FunToSee's new collection of wall stickers includes something for children of all ages.
Highlights include the Black and White Dots range, which was designed to help babies with sight and focus development. Recognising the importance of providing babies with visual stimulation, and noting their interest in striking shapes and contrasting colours, FunToSee has launched a line of 36 black-and-white patterned stickers. The high-contrast designs are visually striking but also easy to apply, easy to remove and re-stickable, offering a convenient and hassle-free way to design and redecorate babies' nurseries.
Also new is a range of borders featuring the much-loved Tatty Teddy character. The designs show Tatty Teddy in a series of cute poses, complete with bunting, bows and cupcakes, in raspberry reds, soft pinks and gentle greens and blues.
There's even something for those "hard-to-please teens and in-betweens". The Funky Dots range features bright, bold designs that can be used to decorate stationery, jazz up walls or spruce up furniture, offering older children the opportunity to personalise their own space and belongings.
Headquartered in the UK, FunToSee produces high quality, self-adhesive vinyl stickers that can be used on almost any surface. In the UAE, they are available from Ace Hardware, Babyshop, Babies R Us and Cilek.
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Gertrude Bell's life in focus
A feature film
At one point, two feature films were in the works, but only German director Werner Herzog’s project starring Nicole Kidman would be made. While there were high hopes he would do a worthy job of directing the biopic, when Queen of the Desert arrived in 2015 it was a disappointment. Critics panned the film, in which Herzog largely glossed over Bell’s political work in favour of her ill-fated romances.
A documentary
A project that did do justice to Bell arrived the next year: Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum’s Letters from Baghdad: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Gertrude Bell. Drawing on more than 1,000 pieces of archival footage, 1,700 documents and 1,600 letters, the filmmakers painstakingly pieced together a compelling narrative that managed to convey both the depth of Bell’s experience and her tortured love life.
Books, letters and archives
Two biographies have been written about Bell, and both are worth reading: Georgina Howell’s 2006 book Queen of the Desert and Janet Wallach’s 1996 effort Desert Queen. Bell published several books documenting her travels and there are also several volumes of her letters, although they are hard to find in print. Original documents are housed at the Gertrude Bell Archive at the University of Newcastle, which has an online catalogue.
