• Flickr three :: typography

    All photos via flickr by Ji Young Yoon

  • Loving :: wallflowers by Laura Worthington

    I think I mentioned yesterday that I’ve turned into quite the font nerd or should I say fan or maybe fanatic! I’m quite enamoured with fonts and their designers and I am convinced that My Fonts has the potential to keep me very poor. One of my favourite font designers is Laura Worthington and I…

  • Seeing ampersands

    Do you ever have a time when you become aware of a thing, or word or colour and then you start seeing it everywhere? Does the awareness mean that you’re just taking notice or is it really everywhere? For me this week it has been the ampersand – I have been seeing them all over…

  • Happy Anniversary

    This one if for the cyclist – it’s our anniversary today. Gee I married well! :: image resources :: Vintage postcard Postmark stamp created from this tutorial at Fuzzimo Stamp by me from an image by Charles Bayliss. Jane Austen from dafont FG Jasmine from My Fonts

  • Palette and patterns :: mail

    I really like the retro colours created by my Instagram photos so I turned them into a palette. I had to then create two equally retro patterns, they are Feel the Connection (left) and A Busy Day (right). P.S. I always wanted a job naming paint colours, I think Colour Lovers is as close as…

  • Brown Trading Company

    Like a lot of bloggers I am the recipient of many spam comments and they are easy to spot because they are usually on posts that are quite old, from dodgy websites and sometimes just plain weird. This means I almost ignored the lovely Keren from Brown Trading Company when she left a comment about…

  • Special delivery :: snail mail for me

    What is guaranteed to brighten a cold grey winter day? For me it was coming home to find one piece of mail in my mailbox; a hand addressed envelope for me! My beautiful friend Jess of Brown Paper Bunny is also part of the Creative Collective, who have declared June to be the month of…

  • Lastest collaboration :: Realty Queen TO

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    This is the second time now I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Elizabeth from Be Brilliant Design. She is so great to work with and our latest venture was for  Realty Queen TO blog owned by the lovely Aleksandra in Toronto, Canada. Elizabeth created such a gorgeous design and then passed it over to…

  • Flickr three :: snowflakes

    Snowflakes are from top: Snowflakes by Juliancolton2, snow flake by Manjunath Patil, snowflake by mommamia

  • palette & patterns :: frozen

    I was so taken with this photo by rafa of a leaf in ice that I turned it into a palette. No trip to colour lovers is complete with also creating patterns. My latest are Snowdrift Shivers (left) and My Beating Heart (right).