The Decor Anchor or North Star

While I was topping up supplies at my favourite candle shop, 

I thought I would get some unscented coloured candle sticks for a brass candelabra I picked up in Norway.

 

The choices at Cire Trudon range from black to pastel.
But I chose these pink and orange ones.

When I was picking from the wall of color, 

I already had in mind that I wanted to match 
- a dying decor practice  - 
my beloved cushions in the study.

No prizes for guessing which cushion!

It is the orange and pink version of one of my favorite toiles by Manuel Canovas called Bengale.
The brown version was sewn by me therefore just a support act for the main star.

I though I had done the matchy matchy touch for the room and wasn't going to start buying everything to match the cushions.

But last week I went to the flower market and just grabbed a bunch of dahlias by a stall that had doubled up different colors and made them into a single bouquet.

And I must have internally referenced my cushions because 

I couldn't have tried to match the flowers to my cushions any more if I tried!

I have shared with you one of mine but now I am curious to see what your design anchor or reference point is when you decorate?

Adventures in Elective Adult Sewing Class

I finally did what was on my to do list like the one Blue Booby has except I haven't written mine down but will do in March.

I took a sewing class!

I have only ever sewn holes in socks for fun as a kid.

I went to a school called Sew over it.

But it was on the northern line which had to be the most infuriating line in London.  It almost made me whimper last year and

it's rarely a simple journey.

I had to change lines twice and it was eerily quiet as

it was early Sunday morning.