Scottish design studio, Lovely Pigeon, has opened its doors for a three week shop project in the sunny seaside village of Anstruther, Fife. The shop will also host daily workshops: Kirsty Thomas of Lovely Pigeon says the workshops will include, 'fashion makeovers, illustrated jewellery, Minecrafting and t-shirt monsters'.  'I am really excited to be featuring music from Fence Records and products from the l ...

Family run Californian company Fresco Towels have come up with such an original and ingenious idea for the humble bath towel. They have accurately recreated in soft, velvety Turkish cotton ethnic patterns and colourways resulting in products that resemble vintage traditional textiles such as Moroccan kilm rugs, Aztec and Native American blankets and Venetian tapestries. As well as towels, they sell cushions ...

Avocado Sweet and map creator, Peter Burgess are delighted to offer three lucky winners a free A1 MunroOverground map, worth £12.99 each including postage and packing. Just follow us @avocadosweet on Twitter and tweet us, mentioning 'munro' in the tweet. Competition closes at midnight on Friday 31 May. Names will be drawn out of a hat. The MunrOverground is an 'enlightening and eccentric' take on the 283 Mu ...

Here's a nice little gift or souvenir idea: for just £6 Ticketcoaster will laminate your prized cup final, gig or West End ticket and turn it into a durable coaster. It's somewhere to put your mug and a way of getting the fact that you saw Oasis at King Tuts into the conversation over and over and over again. ...

Celebrated society and theatre photographer Angus McBean's collection of photos and memorabilia will be auctioned by Lacy Scott & Knight today at noon (12 April 2013).  His celebrity portraits included the cover of the first Beatles album,  actresses such as Vivien Leigh, Audrey and Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and a very young Shirley Bassey (pictured below). During the 1930s he championed surre ...

Scotland is getting its own version of cabin porn with The Bothy Project. Primarily designed to give artists residency space in remote spaces around Scotland, the first bothy to be completed is now open to paying guests for part of the year.  It may feel remote but it is only four miles from Aviemore and is located near Inshriach House in the Cairngorms national park. Walter Micklethwait, who manages the ac ...

You may, like me, have to force yourself to keep calm whenever you see this overworked wartime mantra, particularly in its many bastardised forms, but this is a sweet little film about the origins of the original poster and the lovely looking bookshop where it was found and brought back, spectacularly, to life... [video width="600" id="FrHkKXFRbCI" type="youtube"] ...

If you wake up tomorrow and decide to knit your country avoid the landmarks. Take it from two women who have tried. For them the Forth Rail Bridge proved to be a span too far but the Scotch pie, Tunnocks teacakes and Andy Murray turned out beautifully. Two costume designers, Jackie Holt and Ruth Bailey have published Knit Your Own Scotland with patterns for some of the best Scottish icons, ranging from a hi ...

Now that we've got Valentine's Day out of the way, here's a gift for someone you really love - and who who loves you back! In our shop in time for Mother's Day are these pretty and useful sticky notes with quotes from Jane Austen, Maeve Binchy and Nora Ephron. We also have a set with the simple lines 'You rock' and 'You're a hero'. Pads are 7x7cm and are supplied as two pads in a smart silver-coloured metal ...

Brand new from Avocado Sweet are these sticky notepads with messages that Christian Grey would love - ‘I’m writing an erotic bestseller…(you’re in it)’ and 'Tie Me Up'. For those who don’t want to get tangled up in a Fifty Shades drama then there are two other packs with messages saying ‘You Float My Boat’ and just a simple kiss, X. ‘You is well sexy’ and ‘You make me want to purr’ on an animal print note a ...