Have a beautiful fall weekend everyone! It's such a beautiful time of the year - all the signs of fall have arrived and there's a ch...

Window Shopping | World Market As usual some lovely inexpensive decorative objects from World Market - you gotta love that store. The colour...

Random Objects | Birch veneer trees I thought these little birch veneer trees from Roost were really sweet. I think they are supposed to be ...

Perfect Picture Sometimes a picture in a magazine stops me in my tracks. This page is from the soon to be defunct ME Home Companion. This is...

Random Objects | Wood and leather Just a random collection of items that I fancy in the wood and leather categories. First is a dressing/jew...

Rumours I just heard through the grapevine that ME Home Companion magazine is being discontinued. This is very disappointing. I really enjoy...

Wake Up Eyeballs! Outrageous wall paper from Osborne and Little . Imagine eating your breakfast with that wallpaper looming over you? Ha! Th...

Cicada Recommends Yesterday I featured a couple of antique clock faces from the Sundance Catalogue. Lucky for me Michelle from Cicada Studio...

Window Shopping | Sundance It's a holiday weekend here in Canada, Thanksgiving to be precise! But we are very busy at Cartolina so there...

Inspiration | Magazines It's pages like this one, from this month's Victoria Magazine, that makes spending the $6.99, that it costs ...

Ephemera | stamps and cards These are 3 of my favourite things. A postcard that I have had in my collection for as long as I can remember. I...

Cartolina Giveaway Winners!  We have winners - 3 to be precise! Once again we plunged our studio assistant Mimi into the big bowl and she c...

Inspiration | Interiors I like these interior shots from House Doctor. I like the simple, neutral but not boring, palette. I would have to h...

Ephemera | botanical diagrams Do you like these? I do. My  high school years were spent at a very old school in Scotland and in the science...

Inspiration | Flowery things for your home. {note the tiny bee on the shade above } I don't actually shop at Neiman Marcus because I...

Inspiration | Chinoiserie walls Thought this would be a good place to start after yesterday's lovely chinoiserie. I presume above is a m...

Inspiration  | Chinoiserie Some examples of chinoiserie available  here .  I have always loved Chinese textile design mostly because it was ...

Random Objects | Salvage More wonderful stuff from Cleveland Art . I don't even know what that trolly thing is but I love it. If I lived...

Random Objects | Inlaid storage boxes Very cool inlaid boxes from Lombok.

Random Objects | Swarovski pencils Mmmmmmmm - nice sparkly pencils - might make my drawings better. From here.