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A brighter, better blog!10 comments

TheBigForest wrote 1 week ago: We have now been blogging since January 2012 (gasps of astonishment) and regular readers will have n … more →

Tags: Commissions, Inspiration, London, Etsy, kids, Toys, Art, Shopping, Illustration

English Food: baking bread9 comments

TheBigForest wrote 1 week ago: Writing in 1857 Eliza Acton in The English Bread Book said ‘A very exaggerated idea of the difficult … more →

Tags: English food, Brighton, Craft, London, Retro, England, Illustration, Britain, Design

Places we love

TheBigForest wrote 2 weeks ago:   Places We Love Places we love exist only through us, Space destroyed is only illusion in the … more →

Tags: Inspiration, Creative, Photography, Inspiration, Poetry, Places We Love, Ivan V. Lalic, Memory

Dog treats in Durham, England

TheBigForest wrote 1 month ago: One half of TheBigForest has been working for a few weeks in County Durham. It’s a long way fr … more →

Tags: Travels in a campervan, England, Travel, Tourist, Durham, County Durham, three tuns hotel durham, Durham Cathedral, Durham Indoor Market

April in the garden 19498 comments

TheBigForest wrote 1 month ago: We are looking longingly at the garden, we want to be clearing up and planting but we have been away … more →

Tags: TheBigForest, Retro, gardening, 1940s, Illustration, History, vintage, garden history, Gardens

A moment with the Moomins4 comments

TheBigForest wrote 1 month ago: A post about Moomins has been on the ‘blog list’ for months but there is very little tha … more →

Tags: TheBigForest, Brighton, Craft, London, kids, Children's Books, Illustration, Inspiration, Design

Alice bakes...4 comments

TheBigForest wrote 1 month ago: Well we had a perfect Easter. Really, really perfect. A nice time with family and then a sudden buzz … more →

Tags: TheBigForest, Food, cooking, hot cross bun recipe, Paul Hollywood, baking, Eating, Good Food

On hearing the first ....... in spring4 comments

TheBigForest wrote 1 month ago: To be frank there ain’t much sign of a cuckoo in the snowy wastes of County Durham where one h … more →

Tags: TheBigForest, Brighton, Victorian, Art, Sussex, History, Tourist, Booth museum, stuffed birds

Exploring the work of Hammer Prints

TheBigForest wrote 1 month ago: A couple of months back one half of TheBigForest was delivering an artists training day at First Sit … more →

Tags: Craft, Retro, Art, Design, 1950s, ceramics, firstsite, Colchester, Essex

Yokoland at Kemistry Gallery

TheBigForest wrote 2 months ago: A short while ago we enjoyed a walk around Yokoland at the Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch. We loved … more →

Tags: London, Illustration, Inspiration, Tourist, yokoland, Norway, Norwegian, Graphic Design, Kemistry Gallery

Going back...6 comments

TheBigForest wrote 2 months ago: This 50′s illustration by Ferelith Eccles Williams comes from a book called the The Musical Um … more →

Tags: artist bears, Retro, Shopping, Music, Illustration, 1960s, vintage, 1970s, modernist

A moment in Guildford with Lewis Carroll8 comments

TheBigForest wrote 3 months ago: As regular readers will know silence on the blogging front rarely means the folks from TheBigForest … more →

Tags: Travels in a campervan, TheBigForest, Brighton, Commissions, Craft, London, Campervan, Art, England

The sea and the winter sun6 comments

TheBigForest wrote 3 months ago: We went down the sea yesterday. Winter cold and so beautiful in the icy sun. We stopped.  We looked. … more →

Tags: TheBigForest, Brighton, winter, Craft, London, Art, England, Sussex, beach

A winters day7 comments

TheBigForest wrote 4 months ago: It’s too cold to be off exploring so we settled down in doors with the idea of having a day of … more →

Tags: greetings cards, Commissions, forest, winter, London, greetings cards, Bears, designer, spring

The very inspiring blogger award - the winners! 19 comments

TheBigForest wrote 4 months ago: Just before Christmas when we were in a ‘don’t speak to us we are so busy’ phase w … more →

Tags: artist bears, Recommended by TheBigForest, TheBigForest, Brighton, Commissions, Craft, gifts, London, Retro

Out of season4 comments

TheBigForest wrote 4 months ago: We went for a walk on the pier. The wind howled, the awnings flapped, there wasnt a soul around and … more →

Tags: Mens and Womens Accessories, Brighton, Valentines, London, Oregon, Sussex, 1940s, vintage, vintage clothes

Meanwhile back in the forest

TheBigForest wrote 4 months ago: We have had a real break and since our return a couple of days ago it’s been hard to get back into t … more →

Tags: TheBigForest, Brighton, kent, forest, winter, Craft, gifts, London, greetings cards

Parcels under TheBigForest tree8 comments

TheBigForest wrote 4 months ago: Back in about May we came across this 1950′s facsimile reprint of A Christmas Carol originally … more →

Tags: TheBigForest, Brighton, Commissions, forest, winter, Craft, gifts, London, Bears

A world of wooly nonsense1 comment

TheBigForest wrote 5 months ago: TheBigForest hut looks like one of those illustrations from a German fairy tale at the moment, the o … more →

Tags: Commissions, TheBigForest, Craft, Oregon, Present, Design, Gift, Sweden, Christmas


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