Monthly Archives: January 2012

Monday January 30, 2012

Web tip :: a word on web fonts

I love web fonts, they have revolutionised what web designers can do with typography in designs. Cufón, Typekit and sIFR have all made our task a little easier and our designs a lot more interesting. Then there’s Google Webfonts who, at last count, have 436 fonts available for use. They’re easy to implement and your [...]

Posted in Web DIY | Tagged gotchas, tips, web fonts | 3 Comments

Sunday January 29, 2012

Flickr three :: #D1DA1B :: autumn approaching

Posted in colour | Tagged #D1DA1B, autumn approaching, flickr three | 2 Comments

Saturday January 28, 2012

Akai Premium Theme from Crimson Pear

I’m so excited to share with you what I’ve been toiling away at for the last couple of weeks. This is my Akai (means red in Japanese) self-hosted WordPress blog theme that you can purchase over on my Crimson Pear site. This was such fun to create. I had the Indian inspired block prints and [...]

Posted in design | Tagged crimson pear, premium theme | 4 Comments

Thursday January 26, 2012

Happy Australia Day!

Yes it’s Australia Day! The F18 have already done their flyover and the cyclist has done his annual 50km coffee ride with some of his cycling buddies. The boys are chilling out with their projects, one which is us attempting to make lamingtons by following this recipe. So all in all a typical Australia Day [...]

Posted in celebrations | Tagged australia day, etsy | 3 Comments

Sunday January 22, 2012

Flickr three :: #920F2F :: veins

Posted in colour | Tagged #920F2F, flickr three, veins | 4 Comments

Thursday January 19, 2012

A stuffed chair affair

I have an odd obsession with chairs and given the chance our house would be full of them. The cyclist is probably happy that I have not acted on that impulse. I pretty sure when I first laid my eyes on The Stamford chair from Squint Limited my first words were ‘Oh my!’. It’s amazing [...]

Posted in inspiration | Tagged chairs, couch, patchwork, spoonflower, squint limited | 2 Comments

Tuesday January 17, 2012

Flickr three :: #433B53 :: aubergine

Posted in colour | Tagged #433B53, aubergine, flickr three | 4 Comments

Friday January 13, 2012

Trellis :: palette and pattern

This adorable picture called Crochet Flowers by Carina Envoldsen-Harris was the source of my palette inspiration today. They just reminded me of spring flowers climbing a trellis. Of course after yesterday’s post I had to make a trellis pattern or two of my own so here are my patterns: Thinking in Circles (top), which I [...]

Posted in colour lover | Tagged palette, pattern, trellis | 3 Comments

Thursday January 12, 2012

Trellis patterns

I have such an eye for lattice/trellis patterns at the moment. I think in general I like patterns that make me look at the negative space as well. I’m very aware that all my selections today are cushions and this is because my vintage fabric cushion cover that I blogged about in January 2008, has [...]

Posted in etsy | Tagged lattice, patterns | 1 Comment