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Monday August 1, 2011

Palette and patterns :: stripes

I couldn’t end my week of stripes without a palette and pattern. My palette was inspired by this photo (pictured in partial here) titled Red stripe by Glenn Scott. My pattern designs – my very own stripe (of course) – called Deck chair (left) and Four leaf hearts (right). I’ve had a fun week of [...]

Posted in colour lover | Also tagged palette, patterns, pinterest, remo general store, stripes | 1 Comment

Sunday July 10, 2011

It’s July :: Vive le Tour

Yes it’s that time of year again! The Tour de France is now a week in, which loosely translates to I haven’t had a single conversation with the cyclist that hasn’t involved the dissection of each stage, points, jerseys, teams, accidents and GC standings. It sounds like the month of dread but to be honest [...]

Posted in etsy | Also tagged the cyclist, tour de france | 2 Comments

Wednesday July 6, 2011

Palette and patterns :: ampersands

Using the gorgeous photo by Ji Young Yoon, I decided to create this candy palette. And in keeping with tradition I also created a couple of patterns but I just wanted to share one of them my aptly named and flowers for you – get it?. What I love about ColourLovers is how others use [...]

Posted in colour lover | Also tagged ampersand, palette, patterns | Leave a comment

Friday July 1, 2011

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 [...]

Posted in typography | Also tagged fonts, laura worthington, my fonts | 1 Comment

Thursday June 30, 2011

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 [...]

Posted in inspiration | Also tagged ampersand, etsy, tango & james | 1 Comment

Saturday June 25, 2011

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 [...]

Posted in stores | Also tagged brown trading company, Bungalow | 1 Comment

Sunday June 19, 2011

Flickr three :: snowflakes

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

Posted in flickr | Also tagged seasons, snowflakes | 1 Comment

Monday June 13, 2011

Uppercase :: another reason I should be Canadian

With a tagline of ‘a magazine for the creative and curious’ it’s little wonder that I feel like Uppercase has been created just for me. This mag is a goldmine of stories and inspiration all focused around a loosely defined theme – bees for issue #9, which is reflected in the gorgeous use of honeycomb [...]

Posted in inspiration | Also tagged blogging, canada, the family, uppercase magazine | 2 Comments

Saturday June 4, 2011

What do a sock monkey and a blowfish have in common?

Well these are just 2 of the quirky designs available from Blik – wall graphics for the commitment-phobic. I spend a lot of my time convinced that no one makes anything I want to buy these are definitely an exception (as were the red desert boots I bought yesterday but that’s another story). Aren’t these [...]

Posted in inspiration | Also tagged blik, decorating | 3 Comments

Saturday May 21, 2011

Up, up and away

I am so very tired today but there is a good reason for this. I bounded out of bed at 5:07 this morning to be on the doorstep of a friend’s house for her 35th birthday surprise. It was instigated by her husband and I was a mere player in the scheme. Amazingly she [...]

Posted in friends | Also tagged balloons, etsy | 2 Comments