The Beat That My Heart Skipped – A blog dedicated to daily design inspirations. By Rohini Wahi.

Next year is a big year for my group of friends and myself… three weddings – two in England and one abroad in India, respective bachelor/ette parties, nearly everyone is turning 30 and we are buying our first home. Because it’s spurred a feeling of sentimentality, commemorating and nesting in me, I’ve been eyeing heirloom products to cherish in years to come…

Rifle Paper Company’s Heirloom Recipe Card Boxes are made using salvaged hardwood with beautiful screen printed lids. You can also purchase simple and charming recipe cards with an illustrated spoon on top available in either pink or charcoal. I’ve never been one for paying much attention to recipes [i'm more of a 'if a dish works i'll remember it' kind of cook] but I like the idea of archiving special dishes over the years – like a sauce or a technique that makes a dinner party that bit more special.

The Q&A Five-Year Diary is a beautiful compact hardback diary lined in gold edging which is a perpetual diary, allowing you to use it for five years, so when you reach your first or second year of completion, you can look back and see what you were doing on that same day however many years ago. The diary also has sweet and inquisitive questions at the top of every page designed to make you re-think your mood and notice how your answers change (or don’t)! With questions that are sometimes provocative (“On a scale of one to ten, how happy are you?”), occasionally silly (“What can you smell right now?”), and inevitably interesting (“If you could travel anywhere tomorrow, where would you go?”).

I’m also on the hunt for a beautiful Book Journal… everytime I put down a book I want to save the essence of that week or how I was feeling when I read that book… when I think about a favourite book I’ve enjoyed in the past, it makes me sad that I can only remember a whisper of that moment because I haven’t documented it.

I have found a few sweet ones from Oh My Cavalier and Cricket Snappers but still on the lookout so any book journal recommendations appreciated!

Lovely glowing hand-crafted pieces from Japanese metalware company Futagami…

Founded in 1897 Futagami has a long history of making brass products such as artifacts used in the Buddhist traditions . Their collaboration with young Japanese designer Masanori Oji has produced a unique and elegant series of contemporary household products. The collection includes brass trivets that look like sunbursts and stars, geometric chopstick rests – and a breadboard stand made of weighty brass that renders an ordinary object beautiful.

I’m also rather excited about their lovely towel rails…

Pretty pretty new 2011 collection from Ferm Living inspired by playful geometric Harlequin patterns. I love the pastel hues of the buttering boards...

I love this pretty, pretty candy hued vintage-style 16-piece set of cutlery from Urban Outfitters. Imagine delving into a bowl full of ice cream with a pale pink spoon or spearing a juicy strawberry with a candy white fork…

I was delighted yesterday when I received an email from the press office of a shop close to my heart. On the corner of peaceful Portland Road in London sits this gem of a kitchen and dining store stocking French provincial goods. Summerill and Bishop was a place I was sent to a lot when I was assisting on interior magazines to source beautiful cutlery, or antique linens.

I used to relish the time spent in there, being as hushed and sleepy as the store was. Anyway, as is the case with treasures of shops like these, they tend not to need great websites, however as the email informed me, they now have a online shop! For those of you who can’t visit this glorious shop, the website allows you to purchase gorgeous French oven to tableware, a vast range of Spanish and Portuguese cookware, antique French bistro glasses and so much more. My favourites have to be the deep shiny copper pans which are bound to make my cooking taste better!