On tuesday I spent a few hours at the Castle Museum study centre. They have an amazing natural history collection hidden away in their archives; everything's meticulously labelled and wrapped up in tissue paper, so you're never quite sure what you're going to find when you open up one of the boxes. I love all the hand-written labels, and had to keep reminding myself that I was really there to look at the nutshells.  I'd like to do a project on archiving at some point but I'm not really sure how to approach it at the minute. It fits in with my interest in order and organisation in my work, and people's obsessions in general. Anyway, I came across lots of interesting nuts and seeds and it's inspired me to get going with my drawing...