Oh dear…someone once warned me about making rash promises on a blog and I have fallen into the trap of promising many varied and exciting updates and not delivering. And SO much has happened over the past two months! I keep having endless ideas but not having two seconds to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboards!
Firstly I would like to tell you all about the Home Event that is taking place on Oxford Street over the first May bank holiday weekend. (You can have a look here for more info). All the department stores are taking part and are running special events, offering bargains and having highly skilled and interesting experts (!) available to help people with doing up their homes. I have been asked by John Lewis to come and chat to customers in the bed linen department on May 1st between 2-4pm. So, if you are interested in meeting me and hearing my stories of how the designs came into existence then please do come along. I have been given quite a large space to deck out in my wares which, is quite a privilege. Do come, as I would love to meet you – unless you hate my work, in which case please stay at home 
To mark the event, all the men in the fabrics department will be wearing ties made from my fabric which, I think is just so SWEET, bless them! (They thought of the idea). Photos to come, I promise…!
I just have to share with you a little story that really warmed my heart. When I was in JL last, having a meeting about this event, a man, probably in his mid 60s came rushing over (he worked in the security department of JL) saying “are you Clarissa Hulse?” to which I replied that I was indeed. He said, “I just want to say, I saw your Burnet Bed linen on the bed and I just had to buy it. I’ve never in my life bought any bed linen, I leave all of that sort of stuff to my wife, but I thought it was so fantastic I had to have it. My wife thinks I’m completely mad.” I was so touched as he sure did not look like my typical customer.
I have just come back from a holiday staying with my parents in Greece. They live in the Peloponnesian mountain range in Southern Greece; very remote and beautiful. I feel vaguely rested for the first time in ages and full of the joys of spring (hence the blog!) The blossoms were just awesome. I feel a design coming on…
Blossom from a Judas tree.
