A Birhtday Garden

My boyfriend and I made a (very last minute) attempt to decorate the trees in his mother's garden for her birthday today. We put everything together so fast I didn't notice I'd spelt 'BIRTHDAY' 'BIRHTDAY' on the stamper until I saw the pictures this morning! It's the thought that counts? But I hope she doesn't notice/or care :) and that it makes her day.

Happy Birthday Marina!

It feels like a long way till spring..

Pretty in white. Photos by Oscar Falk for Elle.

Camilla Akrans

These are some of Camilla Akrans' photos for Harpers Bizzare- love how they are so clean. What an amazing place to shoot in.

owls and tea

Some new owlies for all to see and snippet from the afternoon tea party some friends and I had at my place a few weeks ago - to truely say goodbye to summer.

world sweet world

The weekend has been a good one. I relaxed, made owls, visited a craft fair on in my area (and managed to get the boyfriend along too- no mean feat) and my copy of World Sweet World arrived in the mail.

Our wee owls and Papercup's Kafta dress are both featured and I did a 'how to' page, on how to make cute hot water bottle jumpers from old sweaters for winter. Was very exciting to see it amongst the other great articles in the magazine- which is another great issue. There is an article on growing your own veggies too, which is brilliant timing for me as I've just set aside a section in my garden to do just that. Swonderful is one of World Sweet Worlds many stockists if you're interested in picking up a copy- but if you're not near Brooklyn, Wellington- all the other stockists are listed on the site.

I'll be popping the new owls up on Etsy tonight, please feel free to have a wee look. Thank you!

xx Have a great start to the week.

more on Mine

What's even nicer than stumbling upon a great designer, is to find out she is lovely too! After posting about Mine I emailed Katherine asking about her great designs and stockists. Turns out there is more than one place online that stocks her things- Standard Deviation , based in NY (they have the biggest range of Mine online at the moment, and stocks a bunch of other brilliant designers + Katherine tells me the buyer is lovely too!) and No-one, based in London. And Mine has future plans for it's own online store.

The new "Elsie moved in circles" collection (below) is available instore around August/September- and the current collection 'I gave my love a papercut' is in stock now.

Happy shopping!

mine, mine, mine

I wish it was all Mine!

I have fallen in love with every collection from Mine by Katherine Pont. Everything has a touch of delicacy to it without being overly girly- and her amazing illustrations and cut-outs have left me in awe. Who knew art could be so wearable. Katherine was born in Sydney and sadly (for us) moved to London after graduating from an honours degree in painting and drawing at the College of Fine Arts. She has lived in the UK for seven years, and has been designing her independent label Mine since it's humble beginnings in 2003. There's more information on the Mine site and myspace page. There luckily is one online stockist, the gorgeous Sotto boutique- they don't have much Mine stuff up at the moment, just two neat shirts, I'll let you know when more pops up.

Sotto also stocks beautiful vintage inspired frocks by Mooka Kinney (see second pic) and one of Ginny's from Swonderful favourite stationary designers Yellow Owl Workshop.