The best things in life are free.

I have finally stopped moving.  A 12 hour succession of planes, trains and automobiles has deposited me here, on the coast, just above the high tide line.  There is a core of tiredness lodged somewhere in my chest.  I am world weary, a little bedraggled and somewhat frayed around the edges.  I think the mini Hybrid Handmade Helpers feel it too (aka 'my apprentices' or 'my entourage' as I refered to them as during my jokey banter with the London Fashion Week security guards).

But enough of that - feast your eyes on the golden shimmering joy which is my freebie bag from the aforementioned event.

My Mulberry Monster

Mulberry commissioned artist Emma Houlston to create a 'Mulberry Monster' for their A/W 2012.  You can find out more about him on the Mulberry blog.

And here she is, Emma with her Monster! 

Source: blog.mulberry.com via Cari-Jane on Pinterest

As you may well have guessed by now, the creative team have ALL been reading Maurice Sendak's 'Where The Wild Things Are' - it is the muse behind the furriness and the fabulous prints in the A/W 2012 collection.

Again, enough about that, now, how about a close up of my wonderous bag!  Proof, if proof was needed, that indeed, the best things in life are free!

Post Scriptum: all of that said, I did have to work jolly hard during London Fashion Week...

Bon Weekend mes amis - may it be filled with golden things.