I love anything with a citrus and/or sandalwood (Dusk do some brilliant scents) - I avoid the sweeter flowery scent (rose, geranium are all avoided) and find most candles with vanilla are a bit too sweet for me. I prefer good quality essential oil scented soy candles from either artisan candle makers or Dusk. Did you know that aerosol room sprays - the kind a lot of people stash in bathrooms for "those times when needed" - have some pretty nasty chemicals in them - some are carcenogenic while others can provoke allergies and asthma and cause headaches and Eczema.

As an architect, I have a list of words saved on my desktop that I am conscious can sound confusing to the client! One day I hope to write a little archi-dictionary to help clients work out what we mean when we use so many of the words that seem natural to us! 'Form', 'honest materials', 'warmth', 'documentation', 'draft', 'sketch plan', 'detail', 'mass', 'spine', 'circulation', 'water harvesting', 'floating', 'dynamic', 'heavy', 'celebrate'... etc.

I would love to live in sooo many other places, however my one favourite is the Pacific North West. Gorgeous mountains, trees, people, lakes....my kind of heaven! @chaddesdengirl, you sound like you live near me! I am in the same area you described. It is gorgeous here any time of the year, and the wineries with their autumn foliage on the vines sure look pretty. Mist coming over the mountains, is always beautiful.

I am interested in a rug I saw on your site by DESISTART Group fragments designed by Katy Xiomara but I can not contact a group in Portugal any suggestions do they have distributors in Aus?