Pop in and say hi we are on stand E65

We are so happy for her as she is wedding her beau this week.  Ozgul is the Turkish name for rose, so very fitting indeed because she is so lovely.  Here is a little picture of the two love birds.  We wish them a pefect day and a life of happiness.  Have a look at Ozgul's work at  www.ozgulozgule.com

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I must admint you do have to love a bit of bunting to come along to the Country Living Fair in London.  However what's an English summer without some spotted and striped cotton triangles hanging from the roof tops.

It's a lovely fair and the first time in five years Hammamas has exhibited, so we are looking forward to it.  So if you feel the elements still aren't yelling spring come and be inspired by all things bright and chirpy.

Kelly Slater cleaned up on the waves in the Queenland comp.  Also great 

to see he's wearing a Hammamas - it's denim for anyone who was wondering 

or wanted to aspire to emulate a surf god!

Hammamas new wet bags are perfect for carrying your clever cotton towel to the beach in.  Or if you're having a quick dip before you head for the hills you can carry your wet towel in it and keep the rest of the contents in your bag dry.  We even think they make cute make up bags or you could use them at airport control when checking your liquids through?   Free wet bag with every Hammamas ordered on-line.

This is what I want for Christmas.  This wonderful mini Gretchen clutch in lush purple pig skin suede.  I say bring on the Christmas party season.  Find it at millerandjeeves.co.uk

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1. Mini bottle of Comme des Garcon’s Rhubarb Sherbert spray - I get very scent obsessed when I’m travelling and find a spray of scent can make up for the vast wash bag I’ve been disallowed.

2. A hat - I’d love a collapsible, roll-up one but I find cheap French market soft straw trilbys rolled up actually look better crumpled and wonky in an ‘ultra’ vintage way.

3. A bikini - again there’s always a slight disconnect in the bikini I wear and the bikini I’d like to wear. Lovely Heidi Klein gave me my turquoise and white one years ago and the cover it offers, the detachable shoulder straps mean I can sunbathe, jump in the pool, pull up over my belly (a little), and feel ok, for a woman in her forties who has had 2 children. My dream bikini is anything by Zimmerman, but somehow bikini shopping never rises to the top of my list. I’m sure if I had a bikini body it would.

4. A Hammamas - because I can wear it in bed, update that bikini with a complementary apple one, sit down to lunch in it, wear it as a turban, or knot it as the bag I always forget to bring for those trips to the market.

5. A moleskin notebook – the one with plain paper for those sketch moments – and a mini box of watercolours, can’t help myself and in restaurants it silences the children.

6. An ipad – for downloaded iplayer series I always meant to watch, for music, for the Brushes app, for the Moodboard, for music in the hotel room at night to giggle to.

7. My camera – a G10 – and its manual as it is so very clever, I haven’t yet mastered it during the last 2 years and when else can I experiment with colour washes and finally take the perfect photos of my children.

8. A silk dress. I do like kaftans – like Alice + Olivia’s and my studded Jigsaw belt.

9. My Philippa Kunisch earrings – Perspex yellow horses that dress up and look like fun at the same time.

10. A cagoule - Being English I can’t help myself, and they can be windcheaters too! plus I’ve found a website selling K-Way’s groovy 1970s coloured anoraks I wore growing up. So geeky- stylish too

What a week at Hammamas HQ - Loads of great press, we won an award downunder in the Shop To You Drop Genius Awards and then the mighty voices at Vogue towers have spoken  an oooh and what lovely things they had to say about our wonderful lightweight towels ... 

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The website thewomenonline has done a wonderful write up about Hammamas as a result of the editorial team road testing our products - check it out at thewomenonline.co.uk

We have a busy week ahead as people really get into gear getting ready for their summer hols.  Naturally Hammamas are on the hit list for people wanting to pack light but smart. 

In fact the kids and I are off to Turkey in exactly a week, we are meeting with our Australian and Turkish teams to work on next season's collection.  Hopefully there will also be plenty of time for R'nR, I am desperate for some sunshine. 

Here's a sunny pic from last summer to cheer you all up. 

Here are some people who know how to waddle. I like to waddle around my garden. Tell us how and where you like to waddle? I seem to think the sort of people who love Hammamas are the sort of people who take time to waddle.

Despite the looming black clouds shoppers are out in force. See below Caroline, she stopped by the Hammamas stand yesterday and stocked up on our wonderful towels as well as one our great packable hats. We just thought she looked so happy and sunny we wanted to keep her all day.