumerism, something that we endeavour to project in our little business.
The World Fair Trade Organisation has simplified the most important aspects of Fair Trade in 10 Principles of Fair Trade: Opportunities for disadvantaged producers; transparency and accountability; fair trade practices; fair payment; no child or forced labour; No discrimination, gender equity and freedom of association; good working conditions; capacity building; promote fair trade; respect for the environment.
Would You Like An Adventure Now Or Would You Like Tea First-Alice in Wonderland
‘Would you like an adventure now…or would you like tea first’ Lewis Carol in Alice in Wonderland.
Tea can be a mini adventure these days as the choice is growing.
We like to think of tea as a British tradition, but it was our Portuguese queen, Catherine of Braganza (who married Charles II) who initially made tea drinking fashionable, in the 1600s. Whilst it was once a pleasure reserved for the highest ranking people in the land, it has become accessible to all. Another difference between tea when Catherine was queen and tea now, are the options involved. Not only is there a lovely array of blends and brands, but also a choice in how you receive your tea. There are some wonderful brands keeping tea fashionable and interesting. We have spoken to the owners of three such brands. Read more
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
As the sound of Auld Lang Syne fades and we start settling into 2017, we have to shimmy through January. January is the month universally acknowledged to be the worst in the year. It is cold, Christmas is over, you have eaten too much and you have written a list of resolutions you don’t really want to keep… With this in mind we are dedicating our first blog post of the year to the best parts of January.
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