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March 10, 2026

You Are What You Give with... Milli Proust

Introducing another multi-faceted mother of myriad talents, the florist, gardener, author, artist, world record teasel grower, Milli Proust. Milli lives deep in the Sussex countryside with her husband Ted and toddler Rex, and has just published her latest book, How Does Your Garden Grow. Read her thoughts on gardening with kids, lessons from her mother, and what she is teaching in turn, plus ten gifts she would love to receive for Mother's Day...

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March 04, 2026

You Are What You Give with... Sydney Piercey

Sydney Piercey lives with her husband, four adorable children and a menagerie of animals in the French countryside. A friend and customer of Scribble & Daub, she kindly took time out of her charmingly chaotic existence, to contribute to our You Are What You Give interview series for Mother’s Day...

Sydney is a polymath; having worked first in fashion, and then in property, she is now a published Continue reading

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February 10, 2026

You Are What You Give... with Emily & Hugo of Straw London

Straw London were an early stockist of Scribble & Daub, and it's hard not to fall for the beautiful ceramics, baskets, clothing and French vintage finds that inhabit Emily & Hugo's small but perfectly formed shop on Columbia Road in London. I have lived in a pair of Gardana clogs they gave me for my birthday a couple of years ago, and was also honoured to create their wedding stationery.

Sweethearts since they were 16, these stylish shopkeepers share...

February 06, 2026

You Are What You Give with... Florence & Richard Ingleby

More than a decade before I began Scribble & Daub, Richard & Florence were my first (and only!) employers at their eponymous gallery in Edinburgh, one of Scotland's most beautiful and respected contemporary art spaces (below, paintings in an exhibition by Caroline Walker). After many years spent in their orbit, I can tell you that they have exquisite taste, are warm and ge...

February 01, 2026

How to talk about love... and how to celebrate it!

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries; without them humanity cannot survive." Dalai Lama

How to talk about love at a moment when there is such a terrifying lack of it on display around the world? It's not always easy...

On Christmas Eve (of all days!) I received an email from someone informing me tha...

January 18, 2026

Small Shifts & Free Gifts

"The beginning is always today"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Happy New Year! I don't know about you, but mine has started slowly; still feeling more like a Wood Snake curled up in hibernation, and definitely not yet ready to ride the Fire Horse coming our way for the first time in 60 years on 17th February...

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