Forgiving me for posting just about the catalogue but that’s pretty much the only thing I’m working on at the moment to meet our deadline. Our Welcome page is now signed off and with the printer but I really wanted to thank you all for the comments you left here and there. They were incredibly useful and really helped me to put the moodboard to bed. I listened to what you said and added a winter cardigan (didn’t have a photo of a blanket or plaid) and you were right, it works a lot better!I also love this new, very stylish shot of La Tropezienne tote bag shot by CHS yesterday at the last minute (they’ve been so incredibly supportive, I feel v. lucky) and YES in our catalogue, you will discover Shanna Murray’s wonderful stickers. I’m so excited by this. Shanna’s work has been on my radar since last November and I’m over the moon to work with her. Veuillez m’excuser de n’ecrire en ce moment qu’a propos du catalogue mais je ne travaille …

We’re almost done with the catalogue and I can’t tell you how excited I am!!Tonight, I received this double page from our totally amazing design agency CHS and it was love at first sight. It was SO what I had in mind, it’s just perfect! A few tweaks, copy changes, etc and we’re good to go. I will spend Monday in Dorset with CHS to go through everything as we have to hand the pdfs to the printer on Wednesday.On the double page below, you may recognize some fabulous mood boards from my friend Desiree at Vosges Paris and Marjon Hoogervorst who took gorgeous shots in Paris and I can’t thank them enough for their contributions.We are still after a gorgeous mood board using colour masking tapes for the ‘Creative’ double page spread which features cool things like the books by Edition Paumes, our new MT masking tapes and other goodies so if you wish to contribute and have high-res images of your mood boards, please email them to me at leblog(at)bodieandfou(dot)com.However, I really need …