The bijou Oasis Health & Beauty spa in Great Missenden won Best Beauty Salon in my recent Awards (loving that signage above the door by the way!) and now I can show you why so many people voted for it. The …

Surfing, windsurfing, waterskiing, sailing and bodyboarding are way down the Muddy Stilettos fun list, BUT…

  Eeeek!  I’m so excited about The Little India Boutique. You may have read bits about them in the local papers over the last month, or seen them at craft fairs. Basically, it’s a plucky little start up business by …

I came across these sweet cushions from Beaconsfield company called Kid the Cat’s Son (geddit?) while twaddling away my life on twitter.

One of the most exciting things about my recent Awards was the realisation that so many of the places featured on the Muddy shortlist were unknown to many readers. So I’m really thrilled to introduce you to the winner of …

• Deck the halls
• LASSCO – lunch and shopping. What’s not to like?
• Mon dieu! The perfect candle

Just looking at this photo brightens my day. I took this snap in the tiny haberdashery shop Darn It & Stitch in central Oxford a few weeks back

Don’t you love this distressed wood?I could try for days to get this effect at a wood-painting workshop and I’d still fail. But, aha! This is wallpaper.

Is there a certified link between the attractiveness of one’s oven gloves and quality of food produced? That’s where I’ve been going wrong…

My friend Karen is always laughing at me for featuring so many coffee shops on Muddy Stilettos. Perhaps I am a bit obsessed, but it’s not with the coffee so much as the spaces. An interesting or quirky interior just …

I’ve spent all last week bombing around Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire, checking out the various places on the Muddy Awards shortlist, and dragging my poor children behind me. I took a quick turn around Great Missenden the other day. I always …