The tale of Tilly de Touid SniffertonTilly came home with me from Kamersvol Geskenke last week, and despite waking us up (and mildly offending our Siamese) with her mutterings on the first night, has fitted right in to our menagerie. Go and visit Tilly’s Couchie friends and relations at the website of the very talented …

I ordered these on Thursday and they arrived on Monday, all the way from Sweden! The Customs duties for my Swedish Hasbeens almost knocked me off my feet, but opening the boxes had me scrambling back up again, and wishing I had four legs so I could wear all my new shoes at once. I’m …

 A fatal error My a week taken out from the world of emailing, blogging, tweeting, and all that stuff I so enjoy has been a simultaneous success and dreadful mistake.The problem is, I’ve so enjoyed a week of simple focus – mostly cutting lots of little popups, just for fun – that the idea of …

I’ve escaped from the computer for a week to concentrate on other things. My shop is in vacation mode and there’s auto-reply on my email. But I’m still lurking a little, so blogging at ELLE DECORATION will continue, and if you bought and paid for something from me recently, I’ll be trundling off to the …

I’ve been cutting cloud shapes as I plot my escape: Next week has been marked out as a week of no blogging, no tweeting, no emails, and my shop will be in vacation mode too. All this is in order to give myself a week of thinking and planning, designing and plotting, with breaks for …

There’s been some funny business on the internet this week. It started on the weekend, when two people kindly let me know they’d been spammed by “Tina”, who had sent the mail above, apparently having got their details from skinnylaminx.com. Very wierd, and I have no idea what this means. Apologies to anyone else who …

Not too long ago I did a post about a pair of silk undies I’d designed, but this time around, the underwear has nothing to do with me. It’s just that I had to post this pic: I mean, it’s not every day I get a photo of a bra in my inbox! Clare-Laure, who …