In my inbox this morning, I found a very sweet email from Amy of ReMakeables, reminding me about Japanese design collective, Salvia. I wonder why… Yes, I can also hear the echoes of my Borrowed Spoons design ringing loud and clear, but I only saw Salvia’s beautiful spoons after my design was finished, teatowels were …
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Salvia
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Arum shapes
I brought back these arums from the farm on Wednesday. The next morning, I put milk in our green melamine jug for our breakfast oats. And then today I found this Russel Wright vintage creamer at DeadBirdFinds on Etsy. I like this kind of noticing.
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The same but…
I rather liked this photo from the charming Sara of HappySilly. She calls it Same same but different. Not just the title, but the colour and lines made me think of this linocut that Paul made a few years ago, called The Same but Different. The photo doesn’t do it justice, but it’s really quite …
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Mugspiration
On Friday, Lena Corwin posted this charming pic of vintage mugs on her shelves. I’m such a copycat, I just couldn’t resist photographing my collection of vintage mugs over the weekend. Actually, that Marimekko ripoff is not a vintage mug, and those teeny ones are, in fact, eggcups. So in the interests of accuracy, here’s …
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Rockin’ Flyin’ Cow!
It’s Womens Day today, so it sounds like a good day to announce that Devliegendekoe (aka Nicolette) has given me an award! I’m a Rockin’ Girl Blogger! Wooo!Ok, I do realise how inappropriate it is to make any link between my blog about pretty things and the courageous women we remember on this day for …
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Kokeshi doll
Look at the lovely little Kokeshi doll that I found at Charles’ bric-a-brac stall at the NeighbourGoods Market on Saturday. Now she lives in the bedroom next to our very inaccurately nicknamed “Chinaman”, which I bought from Charles a while back. What a happy couple they make, and how happy they make me when I …
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At the market – bounty!
Saturday was a very, very cold and rainy day, and it was the day that Jesse and I had our stall at the NeighbourGoods Market. Most sensible people were still warm in bed long after we’d set up shop, which was great, because I had lots of room to take plenty of pics. First, our …
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Summer Weeds – coming soon
I cut this out of black paper last month. It’s called Summer Weeds. Now I’ve turned it into a print, to appear later this week in my Etsy shop on teatowels and cushion covers in shades of burnt butter and smoke blue.
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A Book of Spoons
Paul was given Jasper Morrison’s A Book of Spoons for his birthday.I liked looking at the photos of spoons in the book, so yesterday I collected all our spoons together and laid them out on two big piece of paper. I left out the teaspoons as my paper wasn’t big enough for them. These are …
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