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Friday, 23 December 2011

Merry Christmas!

Hope you all have a lovely time with family and friends over the festive period.

As they say, eat, drink and be merry...

Thanks for continuing to follow and read my goings on, and may I wish everyone a very happy and healthy New Year in 2012!

See you there!

(image credit - jules & tipinfold)

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Christmas things I've loved this week...

Thought I'd do a little round up of some lovely 'Christmasy' bits I've stumbled across this week.

There are soooo many gorgeous seasonal related images floating around the land of Pinterest at the moment to get everyone in the Christmas mood; lots of snow, amazing photographs, yummy recipes, decorations and pressie ideas...

See more of my 'Santa Baby' pins here.

Merry Christmas!

1. 'Tis the season to be jolly' - gather love

2. Merry Christmas tree - flickr

(love this soooo much)

3. Paper stars - olof jakobina blogspot

4. Peace on Earth - Rifle Paper

5. A little sugar (bauble tree) - craftberrybush blogspot

6. Baubles - flickr

7. Bottlebrush christmas tree - poetichome

(still have one of these, looking a bit worse for wear but I refuse to throw it out)

8. Vintage Santa - pinterest image

(gotta love a bit of a retro Santa, ooh takes you back!)

9. Fa la la robins - Freya art etsy shop

(slightly obsessed by anything Freya art does at the moment, yummy!)

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Freya Art Christmas...

I'm a massive fan of the work of Freya Art and have blogged about her etsy shop before.

She currently has some beautiful new christmas designs available in the shop so be sure to stop by have a li'l looksie...

Love love love her designs...yum!

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All I want for xmas is you - Greeting Card

Oliver Jeffers...

I've always looked to childrens illustrations as a source of inspiration right from my days at University many moons ago through to today, and have admired the work of Oliver Jeffers for some time now...

So, I decided to treat myself to an early Christmas present and buy his amazing collection of books, every page is literally filled with yumminess!

My favourites have got to be 'The incredible book eating boy', 'The great paper caper' and 'Stuck'.

(if I had to pick a top three, but all are gorgeous)

Here are just a few examples of his beautiful illustrations...

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Things I've loved this week...

These are getting a bit of a regular feature on here...

Its nice though, to just round up some gorgeousness from the week...

Some lovely things this week;

a gorgeous new print from Anna Emillia (1) , Lisa Stickley cushion (2), and something I literally fell totally in love with this week (all over again) Elena Deshmukh cards (3), my oh my, she has some beautiful new editions to her collection including 'Souvenirs' and 'Sailor and Friends' inspired by her very own little terrier.

Keep a look out for them in the shops.

H&M have a lovely collection of home ware now which I recently stumbled across and I absolutely love this cushion (4) ; could be the bird, could be the 'etchy sketchy' technique or the gorgeous scribbly wording, who knows, probably all three, but its lovely isnt it...

Next up, an all time favourite of mine, liberty prints (5). Their new additions to the ever increasing offering of fabric definitely do not dissapoint. This lovely print is one of many new ones you can see over on their website.

Lastly, this lovely october desktop from Tabitha Emma (6).

happy weekend everyone

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Love Debbie Powell...

I've blogged on Debbie Powell before, but I couldn't resist another post when I saw some of her new work over on Print and Pattern, its bloomin' gorgeous!!!

So... I headed over to her lovely website for another look at some of her work.

Below, Debbie's worked in collaboration with Lagom on some wrapping paper...

Below is some of her editorial work, this is for Guideposts 2011

Below, linocut map for the contents page of Rick Stein's Spain 2011

Below, holiday cards for Hello Lucky

Below, illustrations for issue 6 of Uppercase magazine 2010

Be sure to pop over to Debbie's website for more...

(see link above)

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Little things I've loved this week...

A few little bits of loveliness from the week,
and it just so happens they have a yummy food theme, mmmm...

Cornelia O'Donovan's big cartel shop - Tea time card pack (mug image)
'Pumpkin Pie' - Daily Calligraphy

Emily Kiddy's blog - food fonts

Jamie Oliver packaging by Pearlfisher, yummy!
Claudia Pearson's etsy shop (plum ketchup)

Sol Linero (kitchen image)
(wow, love her illustrations)

They draw and cook - Chocolate brownies by Charlotte Cooke

happy weekend everyone

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Maxine Sutton...

I'm really loving the work of Maxine Sutton at the moment.

Screen printing, applique, embroidery, mark making, and stitch mixed with abstract placement of household paraphernalia and bits and bobs, including the old favourite, birds, yum...

So... I thought I'd share the love!

Head over to her website for more fab work.

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Things I've loved this week...

Just a little montage of some loveliness from the week...

(from top to bottom)

two bears and bunting - rose minuscule

paper shoes - jennifer collier

hanging spoons - somehowlou

floating bed and soft toy - une sieste pour deux

typewriter - de beaux souvenirs

postcard - lily moon's etsy shop

happy weekend everyone

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Come on over...

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We've recently posted a few new bits and bobs so be sure to check it out, busy busy with SS13!

Paper Runway Magazine - Issue 3

Ooohh you must must must pop over to have a peek at the new issue of Paper Runway, it's sooooo beautiful, you'll love it!

Here are just a few of their gorgeous pages...

And there's a lovely big list down the left side of this blog for links to other fabulous magazines, whether interiors, childrens, craft...have a look and take a few minutes with a nice cuppa for a browse.

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