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Happy days are here again

  It’s that time of year again, when all sensible people are overloading on carbs and wearing fashion-defying beanie hats, and the design world is gearing up for the celebration of frivolity and sheer ludicrousness that is the design season. It started this week with Maison & Objet  in Paris and will continue until Salone […]

January Oranges

According to ‘experts’, i.e some pseudo-psychologist who has made it all up, unbacked by any scientific data or research whatsoever, the second week in January is the most depressing week of the year. We at AlaraApothecary say ‘Yah boo sucks!’ to the second week in January. As far as we are concerned, it’s the second […]

Happy New Year

Well, 2015 was a humdinger of a year, wasn’t it? You know how at the end of a year your main thought is, ‘Thank God I don’t have to live through that again…..’ The year was an eye-opener to so many things I would never have believed to be possible, but then again, a lot […]

Eye Candy

Looking around over the past few days, I’ve noticed that the Post-Christmas hiatus has set in. It’s that weird period between Christmas and the New Year when most people have a lot of time on their hands. We look back on the past year and re-appraise everything we’ve done – usually, with non-hilarious consequences. AlaraApothecary […]

The perils of knowledge

  Having spent most of the week struggling with using my old-skool Photoshop Elements software to insert bleed guidelines and crop marks in artwork for the printers, Sunday came as a much-welcomed day of rest. I was taking part in my first carol service since I was 8 years old. (I played a stroppy proto-feminist […]