The treasures arrived! I saw these beauties by Jordan Grace Owens featured on the Pikaland site and couldn’t resist. I want more… I bought them as gifts but I don’t think I can part with them. How bad am I? Ahem, yes very. I want the paper dolls too…
Finally! Some house related pictures to share. Woke up this morning to a pleasant surprise – although I can imagine it’s going to make getting into town later tricky. Anyway, this is the view from the MOUNTAIN (it’s a hill really) we live on.
Below is the first half of our kitchen/dining room. We’re still in the process of filling up the shelves with our colourful picture books. Through the windows you can catch a glimpse of our snow covered garden. Illya’s enjoying skating around on the tiled floors – as you can probably imagine. I’m trying to decide whether I want to make some table mats or settle for incredibly overpriced habitat ones… Since I’m on a strict budget and my ’studio’ space isn’t accessible I’m leaning more towards homemade. Maybe that’s going to be this weeks project – now where did I bury my sewing machine…
This is a shot of the other half of the room (the bit where the food is made – not by me obviously as I don’t cook) and the door leading to the hallway. I’ll have some more photos of the rest of the house soon. I’m taking it room at a time – no point in showing you a lovely house with my chaos scattered around it :) Also the light’s better at this time in the morning in this room.
Below is just a random picture of rose face I thought I’d share too.
Back soon :)
Thought it was about time I shared some of the lovely things I’ve been admiring on etsy and some of the colours that are inspiring me. All photo/picture credits go to the sellers :)
1. Print ‘Do you believe in love at first sight?’ by SophieBlackall. 2. Red Leather Flats by OldBaltimoreVintage. 3. Vintage Brass Birdcage by FishboneDeco. 4. Vintage Glass Ornaments by 5gardenias. 5. Floral Ribbon by EmmaDear. 6. Vintage Blue and Red Typewriter by Boomboxblitz. 7. Brown Hare Original Painting by Rachelscabinet. 8. Orange Sugar Bowl by Archimatta.
Enjoy!
A friend I met on the way into work. I didn’t make him so I can’t take credit for that but he made me smile. We’ve had wonderful winter weather but alas it rained this morning and that wiped out most of the snowy wonderland we’ve been enjoying. I’ve got some new prints and projects on the go. I’m looking forward to sharing them with you, some sooner than others :)
Hope you’re all enjoying the snow and using it as a good excuse for mulled wine, hot chocolate and corn on the cobs.
Just a couple of notes for the next 2 weeks. The etsy and folksy shops are both still open for browsing but after Monday 21st dec I won’t be posting orders until the start of the new year. So please don’t be worried if it takes a little longer for your order to reach you – I’ll keep you posted – excuse the pun ;)
I got a feature on the amazing site that is dooce! An awesome surprise indeed. The blog feature has probably made “The Girl and the Fox” print the most popular one in the shop, which makes me happy because it’s certainly one of my favourites. After a day of manic packing I’m very nearly ready to pay another visit to the post office. I had a lovely day yesterday, massive thank you to everyone who was out and had a nice time. It was perfecto :)
Today’s target is to brew up a new design for thank you postcards. Fingers crossed I’ve got my decision making cap on today otherwise you’ll be hearing from me sooner than expected asking yet again for words of wisdom and advice.
