Inspiration

What can I say? A simple, vintage, children's flash card of a bunny. So simple and so perfect. From Cottage Farm.

I saw this little sofa at Anthropologie in Carmel a few weeks ago and perched on it while Doug finished shooting pictures for me - of course I forgot to get a picture of it because I was sitting on it! So here it is from their site. It's very sweet and really quite small. The fantastical floral pattern is what makes it so special! A real show stopper.

Australian Home Beautiful

We are very excited and honoured to have the Cartolina app in Australian Home Beautiful this month. Here's a little clip of the page. We took the Cartolina brand into Australia last year and I'm very grateful to all our Australian fans for making it a huge success. Thank you!

A couple of very beautiful photographs from Paper Treasure. I'm sure you love the styling of these images - just as I do. I don't post a lot of interiors here anymore - mostly because it seems that everyone has an interior design blog these days and can do it so much better than I can :-)

Beautiful Skin

Also loving this fab koi pattern from the clever people at Beautiful Skin. They really do have a pattern for everyone and every mobile electronic device.

Cupcake Social

Yes I know I must have been living under a rock or something but I had no idea you could get all these pretty things for baking these days - no wonder everyone is obsessed with cupcakes and pretty party baking. From Cupcake Social

Spool No.72

Really loving some of these vintage items from the mercantile at Spool N0. 72. Especially this old tin holiday camper - what a fun decorative piece. And also the vintage hooked rug, below. Wish I could find both of these pieces when I'm out thrifting!

Sabine Reinhart

You know me - I'm not mad about modern patterns but these are quite stunning. I love the colour palette and the texture created by the contour lines. Very impressive and really beautiful. These are designed by Sabine Reinhart and I discovered her work through Print and Pattern.

Creative Walls

This looks like a great book for all of us who have way too many collections. Creative Walls: How to Display and Enjoy Your Treasured Collections by Geraldine James. This book is right up my alley and just when I thought I would start simplifying things around here I think I might just start cluttering everything up again - it's so much more fun!

It's never too late!

This work of art is Louise Fili Ltd's new subway poster for the School of Visual Arts. "The design is an homage to the urban mosaic artisans of the early 20th century, and after hours of painstaking Photoshop work, John and Dana agreed that it may have been easier to create it out of actual tiles."

Through the looking glass

This morning I was trolling through old images from Cafe Cartolina and came across these from WAY back. I'm reminded how much I like photographs of quirky window displays - especially the random wacky ones!

Sweater stools

Crazy sweater stools from Claire Anne O'Brien via House and Home. The textures are fabulous and they look terrific as a group don't they?

Verabel

An interesting modern update on a simple locket. Pretty and unique pieces from Verabel.

Kate's tape!

Really great tape from Kate's Paperie. This striped tape suits my style a lot more than some of the washi tape - I love classics stripes like this.

Vintage Puffins.

Aren't these fab? - Vintage Puffin kids' books. I'm sure I had some of these when I was young! I love how bold the illustrations are - fill up that page, don't waste any space at all! I think my favourite would be the trees book - reminds me of that card we have with the big chestnut tree on it!

From here.

Magnetic pencils!

How fun - magnetic pencils! I guess you could stick them to this steel ball to form the sputnik of your dreams or any other steel surface - stops them rolling off the table and breaking! From Viarco.

Beautyspot.

I thought these were very pretty and original when I spotted them last week - thought you might like them too - from Beautyspot.