Good morning all, nice day where you are? I hope so, it is quite grey but mild in London, not so bad. Perhaps that is why I feel so in tune with these dark moody interiors that photographer Andrea Ferrari has captured so well, the first photos are from a house in Milan and the last two from another house in Bruges. Lately I have been very drawn into dark colors, I just painted my living room wall in black, I love different tones of warm greys combined with old frames and natural wood, my next job would be to paint my house's corridor in dark grey, but that job has to wait till next Spring!!

I am off later on to a networking party organised by Etsy UK in London, very excited!!! I hope you all get to relax and spend some good quality time with your loved ones, have a great weekend!!!

Where chocolate creative happens...

As some of you may know, I run chocolate creative from home, I do all the work involved in the running of the business from here. I should not say it but sometimes I start the working day in my pyjama, wrap some breakfast, do some Pilates exercises and jump on the computer, the day goes by so quickly, that sometimes gets to lunch time and I am still in the same clothes!

I have a small studio upstairs, with almost all I need to produce my work, but sometimes gets a bit claustrophobic, due to the amounts of hours I spend in it, so I have decided to set a desk in the living room, where I can do mainly admin, emailing, updating shops, blogging, etc...specially in the evening, (days are becoming very short), when I feel like watching a bit of TV, but can still keep working, play with Missi, have dinner and last collapts in my comfy sofa!!

Piero took these beautiful photos of my new working space, I LOVE it!!

Vintage craft magazines

Hello from another beautiful morning in South London, Sun is out and it is not very cold, no rain coming our way for a couple of days, juts the right temperature for a nice walk in the park, it is so beautiful at this time of the year...

I have started collecting vintage paper products, such as posters, leaflet, brochures, etc...I found this gorgeous French craft magazines in a vintage fair outside London, they are gorgeous. I am thinking of framing one of them. They talk about craft projects, interiors, and have wonderful illustrations, I like the quality of old paper, that have been used and old fashion typography and layout styles!!