Our office is a true blue testament to creativity…in the studio sense of the word. My desks tend to look the same and every now and then one of us will have a little tantrum and say ‘we must sort this out!…we must present a more professional face’!!!

And maybe its true….but I have always believed in creative chaos. (except of course, within project files where all is and must be a sanctuary of orderliness)

A reverse ethos seems to take hold in my home though, and I find myself enslaved to my little visual creations, my tablescapes, my placement, my visual stories. And I know that’s not a good thing.

I’m reading Jessica Mitfords brilliant ‘Poison Penmanship’ within which she quotes Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (how is it that an author can possibly have the words quill, and couch within his name I wonder?)

‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it – whole-heartedly —- and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings’

Maybe it’s the spring air arrived too early, but I think to myself ‘this is it! – exactly’ one must murder your darlings. !! Rip apart all those carefully orchestrated styling’s and breath new life into my space……

I’m starting in the living room…..(certainly NOT the desk.)