Nice biscuit board
This is a brilliant biscuit inspired platter board!
Made from one solid piece of locally sourced British oak, the Nice biscuit design wooden platter board is multi-functional.
Use it as a chopping board, to protect your kitchen work surfaces from hot pans, as a cheese board or as a stylish serving platter.
The big biscuit platter board costs £34.95 from the SquarePear Furniture store on Not On The High Street.
Home tea towel
This lovely turquoise and white tea towel, by Michelle Mason, celebrates Home Sweet Home.
From windmills to house boats, teepees to castles, it features a range of buildings that can represent home to someone.
The Home tea towel is made from organic cotton and can be purchased direct from Michelle Mason’s own website, or from her store on Not On The High Street.
Welsh cake tea towel
Mmm, I love a good Welsh cake!
This red and white hand screen printed natural cotton tea towel celebrates the humble Welsh cake, or Pice ar y maen, and provides the all important ingredients for making them.
There’s just one small catch – you need to know Welsh to understand it!
The Welsh cake tea towel is available to buy from Bodlon’s shop on Not On The High Street.
If you’re looking for homeware with Welsh wording, then check out the rest of their products, as you’ll find staples such as a Cawl bowl, Coffi mug, Llaeth jug and Siwgr bowl.
Oven mitt
Every kitchen, and indeed every cook, needs a good supply of oven gloves (as I’ve shared before, mine seem subject to accidents), so here’s a jaunty oven mitt to add to your kitchen collection.
The single oven mitt is made from a rich plum coloured fabric, adorned with white daisies, and a contrasting patchwork-style trim. To get over that issue of where best to store it, the glove has a handy hanging loop on the side.
The Ina plum oven mitt, or grill glove, is made by Greengate and can be purchased from Berry Red for £11.
Red and white drinks carrier
If you’re carrying several bottles of wine or glasses to a table and have far to go with your arms laden, then this nifty drinks carrier is the ideal solution.
Perfect for using when you’re drinking outside in the garden, on a picnic, or just to ensure you don’t drop everything when you’re carrying multiple bottles and glasses through your house, the carrier can hold up to six bottles or glasses.
It’s nicer than just using a tray, as tall bottles and glasses are supported within the frame and have less of a chance of wobbling off and smashing.
The drinks carrier is made from metal, with a lovely red and white design on the outside and a twisted wirework decoration. The large metal handle ensures there’s plenty of room for carrying your goodies, without the tops of bottles getting in the way.
The Emma drinks and bottle carrier is £45 from Berry Red.
Made in Sweden from laminated birchwood, these trays are decorated with a trendy white leaf design.
Available in a choice of blossom pink or blackberry purple, the trays can easily be wiped clean and would make a cheery addition to any kitchen.
The birchwood leaf trays are available to purchase from Caroline McGrath for £36 each.
Mix and match spoons
I’m on the hunt for nice dessert spoons – the kind that have a pretty handle – as the pattern on my current ones is sadly wearing off.
I found some in a homeware shop recently that were perfect, except for the fact that they turned out to be £20 each…ouch!
But now I’ve spotted these Laguiole long handled spoons, which are thankfully more budget friendly and this time you get six spoons for £25.
The stainless steel Laguiole dessert spoons have a glossy acrylic handle in a mixture of jewel-like colours and they come in a presentation box.
They’re available to purchase at John Lewis.
Decorative chopping boards
As chopping boards go, these Birds and Branch boards are very decorative and almost too nice to chop on.
They’re designed and made in Sweden by Julia Nielson and are made from laminated birchwood. The cutting board has a hole at the top, so it can be hung up if you wish, and it’s available in a choice of two colours – zingy green or soft lilac.
The Birds and Branch chopping boards can be purchased from Berry Red and cost £16.50 each.
Do you think they’re too nice for chopping on? Perhaps you could just hang them up and enjoy the design instead!
Make delicious lemonade
Nothing quite beats the refreshing taste of homemade lemonade on a hot summer’s day.
If you’d like to have a go at making your own, then this Lemonade and Cordials kit contains all you’ll need for creating some delicious drinks.
The kit was created by Sophie Conran and includes an ice bucket, four traditional glass lemonade bottles wit flip top lids, a recipe booklet, muslin square for straining, a silicon funnel and a set of colourful drinking straws.
You don’t have to just stick to making soft drinks with the kit – amongst the inspiring recipes is Sophie’s Sip Me Sloe Gin!
The Bucket of Fun homemade lemonade kit can be purchased from Whisk Hampers for £35.
Floral pedal bin
Kitchen bins – not really the most exciting of home purchases, are they?
But that scenario could be different for once, thanks to the design of this pedal bin. It’s part of designer, Lisa Stickley’s, House and Home range at Debenhams and the cream bin has been given a bright and fresh feel with a floral buttercup design.
This bin wouldn’t fade into the background in your kitchen, but could actually be loved and admired. Even more so as it was originally priced at £50, but is now available for the super bargain price of only £25. Buy it now at Debenhams.
To complete the look, other matching Lisa Stickley home accessories are available, many of them also reduced in the sale.
