Kate Lycett's magical lanterns

 Aren't these just absolutely stunningly gorgeous!? Do you know the work of Kate Lycett? She lives, works and is inspired by the architecture of our little town and she paints glorious colourful pictures with shiny gold detail and stitching. They are quite something and so you can imagine how excited I was when she told me she was designing some paper cut lanterns!

I have been waiting patiently and listening excitedly to Kates updates as she looked into production and laser cutting. You can read all about their progress on her blog.

They are so magical and glow so beautiful. The houses look so cosy and the fairy lights in the trees really do glow like the real thing.

And they are only £14 each. They come flat with a long white envelope making them a perfect post-able gift. I'm very happy to have them at Radiance. Thanks Kate. x

Here they are on the website.

Paper garlands

We've had these in the shop a little while but not online as they were tricky to photograph so we hadn't got round to it! Sorry! Anyway we have tackled it today and you now you can find enchanted forest, hearts, circles, cats, teapots and birds on the decorations page. Woohoo.

Light up your boudoir!!!

This glorious Spiral Cupcakes bra light by Emerald Faerie is going to be auctioned off tomorrow night at a charity event for breast cancer organised by Nicolette Lafonseca-Hargreaves at the Works in Sowerby Bridge. There's going to be lots of entertainment from 7-11 and if you fancy lighting up your boudoir with a bra light, do come along!

Lovely new Isak tea towels and cups

Aren't these new Havest teatowels from Isak just gorgeous! 

as are these Landsby cups that have a lovely wooden lid and come in a beautiful printed box. Yum!

Illuminate!

Look look! Illuminate has a front cover! We are on the way. The stunning lampshade illuminating the front cover is by Allison Patrick from Zipper 8 Lighting based in New York. It is the most perfect image to have on the front. I love it.

So today I send the final, final (fingers crossed) layouts back to the publishers and then the 43 artists profiles and the 171 beautiful images and the many thousands of words of inspiration and story will go off to be printed.

And do you know what else? It's on Amazon! It was pretty amazing to see that for the first time yesterday. I hope you will share my excitement!

Amy Cooper lamps

Amy Cooper just sent us a new box of  beautiful porcelain lamps! This is her new Pinhole Pollen and it is exquisite!

Cottage in the Dales with nice lights!

I love the synchronicities of life. I met a woman called Rosemary on Twitter recently and bobbed over to her website to have a look at her holiday cottage in the Dales. I have happy memories of a family holiday in this village as a child and actually wondered if it was the same cottage. Turns out it wasn't but it was on the same lane. Anyway I looked at a few photos and messaged her to say how lovely it looked. What I didn't notice first time was that she has Green Ambient Ball Fairy Lights by Blaze On in her kitchen AND it turns out she bought them from me! Ha!

The Cottage is in Burtesett.

I have memories of this pathway through the field as my little sister who was two at the time was obsessed by a poorly sheep that was lying by the path and we had to visit it every day (sadly it didn't last out the week).

Anyway, the cottage looks really lovely doesn't it. I quite fancy a trip there.

There are some more pics on their 1 Southview facebook page