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Tag: etsy

  • Inspired by :: ONEandMANY ceramic design

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    For those that know me well or have been reading this blog for a while, you will know I am a very big fan of well crafted ceramics. I almost made ceramics my major at art school but opted for design because I found working with clay more therapy than art. I still wonder if…

  • Loving :: neon colours (especially pink)

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    I know I talked briefly about neon colours with my zing colour post a while back and I confess I haven’t been able to shift the colour out of my head. My first reaction to the increasing prevalence of neon colours was, what again? I remember neon from the 80’s and thought we’d got it…

  • Inspired by :: C by C Design Studio

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    I have a very strong feeling that Christine of C by C Illustration and Design Studio and I are supposed to best friends. We certainly share the same love of mid century modern design, Eames chairs, medallions and folk art. There is seriously nothing in her store that I do not love. These are 4…

  • Inspired by :: clouds

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    When you live in a country with little rain, there is a lot of cloud watching that happens. The BOM (Bureau of Meteorology) is my most visited website and it’s used to work out what I’m going to wear, whether or not I hang the washing outside and if I water the plants. You see…

  • A stitch in time :: Dandelyne Etsy Store

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    When I first saw Dandelyne’s miniature wearable embroidery I was really smitten. I already had stitching on the brain having just hung a very large cross stitch that my mother made and promising myself that this is the year to finish the companion piece. Then I found these little treasures. She’s a woman after my…

  • Thinking about :: the beach

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    Tomorrow is Australia Day and for reasons unknown I always imagine myself lying on a beach somewhere on Australia Day. This is absurd because I don’t live close to a beach and I’m against tanning so it must have something to do with my heritage. We will, however, be sitting on a beach next week…

  • Thinking about :: trees and caitlihne illustrations

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    Happy New Year friends! Does it feel good to know we are all still here and the Mayans were not right – this time? I’ve started my year thinking of trees – yes really. New Years Eve was spent in the garden of the new house of friends and they seem to have acquired the…

  • Inspired by :: birch trees

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    I really want to blame to the trees for my current malaise, but it’s no more than a head cold. September and October are notoriously windy in Canberra and this assists in spreading tree pollen and fluff. I believe the ‘fluff’ (I don’t know the scientific term so fluff it is) comes from birch trees…

  • An eye for :: tea towels

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    I have just noticed that my tea towels really need replacing as they are close to threadbare. Usually I would go to the local home maker store and buy any old thing but this time I’ve decided to treat myself to a couple from Skinny laMinx. Skinny laMinx is the creative enterprise of South African…

  • An eye for :: vintage collage

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    I’ve been working on a new blog design and it’s not coming together as well as my Akai theme did. I felt like it needed ‘something’ but I couldn’t define what that ‘something’ was. For reasons unknown I had an Alice in Wonderland rabbit image in my mind – weird! So of course I went…