Wealden Times | 190 | December 2017 | Health & Beauty supplement inside

This page: The walls throughout the house are painted with warm, but muted neutrals.
Presents lie wrapped in woven baskets beside the cosy woodburning stove
Liberty ribbon, pony skin belts, ferns in old French dairy
pots or bread tins and, of course, our very popular and
lovely kitchen scissors.” Lovely scissors? Now I’m intrigued
– who would have thought that scissors could be lovely?
Lovely is really what it’s all about for Kali – lovely, but
also quirky and well made. “I love trawling around for
vintage finds for the shop,” she says. “I only sell things
that I love. I don’t like throwaway objects, they have to
last and to have a purpose. I like to keep things changing
all the time, but it’s also important to sell things with
history and a story.” Part of the story has to do with an
organisation called Kisany, a Congolese women’s charity
that Kali represents in this country. The charity makes
and sells beautiful embroidered items. “I like to buy
things that are responsibly made, especially those made
by women.” She is especially pleased with the fabulous
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