On Resting and Thinking

As we slip into the last few weeks of summer holidays, the world continues to twist and sway. 

Many of you have holidayed for the first time away from home in a long time. And then you get to come back home – one of life’s greatest pleasures and privileges. 

How does it feel to step back into this space that tells your story? This place of intimacy, domesticity, meaning and freedom?

What do we want – and how do we want to live? We travel away to look at and experience the new – but perhaps the most intuitive starting point to ask these questions is at home. Finding true form and feeling in the familiar.

Josef Frank said that home should be a warm, liveable place that is alive, a place that pleases the eye and soothes the senses in scale, curves, colour, variety, pattern and textures.

To find  a way and place of living that suits us best, we need to look into our hearts, into our unique character and circumstance and weave what we find there into the fabric of the lives we live now, but in a new way. Perhaps a way that is not about ‘more’ (space or things) or a radical change of place, more a gentle reassessment and regeneration of what could make your way of living better. 

All good things, after a much needed pause from the day to day of being at home.

It may seem unusual for a business to ‘close up shop’ for a week. But we need it. We are a small team and we have given it our all over the last eighteen months. Rest lets the mind wander and brings better ideas and truer thoughts.  And perhaps we should all be taking a rest from doing, for these last few weeks of summer.

We are here to mix and ship (or you can collect) any orders you need until Friday 20th August at 11am and then will be closed until Tuesday 31st August. 

Have a great week.

Cassandra