mibo

I'm loving these clever and sweet products from british design team Mibo!



cut-out & stick paper animals


a cute lion tea towel(I'm lion obsessed... don't forget my son is called Leo!) which you can make into an even cuter plush toy


clever tile tatoos

the talented miss viviane schwarz

My lovely and talented friend Sofia told me about her lovely and talented friend Viviane the other day. Viviane is a children's book artist and author and I instantly fell in love with her delightful illustrations, but especially her beautiful books.


There Are Cats In This Book and There Are No Cats In This Book are two of my favourites, full of humour and wonderfully clever use of layout and format. Here is a little video of her reading her book with cats in:



Psst... if you hang on til the very end you can also see her read her book with no cats in too!

Viviane is a keen knitter like all the best people are. If you'd like to knit her cats, well she's even thought of that as well!

new look and some other stuff

My grandmother was renowned for constantly moving her furniture around. Every time we visited she had entirely rearranged the room including a half-ton ornate walnut sideboard. She did this until the day she died and I'm sure I have inherited the rearranging gene from her. I've been gradually tweaking my blog daily for about 3 weeks now until finally settling for the current layout. Courier bad-font and all (I really like it!). So this is how we are for now... until the re-arranging bug bites again. I hope you like it!


Today marks the final day of selling my Japanese Girl print to raise funds for Japan. I have decided that there had to be a cut off point somewhere and the last day of the month seemed fitting. I am in the process of totting up the donation amount now and will let you know in a few days what you have helped me raise!


The shop is temporarily closed again due to problems with PayPal! I hope it is not too long before I get this resolved, but I am planning to re-open with some nice new products and new print sizes too... so keep checking in!


The images you're seeing are for my other 'project-of-the-moment' which is planning my upcoming wedding to George/christening of Leo in June. It's going to be completely DIY and low budget and I'm collecting some rather gorgeous ideas on Pinterest.

In the meantime, hope you have a great weekend whatever you have planned and look forward to seeing you again in April!

today's colour is...

Ah, spring is here at last. And to celebrate new beginnings and a new positive frame of mind I am going to try and make a concerted effort to pay more attention to my much neglected blog. So, let's kick start things with a new regular (you notice I say regular, not weekly as you know how lax I am with these things by now) post... today's colour is...

lilac & chartreuse

Enjoy!






Click on the relevant image below for credits on the above shots.