I love this painting by Matthew Pratt, maybe because he gives the furniture as much attention as the sitter.

Philtre Perfume available at Antick

mushroom pastries (pasties?)

I'm a vegetarian, but I have to admit to having a fascination with meat pies and pasties (is that really the word? Doesn't that have another, less-appetizing meaning?). I think it might be because I'm also a huge fan of Dickens. What's that you say? He's ridiculously sappy? I would reply that you haven't actually read any Dickens, because he's actually very dark, extremely humorous and a wonderful political satirist. But I'm constantly trying to develop vegetarian recipes for what-would-be-traditionally-meat pies. I made these today. Mushrooms, thyme, white wine, pine nuts, shallots...

On the second picture you will see a beautiful plate hand-made by Julia Smith and available at....Antick!!


For the full recipe leave a comment, and all will be revealed.

Squids!!

These are the Squids from Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiousities that inspired our velvet squids. As you can tell from the name of our blog, we like this book!

new Antick animals

Squids and elephants and rabbits, oh my. We have new beasties at Antick. Squids of every color, foxes, monsters, frogs, and many more. All made of wool felt or velvet, stuffed with 100% cotton, and festooned with glass bead eyes.