THE DAYS MAY BE GETTING SHORTER, but the nights are cosy, and the mornings filled with slants of golden light and coffee.  And it has been a while since the last colour inspiration post, but dreams have been filled with smokey violet and dusky lavender these days, in shades of chinoiserie and tufted velvet, dining chairs and chandeliers, and roses and anemones and layers and layers of tulle . . .

“To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings — it’s all a miracle.  I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.”—Arthur Rubinstein