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What Katie Does
www.whatkatiedoes.net
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A London web designer by day; would-be crafter / illustrator / knitter by any-other-time-i-can-find. Chatting about any cool design / art / illustration / craft stuff I see as well as my own work occasionally.
#3007 in All , #15 in Design

Fancy nails

I’m far from a girly girl in most ways: I apply the bare minimum of make-up to avoid being told I look poorly and my wardrobe consists almost entirely of cotton jersey in varying shades of R...

9 h ago 1 person likes this

Saturday sun

A pretty ideal sunny weekend in London: Courgette pizza from the amazing portable wood-fired pizza people Homeslice, who had parked up at Broadway’s Schoolyard market.. … followed by deli...

3 days ago

Corner Room, E2

Bethnal Green is a funny place: studded with gems like Hurwundeki, the V&A Museum of Childhood and the lovely Gallery Cafe, but still rough enough for me to spot a man snorting coke off a bus st...

4 days ago

Screenprinted cushions

It’s been far too long since I crafted anything – I miss it. So this morning I literally dusted down my sewing machine and whipped up these little cushions. I printed the designs on Wedne...

20 may 12 2 people like this

Coffee workshop at… Workshop

Last week I spent a very enjoyable morning learning all about the sourcing, roasting and brewing of coffee at a session put on by Clerkenwell coffee house Workshop (previously St Ali). As well as put...

14 may 12

My home in Dashing mag

Ooh – really excited to see some snaps of my home in the latest edition of gorgeous e-magazine Dashing. They did a lovely job with the spread and somehow managed to make the house look much nic...

10 may 12 1 person likes this

Bowerbirds

I don’t go to nearly as many gigs these days as I used to – must be getting old as it always seems like way too much effort. But I always make sure I go see Bowerbirds on their too-rare v...

08 may 12

The Gilbert Scott, St Pancras

I was invited to try the Gilbert Scott, a new London restaurant from Marcus Wareing housed in the glorious St Pancras station. It was a treat just to visit place and have a peek at the adjoining Rena...

04 may 12 1 person likes this

Caravan & Exmouth Arms

I used to work around Exmouth Market, and I quite miss it: it’s got cute shops and cafes and several outstanding pubs and restaurants – Moro, Medcalf, The Easton, The Wilmington Arms̷...

27 apr 12

Jonathan Adler at amara.co.uk

Amara got in touch recently, asking if I’d like to review one of their products. I hadn’t heard of the site before, but was happy to find it’s a very well-curated online home store,...

24 apr 12 3 people like this

Harry Potter studio tour

I booked this back in October as soon as it was announced, and finally the date of our Warner Bros Harry Potter tour arrived on Saturday! I’ll pop most of the photos and info under a cut, since...

22 apr 12 2 people like this

Recipe: Tofu garden scramble

I’ve had a sore tummy for the last couple of weeks so I’ve been trying to cut down my wheat intake, which (unfortunately) seems to be helping it to settle down. Sob – bye bye Pasta ...

19 apr 12 2 people like this

Weekend in Bath

We escaped to Bath at the weekend to celebrate Josh’s mum’s birthday. I’d never been before so it was great to have a little explore of this pocket-size city. We stayed at the Bath ...

16 apr 12 1 person likes this

Pasta masterclass with Google at Fifteen

We had a great time last night learning how to make pasta properly at Fifteen restaurant, thanks to Google London. If you didn’t know, Fifteen is the restaurant set up by Jamie Oliver to train ...

12 apr 12

Chalkboard doodles

I’ve set myself a new little side-project: to practice my hand-lettering skillz by doing a drawing a day on the chalkboard in the kitchen. I’m clearly no Dana Tanamatchi just yet, but it&...

07 apr 12 1 person likes this

Lila update

We’ve had Lila a month now so thought I’d update on how she’s settling in. It hasn’t been an entirely smooth transition period… we went from worrying that Yoni would ter...

05 apr 12

A (not so) flying visit to Amsterdam

At the beginning of March I was invited to visit Amsterdam courtesy of Eurostar, whose service now extends there via Brussels. They asked me to review and photograph some more unusual visitor destina...

02 apr 12 4 people like this

Cinemagr.am – instant cinemagraph gifs

Only the other day I was wishing that Instagram had a video/animation function, so I was really happy when Kim tweeted about Cinemagr.am, a new iPhone app that lets you create short looping cinemagra...

01 apr 12 4 people like this

Pasta Sundays: Orecchiette & aubergine

For this week’s pasta dinner I made orecchiette – one of my favourites but sometimes hard to find in the shops. The name means ‘little ears’ and they are thickish little domes...

26 mar 12

Sun sun sun

A gorgeous sunny Saturday, I love it! We took some beers to the park and had the garden designer round to start planning our new outdoor space – just in time for the warm weather. Our garden &#...

24 mar 12

New in store: tea & cameras

A couple of new additions to my Etsy store this fine sunny Friday. I have reissued my Tea & Books print after the first edition sold out. It’s now printed digitally so I can be more flexib...

23 mar 12 3 people like this

My first Lomokino

Josh got me a Lomokino for Christmas, and I took it out in the garden last sunny weekend. Happily I had a couple of co-stars in waiting: Yoni and the neighbours’ sweet kitty, Catty Cat. (These ...

14 mar 12 1 person likes this

Recipe: roasted vegetable lasagne

It was starting to feel like ages since I’d properly cooked anything – been really busy with work lately, plus another cat in the household = busy times! So I made sure to uphold Pasta Su...

11 mar 12 1 person likes this

Meet miss Lila

Meet the latest addition to the What Katie Does household… This is little Lila, she’s a 6 month old ladycat who my friend Arianna found living rough in their neighbour’s coal cellar...

08 mar 12

LLUSTRE Love

I’m quite excited to be able to show off the beginnings of a project I’ve been working away on for the last few months. LLUSTRE.com is a brand new site for finding and purchasing beautifu...

06 mar 12

Brewcat

Scottish beermeisters Brewdog put up a little Twitter competition recently, asking for label designs for a new beer – a totally open brief right down to the beer type. The first prize was for a...

01 mar 12

Emergency tea print now for sale

New in my Etsy shop today, this Emergency Tea print that I posted about a while ago. Hope you like it! Pick one up here. P.S. Just two more days left to enter my Moo giveaway

28 feb 12

The little prints: MOO giveaway

The lovely folks at MOO.com got in touch recently, asking if I’d like to share some of their printed products on here. Well, I’m already a happy Moo customer – I use their cute litt...

22 feb 12 1 person likes this

Kopi: coffee by post

Kopi is a new coffee subscription service which delivers a new gourmet coffee to your door every month. They asked me to try out their January blend, and of course I was happy to oblige. The coffee c...

18 feb 12

Inspired by: Pink Panther

When Holly namechecked the Pink Panther as an influence on her illustration work, I was immediately reminded of my childhood love of those cartoons. We had them on a bright pink VHS tape – the ...

14 feb 12 1 person likes this

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