first day of spring

Spring means... letting toes have their first 'peep' in new season shoes, folding away your mohair throw, raising your hemline several inches, turning off the heater responsible for those big power bills, investing in a good bottle of fake tan (or sav blanc) and treating yourself to a fresh bunch of spring flowers. Renowned photographer Nicky Ryan and super stylist Imogene Abady show you how to do it (well, the bit about flowers) in the shoot they did for Sept Home Beautiful....so pretty you'll need something to ward the bees away from the pages!

perfect bound

Are you a stylist? I thought so! 

I mean, wouldn't we all like to fancy ourselves as stylists, arranging a bit of this and that in a fanciful way for a living? Of course the reality of styling is layers and layers of collecting, borrowing, shooting and editing with love, but Canadians Julie and Kathryn of Perfectbound make it look so easy. They don't even own a cool camera or so much as a light metre! And they do it just for the love of it! Check out their Flickr photostream which is beautifully categorised into themes and is now in my permanent library of design inspiration...a great vault of resource for stylists out there too!