Domestic Sluttery: The home and lifestyle blog for women who have better things to do.The Domestic Sluts like their ordinary things to be extraordinary. We want our homes to look good, we want damn tasty food and we want our outfits to be unusual. But we're busy and we enjoy being a little bit lazy. We'd much rather go out dancing than tidying up. Frankly, a five course meal sounds like far too much effort and our idea of 'decorating' is to hide a spaghetti stain on the sofa with a nice cushion. If you think we're going to spend hours in a shopping centre, you're mistaken. We're probably tipsy. Or napping. We do like a nap.
We're a UK-based blog, with male and female writers across the country (all with our own tastes and opinions) discovering the best in design, fashion, food and travel. We don't for a minute think that cupcakes can save the world, but cake will always make you smile on a rubbish day. We'll never tell you about a faceless hotel chain, we want our adventures a little more interesting than that.
We basically want to cheat our way to the good stuff and ignore the crap bits of life for a while. You should come exploring with us.
Email us: prettygirls@domesticsluttery.com
Introducing the Domestic Sluts...
Sian Meades - Founding EditorFounder and editor of Domestic Sluttery, Sian Meades is a freelance writer, web editor and social media trouble maker. She's writes for Sunday Times Style and she's London Shopping editor for Frommer's guide books. Her house looks like a vintage curiousity shop. But messier.
She loves giraffes, tea and daisies. She does not love mint chocolate or cheap shoes.
Read more of Siany's sluttery.
You can email her here, but she'll pick up your emails to the usual address - no need to send to both.
Frances Ambler - Project Manager
By day Frances Ambler is an editor of pretty books on art and design which neatly sums up her interests in all things arty, bookish and pretty. She contributes daily to Retro To Go and occasionally to Queens of Vintage. Having grown up in a northern seaside town, she retains her fondness for fish and chips, crazy golf and stripy sailor tops. She thinks coca-cola is the tooth-rotting drink of the devil.
Read more of Frances' sluttery.
Sara Vali earns a living writing leaflets for older people so they don't freeze or fall over, and spends her evenings making sweary cross-stitch cards and compiling the super blog Life! Death! Top Tips! She has a deep and abiding love for south London, twee pop and carbohydrates.
Kat Brown
Kat is a freelance writer/editor and full-time musicals obsessive. When not having Defying Gravity diva-offs at Lucky Voice, she works at The Times and reviews bars for The Sunday Times’s Style website. At 6’1, she’s also the tallest Slut, and is therefore on a constant hunt for tops and coats that don’t end three inches from her wrist.
Read more of Kat's Sluttery.
Kat is a freelance writer/editor and full-time musicals obsessive. When not having Defying Gravity diva-offs at Lucky Voice, she works at The Times and reviews bars for The Sunday Times’s Style website. At 6’1, she’s also the tallest Slut, and is therefore on a constant hunt for tops and coats that don’t end three inches from her wrist.
Read more of Kat's Sluttery.
Laura Vickers
Laura is a blogger and wine adviser who is invariably wearing stupidly bright lipstick. She hearts teapots, vintage curiosities, well-thumbed paperbacks, and things that taste of lemon. She hates aniseed, digital clocks and Mr. Bean, in that order.
Read more of Laura's wine column.
Hazel PatersonWhen not experimenting in her kitchen or rummaging around car boot sales and antiques markets for “must have” (totally unnecessary ) finds for her cottage, Hazel spends her time fussing over her cat Boris and perfecting the art of Ultimate Lazy Gardening. She is also the resident cook for Great Food Magazine. Hazel loves wine and cocktails and thinks her world would be a better place if there was more cheese involved and less ad breaks.
Read more of Hazel's Sluttery.
Our Sluttery columnists...
By day a plucky designer-cum-art-director in a swanky ad-agency, but by night (and occasionally early afternoon) an intrepid booze hound. 80% gin and 20% cynicism he has a misplaced belief that he belongs in the prohibition-era, a penchant for sharp jackets and a curious need to substitute glassware for jam jars.
Read Nick's column The Boy and His Poison.
Caleigh Gnana-Pragasam - Gluten Free
Resident Coeliac Caleigh can usually be found baking gluten free cakes, or blogging gluten free recipes over at Gluten Free[k]. When not force-feeding her friends and family, she loiters around farm shops and markets, covets pretty vintage dresses and reads rubbish crime novels. A proud Glaswegian, Caleigh took a wrong turn on the M74 and now lives in Kent with her husband. She loves tea, peanut butter, gin and budgies (but not at the same time).
Previous/guest Sluts: Emma Cossey, Claire Nelson, Stuart Heritage - Hecklerspray, Stuart Waterman - My Chemical Toilet, Lizzie Mabbott - Hollow Legs, Helen Graves - Food Stories, Ria Blagburn, Keris Stainton, Becks, Rachel Lewis, Michelle Duxbury, Alex Sheppard, Jane Bradley, Natalie Wall, Robyn Wilder, Abi Sylvester, Carrie Barclay.
Disclosure and privacy:
Oi, what's with the freebies?
We're never paid for our opinions. Sometimes we receive products to review, or get invited to events and do cool things that we don't pay for. This is great fun but inviting us somewhere or sending us something doesn't mean we'll write about it, we're pretty fussy. We'll always disclose when we're writing about something we didn't pay for and our reviews will always be honest.
So how do you make money, then?
We make money by running the adverts you see across the websites and you'll sometimes see a sponsored post in our content or listing in our newsletter - we'll always flag when that's the case. As well as banner advertising, we run Skimlinks affiliate links to products in some of our content. This means that occasionally if you buy something we write about, or do a bit of window shopping after visiting our website, you might earn us a little bit of commission from the retailer without costing you anything at all. We do recommend those brands - we only write about things we absolutely love and we'd never send you to something we didn't think was fabulous (unless it was to mock it heartily for being ugly). Because of this we'll still feature our sponsors sometimes when it's appropriate - they're pretty fabulous.
So, what are these cookies I've heard about?
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