Anchors away!

This showed up in my INBOX about 5 minutes ago - now it's here - that's how much I love it. Fresh and new at Dolan Geiman.

Splash out!

Couldn't resist these lovely little mermaid silhouettes - perhaps they'll inspire you to do something splashy this weekend!

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Aren't these lovely? I've seen lots of pretty lace pottery but these are the best! Maggie Weldon makes these. I love her glaze colours and the scale she works at - really suits the texture of the lace. She uses original lace doilies to create the patterns.

One of a kind!

Oh boy this is pretty! From One King's Lane.

New at Fossil

I'm a big Fossil fan - practically every bag, purse and wallet I own are from Fossil. These are new at Fossil - simple fun sleeves for anything you can think of - love the vintage decals.

Hooked!

I'm quite smitten by Barb Tappa's Crochet Madness Pinterest Board. I think you'll love it too - so hard to pick just a few images for you.

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We've got you covered!

Download the Cartolina app right here. It costs $1.99 and every Cartogram you send is free.

You can email, text, Facebook and Instagram your Cartograms. What are you waiting for?

Free Postcard Day!

If you've been procrastinating about sending a Cartolina postcard from the Cartolina Postale app well we have a surprise for you. Tomorrow we're offering a free postcard to all our app users - one day only. You'll see how easy it is to pick a card, customize it and send it directly from the app. So give it a try - the app is free to download and it's lots of fun to send a card - a real one!! Down load the app from the link here.

Mirror image collages

We just got back from the gift fair in New York (NYIGF). It was great fun and I loved visiting with all my industry pals. Saw some wonderful new products and designs. New York was sunny and we walked for miles - in a completely different world than the one I live in! Talking about new stuff - I've been working on some fun new stuff including a large series of these mirror image collages . . I hope you like . . they are actually very large and don't show very well here on the blog but you should get the general idea!

Year of the Dragon!

I wanted to share this illustration with you from my friend Chris Chun. It's so pretty and looks like it was a load of fun to paint. You can see more of Chris's beautiful work right here on his site.

Pack your bags!

Since I've been travelling so much recently I thought I would feature some lovely vintage luggage labels - aren't they gorgeous?

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Thank you Uppercase!

I am so proud of our feature in Uppercase Magazine this month.

We've been featured in lots of mags and newspapers but this one is very special to me because it speaks to my peers and that's important stuff! The piece is written by the lovely Erin Loechner for Janine Vangool/Uppercase. It's no secret that I, like so many other creative people, am a huge fan of Uppercase and I really encourage you to buy a subscription - it's definitely the best thing to arrive in my mail box every few weeks - you won't be disappointed!

Stitched

Thought you might like to see this poster that was hanging locally here in Nelson last month. So sweet! It's a print of the actual stitched piece - it's quite deceiving though - looks like the original doesn't it?

Treasures under glass

I have a house full of cupboards - full of tins - full of treasures - and I bet you do too! I love knowing that I have them but I definitely forget what I have. Does that happen to you? So I love this idea of having 2 or 3 glass cloches that you display tiny vignettes of our prized miniatures in - to admire - and then swap them out for another selection when we get tired of them. This is a fun tutorial, at 2 Gypsy Girls, on how to make said displays - now where can I find those cloche(for a reasonable price?)

This gorgeous images of a french home come via Lucy Auburn's Pinterest board. They are from Cote Maison. I love all the shades of grey. Do you think it would get depressing to live in such a grey interior? I suppose this would be the perfect place to throw a handful of bright pink pillows etc to brighten things up if need be - what do you think?

Nest

Hello everyone. As advised, I spent a good 20 minutes in NEST in San Francisco at the weekend. Thank you to everyone who knows me well enough to recommend this beautiful shop to me. I love a store owner who has the confidence to step away from the normal wholesale channels and fill their shop with amazing, one of a kind pieces and vintage treasures. It is indeed a remarkable store. I have just a few pictures of NEST - but I do have lots of good street shots of San Francisco that I'm looking forward to sharing with you this week - so stay tuned :-)

Shopping advice please!

I'm going to San Francisco this week for a couple of days. It's mostly a work trip but I do have a few hours for shopping. Do any of you have favourite boutiques in SF that you'd like to share with me? I really need to add a few key pieces to my wardrobe and I'd love some advice from my lovely readers :-) I need some fun, chic/stylish clothes that I can wear to trade shows and to speaking engagements. Advice please!

Super size me!

Big bus tickets on the wall - well what do you know! Of course I love these! I guess almost all ephemera looks great when it's super-sized. I fantasize all the time about enlarging some of the vintage scrappy engravings I have in my collections and plastering them all over the walls. I think that's why I love looking at vintage prints under magnification. These are from here.

Background art.

Wow. I love this 'mural' that I spotted via Nicole Balch on Pinterest.

This is so up my alley - as you can probably imagine. It would look amazing at the studio. It looks remarkably like some of the background imagery we use at Cartolina. Great find!