When I was kid, my mum told me she was known by friends at her Welsh boarding school as ‘Eira Chelsea’ because of where she grew up (Welsh people often had the name of where they came from or the job they did tacked on to their name as a mark of familiarity or affection). […]
Monthly Archives: August 2018
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I have a question for you: is a book masculine or feminine? Ships are shes and so, I believe, are cars (we used to have a feisty little white Renault 5 called Blanche when I was little and she was most definitely a she). What about books? Coffee table books are, I think, male (a […]
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Happy Sunday, folks. It turns out it’s a shelfie kind of Sunday. I don’t often do a pure, unadulterated books shelfie but after painting my shelf with Persian Rose by @craigandrosepaints (chosen by second-in-command) I felt that less was most definitely more. After all, book shelfies are where the whole shelfie concept originated. I love the sameness […]
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Hello, folks. I’m on such a colour high after yesterday that I thought I’d spread some more Thames coloured plastic joy. Set against red, I think it has real drama and atmosphere. For some reason it’s making me think of an Agatha Christie crime thriller: blue silk cravats, overstuffed crimson velvet couches, that kind of […]
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Hi colour-chums. It’s been a while since I played with my plastic rubbish so while SIC is making a satellite for his science homework, I thought I’d sit and do another iteration. This time it’s one of my favourites – sorbet colours, reminiscent of Art Deco architecture, vintage 1950s dresses and, of course, Italian sorbet […]
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Hello folks 💕💕 A while back I wrote about how yellow plates encourage you eat more and blue plates make you eat less. Yesterday I read that pasties taste sweeter if they’re served on pink plates or in pink boxes. I guess it must be to do with us associating pink with candy floss and […]
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Good morning, my colour-loving friends. As you know, I get colour inspiration wherever I go so I’m always thrilled when I hear that other people do, too. My friend, inspirational artist Antonia Woodgate @theglassisartfulcontacted me the other day to say that a newspaper article had inspired her to pick up the scalpel and craft her latest […]
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