E R D E M

More a-mazing digital printed garments, this time by Erdem. I love the use of embellishment, in particular how lace is used as a peep-hole fabric allowing the gorgeous digital colours to pop from dark garments. But oh how I do love a brightly coloured ALL over print!

Oh E M M A

Beautiful digitally printed garments by uk native Emma Cook. Another talented designer from the Central St. Martin stock once again... Her designs are based upon her own imaginary muse-Susie whose travels she describes and develops through whimsical prints and simple silhuettes.

L OV E this!

Found an amazing design concept for an Alice in Wonderland Queen of Hearts inspired ring, made from pieces of plastic which slot together without any glue!

Take a looksee at UK designer Rentaro Nishimura and the fabulous design!

Been doing a bit of drawing and good ol' colouring in... I always tend to do little drawings so this time I bought a piece of A2 cartridge paper to force myself into drawing bigger but alas as you can see I just kinda well centered a little drawing in the middle of the page... hmmm I might keep adding to it though.

A W E S O M E

Came across this guys blog of 1000 Awesome things.

It is indeed Awesome.

(he even has a book on the awesomeness)

B E L I E V E

I do love this book, and now this website...

'When I was litle I wanted to grow up tp be a firetruck'

So sweet and innocent when kids really believed they could be and do anything when they grew up.

B O T T L E

Ok so I'm a weeeee bit late with... I love but can't completely grasp the patience these artists have in order to create these wonderful little stop motion movies... Watch Kirsten Lepore's movie 'Bottle'

F U M I

Fumi Mini Nakamura is a very talented illustrator, I love the mix of people morphing with animals and the mediums used -mainly graphite and coloured pencil. Very beautiful indeed. Take a lookseeee here!

Oh K U R T

Xmas with Kurt... (Geiger)

W I L D

Walking to the British Museum today and found this in the middle of London?! Grapes growing up the side of a house?!

ALL I WANT FOR XMAS...

Starts with this... (honestly how on earth did you expect me to choose just one thing?!)

Nipped into Anthropologie the other day just to further cement the fact that they have amazing beautiful clothing, accessories and homeware I WILL NEVER OWN and came across these -totally within my price range too but alas there were no J's left. Alexa Pulitzer has come up with these great mouse pad note pads with gorgeous illustrations on them! BUY BUY BUY!

S A R A H J A N E

Had to have a Snowday today, absolutely no southern trains running due to the now less than sparkly snow, tomorrow could be interesting... Anywho you could say I had a few hours to peruse the internet and that I did. Whilst expanding my knowledge I stumbled across a very talented children's book illustrator Sarah Jane, the top illustration pretty much sums up my day!

Have a look at her Blog, she also has an Etsy store where you can purchase her adorable prints.

BIG B A B Y

Went for a bit of window/christmas shopping on my way home in Clapham Junction tonight, had a quick looksee in at Huttons (amazing little design store on Northcote Road), and instantly fell in love with these gorgeous pieces from a company called Big Baby Jewelry MUST HAVE! might have to treat myself to an early christmas pressie... they're acrylic pieces formed into girly designs I particularly love the cuffs and headbands, now to decide which one!

S is for S N O W F L A K E

GUESS WHAT! it snowed!!!! and boy did it! was a tad disappointed this morning to wake up to a thin layer of basically frost in the backyard -I was expecting snow castles and snowmen to be made at 6am...but alas other than a very tricky icy walk to the train station it wasn't really all that fun. BUT then I got to work about 25 minutes away from home where it looked just like a christmas holiday movie set! So much snow and it was still falling! Brushing aside fears of never being able to get home in the afternoon I embraced the weather and persuaded several collegues to snowball fight at lunch and persisted in trying to fashion a snowman...

G O G G L E me

Every now and then I google myself. Yip I said it, it's true, but everyone does it right?...right?....

Not suprisingly there wasn't a heck of a lot of stuff about me other than a couple of things from Uni and that I'm a qualified nurse some where in the US of A, belong in a high school band AND am on the honor role... shesh however do I manage it all...

But I must admit there was a part of me wishing there was maybe just a teensy wee bit more about plain ol' me.

Have decided this must change. Must show the world I am worthy of their gossip.

Try it, I bet you'll find something interesting! -your name not mine...

Happy Birthday!

Whoops, so I'm not particularly good at keeping up with dates and so not surprisingly I managed to let the first year anniversary of my blog go flying past with no hip hip horays or any type of celebration (-wait what was I doing September 1st this year?... hmmm anything remotely celebratory I could gloss over being a party for this? nope nada.)

So belated birthday wishes and all that to you dear blog, I have no idea if people actually read you or whether they merrily click on past to the next blog but I have faith in you! you keep me sane... well maybe not so much but it can't help to try right?!

(Vintage Birthday card found via Google)

Meet M O R G A N

So it's the weekend -okay Saturday night to be precise and yes I am indeed at home (What?! you're in London and not out partying the night away?!) no there is nothing wrong with me... it's just that well you see there may be this little itty bitty tv show that I swore I would never ever watch and well it turns out I may be ever so slightly, just a weee bit addicted to it.... it's X-Factor night!

However as you can see it does not quite hold all of my attention... okay well the ad breaks don't...

Moving on...

Meet Morgan. Morgans greatest ambition in life -according to her blogger profile -is to be Cinderella at Disneyland -she actually does have the face for it too, (although I'm not completely convinced this is her true ambition... each to their own though!) Anywho do go have a looksey at her blog, very entertaining!

M A R Y

I absolutely adore Mary Katrantzou. I'm a huge fan of digitally printed fabric for clothing especially when the prints/graphics are placed around the form with particular stategic care to placement rather than an all over repeat. Mary is a London native, 27 years old and has just won an amazing award as a young creative. Her Spring 2011 looks are based on photographs from the 70's by Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin -mostly interior/decor shots basing the room on the body, however I love her pieces with the giant chunky jewels and perfume bootle shapes wrapped around the body on beautiful stylised dresses. Very talented indeed, would love to get my hands on one of her pieces!

Y A S M I N E

Another Fantabulous (yes it's a word...okay maybe not), illustrator Yasmine Surovec. She has an awesome blog called A Print A Day where she does just that -posts one of her captivating prints daily. She also has an online shop where she sells copies of her beautiful prints and has weekly free downloads but not only that -she sells great digital kits so you can Do-it-yourself!
Have a lookseeee!
Also came across an interview she gave to Indie Fixx Here!

Darling T I N A

When in Melbourne a couple of years ago I came across an illustration in a magazine and took a photo because I wanted to remember it -have recently stumbled across this photo again and thought hmm I wonder what this illustrators been up to, and busy indeed has she been! check out some of her work!

Tina Darling.