We are going to bring forward the closing date of the internship from February 28th. For no other reason than because we have truly been inundated. Such an inspired lot of notes and applications. It makes me really excited about the whole new guard of styling. There are a lot of super clever people out there. We are working on a short list of people to take tea with to take it to the next steps, so we will be in touch at the soonest.

I wanted to include a picture with this mini post but had zero time to ponder and didn’t really know what was the best visual pic, so offer you one of my favourite walls, Its illustrator Hugo Guiness’s wall of drawings at John Derians store in NYC. Pure styling porn.

Jason Grant (over at his blog Mr Jason Grant - give him a looksie) and I are looking for a caravan. We both want one for different reasons, so we figured we mosewell put our stylist call outs together and see if there is one that can help us both out!

So, we cast the net out far and wide — anyone got a caravan with a bit of spunk?

Speaking of spunky caravans, I need to show you a truly divine one that I had the pleasure of shooting with my friends from Elk Accessories. See the story in a glossy mag soon. You will fall in love with them, their dog Grover and their van. Adorable. (Please dont be put off by Elk’s uber-dinky van, I am looking for one not so special! I mean, if we found one like this, amazing! And it doesn’t need to work persay, just have a goodish shell. I suspect it might need a coat of paint, an internal revamp etc, potted geraniums etc!)

And lastly, it must be noted that clever Rebecca Wolkenstein’s insanely generous concept of Caravan – a world wide house share / swap service should be visited! It is, as she explains, `like Craigslist, but for Creatives!’. Put it out there, where you need to go in the world, or a space you have available and be amazed at what the Caravan universe throws back at you!

As part of my Sally Seltman video clip fest, worked on an Interflora television commercial with my team. It seems fitting to be sharing it with you now!

Truth be known, I basically would do anything Sally Seltman asked me to / told me to. Sally wrote the song that appears on the tvc and it really is the cuteness.

Have a look, crack a smile, spot Rachel Castles sweet little felt hearts she made up for us for the opening scene. View Sally’s amazing voice and some sugar sweet sentiment right now, here …

Happy Valentines Day to us all. Can I share with you another great flower tip off? The Flower Drum, that is right. See them here. Beyond adorable. (Yes, they really did write `If you dont order your flowers from us you will be a Sadface, Basket case!’). Too good. Order one of their rose or carnation flower bombs and send it to a random. Go on, I dare you. Then, after you have fallen for Sally Seltmans song ‘Your Always’ on the Interflora clip, laugh out loud to the Flower Drum’s little video here. Trust me, its completely worth it.

Sally Seltmann. What a woman, What a voice. We were so pleased to be asked to work on her new video clip. More to come later as it all secret music stuff till it’s release, but what a mammoth production it was. Some behind the scene shots below. Thank you Renee Anne, Cailtin, Monique and Angela. I love the last shot – the exhausted labrador cooling off on the floor tiles!

NYC

Michael George Custom Floral

Celebrity florist. New York. Need I say more?

5 Tudor City Place, New York, NY 10017, USA. +1 212 883 0304
www.michaelgeorgecustomfloral.com

HONG KONG.

Gary Kwok

Gary Kwok loves flowers and has a modern take on his craft. Very east meets west, he is the man to go to if you want to surprise someone who is Hong Kong based. Gary looks at the single beauty and shape of a flower and then somehow manages to turn it into something else, more deliberatley beautiful.

Shop 312-315, 3/F Hopewell Centre,
183 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong. +852 8200 9226
www.garykwok.com

Nikki Tibbles.

Wild at Heart

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LIke Paris, we wanted to show you more than one fab flower store as nothing is no singulary definate. So sharing London’s love for the more kookier take is Nikki Tibbles and her decadent  store and studio, Wild at Heart. Nikki is a corporate turned creative – from sales and advertising to flowers, and is the darling of the London flower scene. If London is not on your 2011 travel plans, tyre kick around her beautiful aesthetic at the `gallery’ section of  her wildatheart website. Nothing is as good as the real thing when it comes to flowers, but you know that anyway.

Turquoise Island

222 Westbourne Grove, London, W11 2RH
Telephone: +44(0)20 7727 3095

www.wildatheart.com

London.

John Carter Flowers

It’s a bit show-offy-ish, right? Showing how he can do meticulous flower balls in a window display and then a loose cascading garland the next? These two approaches producing two very different outcomes illustrate the studio’s effortless pursuit of flowers in their raw beauty. John Carter makes the most intricate floral arrangements look natural and easy. If I were Madonna I would so get John to do me a twice weekly garland like this in seasonal blooms for the front of my house.

Unit 12A, The 1927 Building,
2 Michael Road, London, UK SW62AD. +44 20 7731 5146
www.johncarterflowers.com

Paris.

Varda

Here is another breathtaking flower option from France because really, two options in France for flowers are always better than one.

15 place Vendome, 75001 Paris, France. +33 1 43 16 30 30
www.varda.fr

JAPAN

Shogo Kariyazaki

Don’t expect anything typical or conventional (as you know it) by Shogo Kariyazaki. Extremely special and totally unconventional. If you need to do flowers properly in Japan, this is who to contact. They have an almost cosmic approach to flowers and manage to turn traditional concepts on their heads.

53 Wakimachi Oaza Wakimachi Mima-shi, Tokushima, Japan. + 81 883-53-8599
www.kariyazaki.jp