Happy Easter weekend! This is the start of a new series on the LTID Blog with the aim of promoting and showcasing our lovely suppliers and stockists around the UK.  First up is Ballintaggart Farm in Pershire, Scotland.   Ballintaggart Farm I first met Rachel Rowley at an EGG networking lunch in Edinburgh in 2017. […]

Lifestyle Shoot @ Seacliff Beach Happy vibes only at Seacliff Beach, East Lothian last week for the first lifestyle shoot of 2019! Featuring LT Co. Team, Laura, Kate and Camilla plus family; barbecuing sausages and roasting marshmallows, drinking Bellfield gluten-free beer and fizz in the sunshine. It took a lot of time and effort to organise […]

Self Care LT Co. started back in 2011 and was trading from an apartment in Devonport, Auckland in New Zealand.  Not only was Laura working hard to get Laura Thomas Co. off the ground she was also involved in running a cafe in the upscale retail district of Newmarket. As well as being a full […]

Here’s a little story about where your LT Co. bedding comes from.. One supplier we work with in Portugal is a 100 year old family business 50kms north of Porto near the Spanish border. On a visit, Laura got a tour around the factory before discussing bedding for LT. Here’s the tour.. Cotton The cotton […]

LT Co.’s Mothers Day Gift Guide LOVE Candle LOVE ♡ made with pure rose essential oil and real rose petals. A perfect natural soy wax candle for Mother’s Day. 8.5oz 30 hour burn time. £20 Limited Edition Pink Gin Candle We have just 25 of these Limited Edition Pink Gin Candles made specially for Mother’s Day A […]

LT Co. Creates Charity Candle Laura and her family, partner Justin and two daughters, Olivia and Lilly, have teamed up with Australian based charity, Classroom of Hope,to help raise funds to build a school in Cambodia in 2020. Roping in her young daughters to the cause, Laura wanted them to get involved. This was the […]

Candles and Clean Air You may have seen the UK Government’s recent report, called The ‘Clean Air Strategy 2019’. This commendable report looks to reduce air pollution in the home. It targets emissions  from woodturning stoves, household cleaning products, personal care and paint. The smoke from poor woodturning stoves and fireplaces, and the artificial chemicals […]

Consume less, do more New figures show we are continuing to spend less money on buying things and more on doing things! This trend has emerged from the world being a bit of a depressing place right now so people would rather have a nice fun evening out over buying another pair of shoes. And […]

Scented Candles Net-a-Porter has reported that sales of their scented candles shot up by 180% in December. Candle sales have risen by one-third over the past couple of years and the global market for scented candles is a whopping 90 million a year. The UK is the one biggest markets in Europe after Denmark and […]

Scottish Escapes Are you thinking about Scottish Escapes? Many of us are looking forward to getting away this month, whether it is a romantic Valentines weekend  or a half-term break with the kids. It’s a prefect time of year for it – a welcome escape during the chilly, wet month of February. Those of us living […]

LT Co.’s Val(gal)entine’s Day Gift Guide Whether you’re looking to buy for your significant other, your BFF, or maybe you just want to treat yourself we have it covered! Check out LT Co.’s Top 5 Gift’s for Valentine’s Day, all for £20 or less. LT LOVE Candle £20, ♡ made with pure rose essential oil and […]

Thinking Stockholm Laura is visiting Sweden next week to go to a the Stockholm furniture fair so the talk in the office is all about the city and amazing Swedish style. We had to share this beautiful apartment that we fell in love with, full of gorgeous textures, furniture and art, in an elegant nordic […]

New East Lothian Inspired Coastal Candle Range Inspired by the coast of East Lothian, Scotland. Our new range is our best yet! We have been working on this range for over 6 months to create a soy candle collection that is representative of our beautiful East Lothian coastline around Gullane and North Berwick. Laura’s inspiration; […]

Hi LT readers, it’s Camilla, Production Manager here!  One of our favourite days here at LT HQ is when we pour our Lavender candles. The air is full of Lavender’s rich, herbaceous scent and we all feel very serene! We use essential oils in all our candles, so let’s talk about a few of the […]

LT Classic White Towel Collection The latest addition to the Laura Thomas Co bathroom range is a luxury collection of classic white towels. The collection is made up of four different sized towels made from 100% Egyptian cotton ensuring high quality and longevity. This super soft collection of four Terry towels includes a Face Cloth […]

At LT last week we were busily planning our goals and new product launches for 2019 (I’m sure you will have read how much Laura is a goal setter). It’s an exciting time of year where we get energised about the year ahead. We were all sitting down (eating chocolate cake!!) to ‘plan our work’, […]

Happy New You With New Year comes New Resolutions. And the one that keeps cropping up time and time again is getting more sleep! Rest is so important for our bodies and health benefits that occur during our sleeping hours such as immune functions, muscle repair, memory storage and more. Not to mention that our […]

By now you’ll have been bombarded with ‘New Year, New You’ emails, social media posts and general chatter all connected to diet, health and lifestyle.  Does radical change on the 1st January actually achieve results? In a word, no. Change and reform takes place with gradual steps.  Behaviours form routine, routine forms habits and habits […]

Last Saturday we hosted our first ever 1/2 workshop creating Christmas Wreaths and Christmas Candles at our space The Lighthouse in North Berwick.  10 lovely ladies came along to make Christmas Wreaths and Christmas Candles and enjoy a vegetarian lunch made by Laura.  Wreaths were created from foliage gathered around East Lothian as well as from […]

You can’t beat a sunny Sunday morning. We were incredibly lucky a couple of weeks ago with the light for shooting our products in the beautiful Tyninghame Woods in East Lothian, Scotland. Styled by the amazingly talented Amanda Farnese Heath of Mad March Hare, we couldn’t wait to reveal the images. Our gorgeous addition to […]

I first met Ellie when she enquired about staying at the LT Holiday Apartment in May this year.  She was on a research mission for opening her own Retreat accommodation retreat and came across LTHA. Digging deeper she found I did workshops and homewares. Along with her Mum, Aunt and Daughter, Ellie and her family […]